''The Woman Who Invented Love'' (Italian: ''La donna che inventò l'amore'') is a 1952 Italian
historical
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melodrama
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film written and directed by
Ferruccio Cerio
Ferruccio Cerio (25 September 1904 – 23 April 1963) was an Italian film writer and director.
Filmography as a director
*''Il cavaliere senza nome'' (1941)
*''Villa da vendere'' (1941)
*''L'ultimo addio'' (1942) ( ''The Last Good-Bye'')
*'' The ...
and starring
Silvana Pampanini
Silvana Pampanini (25 September 1925 – 6 January 2016) was an Italian film actress, director and singer. She was also the niece of the well-known soprano of the golden era of opera, Dame Rosetta Pampanini. Silvana Pampanini caused a sensation ...
,
Rossano Brazzi
Rossano Brazzi (18 September 1916 – 24 December 1994) was an Italian actor.
Biography
Brazzi was born in Bologna, Italy, the son of Maria Ghedini and Adelmo Brazzi, an employee of the Rizzoli shoe factory. He was named after Rossano Vene ...
and
Mariella Lotti
Maria Camilla Pianotti (17 November 1919 – 18 December 2004), known by the stage name Mariella Lotti, was an Italian film actress. Lotti made her film debut in 1939, and played leading ladies in a number of Fascist era and post-war films. She ...
.
[Poppi p.105] It was shot at the
Cinecittà Studios
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 wer ...
in
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
, map_caption ...
. 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 ...
Marcello Avenati.
Cast
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Silvana Pampanini
Silvana Pampanini (25 September 1925 – 6 January 2016) was an Italian film actress, director and singer. She was also the niece of the well-known soprano of the golden era of opera, Dame Rosetta Pampanini. Silvana Pampanini caused a sensation ...
as Antonella
*
Rossano Brazzi
Rossano Brazzi (18 September 1916 – 24 December 1994) was an Italian actor.
Biography
Brazzi was born in Bologna, Italy, the son of Maria Ghedini and Adelmo Brazzi, an employee of the Rizzoli shoe factory. He was named after Rossano Vene ...
as Conte Grilli
*
Juan de Landa
Juan de Landa (1894–1968) was a Spanish film actor, who was born in the Basque Country. de Landa entered the film industry in 1930 following the arrival of sound film. He initially acted in Spanish-language versions of Hollywood films, but lat ...
as Usuraio Passadonato
*
Piero Carnabuci
Piero Carnabuci (6 September 1893 – 13 February 1958) was an Italian stage and film actor.
Life and career
Born in Santa Teresa di Riva, Messina, after the World War I Carnabuci decided to abandon his engineering studies at the University of ...
as Corteggiatore di Antonella
*
Mariella Lotti
Maria Camilla Pianotti (17 November 1919 – 18 December 2004), known by the stage name Mariella Lotti, was an Italian film actress. Lotti made her film debut in 1939, and played leading ladies in a number of Fascist era and post-war films. She ...
as Nini
*
Lauro Gazzolo
Lauro Gazzolo (born Ilario Gazzolo; 15 October 1900 – 2 October 1970) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Nervi in Genoa, Gazzolo began his career on screen in 1938 starring in the comedy film ''The Document'' and beca ...
as Marchese Doria
*
Vittorio Sanipoli
Vittorio Sanipoli (1915–1992) was an Italian stage, film and television actor. He appeared in around a hundred films and television series between 1942 and 1980.
Life and career
Born Luciano Sanipoli in Genoa, he made his acting debut in 1939 ...
as Caddulo
*
Laura Gore
Laura Gore (30 September 1918 – 27 March 1957) was an Italian actress and voice actress. She appeared in 39 films between 1945 and 1955. She was born in Bussoleno, Turin as Laura Emilia Regli.
While studying accounting, in 1940 she won th ...
as Malvina
*
Wanda Capodaglio
Wanda Capodaglio (1 January 1889 – 30 August 1980) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 30 films between 1914 and 1970. Her brother Ruggero was married to actress Anna Capodaglio (the stage name of Anna Adele Alberta Gramatica) who ...
*
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 ...
*
Renato Chiantoni
Renato Chiantoni (19 April 1906 – 24 December 1979) was an Italian actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1937 and 1978.
Born in Brescia, the son of the stage actor Amedeo, Chiantoni debuted on stage entering several drama and revue comp ...
References
Bibliography
* Poppi, Roberto. ''I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri''. Gremese Editore, 2002.
External links
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''The Woman Who Invented Love''at
Variety Distribution
Variety Distribution is an Italian-based film distribution company.
It distributes Italian films worldwide, produced from the 1930s onward.
History
Variety Distribution (formerly Variety Film and Variety Communications) has been in the film ...
1952 films
1950s historical drama films
Italian historical drama films
1950s Italian-language films
Films set in the 1910s
Films shot at Cinecittà Studios
Films directed by Ferruccio Cerio
1952 drama films
Melodrama films
Italian black-and-white films
1950s Italian films
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