White Amazons
1936 film
- Gino Valori (novel)
- Marcello Albani
- Ferruccio Biancini
- Gennaro Righelli
- Paola Barbara
- Luisa Ferida
- Doris Duranti
- Sandro Ruffini
- Ferdinando Martini
- Augusto Tiezzi
Production
company
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Arbor Film
Release date
- 1936 (1936)
Running time
White Amazons (Italian: Amazzoni bianche) is a 1936 Italian white telephone comedy film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Paola Barbara, Luisa Ferida and Doris Duranti. Screwball in style, it is part of the tradition of schoolgirl comedies of the Fascist era.[1]
Plot
The film is set in a winter sports resort, where an all-female race with a prize of two hundred thousand lira for the winner provokes rivalry and confusions.
Cast
- Paola Barbara as Mara Danieli
- Luisa Ferida as Luisa Carrai
- Doris Duranti as Giulietta
- Sandro Ruffini as Mario Gualdi
- Clara Padoa as Margherita Menardi
- Enrico Viarisio as Simone Gualtieri
- Olinto Cristina as Biancheri
- Mario Pisu as Biancheri
- Maria Arcione as Laura
- Valentino Bruchi as Luigi Allegri
- Nicola Maldacea as direttore Circolo Sciatori
- Lulu Marinelli as Berta
- Adrianna Miramonti as Giorgetta
- Tamara Nera as Antonietta
References
- ^ Reich p.170
Bibliography
- Reich, Jacqueline Beth. Fascism, Film, and Female Subjectivity: The Case of Italian Cinema 1936-1943. University of California, Berkeley, 1994.
External links
- White Amazons at IMDb
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Films directed by Gennaro Righelli
- Red Love (1921)
- The Voyage (1921)
- Under the Snow (1922)
- La Boheme (1923)
- Orient (1924)
- Rudderless (1924)
- The Doll Queen (1925)
- The Champion of the World (1927)
- Homesick (1927)
- Svengali (1927)
- Five Anxious Days (1928)
- Orient (1928)
- The Secret Courier (1928)
- The President (1928)
- Their Son (1929)
- The Night of Terror (1929)
- The Song of Love (1930)
- The Blue Fleet (1932)
- Together in the Dark (1933)
- The Last of the Bergeracs (1934)
- Mr. Desire (1934)
- Those Two (1935)
- The Amnesiac (1936)
- White Amazons (1936)
- Lasciate ogni speranza (1937)
- They've Kidnapped a Man (1938)
- La voce senza volto (1939)
- The Boarders at Saint-Cyr (1939)
- The Knight of San Marco (1939)
- Down with Misery (1945)
- Peddlin' in Society (1946)
- The Courier of the King (1947)
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