Salvatore Allegra (13 July 1898, Palermo, Italy – 9 December 1993, Florence, Italy) was an Italian composer. Allegra was born in Palermo. He composed a number of operettas in the 1920s, including ''Il gatto in cantina'' (1930), which is still performed sometimes, passing then to

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s, such as the dark " verista" drama ''Ave Maria'', which was first staged at La Scala in 1934, which was followed by ''I Viandanti'' (1936), ''Il Medico suo malgrado'' (1938) and ''Romulus'' (1952). He completed and edited some last works of the late

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, including the one-act opera ''Edipo Re'' (1920) and the operetta ''Le maschere nude'' (1925). After the war he composed a number of musical scores for films, among which ''Amori e veleni'' (1950) with Amedeo Nazzari and directed by Giorgio Simonelli. He died in

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Selected filmography

* ''

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'' (1937) * '' Abandonment'' (1940) * ''

A Little Wife ''A Little Wife'' (Italian: ''Una piccola moglie'') is a 1943 Italian " white-telephones" drama film directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring Fosco Giachetti, Assia Noris and Clara Calamai.Chiti & Poppi p.435 It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios ...

'' (1943) * ''

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'' (1950) * '' Nobody's Children'' (1951) * '' Who is Without Sin'' (1952) * ''

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'' (1952) * '' Final Pardon'' (1952)

References

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