The 1945 film "Madonna of the Seven Moons" is about a woman living in Italy who lives two lives due to her two personalities. She is Maddalena Labardi, the upstanding wife of an Italian businessman and Rosanna, the mistress of a jewel thief and criminal gang leader. The jewel thief's associates dress casually and the women wear Italian peasant costumes which include large pieces of jewelry made from coins or imitation coins.

Maddalena (Phyllis Calvert) is a student at an Italian school run by nuns in 1919 Florence who goes to a forest to pick flowers. A man encounters her and sexually assaults her. She returns to the school where she is told that her father has arranged her marriage to a business associate named Giuseppe Labardi (John Stuart). The marriage occurs in 1919 and produces her daughter Angela (Patricia Roc) in 1920. The Labardis have a house in Rome and a villa in Florence. The major problem in the marriage is that Maddalena sometimes disappears for periods as long as a year. Giuseppe has taken Maddalena to doctors but has not learned where she goes or why. Some notes she has left mention the "Seven Moons." The time is around 1938 and Angela has been at a school in England for five years and is returning to Italy. Her English boyfriend Evelyn (Alan Haines) is driving her in a sportscar and stops to ask a man named Nino Barucci (Stewart Granger) for directions.

Nino leans over the car and steals a hat and after the couple leave he extracts a jewel. Angela and Evelyn arrive in Florence at the Villa Labardi, a large Italian house.

Maddalena is a conservative Catholic woman who is shocked by Angela's modern lifestyle which included riding in a man's car from England to Florence and wearing shorts. However the two women agree not to argue and Angela offers to "modernize" Maddalena. Maddalena feels faint and goes upstairs to lie down. She then gets up and changes her clothes to a peasant dress and then takes some of her regular jewelry from a box.

Maddalena buys a ticket to a rough Florence neighborhood, the "Quartieri di San Cimiano", and goes to the Barucci house where she is seen by Mama Barucci (Nancy Price), Nino's mother. The Barucci's run a restaurant but the real income is from Nino's thefts and his brother Sandro's (Peter Glenville) work as a professional dancer (and gigilo?).

Mrs. Barucci wears some coin jewelry and tells her son that her mother was a Gypsy.

Nino has heard that his girlfriend Rosanna has returned and they have an immediate reunion.

After their reunion they stop to have a smoke.

At a meal Rosanna wears her coin jewelry.

This piece features large coins and they are probably imitation coins similar to "dance costume" jewelry.

A closer look at the coins. Nino goes to his fence to sell some jewelry, possibly including the piece he stole from Angela.

They argue over the money and then settle. Angela visits some friends.

Jimmy Logan (Peter Murray-Hill) is an artist Nesta Logan (Dulcie Gray) is his wife. Vittoria (Jean Kent) is a waitress who has been Nino's lover during Rosanna's absences.

She and Rosanna do not get along of course. Angela and Evelyn decide to find out where Maddalena has been spending her time and begin investigating. The two families, the Labardis and Baruccis have some connections and they are led to the Barucci house which has a crest over the door.

The "Seven Moons" mystery is solved. The city carnival festival is about to begin and Nino calls his men together to stage a raid on the Labardi house.

Nino has been curious as to where Rosanna has been and they talk. She wears a different piece of coin jewelry.

This one has smaller coins than the previous one.

Another look at Rosanna's jewelry. Sandro Barucci has been showing Angela around Florence and has been trying to romance her without success.

Nino gives Sandro permission to use the their place for his seduction of Angela. He has the waiter give Angela some drugged coffee while promising her that a man is coming who knows where Angela's mother is. Rosanna has had an argument with Vittoria who tells her that Nino is with Angela. Rosanna hears a cry and walks up the stairs to the bedroom while pulling out a knife. She sees a man whom she assumes to be Nino assaulting Angela.

Rosanna stabs the man who turns around and faces her.

The man is Sandro which shocks Rosanna. Sandro then stabs her and she returns to Maddalena. Evelyn and Jimmy (the artist) arrive and find Angela unharmed. They take the wounded Maddalena to the Labardi house and a doctor tells the family that Maddalena is dying. A priest is called to perform the "last rites."

The cross is from her husband and the flower is from Nino.

Phyllis Calvert as Maddalena
John Stuart as Giuseppe Labardi
Patricia Roc as Angela
Alan Haines as Evelyn
Stewart Granger as Nino Barucci
Peter Glenville as Sandro Barucci
Nancy Price as Mama Barucci
Peter Murray-Hill as Jimmy Logan
Dulcie Gray as Nesta Logan
Jean Kent as Vittoria
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Writers: Roland Pertwee
Based on the 1931 novel The Madonna of Seven Moons by Margery Lawrence