# The Secret Lover > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Secret_Lover > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Secret_Lover.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Lover > Source revision: 1341625384 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) This article is about the 1941 film. For other uses, see [Secret Lover](/source/Secret_Lover_(disambiguation)). 1941 Italian film The Secret Lover Directed by Carmine Gallone Written by Gherardo Gherardi Produced by Federico Curloni Carmine Gallone Starring Alida Valli Fosco Giachetti Vivi Gioi Osvaldo Valenti Cinematography Václav Vích Music by Felice Montagnini Production company Grandi Film Distributed by ICI Release date 27 September 1941 (1941-09-27) Running time 101 minutes Country Italy Language Italian ***The Secret Lover*** ([Italian](/source/Italian_language): *L'amante segreta*) is a 1941 Italian [drama film](/source/Drama_film) directed by [Carmine Gallone](/source/Carmine_Gallone) and starring [Alida Valli](/source/Alida_Valli), [Fosco Giachetti](/source/Fosco_Giachetti) and [Vivi Gioi](/source/Vivi_Gioi).[1] It was made at [Cinecittà](/source/Cinecitt%C3%A0) in [Rome](/source/Rome). ## Plot After her tutor embezzles and squanders her inheritance, a young woman is forced to seek work in a series of different occupations. ## Cast - [Alida Valli](/source/Alida_Valli) as Renata Croci - [Fosco Giachetti](/source/Fosco_Giachetti) as Giorgio Amholt - [Vivi Gioi](/source/Vivi_Gioi) as Diana Ponzio - [Osvaldo Valenti](/source/Osvaldo_Valenti) as Valentini - [Luigi Almirante](/source/Luigi_Almirante) as Il pittore Riganti - [Camillo Pilotto](/source/Camillo_Pilotto) as Giacomo Mori - [Ada Dondini](/source/Ada_Dondini) as Antonia Mori - [Bella Starace Sainati](/source/Bella_Starace_Sainati) as La contessa Bianca Lotti - [Anita Farra](/source/Anita_Farra) as Teresa Amholt - [Luigi Pavese](/source/Luigi_Pavese) as Melchiorri - [Carlo Lombardi](/source/Carlo_Lombardi_(actor)) as L'attore Mario Fulvi - [Arturo Bragaglia](/source/Arturo_Bragaglia) as Il ragionere - [Jacchi Gambino](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacchi_Gambino&action=edit&redlink=1) as Krick - [Claudio Ermelli](/source/Claudio_Ermelli) as Il cameriere Ottaviano - [Giuseppe Pierozzi](/source/Giuseppe_Pierozzi) as Marini - [Luigi Erminio D'Olivo](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luigi_Erminio_D%27Olivo&action=edit&redlink=1) as Il barone - [Marina Doge](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina_Doge&action=edit&redlink=1) as Un'amica di Renata - [Fedele Gentile](/source/Fedele_Gentile) as Un amico di Renata - [Mario Giannini](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mario_Giannini&action=edit&redlink=1) as Un amico di Renata - [Mara Landi](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mara_Landi&action=edit&redlink=1) as Un'amica di Renata - [Alfredo Martinelli](/source/Alfredo_Martinelli) as Un cliente dell'albergo - [Edda Soligo](/source/Edda_Soligo) as La cameriera dell'albergo - [Alfredo Varelli](/source/Alfredo_Varelli) as Un amico di Renata - [Giuseppe Varni](/source/Giuseppe_Varni) as Il portiere dell'albergo ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Nowell-Smith, Hay & Volpi p.57 ## Bibliography - Gundle, Stephen. *Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy*. Berghahn Books, 2013. - Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey & Hay, James & Volpi, Gianni. *The Companion to Italian Cinema*. Cassell, 1996. ## External links - [*The Secret Lover*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033335/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Carmine Gallone Il bacio di Cirano (1913) The Naked Truth (1914) Senza colpa! (1915) Flower of Evil (1915) The Wedding March (1915) Sotto le tombe (1915) Avatar (1916) La falena (1916) Malombra (1917) The Thirteenth Man (1917) La storia di un peccato (1918) Redemption (1919) A Doll Wife (1919) The Sea of Naples (1919) On with the Motley (1920) The Faces of Love (1924) The Fiery Cavalcade (1925) The Last Days of Pompeii (1926) The City of a Thousand Delights (1927) Pawns of Passion (1928) Land Without Women (1929) Ship in Distress (1929) The Singing City (1930) City of Song (1931) My Cousin from Warsaw (1931) A Son from America (1932) Sailor's Song (1932) Going Gay (1933) My Heart Calls You (1934) Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1934) My Heart Is Calling You (1934) My Heart is Calling (1935) Casta Diva (1935) If It Were Not for Music (1935) The Divine Spark (1935) Thank You, Madame (1936) Mother Song (1937) Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937) Giuseppe Verdi (1938) Marionette (1939) The Dream of Butterfly (1939) Eternal Melodies (1940) Love Me, Alfredo! (1940) Manon Lescaut (1940) Beyond Love (1940) The Secret Lover (1941) First Love (1941) The Two Orphans (1942) The Queen of Navarre (1942) Odessa in Flames (1942) Harlem (1943) Sad Loves (1943) The Song of Life (1945) Biraghin (1946) Before Him All Rome Trembled (1946) The Lady of the Camellias (1947) The Legend of Faust (1949) The Force of Destiny (1950) Night Taxi (1950) Messalina (1951) We're Dancing on the Rainbow (1952) Fatal Desire (1953) Puccini (1953) Madame Butterfly (1954) House of Ricordi (1954) Casta Diva (1954) Mata Hari's Daughter (1954) Don Camillo's Last Round (1955) Michel Strogoff (1956) Tosca (1956) Carthage in Flames (1960) Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961) Carmen di Trastevere (1962) La monaca di Monza (1962) This article related to an Italian film of the 1940s is a stub. 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