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Ève cherche un père (1933)
Character: Eve
Eve is to marry Jacques, the son of a general. But the general does not want a fatherless girl as a daughter-in-law. To remedy the problem Eve, who is the resourceful kind, sets about finding herself a father. She finds one in the person of a charming forty-five- year-old man. The brooding fiancé remains reluctant though and Eve is about to get engaged with her pseudo father when the latter suddenly remembers that he is ...Eve's real father!
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Una donna tra due mondi (1936)
Character: Daisy Atkins
A pianist is torn between her quartet's cellist and an exotic Indian maharajah she meets on tour with the troupe. The maharajah, however, has trouble forgetting his dead former love.
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Dora Nelson (1939)
Character: Dora Nelson
A humble girl looks so much like a capricious movie star that she gets to replace her both on the set and in her private life.
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Quei due (1935)
Character: Lily
Adventures of two provincial actors looking for anyway done with something to eat. They are joined by a girl, Lili. They represent a magic number, but all I get are miscues and boos.
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Tre uomini in frak (1933)
Character: la jeune américaine
Marcello, a shy tenor, is afraid of singing in public. Two friends of his think of having an elegant youth on the stage pretending to be singing while Marcello dubs him behind the scenes. The scam is successful but after a while Marcello summons the courage to go on stage himself.
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Giallo (1934)
Character: Henriette
A woman becomes convinced that her husband is an infamous wife-killer intent on adding her to his list of victims.
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Un colpo di pistola (1942)
Character: Mascia
Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Sergei can't bring himself to kill his friend. He fires only after taking the bullet out of his pistol. Now, it is the Count's turn to fire...
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I grandi magazzini (1939)
Character: Lauretta Corelli
In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.
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Ma non è una cosa seria (1936)
Character: Loletta Festa
Based on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. He weds Elisa Cegani, a servant girl, who turns out to be a more appealing wife than any of the others could have been. Assis Noris decorates the screen well as one of the chasers and pursuers. In 1937, De Sica and Noris made a film, "II Signor Max," which, other than the setting and character role names, basically has the same plot as this film.
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Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (1943)
Character: Colette Mauvoisin
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his - now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him... at least for a while.
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Centomila dollari (1940)
Character: Lily Zilay
On a whim, an American man offers a girl the sum of $100,000 if she will marry him.
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Il signor Max (1937)
Character: Lauretta
Gianni is a poor, young newspaper salesman in Rome. However, during his vacations he poses as Count Max Varaldo, an aristocrat. Once, on a cruise in Naples, he meets Donna Paola, a wealthy snob, and her shy maid Lauretta. After trying to establish a relationship with Donna Paola, Gianni, disappointed, decides to drop his alter ego Max and propose to Lauretta. However, she now believes that he is a Count, which leads to a series of comic misunderstandings.
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Le Capitaine Fracasse (1943)
Character: Isabelle
Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role: that of Captain Fracasse.
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Una romantica avventura (1940)
Character: Anna Berra detta Annetta/Angioletta
At the end of the 19th century, a middle-class woman explains why she cannot get along with her husband, a good man but a little rough around the edges: she cannot forget that during the Risorgimento she fell in love with a noble conspirator. Now, however, she realizes that her true love is her husband.
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Una storia d'amore (1942)
Character: Anna Roberti
Anna, a woman with a troubled past, marries an honest worker at the SIMA mechanical workshop, who provides her with a decent life despite financial difficulties. Blackmailed by a man who knows about her past, Anna loses her mind and kills him. Sentenced to ten years in prison, she dies in childbirth while giving birth to a baby girl.
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Darò un milione (1935)
Character: Anna
A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.
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Amina (1951)
Character: Amina
A 1951 Egyptian film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Assia Noris, Youssef Wahby and Rushdy Abaza.
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