The Angel Wore Red

The Angel Wore Red
The Angel Wore Red
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Nunnally Johnson
Screenplay by	Nunnally Johnson
Based on	The Fair Bride; 1953 novel; by Bruce Marshall
Produced by	Goffredo Lombardo
Starring	Ava Gardner; Dirk Bogarde; Joseph Cotten; Vittorio De Sica; Aldo Fabrizi; Enrico Maria Salerno
Cinematography	Giuseppe Rotunno
Edited by	Louis R. Loeffler
Music by	Bronislau Kaper; Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Production; companies	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Titanus
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (United States); Titanus (Italy)
Release date	September 28, 1960;
Running time	Italy: 95 min; USA: 99 min
Countries	United States; Italy
Languages	English; Italian
Budget	$1,843,000
Box office	$935,000

The Angel Wore Red, also known as La sposa bella in its Italian version, is a 1960 Italian-American MGM/Titanus coproduction war drama starring Ava Gardner and Dirk Bogarde. It was directed by Nunnally Johnson and produced by Goffredo Lombardo from a screenplay by Johnson based on the 1953 novel The Fair Bride by Bruce Marshall.

Giorgio Prosperi wrote the dialogue for the Italian version. The music score for the American version was written by Bronislau Kaper and by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino for the Italian version. The cinematography was handled by Giuseppe Rotunno.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

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