''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 Jean Delannoy (; 12 January 1908 – 18 June 2008) was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director. Biography Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family was from Haute-Normandie in the north of France. He was a Pro ...

and

Christian-Jaque Christian-Jaque (byname of Christian Maudet; 4 September 1904 – 8 July 1994) was a French filmmaker. From 1954 to 1959, he was married to actress Martine Carol, who starred in several of his films, including ''Lucrèce Borgia'' (1953), ''M ...

. The film stars

Claudette Colbert Claudette Colbert (koʊlˈbɛər/ kohl-BAIR, born Émilie "Lily" Claudette Chauchoin (ʃoʃwɛ̃/ show-shwan); September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was an American actress. Colbert began her career in Broadway theater, Broadway productions dur ...

(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 World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. The episode "Jeanne" tells the life of

Jeanne d'Arc Joan of Arc ( ; ; – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the Coronation of the French monarch, coronation of Charles VII o ...

. The episode "Lysistrata" is about Athenian wives, an adaptation of the Greek play.

Principal cast

;segment "Elisabeth" *

as Elizabeth Whitefield * Eleonora Rossi Drago as Angela Ascari/Farmgirl *

Mirko Ellis Mirko Ellis (4 September 1923 – 11 September 2014) was a Swiss-Italian film, stage and television actor. Born Mirko Korcinsky in Locarno to a family of Lithuanian origin, Ellis moved, after his studies, to Italy, where he made his film debut i ...

as Anthony ;segment "Jeanne" * Michèle Morgan as Jeanne d'Arc/Joan of Arc *

Michel Piccoli Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli (27 December 1925 – 12 May 2020) was a French actor, producer and film director with a career spanning 70 years. He was lauded as one of the greatest French character actors of his generation who played a wide vari ...

as Pasquerel * Dora Doll as Une fille *

Katherine Kath Katherine Kath (born Rose Marie Lily Faess; 11 August 1920 – 17 November 2012) was a French prima ballerina at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, who became an actress after suffering from an injury which destroyed her chances of continuing her ...

as La ribaude ;segment "Lysistrata" * Martine Carol as Lysistrata * Raf Vallone as Callias * Paolo Stoppa as Nicephore

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* * 1954 films 1950s historical comedy-drama films Films based on Lysistrata French anthology films 1950s French-language films 1950s English-language films English-language French films English-language Italian films French historical comedy-drama films Italian historical comedy-drama films Films directed by Christian-Jaque Films directed by Jean Delannoy Films directed by Marcello Pagliero Italian anthology films Films with screenplays by Jean Aurenche Films with screenplays by Pierre Bost Films scored by Roman Vlad Films about Joan of Arc 1950s multilingual films French multilingual films Italian multilingual films French black-and-white films Italian black-and-white films 1950s Italian films 1950s French films French-language Italian films French-language comedy-drama films English-language historical comedy-drama films Films with screenplays by Henri Jeanson Films with screenplays by Ennio Flaiano {{1950s-comedy-drama-film-stub