''A Tale of Five Cities'' ( it, Passaporto per l'oriente and released as ''A Tale of Five Women'' in the US) is a 1951 British-Italian
international co-production
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drama film
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directed by
Romolo Marcellini
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Selected filmography
* ''Stadium
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and five other directors. The five cities cited in the title are: Rome, Paris, Berlin, London, and Vienna.
Synopsis
When Englishman Bob Mitchell (Bonar Colleano) leaves his longtime home in America to enlist in the Royal Air Force, his grueling combat experiences result in a loss of memory. As Bob has no identity tags, doctors unknowingly repatriate him to America, where magazine editor Lesley (Barbara Kelly) learns of his condition. All Bob can recall are five women from various European cities, so the magazine sponsors a trip for him to visit each, hoping he'll learn crucial details of his identity.
Cast
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Bonar Colleano
Bonar Sullivan (14 March 192417 August 1958), also known by the stage name Bonar Colleano, was an American stage and film actor based in the United Kingdom.
Biography Early life
Colleano was born Bonar Sullivan in New York City. He had childhood ...
as Bob Mitchell
*
Barbara Kelly
Barbara Kelly (5 October 1923 – 15 January 2007) was a Canadian-British actress, best known for her television roles in the United Kingdom opposite her husband Bernard Braden in the 1950s and 1960s, and for many appearances as a panelist ...
as Lesley - American Magazine Editor
*
Anne Vernon
Anne Vernon (born Édith Antoinette Alexandrine Vignaud; born 7 January 1924) is a French actress. She appeared in 40 films between 1948 and 1970, including three films that were entered into the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival. She ...
as Jeannine Meunier
*
Karin Himboldt
Karin Himboldt (1920–2005) was a German film actress.Goble p.197 She is perhaps best known for her roles in the Heinz Rühmann comedy films '' Quax the Crash Pilot'' (1941) and ''Die Feuerzangenbowle'' (1944). Her career was damaged in 1944 whe ...
as Charlotte Smith (as Karin Himbold)
*
Lily Kann
Lily Hertha Kann 26th. October, 1893, Peitz – 2nd. November, 1978, Sussex, was a German-born, British actress.
(Though the BFI website claims that she was born in Berlin, and died in Horsham). She appeared in the West End theatre, West End in the ...
as Charlady (as Lily Kahn)
* Danny Green as Levinsky
*
Carl Jaffe
Carl Jaffe (21 March 1902 – 12 April 1974) was a German actor. Jaffe trained on the stage in his native Hamburg, Kassel and Wiesbaden before moving to Berlin, where his career began to develop.
In 1933 Jaffe changed his stage name to Fran ...
as Charlotte's Brother
*
MacDonald Parke
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as New York Magazine Editor
* Althea Orr as Matron (as Aletha Orr)
*
Lana Morris
Lana Morris, born Avril Maureen Anita Morris (11 March 1930 – 28 May 1998) was a British film, stage and television actress during the 1950s and 1960s.
She played the role of Helene Hillmer in the 1967 BBC adaptation of ''The Forsyte Saga ...
as Delia Morel Romanoff
*
Eva Bartok
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as Kathaline Telek
*
Gina Lollobrigida
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as Maria Severini
*
Geoffrey Sumner
Geoffrey Sumner (20 November 1908, Ilfracombe, Devon – 29 September 1989, Alderney, Channel Islands) was a British actor. As well as appearing in a number of films, he was also a commentator for British Movietone News.,
His parents were Edmund ...
as Wingco
* Philip Leaver as Italian Official
*
Annette Poivre
Annette Poivre (24 June 1917 – 2 June 1988) was a French stage and film actress.Hayward p.241 She was married to the actor Raymond Bussières with whom she sometimes co-starred. Poivre was noted for her comic performances.
Selected filmography
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as Annette
* Charles Irwin as London Editor
* Arthur Gomez as Carabinieri
*
Dany Dauberson
Dany Dauberson (16 January 192516 March 1979) was a French singer and actress.
Eurovision
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O. W. Fischer
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*
Terence Alexander
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...
*
Raymond Bussières
Raymond Bussières (3 November 1907 – 29 April 1982) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1933 and 1982. He was born in Ivry-la-Bataille and died in Paris. He is buried in Marchenoir. He was married to the ac ...
as Jeannine's brother
*
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (28 September 1924 – 19 December 1996) was an Italian film actor, regarded as one of his country's most iconic male performers of the 20th century. He played leading roles for many of Italy's top di ...
as Aldo Mazzetti
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Enzo Staiola
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as A Boy
*
Liliana Tellini
Liliana Tellini (19 January 1925 - 15 June 1971) was an Italian actress and voice actress.
Life and career
Born in Florence as Liliana Polledri she was the daughter of a Swiss father and a Venetian mother. She enrolled at the Centro Speriment ...
Riverside Studios
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Having closed for redevelopment in ...
and
Walton Studios
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art director
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s
Don Russell
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,
Jean d'Eaubonne
Jean d'Eaubonne (March 8, 1903 – July 30, 1971) was a French art director. He received an Oscar nomination in 1951 for his work on Max Ophüls's ''La Ronde''.
Selected filmography
* '' The Polish Jew'' (1931)
* '' Love and Luck'' (1932)
* '' M ...
,
Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff
Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff (1908–1993) was an Austrian art directorDassanowsky p.130 who worked on more than a hundred films during his career. Jüptner-Jonstorff was one of the leading figures in his field in Europe, designing sets for films such ...
and
Walter Kutz
Walter Kutz (1904 – 1983) was a German art director.Langford p.223
Selected filmography
* ''Nora'' (1944)
* '' Dreaming'' (1944)
* ''The Silent Guest'' (1945)
* ''And the Heavens Above Us'' (1947)
* ''Nights on the Nile'' (1949)
* ''The Chaste ...