The Bard's Damsel
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The Turin noblewoman Maria Clotilde di Bard, the sole and elderly heir to an ancient Savoyard title, is reduced to living in the attics of the palace due to the embezzlement of a dishonest administrator. The young lady, who has always been alone due to a great love that never led to marriage with Baron Nigra, befriends the daughter of the palace owner, who tells her about her love for an aeronautical engineer: an unhappy love, because her father is against it. Maria Clotilde discovers that the young man is her brother's illegitimate son, taken away at an early age and never recognized, and therefore the sole heir to the Bard name. The shady administrator also ruins the new owners, who find themselves penniless. But in a trunk kept by the damsel there is years of correspondence between her and Baron Nigra, whose immense historical value restores the Bard family to its former glory and thus allows for a happy ending with the marriage of the two young people.
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Cast
26 people
Emma Gramatica
Maria Clotilde di Bard
Known for
Miracle in Milan
Don Camillo: Monsignor
Anna Capodaglio
la Baronessa
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Peccatori
Salvatore Gotta
Mario Mattoli
Roberto Dandi
Luigi Pavese
Avvocato Palmieri
Known for
The Band of Honest Men
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Amelia Chellini
La signora Ponzetti
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Maciste
Daddy's Little Devil
Aldo De Benedetti
Cesare Bettarini
Franco Toscani
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Fra' Diavolo
Quel fantasma di mio marito
Mirella Pardi
Renata
Also in
The Za-Bum Circus
Mario Brizzolari
Ufficiale giudiziario
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Star of the Sea
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Luigi Cimara
Marchese di Pombia
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Dora Nelson
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Mario Mattoli Director · Aldo De Benedetti Screenplay Salvatore Gotta Author
United States release February 5, 1938 · Produced in Italy · Original title La damigella di Bard
Production
I.C.I.
Production
Italy
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Languages
Original title
La damigella di Bard
Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
Italy · January 4, 1936
Theatrical
United States · February 5, 1938
Cine Roma, New York City
Spain
December 25, 1938 · Sevilla
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