Nothing New Tonight () is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli, Carlo Ninchi and Antonio Gandusio.Reich p.173 It was shot at the Safa Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Piero Filippone and Mario Rappini.
Plot Cesare, a journalist, recognises among some prostitutes arrested by the police, the young woman that saved his life some time earlier, without his having learned her identity. He tries to help the woman, Maria, and convince her to change her life, but without success.
Later on, Maria asks Cesare for his help. She is dying in a hospital, but cannot tell her parents, because, some time earlier, she had told them that she was married. So, in the last hours of her life, Cesare marries Maria, and then calls for her family to be with her.
Cast
Alida Valli as Maria Carlo Ninchi as Cesare Manti Antonio Gandusio as Il dottore Moriesi Giuditta Rissone as Clelia, la padrona di casa Ninì Gordini Cervi as Matilde Armando Migliari as Il direttore del giornale Aldo Rubens as Giorgio, il ballerino Tina Lattanzi as La principale dell'istituto Cesarina Gheraldi as Un ospite dell'istituto Dina Galli as La portinaia Achille Majeroni as Il professore ladro Gilda Marchiò as La madre di Maria Vinicio Sofia as Il direttore del teatro Giovanni D'Anzi as Un amico di Moriesi al bar Tino Scotti as Il comico del varietà Anna Carena as La lavandaia Olga Capri as La sorvegliante Paolo Bonecchi as Il fattorino del giornale Anna Maestri as Un ospite dell'istituto Marisa Merlini as Un ospite dell'istituto
References
Bibliography Reich, Jacqueline Beth. Fascism, Film, and Female Subjectivity: The Case of Italian Cinema 1936-1943. University of California, Berkeley, 1994.
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