Morning Star
Directed by	Osvaldo de Oliveira
Written by	Osvaldo de Oliveira Jorge Amado Ruy Santos
Produced by	Afonso Campiglia
Starring	Doris Duranti Paulo Gracindo Dulce Nunes
Cinematography	Ruy Santos
Music by	Radamés Gnatalli
Production companies	Filmoteca Cultural Pró Arte Filmes
Release date	1950 (1950)
Country	Brazil
Language	Portuguese

Morning Star (Portuguese: Estrela da Manhã) is a 1950 Brazilian drama film directed by Osvaldo de Oliveira and starring Doris Duranti, Paulo Gracindo and Dulce Nunes.^[1][2][3] The film's sets were designed by the art director Lazlo Meitner. It was one of two postwar films Italian star Duranti made in South America alongside the Argentine Alguien se acerca in 1948. Duranti did not appear on screen in her native Italy for several years due to her controversial former relationship with Fascist politician Alessandro Pavolini.

• Doris Duranti
• Paulo Gracindo
• Dulce Nunes
• Nelson Vaz
• Dorival Caymmi
• José Bia
• Nelly Brasil
• Walyta Brasil
• Fregolente
• Sônia Kaliner
• Ferreira Leite
• Waldir Maia
• João Péricles

• Borghini, Fabrizio, Guidi, Umberto and Sacchetti, Chiara. Livorno al cinema. Informazione, 1997.
• Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.
• Moreno, Antônio. Cinema brasileiro: história e relações com o estado. EDUFF, 1994.

• Morning Star at IMDb

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