''Hotel Luna, Room 34'' (Italian: ''Albergo Luna, camera 34'') is a 1946 Italian

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directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring

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Carlo Campanini Carlo Campanini (5 October 1906 – 20 November 1984), was an Italian actor, singer and comedian. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1939 and 1969. Life and career Born in Turin, Campanini attended a technical school and a course of ...

and Andrea Checchi. It was produced by

Lux Film Lux Film was an Italian film distribution (and later production) company founded by Riccardo Gualino in 1934. Gualino was an anti-fascist businessman who had clashed with the regime of Mussolini in 1931 and had been forced into internal exile on ...

, and earned 39 million

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at the box office.Chiti & Poppi p.24

Cast

as Bianca Morelli *

as Paolo Gualtieri * Andrea Checchi as Andrea Esposito * Roberto Villa as Enrico Landi * Arturo Bragaglia as Lorenzetti - the double bass player *

Marcello Giorda Marcello Giorda (1890–1960) was an Italian film actor.Goble p.396 Selected filmography * '' Adam's Tree'' (1936) * ''The Last Days of Pompeo'' (1937) * ''The Two Misanthropists'' (1937) * '' Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal'' (1937) * ' ...

as Martini - the impresario *

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Giovanni Dolfini Giovanni Dolfini (1885-1968) was an Italian stage and film actor.Gambetti p.101 He also directed the 1920 silent film ''Dopo''. Selected filmography * '' Agrippina'' (1911) * '' The Last Adventure'' (1932) * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1942) * ''A Yank ...

* Antonio Bracci * Guido Lauri

References

Bibliography

* Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. ''Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959''. Gremese Editore, 1991. * Hischak, Thomas S. . ''The Encyclopedia of Film Composers''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

External links

* 1946 films Italian crime drama films 1946 crime drama films 1940s Italian-language films Films directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia Lux Film films Italian black-and-white films Melodrama films 1940s Italian films {{1940s-Italy-film-stub