Casta diva
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Martha Eggerth heads the cast of Casta Diva, but the central character is famed Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini, here played by American actor Phillips Holmes. Paying but scant attention the facts, the film concentrates on Bellini's colorful love life. Evidently the film went through several rewriting processes, as witness the curious performances of Donald Calthrop and Arthur Margetson, whose characters do complete about-faces halfway through the story. Amidst so many British accents, Martha Eggerth's Polish intonations seem out of place, but she photographs beautifully and sings quite well. Casta Diva was attractively filmed on location in Naples. Not to be confused with the 1954 remake (by Gallone himself) or to the English language version "The Divine Spark" (also directed by Gallone and starred by Eggerth).
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Cast
24 people
Mártha Eggerth
Maddelena Fumarol
Known for
For Me and My Gal
Sandro Palmieri
Vincenzo Bellini
Also in
Lorenzino de' Medici
Il diario di una stella
Walter Reisch
Giuseppe Amato
Franz Planer
Carmine Gallone
Gualtiero Tumiati
Niccolò Paganini
Known for
Ulysses
Massimo Terzano
Corrado Alvaro
William A Szekeley
Lamberto Picasso
Fumaroli
Also in
Everybody's Woman
Ricchezza senza domani
Fernando Tropea
Carmine Gallone Director · Walter Reisch Writer Franz Planer Cinematographer
United States release October 3, 1937 · Produced in Italy · Production Alleanza Cinematografica Italiana (A.C.I.)
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Production · Distribution
Alleanza Cinematografica Italiana (A.C.I.)
Production
Italy
Produced in
Languages
Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
France · June 13, 1935
Theatrical
Italy · August 9, 1935
Theatrical
United States · October 3, 1937
Theatrical
Denmark
September 18, 1935 · Theatrical
Hungary
November 2, 1935
Japan
April 2, 1936
Portugal
December 2, 1935 · Theatrical
Russia
February 28, 1949 · Theatrical · Дубляж – к/ст им. Горького, 1948 г.
Türkiye
January 1, 1936
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