The Queen of Navarre

The Queen of Navarre
Directed by	Carmine Gallone
Written by	Eugène Scribe (play) Gherardo Gherardi Sergio Amidei Giacomo De Benedetti Carmine Gallone
Produced by	Raffaele Colamonici
Starring	Elsa Merlini Gino Cervi Renato Cialente Leonardo Cortese
Cinematography	Arturo Gallea
Edited by	Niccolò Lazzari
Music by	Franco Casavola
Production company	Juventus Film
Distributed by	ENIC
Release date	30 March 1942
Running time	86 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Queen of Navarre (Italian: La regina di Navarra) is a 1942 Italian "white-telephones" historical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Elsa Merlini, Gino Cervi and Renato Cialente. It was made at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome, based on a play by Eugène Scribe. The film portrays a series of intrigues at the Madrid court of Charles V in the Sixteenth century.

Cast

• Elsa Merlini as Margherita di Valois
• Gino Cervi as Carlo Vº
• Renato Cialente as Francesco Iº
• Leonardo Cortese as Enrico D'albret
• Clara Calamai as Isabella del Portogallo
• Paolo Stoppa as Il corriere Babieca
• Valentina Cortese as Eleonora d'Austria
• Nerio Bernardi as Il marchese di Gattinara
• Greta Gonda as Conchita Babieca
• Margherita Bagni as La duchessa di Ossuna
• Wanda Capodaglio as Una dama di corte
• Oreste Fares as Il sacerdote
• Enzo Musumeci Greco as Il maestro di scherma
• Adriano Vitale as Un messagero

Bibliography

• Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey & Hay, James & Volpi, Gianni. The Companion to Italian Cinema. Cassell, 1996.

External links

• The Queen of Navarre at IMDb