Daughters of Destiny (film)
1954 French film
- 21 January 1954 (1954-01-21) (Italy)
- 27 January 1954 (1954-01-27) (France)
Running time
96 minutes (UK)
Italy[1]
English[1]
Daughters of Destiny (UK title: Love, Soldiers and Women, French title: Destinées and Italian title: Destini di donne) is a 1954 Franco-Italian co-production motion picture comedy drama directed by Marcello Pagliero, Jean Delannoy and Christian-Jaque. The film stars Claudette Colbert (segment "Elisabeth"), Michèle Morgan (segment "Jeanne") and Martine Carol (segment "Lysistrata"). It tells three stories, which are unrelated, but each deal with a woman and war.
Plot
In this trilogy of stories, the episode "Elizabeth" is about an American war-widow who goes to Italy where her husband was in World War II. The episode "Jeanne" tells the life of Jeanne d'Arc. The episode "Lysistrata" is about Athenian wives, an adaptation of the Greek play.
Principal cast
- segment "Elisabeth"
- Claudette Colbert as Elizabeth Whitefield
- Eleonora Rossi Drago as Angela Ascari/Farmgirl
- Mirko Ellis as Anthony
- segment "Jeanne"
- Michèle Morgan as Jeanne d'Arc/Joan of Arc
- Michel Piccoli as Pasquerel
- Dora Doll as Une fille
- Katherine Kath as La ribaude
- segment "Lysistrata"
- Martine Carol as Lysistrata
- Raf Vallone as Callias
- Paolo Stoppa as Nicephore
References
- ^ a b IMDb
External links
- Destinées at IMDb
- Daughters of Destiny at the TCM Movie Database
- Daughters of Destiny at AllMovie
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Films directed by Jean Delannoy
- Paris-Deauville (1934)
- Tamara (1938)
- Golden Venus (1938)
- The Black Diamond (1941)
- Fever (1942)
- Gambling Hell (1942)
- The Murderer Is Afraid at Night (1942)
- Colonel Pontcarral (1942)
- The Eternal Return (1943)
- The Hunchback (1944)
- Blind Desire (1945)
- Pastoral Symphony (1946)
- Les jeux sont faits (1947)
- To the Eyes of Memory (1948)
- The Secret of Mayerling (1949)
- God Needs Men (1950)
- Savage Triangle (1951)
- The Moment of Truth (1952)
- Napoleon Road (1953)
- Daughters of Destiny (1954)
- The Bed (1954)
- Obsession (1954)
- The Little Rebels (1955)
- Marie Antoinette Queen of France (1956)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
- Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
- Guinguette (1959)
- Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre (1959)
- The Baron of the Locks (1960)
- Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)
- La Princesse de Clèves (1961)
- Rendezvous (1961)
- Imperial Venus (1962)
- Les amitiés particulières (1964)
- The Majordomo (1965)
- The Double Bed (1965)
- The Sultans (1966)
- Action Man (1967)
- Children of Mata Hari (1970)
- Not Dumb, the Bird (1972)
- The Crime of Pierre Lacaze (1983)
- The Enigmatic Mister S. (1987)
- Bernadette (1988)
- The Passion of Bernadette (1990)
- Mary of Nazareth (1995)
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