luci del varietà (1950)

checco dalmonte, the leading actor of a company of low-order varieties, is in love with liliana, a soubrette who accepts him only to be able to assert himself, while ignoring melina, who instead secretly loves him. she will continue to cultivate that impossible love of hers silently, liliana will abandon the company for an uncertain future and checco will only have the usual wandering life.