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Music director
  
Roman Vlad

Country
  
France / Italy

5.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Drama

Duration
  

Language
  
French / English

Daughters of Destiny movie poster

Director
  
Marcello Pagliero (segment "Elisabeth") Jean Delannoy (segment "Jeanne") Christian-Jaque (segment "Lysistrata")

Release date
  
21 January 1954 (Italy) 27 January 1954 (France) July 5, 1954 (USA)

Writer
  
Sergio Amidei (story), Andre-Paul Antoine (segment), Aristophanes (story), Jean Aurenche (segment), Pierre Bost (segment), Jean Ferry (segment), Henri Jeanson (segment), Horace McCoy, Vladimir Pozner (segment), Gian Luigi Rondi (segment), Andre Tabet (segment)

Directors
  
Jean Delannoy, Christian-Jaque, Marcello Pagliero

Screenplay
  
Aristophanes, Sergio Amidei

Story by
  
Aristophanes, Sergio Amidei

Cast
  
Claudette Colbert
(Elizabeth Whitefield (segment "Elisabeth")),
Eleonora Rossi Drago
(Angela Ascari / Farmgirl (segment "Elisabeth")),
Mirko Ellis
(Anthony (segment "Elisabeth")),
Michèle Morgan
(Jeanne d'Arc / Joan of Arc (segment "Jeanne")),
Daniel Ivernel
(Baretta (segment "Jeanne")),
Andrée Clément
(La mère (segment "Jeanne"))

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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.

Contents

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Plot

In this trilogy of stories, the episode "Elizabeth" is about an American war-widow who goes to Italy where her husband was in WW 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

    Daughters of Destiny Wikipedia
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    Daughters of Destiny IMDb Daughters of Destiny themoviedb.org