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Daughters of Destiny (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Daughters of Destiny' (UK title: 'Love, Soldiers and Women', French title: 'Destines' and Italian title: 'Destini di donne') is a 1954 Franco-Italian co-production motion picture comedy drama directed by Marcello Pagliero, Jean Delannoy and Christian-Jaque. The film stars Claudette Colbert (segment "'Elisabeth'"), Michle Morgan (segment "'Jeanne'") and Martine Carol (segment "'Lysistrata'"). It tells three stories, which are unrelated, but each deal with a woman and war.
Plot
In this trilogy of stories, the episode "Elizabeth" is about an American war-widow who goes to Italy where her husband was in World War II. The episode "Jeanne" tells the life of Jeanne d'Arc. The episode "Lysistrata" is about Athenian wives, an adaptation of the Greek play.
Principal cast
;segment "Elisabeth"
*Claudette Colbert as Elizabeth Whitefield
*Eleonora Rossi Drago as Angela Ascari/Farmgirl
*Mirko Ellis as Anthony
;segment "Jeanne"
*Michle Morgan as Jeanne d'Arc/Joan of Arc
*Michel Piccoli as Pasquerel
*Dora Doll as Une fille
*Katherine Kath as La ribaude
;segment "Lysistrata"
*Martine Carol as Lysistrata
*Raf Vallone as Callias
*Paolo Stoppa as Nicephore
References
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