The House of Shame (Italian: La casa del peccato) is a 1938 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Assia Noris and Alida Valli.[1]
It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. The film was the first time Nazzari and Valli co-starred together, as they would later go on to do a number of films.
Synopsis
A wife, concerned that her husband does not love her, pretends to have another suitor in order to make him jealous. Getting wise to this, he in turn pretends to have a new girlfriend.
Cast
- Amedeo Nazzari as Giulio
- Assia Noris as Renata
- Umberto Melnati as Massimo
- Alida Valli as La ragazza
- Giulio Stival as Un amico di Giulio
- Giuseppe Porelli as Il maggiordomo
- Aristide Baghetti
- Giuseppe Bordonaro
- Vasco Creti
- Corrado De Cenzo
- Jone Morino
- Tatiana Pavoni
- Teodoro Pescara Pateras
- Giuseppe Pierozzi
- Sandra Ravel
References
- ^ Nowell-Smith p.119
Bibliography
- Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey & Hay, James & Volpi, Gianni. The Companion to Italian Cinema. Cassell, 1996.
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