The Secret Lover

The Secret Lover
Directed by	Carmine Gallone
Written by	Gherardo Gherardi
Produced by	Federico Curloni Carmine Gallone
Starring	Alida Valli Fosco Giachetti Vivi Gioi Osvaldo Valenti
Cinematography	Václav Vích
Music by	Felice Montagnini
Production company	Grandi Film
Distributed by	ICI
Release date	27 September 1941
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Secret Lover (Italian: L'amante segreta) is a 1941 Italian drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti and Vivi Gioi. It was made at Cinecittà in Rome.

Plot

After her tutor embezzles and squanders her inheritance, a young woman is forced to seek work in a series of different occupations.

Cast

• Alida Valli as Renata Croci
• Fosco Giachetti as Giorgio Amholt
• Vivi Gioi as Diana Ponzio
• Osvaldo Valenti as Valentini
• Luigi Almirante as Il pittore Riganti
• Camillo Pilotto as Giacomo Mori
• Ada Dondini as Antonia Mori
• Bella Starace Sainati as La contessa Bianca Lotti
• Anita Farra as Teresa Amholt
• Luigi Pavese as Melchiorri
• Carlo Lombardi as L'attore Mario Fulvi
• Arturo Bragaglia as Il ragionere
• Jacchi Gambino as Krick
• Claudio Ermelli as Il cameriere Ottaviano
• Giuseppe Pierozzi as Marini
• Luigi Erminio D'Olivo as Il barone
• Marina Doge as Un'amica di Renata
• Fedele Gentile as Un amico di Renata
• Mario Giannini as Un amico di Renata
• Mara Landi as Un'amica di Renata
• Alfredo Martinelli as Un cliente dell'albergo
• Edda Soligo as La cameriera dell'albergo
• Alfredo Varelli as Un amico di Renata
• Giuseppe Varni as Il portiere dell'albergo

Bibliography

• Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.
• Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey & Hay, James & Volpi, Gianni. The Companion to Italian Cinema. Cassell, 1996.

External links

• The Secret Lover at IMDb