Love Story (1942 film)

Love Story (Italian: Una storia d'amore) is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Assia Noris, Piero Lulli and Carlo Campanini. It is based on the play Life Begins by Mary McDougal Axelson, previously adapted into a 1932 film of the same title and a 1939 film A Child Is Born. Along with A Pistol Shot it marked an attempt to showcase Noris as a dramatic actress, rather than the White Telephone comedies she had become known for. It was screened at the 1942 Venice Film Festival.

It was produced by Lux Film, one of the leading film companies of Fascist Italy. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gastone Medin and Gino Brosio. The future star Marcello Mastroianni appeared briefly as an uncredited extra.

Plot
A young woman with a troubled past marries a worker from a mechanical engineering factory and tries to live a respectable life. However a man who knows her background attempts to blackmail her and loses her head and kills him. She is sentenced to ten years in prison, and gives birth to a child while in jail.

Cast

 * Assia Noris as Anna Roberti
 * Piero Lulli as Gianni Castelli
 * Carlo Campanini as Agostino
 * Guido Notari as Ferreri
 * Osvaldo Genazzani as 	Sandro
 * Emilio Cigoli as L'avvocato difensore
 * Emma Baron as L'infermiera della clinica
 * Antonio Battistella as 	Enrico Banducci
 * Giorgio Capecchi as L'aiuto chirurgo
 * Dhia Cristiani as Clara
 * Olinto Cristina as Il presidente del tribunale
 * Gualtiero De Angelis as 	Il poliziotto di notte
 * Luigi Giovarella as 	Il professor Venturi
 * Augusto Marcacci as 	L'avvocato dell'accusa
 * Marcello Mastroianni as Extra
 * Carlo Micheluzzi as 	Bibi - il padre ansioso
 * Egisto Olivieri as Il primo agente della questura
 * Amina Pirani Maggi as 	La padrona della Pensione Gallini
 * Vanna Polverosi as 	La madre dei due gemelli
 * Luisa Ventura as La padrona della pasticceria
 * Ciro Berardi as l'usciere dell'officina SIMA