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''Naples Sings'' (Italian: ''...e Napoli canta!'') is a 1953 Italian musical
melodrama film A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Melodramas typically concentrate on dialogue that is often bombastic or exces ...
directed by Armando Grottini, starring
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. The film's sets were designed by Alfredo Montori.


Plot

1935: a rich nobleman, in order not to compromise the marriage of her daughter to an English nobleman, takes her newborn daughter from her (had from a clandestine affair), entrusting her to her nuns with a medal of the Madonna around her neck. 1953: Giorgio with some friends rehearses a show of Neapolitan songs financed thanks to an elderly artist. Having come to quarrel with the landlady, Giorgio rented a room with a good woman who lives with her beautiful daughter Maria. Love soon arises between the two. When, thanks to a farsighted entrepreneur, things are going for the best, Mary's mother is summoned by the nuns: a woman has finally learned the truth about her daughter who was stolen from her 18 years earlier and entrusted to the nuns: now she claims the his own daughter, that is, Mary. The girl moves to her birth mother and, attending parties and attending nobles, she becomes engaged to a young scion but never forgetting her Giorgio with whom she secretly meets. In the meantime, the show of these is a great success, but Giorgio has lost all enthusiasm: Maria is getting married, But right on the altar, under the eyes of the two mothers, Maria finds the courage to say no, to rejoin Giorgio.


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* 1950s musical drama films Italian musical drama films 1953 films 1950s Italian-language films Films set in Naples 1953 drama films Italian black-and-white films Melodrama films 1950s Italian films {{musical-drama-film-stub