Eleonora Duse Movies

Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women during the first half of the 20th century.

Dame Eleonora Duse plays a poor woman who, incapable of raising and feed him, leaves her illegitimate son with foster parents. Before she leaves her...

Compiled by The Museum of Modern Art Film Library in 1938, the film is a glimpse of the early 20th century’s finest stage performers—...