Everybody's Woman ( La signora di tutti )

Everybody's Woman (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La signora di tutti
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
86 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1934 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Max Ophüls

Written By:
Curt Alexander
Salvatore Gotta

Actors:
Isa Miranda ..... Gabriella Murge, alias Gaby Doriot
Memo Benassi ..... Leonardo Nanni
Tatyana Pavlova ..... Alma Nanni (as Tatiana Pawlova)
Friedrich Benfer ..... Roberto Nanni (as Federico Benfer)
Franco Coop ..... L'impresario Veraldi
Lamberto Picasso ..... Signor Murge, padre di Gaby e Anna
Nelly Corradi ..... Anna Murge
Mario Ferrari ..... Il produttore cinamatografico
Mattia Sassanelli ..... Il regista
Luigi Barberi ..... Un amico di Roberto
Gildo Bocci ..... Il portiere del teatro
Andrea Checchi ..... Un giornalista
Achille Majeroni ..... Giovanni, il maggiordomo
Alfredo Martinelli ..... La maestra di canto
Egisto Olivieri ..... L'aiuto regista
Attilio Ortolani ..... La zia
Giulia Puccini
Vinicio Sofia
Ines Zacconi
Elena Zareschi

Synopsis:

Max Ophuls' La Signora di Tutti can be regarded today as a dress rehearsal for his 1955 masterpiece Lola Montes, though it comes nowhere near the brilliance of that later classic. Isa Miranda stars as a famous actress who, in the opening scenes, attempts suicide. A series of lavish flashbacks details the events leading up to her cataclysmic decision. In her heyday, the actress' haunting beauty was enough to drive men mad--and some to the point of killing themselves. Modern audiences may have trouble keeping a straight face during some of the more heated passages, but Ophuls' basic premise--that fame and celebrity are ultimately hollow entities--is not to be taken lightly. The director's fabled camera techniques help smooth over some of the rougher and more ludicrous passages. La Signora di Tutti represents Max Ophuls' sole participation in the fascist-dominated Italian film industry of the 1930s.

Gaby Doriot's new popular song 'La signora di tutti' will be a hit in France, so her manager is negotiating a new contract with her film production company... The movie studio is bustling, but Gaby is nowhere to be found. Her manager checks her hotel, finding her on the bathroom floor: an apparent suicide attempt. At the hospital, as the anaesthetic is applied, Gaby flashes back to her life back home in Milan... At school, Gaby's affair with a married teacher gets her expelled. She and her sister Anna are invited to a party by Roberto, the son of a well-to-do banker. He and Gaby plan to go to Rome together, but his father's unexpected return sends him off alone. Gaby is on very good terms with Roberto's invalid mother, but his father, Leonardo, is drawn to Gaby...

Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 01 April, 2010.

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