Naples Will Never Die

1939 Italian film

Jean-Georges Auriol
Ernesto Murolo
Cesare Giulio Viola
Amleto Palermi

Produced byGiulio ManentiStarring

Fosco Giachetti
Marie Glory
Paola Barbara
Cesare Bettarini

CinematographyAnchise BrizziEdited byFernando TropeaMusic byAlessandro Cicognini

Production
company

Manenti Film

Distributed byManenti Film

Release date

18 February 1939 (1939-02-18)

Running time

88 minutesCountryItalyLanguageItalian

Naples Will Never Die (Italian: Napoli che non muore) is a 1939 Italian comedy film directed by Amleto Palermi and starring Fosco Giachetti, Marie Glory and Paola Barbara.^[1] A young French tourist on holiday in Naples meets and falls in love with an engineer. She marries him, but finds his family overbearing and traditional while they consider her to be too extrovert. She leaves him and returns to France, but the couple are eventually re-united.

Cast

Fosco Giachetti as Mario Fusco
Marie Glory as Annie Fusco
Paola Barbara as Teresa
Bella Starace Sainati as Donna Amalia Fusco
Cesare Bettarini as Pietro
Carla Sveva as Lia
Ennio Cerlesi as Enrico
Armando Migliari as Daspuro
Clelia Matania as Rosinella
Giuseppe Porelli as Il maestro Califano
Gianni Agus as Bebè
Vittorio Parisi as Il cantate

References

^ Liehm p.22

Bibliography

Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.
Liehm, Mira. Passion and Defiance: Film in Italy from 1942 to the Present. University of California Press, 1984.