The Secret Lover
{{Infobox film
| name = The Secret Lover
| image =The Secret Lover.jpg
| caption =
| director = Carmine Gallone
| producer = Federico Curloni
Carmine Gallone
| writer = Gherardo Gherardi
| starring = Alida Valli
Fosco Giachetti
Vivi Gioi
Osvaldo Valenti
| music = Felice Montagnini
| cinematography = Václav Vích
| editing =
| studio = Grandi Film
| distributor = ICI
| released = {{Film date|1941|09|27|df=yes}}
| runtime = 101 minutes
| country = Italy
| language = Italian
| budget =
| gross =
}}
The Secret Lover ({{langx|it|L'amante segreta}}) is a 1941 Italian drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti and Vivi Gioi.Nowell-Smith, Hay & Volpi p.57 It was made at Cinecittà in Rome.
Plot
After her tutor embezzles and squanders her inheritance, a young woman is forced to seek work in a series of different occupations.
Cast
- Alida Valli as Renata Croci
- Fosco Giachetti as Giorgio Amholt
- Vivi Gioi as Diana Ponzio
- Osvaldo Valenti as Valentini
- Luigi Almirante as Il pittore Riganti
- Camillo Pilotto as Giacomo Mori
- Ada Dondini as Antonia Mori
- Bella Starace Sainati as La contessa Bianca Lotti
- Anita Farra as Teresa Amholt
- Luigi Pavese as Melchiorri
- Carlo Lombardi as L'attore Mario Fulvi
- Arturo Bragaglia as Il ragionere
- Jacchi Gambino as Krick
- Claudio Ermelli as Il cameriere Ottaviano
- Giuseppe Pierozzi as Marini
- Luigi Erminio D'Olivo as Il barone
- Marina Doge as Un'amica di Renata
- Fedele Gentile as Un amico di Renata
- Mario Giannini as Un amico di Renata
- Mara Landi as Un'amica di Renata
- Alfredo Martinelli as Un cliente dell'albergo
- Edda Soligo as La cameriera dell'albergo
- Alfredo Varelli as Un amico di Renata
- Giuseppe Varni 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
- {{IMDb title|0033335}}
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Category:1940s Italian-language films
Category:Films directed by Carmine Gallone
Category:Films shot at Cinecittà Studios
Category:Italian black-and-white films
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