''Love Story'' (Italian: ''Una storia d'amore'') is a 1942 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 ...
directed by
Mario Camerini
Mario Camerini (6 February 1895 – 4 February 1981) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
The cousin of Augusto Genina, he made the most well-known films in Italy during the 1930s, most of them comedies starring Vittorio De Sica. H ...
and starring
Assia Noris
Assia Noris (16 February 1912 – 27 January 1998) was a Russian-Italian film actress.
Born Anastasia Noris fon Gerzfeld (Anastassia Noris von Herzfeld), she appeared in over 35 films between 1932 and 1965.
She starred in films such as the Ma ...
,
Piero Lulli
Piero Lulli (1 February 1923 – 23 June 1991) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 111 films between 1942 and 1977. He was the brother of actor Folco Lulli.
Selected filmography
* ''A Pilot Returns'' (1942) - De Santis
* ''Love Story ...
and
Carlo Campanini.
[Aprà p.82] It is based on the play ''Life Begins'' by Mary McDougal Axelson, previously adapted into a 1932
film of the same title and a 1939 film ''
A Child Is Born''. Along with ''
A Pistol Shot'' it marked an attempt to showcase Noris as a dramatic actress, rather than the
White Telephone comedies she had become known for. It was screened at the
1942 Venice Film Festival
The "10th" annual (void) Venice International Film Festival was held from 30 August to 5 September 1942. The events were hosted at places far away from the Lido and very few countries participated due to World War II and directors that were membe ...
.
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 ...
, one of the leading film companies of
Fascist Italy. It was shot at the
Cinecittà Studios
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in
Rome
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. The film's sets were designed by the
art directors
Gastone Medin and
Gino Brosio
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*
*Geno (disambiguation)
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. The future star
Marcello Mastroianni appeared briefly as an uncredited
extra
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.
Plot
A young woman with a troubled past marries a worker from a
mechanical engineering
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factory and tries to live a respectable life. However a man who knows her background attempts to
blackmail her and loses her head and kills him. She is sentenced to ten years in prison, and gives birth to a child while in jail.
Cast
*
Assia Noris
Assia Noris (16 February 1912 – 27 January 1998) was a Russian-Italian film actress.
Born Anastasia Noris fon Gerzfeld (Anastassia Noris von Herzfeld), she appeared in over 35 films between 1932 and 1965.
She starred in films such as the Ma ...
as Anna Roberti
*
Piero Lulli
Piero Lulli (1 February 1923 – 23 June 1991) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 111 films between 1942 and 1977. He was the brother of actor Folco Lulli.
Selected filmography
* ''A Pilot Returns'' (1942) - De Santis
* ''Love Story ...
as Gianni Castelli
*
Carlo Campanini as Agostino
*
Guido Notari
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Filmography
References
External links
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1893 births
1957 deaths
Italian male film actors ...
as Ferreri
*
Osvaldo Genazzani as Sandro
*
Emilio Cigoli
Emilio Cardi Cigoli (18 November 1909 – 7 November 1980) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Cigoli was born in Livorno to actress Giovanna Cigoli. His grandfather worked as a silent film actor. He began his career on stage a ...
as L'avvocato difensore
*
Emma Baron
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Life and career
Born Emma Bardon in Treviso, after getting an arts degree she began her career on stage in the 1920s, ...
as L'infermiera della clinica
*
Antonio Battistella as Enrico Banducci
*
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as L'aiuto chirurgo
*
Dhia Cristiani
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, The village has a total number of 60 houses and the population of 297 ...
as Clara
*
Olinto Cristina
Olinto Cristina (5 February 1888 – 17 June 1962) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Florence to actors Raffaello Cristina and Cesira Sabatini, Cristina began acting on stage as a child. His sisters Ines Cristina Zaccon ...
as Il presidente del tribunale
*
Gualtiero De Angelis
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Biography
Born in Rome, De Angelis began h ...
as Il poliziotto di notte
*
Luigi Giovarella as Il professor Venturi
*
Augusto Marcacci
Augusto Marcacci (4 June 1892 – 7 December 1969) was an Italian actor and voice actor.Mancini p.229
Selected filmography
* '' Dimmed Lights'' (1934)
* '' Lady of Paradise'' (1934)
* '' Golden Arrow'' (1935)
* ''Condottieri'' (1937)
* '' The Cuc ...
as L'avvocato dell'accusa
*
Marcello Mastroianni as Extra
*
Carlo Micheluzzi as Bibi - il padre ansioso
*
Egisto Olivieri
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as Il primo agente della questura
*
Amina Pirani Maggi
Amina Pirani Maggi (January 15, 1892 – November 10, 1979) was an Italian stage and film actress.Waldman p.162
Selected filmography
* ''Television'' (1931)
* ''Seconda B'' (1934)
* '' Dimmed Lights'' (1934)
* '' Like the Leaves'' (1935)
* ''Depa ...
as La padrona della Pensione Gallini
*
Vanna Polverosi as La madre dei due gemelli
*
Luisa Ventura as La padrona della pasticceria
*
Ciro Berardi
Ciro Berardi (1909–1961) was an Italian actor.Bìspuri p.51
Selected filmography
* ''Light in the Darkness'' (1941)
* ''Lucky Night'' (1941)
* '' Street of the Five Moons'' (1942)
* ''After Casanova's Fashion'' (1942)
* ''Love Story'' (1942)
* ...
as l'usciere dell'officina SIMA
References
Bibliography
* Aprà, Adriano. ''The Fabulous Thirties: Italian cinema 1929-1944''. Electa International, 1979.
* Dewey, Donald. ''Marcello Mastroianni: His Life and Art''. Carol Publishing Group, 1993.
External links
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1942 films
1940s Italian-language films
1942 drama films
Italian black-and-white films
Films directed by Mario Camerini
Italian drama films
Lux Film films
Films shot at Cinecittà Studios
Italian films based on plays
Remakes of American films
1940s Italian films