The Two Orphans (1942 film)

The Two Orphans
Directed by	Carmine Gallone
Produced by	Federico Curioni Carmine Gallone
Written by	Adolphe d'Ennery (play) Eugène Cormon (play) Guido Cantini
Starring	Alida Valli María Denis Osvaldo Valenti Roberto Villa
Music by	Renzo Rossellini
Cinematography	Anchise Brizzi
Edited by	Niccolò Lazzari
Production company	Grandi Film
Distributed by	ICI
Release dates	16 August 1942
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Two Orphans (Italian:Le due orfanelle) is a 1942 Italian historical drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Alida Valli, María Denis and Osvaldo Valenti.^[1] It was based on the play The Two Orphans by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon, one of a large number of film adaptations. It was made at Cinecittà in Rome.

Cast

• Alida Valli as Enrichetta
• María Denis as Luisa
• Osvaldo Valenti as Pietro
• Roberto Villa as Ruggero de Vaudray
• Otello Toso as Giacomo
• Gilda Marchiò as Madame Frochard
• Germana Paolieri as Marianna
• Memo Benassi as Il conte di Linières
• Tina Lattanzi as La contessa Diana di Linières
• Enrico Glori as Il marchese di Presle
• Guido Celano as Monsieur Gérard
• Pio Campa as Marais
• Adele Garavaglia as Suor Genoveffa
• Umberto Spadaro as Il custode della stazione
• Giuseppe Varni as Picard, il cameriere
• Ruggero Capodaglio
• Marisa Dianora
• Edvige Elisabeth
• Giulio Panicali
• Luigi Pavese
• Aldo Silvani
• Edda Soligo
• Aris Valeri

See also

• Orphans of the Storm (1921)
• The Two Orphans (1933)
• The Two Orphans (1954)
• The Two Orphans (1965)
• The Two Orphans (1976)

References

1. Nowell-Smith, Hay & Volpi p.57

Bibliography

• Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey & Hay, James & Volpi, Gianni. The Companion to Italian Cinema. Cassell, 1996.

External links

• The Two Orphans at the Internet Movie Database

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