Daughters of Destiny

Daughters of Destiny
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Marcello Pagliero (segment "Elisabeth") Jean Delannoy (segment "Jeanne") Christian-Jaque (segment "Lysistrata")
Produced by	Henry Deutschmeister
Written by	Sergio Amidei, André-Paul Antoine, Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, Jean Ferry, Ennio Flaiano, Carlo Rim, Henri Jeanson, Vladimir Pozner, André Tabet
Story by	Sergio Amidei (segment "Elisabeth") Aristophanes (segment "Lysistrata")
Starring	Claudette Colbert Michèle Morgan Martine Carol
Music by	Roman Vlad
Cinematography	Mario Craveri (segment "Elisabeth") Robert Lefebvre (segment "Jeanne") Raffaele Masciocchi Christian Matras (segment "Lysistrata")
Edited by	Laure Casseau (segment "Elisabeth") James Cuenet (segment "Jeanne") Jacques Desagneaux (segment "Lysistrata")
Production company	Franco London Films Continental Produzione
Distributed by	Continental Produzione
Release date	21 January 1954 (1954-01-21) (Italy) 27 January 1954 (1954-01-27) (France)
Running time	94 minutes (U.S.) 96 minutes (UK)
Country	France Italy^[1]
Language	French English^[1]

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.

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

1 2 IMDb

External links

Daughters of Destiny at the TCM Movie Database
Destinées on IMDb
Daughters of Destiny at AllMovie

Films directed by Jean Delannoy

L'Éternel retour (1943)
La Symphonie Pastorale (1946)
Les jeux sont faits (1947)
Aux yeux du souvenir (1948)
Le Secret de Mayerling (1949)
Dieu a besoin des hommes (1950)
La Minute de vérité (1952)
Napoleon Road (1953)
Destinées (1954)
Obsession (1954)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
Marie Antoinette Queen of France (1956)
Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
Imperial Venus (1962)
Les amitiés particulières (1964)
The Sultans (1966)
Children of Mata Hari (1970)

Films directed by Christian-Jaque

A Legionnaire (1936)
Rigolboche (1936)
Josette (1937)
Boys' School (1938)
Ernest the Rebel (1938)
Who Killed Santa Claus? (1941)
Carmen (1942)
La Symphonie fantastique (1942)
Voyage sans espoir (1943)
The Bellman (1945)
Boule de suif (1945)
A Lover's Return (1946)
The Charterhouse of Parma (1948)
Man to Men (1948)
Singoalla (1949)
Bluebeard (1951)
Adorable Creatures (1952)
Fanfan la Tulipe (1952)
Lucrèce Borgia (1953)
Daughters of Destiny (1954)
Madame du Barry (1954)
If All the Guys in the World (1955)
Nana (1955)
The Law Is the Law (1958)
Babette Goes to War (1959)
Don't Tempt the Devil (1963)
The Black Tulip (1964)
The Dirty Game (1965)
Man from Cocody (1965)
Le Saint prend l'affût (1966)
Dead Run (1967)
Emma Hamilton (1968)
The Legend of Frenchie King (1971)

Aristophanes' Lysistrata

Adaptations

Films	Daughters of Destiny (1954) The Second Greatest Sex (1955) The Girls (1968) Şalvar Davası (1983) Lisístrata (2002) Chi-Raq (2015) Prologue (2015)
Musicals	The Happiest Girl in the World (1961) Lysistrata Jones (2011)
Operas	Lysistrata (2005)

The Lysistrata Project (2003)

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