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Annabella's Adventure
''Annabella's Adventure'' or ''The Adventure of Annabella'' (Italian:''L'avventura di Annabella'') is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Leo Menardi and starring Fioretta Dolfi, Maurizio D'Ancora and Paola Borboni.Moliterno p.25 The film's sets were designed by the art director Virgilio Marchi. Cast * Fioretta Dolfi as Annabella * Maurizio D'Ancora as Roberto * Paola Borboni as La madre di Annabella * Enrico Viarisio as Il padre di Annabella * Amelia Chellini as La madre di Roberto * Virgilio Riento as Il padre di Roberto * Cesco Baseggio as Lo zio di Roberto * Anna Magnani as La mondana * Guido Barbarisi * Galeazzo Benti * * Gorella Gori * Alfredo Martinelli Alfredo Martinelli (7 March 1899 – 11 November 1968) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 103 films between 1916 and 1967. He was born and died in Siena, Tuscany. Selected filmography * ''I Topi Grigi'' (1918) * ''Tortured Soul'' (1 ... * * Giacomo Moschini * Stefano Sibaldi * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Menardi
Leo Menardi (1903–1954) was an Italian screenwriter, producer and film director. He also worked as editor and assistant director on ''The Song of Love'' (1930), the first Italian sound film. In 1942 he wrote and directed ''Luisa Sanfelice''.Marrone & Puppa p.461 Selected filmography * ''The Song of Love'' (1930) * '' The Devil's Lantern'' (1931) * '' One Night with You'' (1932) * ''The Haller Case'' (1933) * '' Unripe Fruit'' (1934) * ''Luisa Sanfelice'' (1942) * ''Annabella's Adventure ''Annabella's Adventure'' or ''The Adventure of Annabella'' (Italian:''L'avventura di Annabella'') is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Leo Menardi and starring Fioretta Dolfi, Maurizio D'Ancora and Paola Borboni.Moliterno p.25 The film's s ...'' (1943) References Bibliography * Marrone, Gaetana & Puppa, Paolo. ''Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies''. Routledge, 2006. External links * 1903 births 1954 deaths 20th-century Italian screenwriters Italian male scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Viarisio
Enrico Viarisio (3 December 1897 – 1 November 1967) was an Italian theatre and cinema actor. Biography Equipped of a fine and elegant humour, Viarisio was discovered by actress Paola Pezzaglia Paolina Pezzaglia Greco (13 September 1886 – 17 December 1925) was an Italian theatre and film actress. Early life Pezzaglia was the only daughter of the VIP hair-stylist Gerolamo Pezzaglia (1854–1899) and Adelinda Monti (1854– ..., who cast him at 19 as "brillante" in her own theatre company. Mario Ferrigni (diretti da), ''Annali del teatro italiano, Volume Secondo, 1921-1923'', Milano, ed. Amedeo Nicola & C., 1923. His career continued with the role of ''amoroso'' or male lover in the Carini-Gentili-Betrone theatre company, then passed to Talli-Melato-Betrone, Antonio Gandusio, Dyne Galli, and Nino Besozzi, and the Merlini-Cialente-Bagni company. To raise the company's small profits, Viarisio became the repertory comedian. Bourgeois audiences appreciated Viarisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Comedy Films
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1943 Comedy Films
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1943 Films
The year 1943 in film featured various significant events for the film industry. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1943 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 23 – The film ''Casablanca'' is released nationally in the United States and becomes one of the top-grossing pictures of 1943. It goes on to win the Best Picture and Best Director awards at the 16th Academy Awards. * February 20 – American film studio executives agree to allow the United States Office of War Information to censor films. * June 1 – Veteran English stage and screen actor Leslie Howard dies at the age of 50 in the crash of BOAC Flight 777 off the coast of Galicia, Spain. While best remembered for his role as Ashley Wilkes in ''Gone with the Wind'', Howard had roles in many other notable films and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. * November 23 – British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation * December 31 – New York Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Sibaldi
Stefano Sibaldi (June 11, 1905 – July 2, 1996) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Livorno, Sibaldi was considered to be among the most successful of the early actors and dubbers of the 20th century. He began his acting career in 1928 staying within the field of stage and screen and he worked alongside many related people within his ventures such as Carlo Veneziani and Armando Falconi. Sibaldi's film debut was in the 1934 film '' Full Speed'' and he also made radio and television acting contributions. In 1937, Sibaldi entered a career as a voice dubber. Among the actors he dubbed included Frank Sinatra, Glenn Ford, Louis de Funès, Fred Astaire, Richard Widmark, Groucho Marx, Danny Kaye and many more. In his Italian dubbed animated roles, he voiced Timothy Q. Mouse in ''Dumbo'', Captain Hook in ''Peter Pan'', Tramp in ''Lady and the Tramp'' and the Cheshire Cat in '' Alice in Wonderland''. Sibaldi retired from his career in the late 1980s. Death Sibaldi di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Moschini
Giacomo Moschini (1896–1943) was an Italian film actor.Verdone p.67 Selected filmography * ''Rails'' (1929) * '' The Charmer'' (1931) * ''Resurrection'' (1931) * ''Paradise'' (1932) * ''Unjustified Absence'' (1939) * ''The Document'' (1939) * ''The King's Jester'' (1941) * ''Honeymoon'' (1941) * ''The Hero of Venice'' (1941) * '' The Betrothed'' (1941) * ''The Countess of Castiglione'' (1942) * '' Malombra'' (1942) * ''Rossini'' (1942) * ''La signorina'' (1942) * ''Annabella's Adventure'' (1943) * ''Short Circuit A short circuit (sometimes abbreviated to short or s/c) is an electrical circuit that allows a current to travel along an unintended path with no or very low electrical impedance. This results in an excessive current flowing through the circuit ...'' (1943) * '' Back Then'' (1943) References Bibliography * Verdone, Luca. ''I film di Alessandro Blasetti''. Gremese Editore, 1989. External links * 1896 births 1943 deaths Italian male film actors Actors from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Martinelli
Alfredo Martinelli (7 March 1899 – 11 November 1968) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 103 films between 1916 and 1967. He was born and died in Siena, Tuscany. Selected filmography * ''I Topi Grigi'' (1918) * ''Tortured Soul'' (1919) * ''Il teschio d'oro'' (1920) * '' The Second Wife'' (1922) * ''The White Sister'' (1923) * ''La dama de Chez Maxim's'' (1923) * ''Romola'' (1924) * '' The Faces of Love'' (1924) * '' The Fiery Cavalcade'' (1925) * ''The Last Days of Pompeii'' (1926) * '' Floretta and Patapon'' (1927) * ''The Storyteller of Venice'' (1929) * '' Assunta Spina'' (1930) * '' The Charmer'' (1931) * ''Resurrection'' (1931) * ''Before the Jury'' (1931) * '' Figaro and His Great Day'' (1931) * ''The Devil's Lantern'' (1931) * ''The Private Secretary'' (1931) * ''The Opera Singer'' (1932) * ''Paradise'' (1932) * ''Seconda B'' (1934) * ''Everybody's Woman'' (1934) * ''A Woman Between Two Worlds'' (1936) * ''Adam's Tree'' (1936) * '' Hands Off Me!'' (1937) * ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorella Gori
Gorella Gori (2 February 1900 – 25 November 1963) was an Italian entertainer (including cafe-chantant), stage actor and film actress. She appeared in twenty five films, generally in supporting or minor roles. One of her later roles was a small part in ''Roman Holiday'' (1953).Pirolini p/175 Partial filmography * ''In the Country Fell a Star'' (1939) - La moglie de Teodorico * ''Big Shoes'' (1940) - Concetta, la cuoca * ''Lucky Night'' (1941) * ''La compagnia della teppa'' (1941) - La signora Borghi * ''Street of the Five Moons'' (1942) - La comare grassottella * ''Perdizione'' (1942) - Amalia, l'infermiera * ''The Gorgon'' (1942) - Berta * ''The Peddler and the Lady'' (1943) - La cameriera della casa Giovannini * ''Annabella's Adventure'' (1943) * ''La storia di una capinera'' (1943) * ''The Priest's Hat'' (1944) - Chiarina * ''Il vento m'ha cantato una canzone'' (1947) * '' Il nido di Falasco'' (1950) * '' Never Take No for an Answer' (1951) - Weaver's Wife * ''Toto and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galeazzo Benti
Galeazzo Benti (6 August 1923 – 21 April 1993) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1942 and 1991. Life and career Born Galeazzo Bentivoglio in Florence, Italy, a descendant of the Bentivoglio family, which ruled Bologna from 1401 until 1506 and from 1511 until 1512, he started his career as a cartoonist and a set designer. After his first roles in 1942, he had his breakout in 1943, in Sergio Tofano's ''Gian Burrasca'', in which he played a frivolous and falsely modest snob, a role he specialized during his career. After successfully alternating between cinema and revue, in the late 1950s he moved to Venezuela, where he worked in a television channel dedicated to Italian immigrants. He came back to Italy in the early 1980s, and here he reprised his acting career equally splitting between films and TV-series until his death from a heart attack in 1993. Selected filmography * ''Souls in Turmoil'' (1942) - Un amico di Elena * ''The Three Pilots ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guido Barbarisi
Guido Barbarisi (1889–1960) was an Italian stage and film actor.Mancini p.234 Selected filmography * '' Golden Arrow'' (1935) * ''The Former Mattia Pascal'' (1937) * '' Who Are You?'' (1939) * ''Two Million for a Smile'' (1939) * ''Annabella's Adventure'' (1943) * ''Adam and Eve'' (1949) * ''Passionate Song'' (1953) * ''Beatrice Cenci Beatrice Cenci (; 6 February 157711 September 1599) was a Roman noblewoman who murdered her father, Count Francesco Cenci. She was beheaded in 1599 after a lurid murder trial in Rome that gave rise to an enduring legend about her. Life Beatri ...'' (1956) References Bibliography * Mancini, Elaine. ''Struggles of the Italian film industry during fascism, 1930-1935''. UMI Research Press, 1985. External links * 1889 births 1960 deaths Italian male film actors Italian male stage actors Italian male radio actors Male actors from Rome {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Magnani
Anna Maria Magnani (; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian actress.Obituary ''Variety'', 3 October 1973, pg. 47 She was known for her explosive acting and earthy, realistic portrayals of characters. Born in Rome, she worked her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs. During her career, her only child was stricken by polio when he was 18 months old and remained disabled. She was referred to as "La Lupa", the "perennial toast of Rome" and a "living she-wolf symbol" of the cinema. ''Time'' described her personality as "fiery", and drama critic Harold Clurman said her acting was "volcanic". In the realm of Italian cinema, she was "passionate, fearless, and exciting," an actress whom film historian Barry Monush calls "the volcanic earth mother of all Italian cinema."Monush, Barry. ''The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors'', Hal Leonard Corp. (2003) Director Roberto Rossellini called her "the greatest acting genius since Eleonora Duse" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
