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

Naples Sings
Directed byArmando Grottini
Written by
  • Antonio Ferrigno
  • Rodolfo Morelli
Produced byAntonio Ferrigno
StarringVirna Lisi
CinematographySergio Pesce
Edited byJolanda Benvenuti
Music by
Production
company
Aurora Film
Distributed byIndipendenti Regionali
Release date
  • 28 December 1953 (1953-12-28)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

The film's sets were designed by Alfredo Montori.

Plot

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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

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