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1939 film

Heartbeat

Directed by	Mario Camerini
Written by	Lilly Janüsse (novel) Renato Castellani Leo Longanesi Ivo Perilli Mario Camerini
Produced by	Giuseppe Amato
Starring	Assia Noris John Lodge Rubi D'Alma
Cinematography	Anchise Brizzi
Edited by	Mario Camerini Giovanna Del Bosco
Music by	Cesare A. Bixio Roberto Caggiani
Production company	Era Film
Distributed by	Generalcine
Release date	16 January 1939 (1939-01-16)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Heartbeat (Italian: Batticuore) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Assia Noris, John Lodge and Rubi D'Alma. It remade in France as Beating Heart in 1940, and then again in Hollywood as a 1946 film of the same title starring Ginger Rogers and Basil Rathbone.

It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. It is part of the tradition of White Telephone comedies.

Synopsis

In Paris a young woman working at a school for thieves attempts to pick the pocket of an aristocrat. Instead of turning her in he blackmails her into stealing a clock from an ambassador.

Cast

Assia Noris as Arlette / La baronessina Dvorak
John Lodge as Lord Jerry Dansbury
Rubi D'Alma as Contessa Maciaky
Giuseppe Porelli as Il conte Mirko Maciaky
Maurizio D'Ancora as Yves, il ladruncolo
Armando Migliari as il commissario Dupont
Luigi Almirante as Il professore Teofilo Comte
Pina Gallini as Giulia Comte
Calisto Bertramo as Il barone Dvorak
Romolo Costa as Il capitano Kurt
Giulio Stival as L'ambasciatore di Lucrazia
Guglielmo Barnabò as Un detectivo dell'albergo 'Majestic'
Luisella Beghi as Una ragazza disoccupata
Bruno Calabretta as James
Giorgio Capecchi as Il portiere dell'albergo 'Majestic'
Dino De Laurentiis as Il fattorino del fioraio
Aldo Fiorelli as Un allievo del professore Comte
Aristide Garbini as Il brigadiere di polizia
Alfredo Martinelli as Il segretario della 'Winterthur'
Emilio Petacci as Il maitre del 'Lapin Rouge'
Massimo Pianforini as Un marchese
Nietta Zocchi as Un' altra ragazza disoccupata

References

Ricci p.148

Bibliography

Ricci, Steven. Cinema and Fascism: Italian Film and Society, 1922–1943. University of California Press, 2008.

External links

Heartbeat at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Mario Camerini
The House of Pulcini (1924) Maciste in Africa (1926) Kif Tebbi (1928) Rails (1929) Figaro and His Great Day (1931) The Last Adventure (1932) What Scoundrels Men Are! (1932) I'll Always Love You (1933) Giallo (1933) Like the Leaves (1935) I'll Give a Million (1935) But It's Nothing Serious (1936) The Great Appeal (1936) Mister Max (1937) The Man Who Couldn't Say No (1938) Department Store (1939) The Document (1939) Heartbeat (1939) One Hundred Thousand Dollars (1940) A Romantic Adventure (1940) The Betrothed (1941) Love Story (1942) I'll Always Love You (1943) Two Anonymous Letters (1945) The Captain's Daughter (1947) The Street Has Many Dreams (1948) Outlaw Girl (1950) Honeymoon Deferred (1951) Wife for a Night (1952) Sunday Heroes (1952) Ulysses (1954) The Miller's Beautiful Wife (1955) The Awakening (1956) Holiday Island (1957) Run with the Devil (1960) ...And Suddenly It's Murder! (1960) The Italian Brigands (1961) Kali Yug: Goddess of Vengeance (1963) The Almost Perfect Crime (1966)

Films directed by Mario Camerini

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