The Secret People (film)
Encyclopedia
The Secret People is a 1952
British
drama film
directed by Thorold Dickinson
and starring Valentina Cortese, Audrey Hepburn
and Serge Reggiani
. Hepburn's appearance was her first major starring role in a film (just prior to her discovery by Hollywood for Roman Holiday). In this suspenseful film, Hepburn plays a ballerina
, making use of her extensive training. The film starred Valentina Cortese as a woman who witnesses the accidental murder of a bystander by a group of assassins.
1952 in film
The year 1952 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 10 - Cecil B. DeMille's circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City....
British
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Thorold Dickinson
Thorold Dickinson
Thorold Barron Dickinson was a British film director, screenwriter, producer, and Britains's first university Professor of Film.-Early life and career:...
and starring Valentina Cortese, Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century...
and Serge Reggiani
Serge Reggiani
Serge Reggiani was an Italian-born French singer and actor. He was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy and moved to France with his parents at the age of eight...
. Hepburn's appearance was her first major starring role in a film (just prior to her discovery by Hollywood for Roman Holiday). In this suspenseful film, Hepburn plays a ballerina
Ballet
Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
, making use of her extensive training. The film starred Valentina Cortese as a woman who witnesses the accidental murder of a bystander by a group of assassins.
See also
- The Thorold Dickinson Archive is held at the University of the Arts London Archives and Special Collections Centre.