Heartbeat (1939 film)

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

Bibliography

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

External links

• Heartbeat at IMDb