''The Secret Lover'' (Italian: ''L'amante segreta'') is a 1941 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
Carmine Gallone
Carmine Gallone (10 September 1885 – 11 March 1973) was an early Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer, who was also controversial for his works of pro-Fascist propaganda and historical revisionism. Considered one of Itali ...
and starring
Alida Valli
Alida Maria Laura, '' Freiin'' Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), better known by her stage name Alida Valli (or simply Valli), was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films in a 70-year career, ...
,
Fosco Giachetti
Fosco Giachetti (28 March 1900, in Sesto Fiorentino – 22 December 1974, in Rome) was an Italian actor.
Fosco Giachetti was the protagonist of ''Lo squadrone bianco'' (1936), directed by Augusto Genina. He became the leading man in Fascist ...
and
Vivi Gioi
Vivi Gioi, born Vivienne Trumpy (2 January 1917, Livorno – 12 July 1975, Fregene) was an Italian actress. Her alternative professional last name Diesca was an anagram of De Sica, the famous actor and director with whom she was in love. She i ...
.
[Nowell-Smith, Hay & Volpi p.57] It was made at
Cinecittà
Cinecittà Studios (; Italian for Cinema City Studios), is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios we ...
in
Rome
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, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
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.
Plot
After her tutor embezzles and squanders her inheritance, a young woman is forced to seek work in a series of different occupations.
Cast
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Alida Valli
Alida Maria Laura, '' Freiin'' Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), better known by her stage name Alida Valli (or simply Valli), was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films in a 70-year career, ...
as Renata Croci
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Fosco Giachetti
Fosco Giachetti (28 March 1900, in Sesto Fiorentino – 22 December 1974, in Rome) was an Italian actor.
Fosco Giachetti was the protagonist of ''Lo squadrone bianco'' (1936), directed by Augusto Genina. He became the leading man in Fascist ...
as Giorgio Amholt
*
Vivi Gioi
Vivi Gioi, born Vivienne Trumpy (2 January 1917, Livorno – 12 July 1975, Fregene) was an Italian actress. Her alternative professional last name Diesca was an anagram of De Sica, the famous actor and director with whom she was in love. She i ...
as Diana Ponzio
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Osvaldo Valenti
Osvaldo Valenti (17 February 1906 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1928 and 1945. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey to a Sicilian carpet trader and a wealthy Lebanese woman of Greek descen ...
as Valentini
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Luigi Almirante
Luigi Almirante (30 September 1884 – 6 May 1963) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in 62 films between 1921 and 1955.
Life and career
The son of a stage actor, Almirante was born in Tunis, where the theatrical company of ...
as Il pittore Riganti
*
Camillo Pilotto
Camillo Pilotto (6 February 1888 Birth name: Camillo Raul Vittorio Pilotto. – 27 May 1963) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 101 films between 1916 and 1963. He was born and died in Rome, Italy.
Selected filmography
* ''The Song ...
as Giacomo Mori
*
Ada Dondini
Ada Dondini (18 March 1883 – 3 January 1958) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 48 films between 1916 and 1954. She was born in Cosenza, Italy and died in Chieti, Italy.
Selected filmography
* '' The Charmer'' (1931)
* '' Just ...
as Antonia Mori
*
Bella Starace Sainati
Bella Starace Sainati (June 2, 1878 – August 4, 1958) was an Italian stage and film actress.Goble p.190
Selected filmography
* '' The Two Mothers'' (1938)
* ''Naples Will Never Die'' (1939)
* '' Goodbye Youth'' (1940)
* ''Inspector Vargas'' ...
as La contessa Bianca Lotti
*
Anita Farra
Anita Farra (15 July 1905 – 4 August 2008) was an Italian stage and film actress. She appeared in around forty films during her career, generally in small or supporting roles such as that in '' The Siege of the Alcazar'' (1940).Cardullo p.21 ...
as Teresa Amholt
*
Luigi Pavese
Luigi Pavese (25 October 1897 – 13 December 1969) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Asti, Pavese started his career in 1916 working as a silent film actor at 19 years of age. He then began his theatrical debut in 192 ...
as Melchiorri
*
Carlo Lombardi as L'attore Mario Fulvi
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Arturo Bragaglia
Arturo Bragaglia (7 January 1893 – 21 January 1962) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1938 to 1961.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
1893 births
1962 deaths
Italian male f ...
as Il ragionere
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Jacchi Gambino as Krick
*
Claudio Ermelli
Claudio Ermelli (24 July 1892 – 29 October 1964) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1915 to 1962.
Filmography
References
External links
*
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1892 births
1964 death ...
as Il cameriere Ottaviano
*
Giuseppe Pierozzi
Giuseppe Pierozzi (8 March 1883 – 22 April 1956) was an Italian stage and film actor.Goble p.349
Selected filmography
* '' Maddalena Ferat'' (1920)
* '' Through the Shadows'' (1923)
* ''Samson'' (1923)
* '' The Faces of Love'' (1924)
* '' The ...
as Marini
*
Luigi Erminio D'Olivo
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as Il barone
*
Marina Doge as Un'amica di Renata
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Fedele Gentile
Fedele Gentile (1908–1993) was an Italian film actor.Kinnard & Crnkovich p.187
Selected filmography
* ''The Man with the Claw'' (1931)
* '' Captain Fracasse'' (1940)
* ''Big Shoes'' (1940)
* ''The Secret Lover'' (1941)
* ''Fedora'' (1942)
* ''B ...
as Un amico di Renata
*
Mario Giannini as Un amico di Renata
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Mara Landi
Mara or MARA may refer to:
Animals
*Mara (mammal), a species of the cavy family
* Mara the Lioness, in the movie ''Born Free''
Arts and entertainment Fictional characters
* Mara (''Doctor Who''), an evil being in two ''Doctor Who'' serials
*Mara, ...
as Un'amica di Renata
*
Alfredo Martinelli
Alfredo Martinelli (7 March 1899 – 11 November 1968) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 103 films between 1916 and 1967. He was born and died in Siena, Tuscany.
Selected filmography
* ''I Topi Grigi'' (1918)
* ''Tortured Soul'' (1 ...
as Un cliente dell'albergo
*
Edda Soligo
Edda Soligo (1905–1984) was an Italian film and television actress.Verdone p.111
Selected filmography
* '' Adam's Tree'' (1936)
* '' The Man from Nowhere'' (1937)
* '' The Former Mattia Pascal'' (1937)
* ''Il signor Max'' (1937)
* '' To Live'' ...
as La cameriera dell'albergo
*
Alfredo Varelli
Alfredo Varelli (born Alfredo Ciavarella, 31 August 1914, date of death unknown) was an Italian film actor whose career spanned more than six decades. Varelli was born ''Alfredo Ciavarella'' and debuted in Alessandro Blasetti's 1934 film ''Vecch ...
as Un amico di Renata
*
Giuseppe Varni
Giuseppe Varni (born Józef Bruno Winawer) (1902-1965) was a Polish-born Italian stage and film actor.Anile p.135
Selected filmography
* ''Oltre l'amore'' (1940) - Il commissario
* ''Amami Alfredo'' (1940) - (uncredited)
* ''Eternal Melodies' ...
as Il portiere dell'albergo
References
Bibliography
* Gundle, Stephen. ''Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy''. Berghahn Books, 2013.
* Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey & Hay, James & Volpi, Gianni. ''The Companion to Italian Cinema''. Cassell, 1996.
External links
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1941 films
Italian drama films
1941 drama films
1940s Italian-language films
Films directed by Carmine Gallone
Films shot at Cinecittà Studios
Italian black-and-white films
1940s Italian films
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