Love Story (1942 film)

Love Story
Love Story
	Still with Assia Noris and Guido Notari
Directed by	Mario Camerini
Written by	Mario Camerini; Gaspare Cataldo; ; Mario Pannunzio; Gino Visentini
Based on	Life Begins by Mary McDougal Axelson
Produced by	Giampaolo Bigazzi
Starring	Assia Noris ; Piero Lulli ; Carlo Campanini
Cinematography	Arturo Gallea
Edited by	Mario Camerini
Music by	Fernando Previtali
Production; company	Lux Film
Distributed by	Lux Film
Release date	9 September 1942;
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Love Story (Italian: Una storia d'amore) is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Assia Noris, Piero Lulli and Carlo Campanini.^[1] ^[2] It is based on the play Life Begins by Mary McDougal Axelson, previously adapted into a 1932 film of the same title and a 1939 film A Child Is Born. Along with A Pistol Shot it marked an attempt to showcase Noris as a dramatic actress, rather than the White Telephone comedies she had become known for. It was screened at the 1942 Venice Film Festival.

It was produced by Lux Film, one of the leading film companies of Fascist Italy. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gastone Medin and . The future star Marcello Mastroianni appeared briefly as an uncredited extra.

Synopsis[]

A young woman with a troubled past marries a worker from a mechanical engineering factory and tries to live a respectable life. However a man who knows her background attempts to blackmail her and loses her head and kills him. She is sentenced to ten years in prison, and gives birth to a child while in jail.

Cast[]

Assia Noris as Anna Roberti
Piero Lulli as Gianni Castelli
Carlo Campanini as Agostino
Guido Notari as Ferreri
Osvaldo Genazzani as Sandro
Emilio Cigoli as L'avvocato difensore
Emma Baron as L'infermiera della clinica
as Enrico Banducci
as L'aiuto chirurgo
as Clara
Olinto Cristina as Il presidente del tribunale
Gualtiero De Angelis as Il poliziotto di notte
as Il professor Venturi
Augusto Marcacci as L'avvocato dell'accusa
Marcello Mastroianni as Extra
Carlo Micheluzzi as Bibi - il padre ansioso
Egisto Olivieri as Il primo agente della questura
Amina Pirani Maggi as La padrona della Pensione Gallini
as La madre dei due gemelli
as La padrona della pasticceria
Ciro Berardi as l'usciere dell'officina SIMA

References[]

^ "The Complete Index To World Film: Love Story". CITWF.com. Retrieved 13 March 2009.
^ Aprà p.82

Bibliography[]

Aprà, Adriano. The Fabulous Thirties: Italian cinema 1929-1944. Electa International, 1979.
Dewey, Donald. Marcello Mastroianni: His Life and Art. Carol Publishing Group, 1993.

External links[]

Love Story at IMDb

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[CITWF.com-1] "The Complete Index To World Film: Love Story". CITWF.com. Retrieved 13 March 2009.

[2] Aprà p.82

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