
Casta diva (1935)
Overview
Martha Eggerth heads the cast of Casta Diva, but the central character is famed Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini, here played by American actor Phillips Holmes. Paying but scant attention the facts, the film concentrates on Bellini's colorful love life. Evidently the film went through several rewriting processes, as witness the curious performances of Donald Calthrop and Arthur Margetson, whose characters do complete about-faces halfway through the story. Amidst so many British accents, Martha Eggerth's Polish intonations seem out of place, but she photographs beautifully and sings quite well. Casta Diva was attractively filmed on location in Naples. Not to be confused with the 1954 remake (by Gallone himself) or to the English language version "The Divine Spark" (also directed by Gallone and starred by Eggerth).
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Additional Info
Budget | $0.00 |
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Revenue | $0.00 |
Original Language | it |
Popularity | 0.164 |
Directed By
Carmine Gallone
Crew
Carmine Gallone
William Szekeley
Giuseppe Amato
Fernando Tropea
Walter Reisch
Franz Planer
Massimo Terzano
TOP CAST

Mártha Eggerth
Maddelena Fumarol

Sandro Palmieri
Vincenzo Bellini

Gualtiero Tumiati
Niccolò Paganini

Lamberto Picasso
Fumaroli

Achille Majeroni
Gioacchino Rossini

Lina Marengo
a guest

Giulio Donadio
Felice Romani

Ennio Cerlesi
Ernesto Toti