The Devil Goes to Boarding School
1944 film
- December 1944 (1944-12)
Running time
The Devil Goes to Boarding School (Italian: Il diavolo va in collegio) is a 1944 Italian comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Lilia Silvi, Leonardo Cortese and Greta Gonda.[1] The plot is based on the libretto of the operetta Mam'zelle Nitouche by Henri Meilhac and Albert Millaud.[2] It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys.
Synopsis
Graziella, a high-spirited young heiress, it sent to boarding school in order to try and curb her mischievous behaviour. While at first she pretends to be docile, this is just a cover for her to play more tricks on her teachers. In particular she becomes a thorn in the side of one of a young male professor and sets out to sabotage a revue he is staging starring his dancer girlfriend.
Cast
- Lilia Silvi as Graziella
- Leonardo Cortese as Rodolfo Poggi / Marcello Mari
- Greta Gonda as Nora Nori
- Guglielmo Barnabò as Il giudice Testones
- Giacinto Molteni as Bortolo
- Vittorina Benvenuti as Signorina Polipini nº1
- Anna Capodaglio as Signorina Polipini nº2
- Olinto Cristina as Il direttore del teatro
- Liana Del Balzo as Signora Testones
- Giannina Gobbi as Professoressa Bellona
- Lea Migliorini as Una collegiale
References
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Reich, Jacqueline Beth. Fascism, Film, and Female Subjectivity: The Case of Italian Cinema 1936-1943. University of California, Berkeley, 1994.
External links
- The Devil Goes to Boarding School at IMDb
- v
- t
- e
Films directed by Jean Boyer
- Calais-Dover (1931)
- Monsieur, Madame and Bibi (1932)
- Antonia (1935)
- Counsel for Romance (1936)
- On the Road (1936)
- Mother Love (1938)
- My Priest Among the Rich (1938)
- Cocoanut (1939)
- Extenuating Circumstances (1939)
- Miquette (1940)
- Serenade (1940)
- The Acrobat (1941)
- Romance of Paris (1941)
- Frederica (1942)
- Prince Charming (1942)
- At Your Command, Madame (1942)
- Bolero (1942)
- The Lucky Star (1943)
- The Devil Goes to Boarding School (1944)
- That's Not the Way to Die (1946)
- The Adventures of Casanova (1947)
- Mademoiselle Has Fun (1948)
- All Roads Lead to Rome (1949)
- Brilliant Waltz (1949)
- The Prize (1950)
- We Will All Go to Paris (1950)
- Mr. Peek-a-Boo (1951)
- Monte Carlo Baby (1951)
- An Artist with Ladies (1952)
- Crazy for Love (1952)
- Women of Paris (1953)
- A Hundred Francs a Second (1953)
- My Seven Little Sins (1954)
- The Country of the Campanelli (1954)
- Madelon (1955)
- The Terror with Women (1956)
- Fernandel the Dressmaker (1956)
- Mademoiselle and Her Gang (1957)
- Sénéchal the Magnificent (1957)
- The Lord's Vineyard (1958)
- Nina (1959)
- The Indestructible (1959)
- It's Not My Business (1962)
- Virginie (1962)
- The Bamboo Stroke (1963)
- Relax Darling (1964)
 | This article related to an Italian film of the 1940s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
