''One Hundred Little Mothers'' (Italian: ''Cento piccole mamme'') is a 1952 Italian
melodrama film
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directed by Giulio Morelli and starring
William Tubbs
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Roberto Gaston ...
,
Lia Amanda
Lia Amanda (born 2 September 1932) is an Italian former film actress.
Life and career
Born in Rome as Lia Molfesi, Amanda was the daughter of the character actor Mario Molfesi.
She debuted at very young age with her real name in Mario Monicel ...
and
Clelia Matania
Clelia Matania (28 March 1918 – 14 October 1981) was an Italian film and voice actress.
Life and career
Born in London, the daughter of the Capri-born naturalized Briton painter Fortunino Matania (best known as Saturnino), Matania attended t ...
.
It is a remake of the 1936 French film ''
Forty Little Mothers
''Forty Little Mothers'' is a 1940 American comedy-drama film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring Eddie Cantor.
Plot
Out-of-work professor Gilbert Jordan Thompson stops a suicidal stranger named Marian Edwards from jumping off a pier and he ...
''.
Cast
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William Tubbs
William Tubbs (May 10, 1907 – January 25, 1953) was an American stage and film actor.Bondanella p.156 He appeared in a number of European films in the years after the Second World War, including several by Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Gaston ...
as Prof. Martino Prosperi
*
Lia Amanda
Lia Amanda (born 2 September 1932) is an Italian former film actress.
Life and career
Born in Rome as Lia Molfesi, Amanda was the daughter of the character actor Mario Molfesi.
She debuted at very young age with her real name in Mario Monicel ...
as Anna
*
Clelia Matania
Clelia Matania (28 March 1918 – 14 October 1981) was an Italian film and voice actress.
Life and career
Born in London, the daughter of the Capri-born naturalized Briton painter Fortunino Matania (best known as Saturnino), Matania attended t ...
as director Sampieri
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Checco Durante
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Selected filmography
* '' The Doctor in Spite of Himself'' (193 ...
as commissioner
*
Juan de Landa
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as Don Michele
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Ugo D'Alessio
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Selected filmography
* '' Malaspina'' (1947) - Nicola
* '' Madunnella'' (1948) - Il ragionere, padre di Maria
* '' Assunta Spina'' (1948) - Epanimonda Pesce
* '' Red Moon'' (1951 ...
See also
* ''
Forty Little Mothers
''Forty Little Mothers'' is a 1940 American comedy-drama film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring Eddie Cantor.
Plot
Out-of-work professor Gilbert Jordan Thompson stops a suicidal stranger named Marian Edwards from jumping off a pier and he ...
'' (1936)
* ''
Forty Little Mothers
''Forty Little Mothers'' is a 1940 American comedy-drama film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring Eddie Cantor.
Plot
Out-of-work professor Gilbert Jordan Thompson stops a suicidal stranger named Marian Edwards from jumping off a pier and he ...
'' (1940)
References
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1952 films
Italian drama films
1950s Italian-language films
Italian remakes of French films
Films directed by Léonide Moguy
1952 drama films
Italian black-and-white films
1950s Italian films
Films scored by Carlo Innocenzi
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