Naples Sings

{{Short description|1953 film by Armando Grottini}} {{Infobox film | name =Naples Sings | image = E Napoli canta.JPG | caption = Film poster | director = Armando Grottini | producer = Antonio Ferrigno | writer = {{ubl|Antonio Ferrigno|Rodolfo Morelli}} | narrator = | starring = Virna Lisi | music = {{ubl|Giuseppe Cioffi|Vittorio Mascheroni}} | cinematography = Sergio Pesce | editing = Jolanda Benvenuti | studio = Aurora Film | distributor = Indipendenti Regionali | released = {{Film date|1953|12|28|df=yes}} | runtime = 90 minutes | country = Italy | language = Italian | budget = }} '''''Naples Sings''''' ({{langx|it|...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 his daughter to an English nobleman, takes her newborn daughter from her (had from a clandestine affair), entrusting her to nuns with a medal of the Madonna around her neck.

1953: Giorgio with some friends is rehearsing a show of Neapolitan songs financed thanks to an elderly artist. Having quarrelled with his 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, Maria'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 his own daughter, that is, Maria. 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 at the altar, under the eyes of the two mothers, Maria finds the courage to say no, and to rejoin Giorgio.<ref>{{Citation |last=Grottini |first=Armando |title=...e Napoli canta! |date=1953-12-28 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045715/ |type=Drama, Musical |access-date=2022-05-02}}</ref>

==Cast== {{cast listing| * Giacomo Rondinella as Giorgio Sabelli * Virna Lisi as Maria * Germana Paolieri as Countess Mariani * Pina Piovani as the adoptive mother of Maria * Tina Pica * Beniamino Maggio * Tecla Scarano * Guglielmo Inglese * Edda Soligo * Dina Perbellini * Cristina Grado * Carlo Giuffrè * Giannina Chiantoni * Vittorio André * Carla Boni * Mario Abbate * Antonio La Raina * Franca Gandolfi * Adriana Facchetti * Gabriele Vanosio * Aldo Cantoni }}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0045715|title=Naples Sings}}

Category:1950s musical drama films Category:Italian musical drama films Category:1953 films Category:1953 Italian-language films Category:Films set in Naples Category:1953 drama films Category:Italian black-and-white films Category:1950s melodrama films Category:1953 Italian films Category:Italian-language musical drama films