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Lea Padovani

Lea Padovani

Italian actress
July 28, 1920 (June 23, 1991)
Fr. 1963. Social drama by Yves Allégret with Jean Sorel, Bernard Blier, Berthe Granval. In 1863, a man tries to improve the working conditions of miners.
Runtime: 110 min.

The Empty Canvas

V.O.: La Noia
It. 1963. Psychological drama by Damiano Damiani with Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak, Isa Miranda. A young man sees his life turned upside down by a failed relationship.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1961. Biography by Edward Dmytryk with Maximilian Schell, Ricardo Montalban, Lea Padovani. The story of Saint Joseph of Cupertino, a simple monk gifted with the gift of levitation.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1960. Sentimental drama by Jean Delannoy with Marina Vlady, Jean-François Poron, Jean Marais. Troubled by her attraction to a duke, a virtuous princess asks her husband to keep her away from the court.
Runtime: 101 min.
U.S. 1959. Biography by Henry Koster with Ava Gardner, Anthony Franciosa, Gino Cervi. The painter Goya falls in love with a duchess from whom he draws inspiration for his works.
Runtime: 109 min.

Les Amants de Montparnasse

V.O.: Montparnasse 19
Fr. 1958. Biography by Jacques Becker with Gérard Philipe, Anouk Aimée, Lilli Palmer. The tragic fate of the painter Modigliani.
Runtime: 104 min.

Pain, Amour et Andalousie

V.O.: Pan, amor y... Andalucía
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 1957. Drama by André Cayatte with Curd Jürgens, Folco Lulli, Lea Padovani. A man goes after the person he holds responsible for his wife's death.
Runtime: 113 min.

Dieu seul m'arrêtera

V.O.: Solo Dio mi fermera
It. 1957. Social drama by Renato Polselli with Gérard Landry, Lea Padovani, Giancarlo Zarfati. A priest builds a village for abandoned children.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1955. Drama by André Cayatte with Jean-Marc Bory, Nelly Borgeaud, Antoine Balpêtré. An investigating judge tries to shed light on an ambiguous death.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 1955. Adventures by Marcello Pagliero with Jean Richard, Lea Padovani, Raymond Bussières. With the help of the other prisoners, a famous criminal takes control of the boat that was taking them to prison and returns to France under a new identity.
Runtime: 85 min.

Les Enfants de la violence

V.O.: Guai ai vinti
Runtime: 90 min.

Scandal in Sorrento

V.O.: Pane, amore e...
It. 1955. Comedy by Dino Risi with Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Lea Padovani. A retired marshal is seduced by a fishmonger and then falls in love with a mature, pious young woman.
Runtime: 92 min.

La Castiglione

V.O.: La Contessa di Castiglione
Fr. 1954. History by Georges Combret with Paul Meurisse, Yvonne De Carlo, Georges Marchal. The Countess of Castiglione is given the mission to get Napoleon III interested in the fate of Italy.
Runtime: 89 min.

The Anatomy of Love

V.O.: Tempi Nostri
It. 1953. Sketches by Alessandro Blasetti, Paul Paviot with Michel Simon, Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni. Six anecdotes borrowed from contemporary Italian authors.
Runtime: 134 min.

Les Enfants ne sont pas à vendre

V.O.: I Figli non si vendono
It. 1953. Melodrama by Mario Bonnard with Lea Padovani, Jacques Sernas, Antonella Lualdi. A family son refuses to marry a young girl of modest background with whom he has a child.
Runtime: 104 min.

Rome Eleven O'Clock

V.O.: Roma, ore 11
It. 1952. Social drama by Giuseppe De Santis with Carla Del Poggio, Elena Varzi, Lea Padovani. Report on the collapse of a staircase that caused numerous victims.
Runtime: 100 min.

L'Allié des pauvres

V.O.: Don Lorenzo

Les Deux Gosses

V.O.: Due Derelitti, I
It. 1951. Melodrama by Flavio Calzavara with Lea Padovani, Massimo Serato, Yves Deniaud. A stolen child grows up in a miserable environment.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1951. Crime drama by W. Lee Wilder with Lloyd Bridges, Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi. A former soldier returns to Italy to find money he hid during the war.
Runtime: 85 min.

Pour le bonheur de sa fille

V.O.: La Grande Rinuncia
It. 1951. Melodrama by Aldo Vergano with Lea Padovani, Luigi Tosi, Donatella Marrosu. Seduced and abandoned, a young girl enters a convent from which she will help her daughter several years later.

Alerte à l'arsenal

V.O.: Fiamme sulla Laguna
It. 1951. Melodrama by Giuseppe Maria Scotese with Lea Padovani, Leonardo Cortese, Lauro Gazzolo. An admiral's son and a young worker persist in their love, despite the prejudices of their entourage.
Runtime: 82 min.

Lettre à l'aube

V.O.: Una lettera all'alba
It. 1948. Melodrama by Giorgio Bianchi with Fosco Giachetti, Lea Padovani, Jacques Sernas. A man discovers that his son, the result of a fling in his youth, has been compromised during a crime.

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