The Lady of the Camellias (1947 film) explained

The Lady of the Camellias
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Director:	Carmine Gallone
Producer:	Gregor Rabinovitch William A. Szekeley
Music:	Luigi Ricci Giuseppe Verdi
Editing:	Niccolò Lazzari
Studio:	Grandi Film Storici Cinopera
Distributor:	Columbia Pictures (US)
Runtime:	82 minutes
Country:	Italy
Language:	Italian

The Lady of the Camellias (Italian: La signora dalle camelie) is a 1947 Italian musical drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Nelly Corradi, Gino Mattera and Manfredi Polverosi.^[1] It is an adaptation of the 1853 opera La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi. In 1948 it was released in America by Columbia Pictures under the title The Lost One.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. Costume design was by Georges Annenkov.

Cast

• Nelly Corradi as Violetta Valery
• Gino Mattera as Alfredo Germont
• Manfredi Polverosi as Georg Germont
• Flora Marino as Flora Bervoix
• Carlo Lombardi as Baron Douphol
• Massimo Serato as Alexandre Dumas fils (prologue)
• Nerio Bernardi as Giuseppe Verdi (prologue)
• Onelia Fineschi as Singer: opera
• Tito Gobbi as Singer: opera
• Francesco Albanese as Singer: opera
• Arturo la Porta as Singer: opera

Bibliography

• Book: Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. 1999. 3598114923.

Notes and References

1. Book: Dyer, Richard. Richard Dyer

   . Richard Dyer. In The Space Of A Song: The Uses of Song in Film. Routledge. London. 2011. 2012. 34. 10.1017/S0261143013000731. 978-0415223744.