''A Woman Alone'' (Italian: ''Donne sole'') is a 1956 Italian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Vittorio Sala
Vittorio Sala (1918–1996) was an Italian screenwriter and film director.Capua p.195
Selected filmography
* '' A Woman Alone'' (1956)
* '' Wild Cats on the Beach'' (1959)
* ''Colossus and the Amazon Queen'' (1960)
* ''I Don Giovanni della Costa ...
and
Ottavio Alessi
Ottavio Alessi (1 January 1919 - 28 April 1978) was an Italian screenwriter, producer and film director.
Life and career
Born in Cammarata, Province of Agrigento, Alessi entered the film industry in 1940 as an assistant director. In 1945 he st ...
assistant director, and starring
Eleonora Rossi Drago
Eleonora Rossi Drago, born Palmira Omiccioli, (23 September 1925 – 2 December 2007) was an Italian film actress. She was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy, and had the leading role in ''Le amiche''. She appeared in ''Un maledetto imbro ...
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Luciana Angiolillo
Luciana Angiolillo (22 December 1925 – 30 November 2014) was an Italian actress and model, known for her career in peplum classic films.
Life and career
Born Luciana Nevi in Rome, Angiolillo started her career as a runway model. She made he ...
and
Ettore Manni
Ettore Manni (6 May 1927 – 27 July 1979) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1952 and 1979.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Manni debuted as an actor in 1952, when in spite of his acting inexperience he wa ...
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Cast
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Eleonora Rossi Drago
Eleonora Rossi Drago, born Palmira Omiccioli, (23 September 1925 – 2 December 2007) was an Italian film actress. She was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy, and had the leading role in ''Le amiche''. She appeared in ''Un maledetto imbro ...
as Luisa
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Luciana Angiolillo
Luciana Angiolillo (22 December 1925 – 30 November 2014) was an Italian actress and model, known for her career in peplum classic films.
Life and career
Born Luciana Nevi in Rome, Angiolillo started her career as a runway model. She made he ...
as Nice
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Ettore Manni
Ettore Manni (6 May 1927 – 27 July 1979) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1952 and 1979.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Manni debuted as an actor in 1952, when in spite of his acting inexperience he wa ...
as Giulio, il giornalista
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Antigone Costanda
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as Franca
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Gianna Maria Canale
Gianna Maria Canale (12 September 1927 – 13 February 2009) was an Italian film actress.
Biography
Canale was born in 1927 in Reggio Calabria. In 1947, she competed in the Miss Italia beauty contest, where she was runner-up to Lucia Bo ...
as Mara
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Paolo Stoppa
Paolo Stoppa Knight Grand Cross (6 June 1906 – 1 May 1988) was an Italian actor.
Biography
Born in Rome, he began as a stage actor in 1927 in the theater in Rome and began acting in films in 1932. As a stage actor, his most celebrated ...
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Evi Maltagliati
Evi Maltagliati (11 August 1908 – 27 April 1986) was an Italian stage, television and film actress.
Life and career
Born in Florence as Evelina Maltagliati, she started her career at debuted in the theater just 15 years old, in the Galli-Gua ...
as Pressenda
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Joseph Lenzi as Dino Franceschi
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Ignazio Leone
Ignazio Leone (19 April 1923 – 30 December 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 105 films between 1952 and 1976.
Selected filmography
* '' The Walk'' (1953)
* ''I Chose Love'' (1953)
* ''Amici per la pelle'' (1955)
* '' A Woma ...
as Turi
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Francesco Sormano
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Matilde Orsini
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Vittorio Vaser
Vittorio Vaser (1904–1963) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in Alessandro Blasetti's 1929 film ''Sun'' about the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes.Verdone p.63 He was the son of the actor Ernesto Vaser.
Selected filmography
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Gino Buzzanca
Gino Buzzanca (8 March 1912 – 5 May 1985) was an Italian film actor.
Life and career
Born in Messina, Buzzanca began his career on stage, specializing as an actor of the Sicilian language theater, and starring in works by Luigi Pirande ...
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* Giorgio (name), an Italian given name and surname
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* "Giorgio" (song), ...
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Franca Ferrari
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Francisco Prosperi
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Ugo Ugolini
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Enzo Garinei
Enzo Garinei (4 May 1926 – 25 August 2022) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in nearly 80 films since 1949. He was also a professional voice artist, best remembered as the Italian voice of Sherman Hemsley in the American sitcom ''The Jeff ...
as Ciccio, il fotografo
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Ottavio Alessi
Ottavio Alessi (1 January 1919 - 28 April 1978) was an Italian screenwriter, producer and film director.
Life and career
Born in Cammarata, Province of Agrigento, Alessi entered the film industry in 1940 as an assistant director. In 1945 he st ...
as the movie
Cinematographer
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...
References
Bibliography
* Lino Miccichè. ''Storia del cinema italiano: 1954-1959''. Edizioni di Bianco & Nero, 2001.
External links
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1956 films
1956 drama films
Italian drama films
1950s Italian-language films
Films directed by Vittorio Sala
1950s Italian films
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