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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 World War 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

External links

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