Naples Sings

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Naples Sings
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Directed by Armando Grottini
Written by
  • Antonio Ferrigno
  • Rodolfo Morelli
Produced byAntonio Ferrigno
Starring Virna Lisi
Cinematography Sergio Pesce
Edited by Jolanda Benvenuti
Music by
Production
company
Aurora Film
Distributed byIndipendenti Regionali
Release date
28 December 1953
Running time
90 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

Naples Sings (Italian: ...e Napoli canta!) is a 1953 Italian musical melodrama film directed by Armando Grottini, starring Virna Lisi.

Contents

The film's sets were designed by Alfredo Montori.

Plot

1935: a rich nobleman, in order not to compromise the marriage of his daughter to an English nobleman, takes her newborn daughter from her (had from a clandestine affair), entrusting her to nuns with a medal of the Madonna around her neck.

1953: Giorgio with some friends is rehearsing a show of Neapolitan songs financed thanks to an elderly artist. Having quarrelled with his landlady, Giorgio rented a room with a good woman who lives with her beautiful daughter Maria. Love soon arises between the two. When, thanks to a farsighted entrepreneur, things are going for the best, Maria's mother is summoned by the nuns: a woman has finally learned the truth about her daughter who was stolen from her 18 years earlier and entrusted to the nuns: now she claims his own daughter, that is, Maria. The girl moves to her birth mother and, attending parties and attending nobles, she becomes engaged to a young scion but never forgetting her Giorgio with whom she secretly meets. In the meantime, the show of these is a great success, but Giorgio has lost all enthusiasm: Maria is getting married. But right at the altar, under the eyes of the two mothers, Maria finds the courage to say no, and to rejoin Giorgio. [1]

Cast

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References

  1. Grottini, Armando (1953-12-28), ...e Napoli canta! (Drama, Musical), retrieved 2022-05-02