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''Melody of Love'' or ''Singing City'' (original title ''Città canora'') is a
1952
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Italian
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*** Regional Ita ...
musical
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melodrama
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film
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directed by
Mario Costa and starring
Giacomo Rondinella
Giacomo Rondinella (30 August 1923 – 25 February 2015) was an Italian singer and actor.
Life and career
Born in Messina, the son of a couple of Neapolitan actors and singers, Rondinella started his career as a singer after World War II, foll ...
,
Maria Fiore
Maria Fiore (1 October 1935 – 28 October 2004) was an Italian film and television actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1952 and 1999.
Life and career
Born Jolanda Di Fiore in Rome, in spite of a non-professional acting background, sh ...
and
Nadia Gray
Nadia Gray (born Nadia Kujnir; 23 November 1923 – 13 June 1994) was a Romanian film actress.
Biography
Gray was born into a Jewish family in Bucharest. Her father moved to Romania from Russia, and her mother was from Akkerman (Bessarabia). ...
.
[Chiti & Poppi p.218]
It was shot at
Cinecitta Studios in
Rome
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, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
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and
on location in
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Lamberto Giovagnoli.
Cast
*
Nadia Gray
Nadia Gray (born Nadia Kujnir; 23 November 1923 – 13 June 1994) was a Romanian film actress.
Biography
Gray was born into a Jewish family in Bucharest. Her father moved to Romania from Russia, and her mother was from Akkerman (Bessarabia). ...
as Nadia Sandor
*
Maria Fiore
Maria Fiore (1 October 1935 – 28 October 2004) was an Italian film and television actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1952 and 1999.
Life and career
Born Jolanda Di Fiore in Rome, in spite of a non-professional acting background, sh ...
as Maria Morelli
*
Giacomo Rondinella
Giacomo Rondinella (30 August 1923 – 25 February 2015) was an Italian singer and actor.
Life and career
Born in Messina, the son of a couple of Neapolitan actors and singers, Rondinella started his career as a singer after World War II, foll ...
as Giacomo D'Angeli
*
Tina Pica
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In the 1950s, she became a celebrity thanks to her role as Caramel ...
as Concetta
*
Paola Borboni
Paola Borboni (1 January 1900 – 9 April 1995) was an Italian stage and film actress whose career spanned nine decades of cinema.
Early life
Borboni was born on 1 January 1900 in Parma, Italy.
Career
Borboni made her stage debut in 19 ...
as Anna
*
Carlo Romano
Carlo Romano (8 May 1908 – 16 October 1975) was an Italian actor, voice actor and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Livorno, Romano was the son of actress Dina Romano and the younger brother of actor Felice Romano. Romano started his acting ...
as Commendator Ferrario
*
Mirko Ellis
Mirko Ellis (4 September 1923 – 11 September 2014) was a Swiss-Italian film, stage and television actor.
Born Mirko Korcinsky in Locarno to a family of Lithuanian origin, Ellis moved, after his studies, to Italy, where he made his film debut i ...
as Renato Scala
*
Giovanni Grasso
Giovanni Grasso (11 November 1888 – 30 April 1963) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1910 and 1955. He was born and died in Catania, Sicily, Italy. Born into a family of marionettists, he was ...
as Don Salvatore Morelli
*
Giuseppe Porelli
Giuseppe Porelli (24 November 1897 – 5 March 1982) was an Italian stage, film and television actor.
Life and career
Born Giuseppe Porcelli in Naples, he graduated from the Istituto Tecnico and became an employee of Ferrovie dello Stato. Wh ...
as Don Raffaele Scotto
*
Leila Calabrese
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as Governante di Don Raffaele
*
Dante
Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: '' ...
and
Beniamino Maggio
Beniamino Maggio (10 August 1907 - 6 September 1990) was an Italian actor.
Born in Naples into a family of actors, Maggio debuted on stage as a child, as the sidekick of the comedian Serafino Mastracchio, and he slowly built a reputation in the ...
as Pasquale and Nicola
*
Amalia Pellegrini
Amalia Pellegrini (16 June 1873 – 13 September 1958) was an Italian actress. She appeared in more than sixty films from 1935 to 1958.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
1873 births
1958 deaths
Italian film actresses ...
as Amalia
*
Vittorio Bottone
*
Salvatore Cafiero
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*
Arturo Gigliati
*
Luigi De Simone
References
Bibliography
* Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. ''Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959''. Gremese Editore, 1991.
* Marlow-Mann, Alex. ''The New Neapolitan Cinema''. Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
External links
*
*
Melody of love' at
Variety Distribution
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It distributes Italian films worldwide, produced from the 1930s onward.
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Variety Distribution (formerly Variety Film and Variety Communications) has been in the film ...
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1950s Italian-language films
Films directed by Mario Costa
Melodrama films
Italian musical drama films
1950s musical drama films
Italian black-and-white films
Films shot at Cinecittà Studios
Films shot in Naples
Films set in Naples
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