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Beautiful But Dangerous is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Robert Z. Leonard released in USA on 5 february 1958 with Gina Lollobrigida

Beautiful But Dangerous (1955)

La donna più bella del mondo

Beautiful But Dangerous
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Released in USA 5 february 1958
Length 1h47
Directed by
OriginItalie
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Musical,    Romance
Rating59% 2.957362.957362.957362.957362.95736

Beautiful But Dangerous (also released as The World's Most Beautiful Woman) is a 1955 French-Italian comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The movie was a co-production between Italy (where it was released as La donna più bella del mondo) and France (where is known with the title La belle des belles). For this film Gina Lollobrigida was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Actress.

Synopsis

Lina (Gina Lollo) was an orphan, brought up by her adopted mother getting trained for music. Her mother became sick due to heart attack on the stage, and Lina will go to the stage in place of her mother. But a group of teaser will tease her, by connecting her mother name too and will not allow to perform. From the balcony a person, the prince of Russia, Sergio (Vittorio Gassman) will come down and make the teaser group go out of the theater and asks Lina to perform. It was a very good performance, but at the end she will come to know that mother had another attack, so been send to the long distance hospital. By the night she wanted to go, but there was no way to. Sergio will offer her lift to the hospital, and on the way he will come to know each other. The prince will not tell his real identity, but will say only that he came there for horse competition in the local club, and he stays regularly Paris and he is from Russia. By reaching the hospital, she will left her hand bag in the coach, Sergio by seeing that will put enough money and his golden ring in that, and give the bag to Lina. In hurry she will enter the hospital, and will find her mother is no more.

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