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Naples Sings
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Wikipedia article
'Naples Sings' (Italian: '...e Napoli canta!') is a 1953 Italian musical melodrama film directed by Armando Grottini, starring Virna Lisi.
The film's sets were designed by Alfredo Montori.
Plot
1935: a rich nobleman, in order not to compromise the marriage of her daughter to an English nobleman, takes her newborn daughter from her (had from a clandestine affair), entrusting her to her nuns with a medal of the Madonna around her neck.
1953: Giorgio with some friends rehearses a show of Neapolitan songs financed thanks to an elderly artist. Having come to quarrel with the landlady, Giorgio rented a room with a good woman who lives with her beautiful daughter Maria. Love soon arises between the two. When, thanks to a farsighted entrepreneur, things are going for the best, Mary's mother is summoned by the nuns: a woman has finally learned the truth about her daughter who was stolen from her 18 years earlier and entrusted to the nuns: now she claims the his own daughter, that is, Mary. The girl moves to her birth mother and, attending parties and attending nobles, she becomes engaged to a young scion but never forgetting her Giorgio with whom she secretly meets. In the meantime, the show of these is a great success, but Giorgio has lost all enthusiasm: Maria is getting married, But right on the altar, under the eyes of the two mothers, Maria finds the courage to say no, to rejoin Giorgio.
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