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Ada Colangeli
Ada Colangeli (5 March 1913 – 29 February 1992) was an Italian character actress. Life and career Born in Rome, Colangeli began acting in the early 1940s, and she was mainly cast in roles of women from a low social class. Active for about twenty years, she often collaborated with the director Alessandro Blasetti, of whom she was a real life friend. Her credits also include works by Federico Fellini, Luigi Zampa, Luigi Comencini, Carlo Lizzani and Mario Camerini. Selected filmography * ''An Adventure of Salvator Rosa'' (1939) - Una popolana * ''One Hundred Thousand Dollars'' (1940) - Francesca, la moglie di Paul * ''The Iron Crown'' (1941) - (uncredited) * ''Four Steps in the Clouds'' (1942) - Anna - La serva (uncredited) * ''Dagli Appennini alle Ande'' (1943) * ''Apparizione'' (1943) - Geltrude * ''Nessuno torna indietro'' (1945) - Una sorvegliante * ''Un giorno nella vita'' (1946) - Suor Gaetana * '' Alarm Bells'' (1949) - Francesca * ''The Bride Can't Wait'' (1949) - Sist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Character Actress
A character actor is a supporting actor who plays unusual, interesting, or eccentric characters.28 April 2013, The New York Acting SchoolTen Best Character Actors of All Time Retrieved 7 August 2014, "..a breed of actor who has the ability to be almost unrecognizable from part to part, and yet play many, many roles convincingly and memorably. .." The term, often contrasted with that of leading actor, is somewhat abstract and open to interpretation. In a literal sense, all actors can be considered character actors since they all play "characters", but the term more commonly refers to an actor who frequently plays a distinctive and important supporting role. Character actors are generally well-known and recognizable by the audience (by appearance if not by name), even if they play different types of roles in different movies. A character actor may play characters who are very different from the actor's off-screen real-life personality, while in another sense a character actor may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome-Paris-Rome
''Rome-Paris-Rome'' ( it, Signori, in carrozza!) is a 1951 French-Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Aldo Fabrizi, Sophie Desmarets and Peppino De Filippo. It was shot at the Farnesina Studios in Rome and on location in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Enrico Ciampi. Plot Vicenzo works as an attendant on the sleeping cars between Rome and Paris. For several years he has had two families, a wife and scrounging Neapolitan brother-in-law in Rome and an attractive widow with a young daughter in Paris whose existence he has managed to keep secret from the other. When he is offered the chance to work permanently at one location he chooses Paris, but complications ensue when his brother-in-law follows him to the French capital. Cast * Aldo Fabrizi as Vincenzo Nardi * Sophie Desmarets as Ginette * Vera Nandi as Signora Nardi * Peppino De Filippo as Gennaro * Barbara Florian as Mirella * Noël Roquevert as Robert * Maso Lotti as Enrico N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Signorine Dello 04
''Le signorine dello 04'' (''The ladies of the 04'') is a 1955 Italian romantic comedy-drama film directed by Gianni Franciolini. Cast *Antonella Lualdi: Maria Teresa Landolfi * Antonio Cifariello: Amleto *Giovanna Ralli: Bruna *Roberto Risso: Carlo Conti * Sergio Raimondi: Fernando *Franca Valeri: Carla, capoturno *Peppino De Filippo: Dellisanti * Marisa Merlini: Vera Colasanti * Giulia Rubini: Gabriella * Aldo Giuffrè: Guido Colasanti *Turi Pandolfini: Cavaliere *Tina Pica: Zia Vittoria *Ferruccio Amendola: fratello di Bruna *Enzo Garinei: corteggiatore di Bruna *Miranda Campa: madre di Carlo Conti *Maria Zanoli: Clementina *Nando Bruno Nando Bruno (6 October 1895 – 10 April 1963) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 84 films between 1938 and 1961. He was born in Rome, Italy and he died there. Selected filmography * ''A Lady Did It'' (1938) - Un collego di Pasquale ...: l'utente irascibile References External links * 1955 films 1955 romantic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Art Of Getting Along
''The Art of Getting Along'' ( it, L'arte di arrangiarsi) is a 1954 in film, 1954 comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Alberto Sordi. Following ''Difficult Years'' and ''Easy Years'', it is the third and final chapter in the trilogy about Italian politics under the continuing shadow of fascism conceived by Vitaliano Brancati. In the person of an unprincipled Sicilian rogue, it delivers a satirical portrait of Italian society from 1913 to 1953. In 2008 the film was selected to enter the list of the 100 film italiani da salvare, 100 Italian films to be saved. Plot Sasà Scimoni, nephew and unpaid assistant of the mayor of Catania, adapts himself to any man who may be able to help him advance and to any woman he may be able to take advantage of. Falling for the wife of an honest socialist politician, he becomes an activist and through his machinations the husband gets five years in jail. By then the First World War, which Sasà avoids after feigning madness, has come and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Bad She's Bad
''Too Bad She's Bad'' ( it, Peccato che sia una canaglia) is a 1955 Italian comedy directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It stars Sophia Loren and is based on Alberto Moravia's story "Fanatico", from his ''Racconti Romani''. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios and on location around Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Mario Chiari and Mario Garbuglia. Plot Young and shapely Lina Stroppiani and her two accomplices try to con a taxi driver out of his cab and money, with unexpected results when he discovers what they are up to. Cast * Vittorio De Sica as "Professor" Vittorio Stroppiani * Sophia Loren as Lina Stroppiani, the "professor's" daughter * Marcello Mastroianni as Paolo Silvestrelli, a taxi driver * Marcella Melnati as Lina's grandmother, the "professor's" mother * Giorgio Sanna as Peppino * Michael Simone as Toto * Umberto Melnati as Robbery victim * Margherita Bagni as Elsa, Umberto's wife * Mario Scaccia as Robbery victim * Wanda Benedetti as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woman Of Rome
''Woman of Rome'' ( it, La romana) is a 1954 drama film directed by Luigi Zampa, and starring Gina Lollobrigida. Plot Beautiful but poor Adriana, during the fascist era, finds work as a model for a painter. She becomes the lover of a chauffeur who promises to marry her, but then is revealed to be already married. She improvises herself as a prostitute and then falls in love with Mino, a good guy who ends up in jail for anti-fascist activities. Thus Adriana's misadventures in search of love continue. Cast * Gina Lollobrigida as Adriana * Daniel Gélin as Mino * Franco Fabrizi as Gino * Raymond Pellegrin as Astarita * Pina Piovani as Madre di Adriana * Xenia Valderi as Gisella * Renato Tontini as Carlo Sonzogno * Gino Buzzanca as Riccardo * Mariano Bottino as Tommaso * Giuseppe Addobbati as Tullio * Giovanni Di Benedetto Giovanni may refer to: * Giovanni (name), an Italian male given name and surname * Giovanni (meteorology), a Web interface for users to analyze NASA's gridd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papà Pacifico
''Papà Pacifico'' is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Antonella Lualdi and Frank Latimore.Alberto Albertazzi. "Papà Pacifico" (review). ''Intermezzo''. 31 March 1954. It grossed 88 million lire at the Italian box office. Plot Cast * Antonella Lualdi as Luisella Ceccacci * Frank Latimore as Carlo Torquati * Nando Bruno as Augusto Ceccacci * Galeazzo Benti as Baron Alberto di Pontenero * Bice Valori as Gina * Carletto Sposito as The Toy Seller * Lucia Brusco as Maria Grazia * Agostino Salvietti as Raimondo Giorpani * Nerio Bernardi as The Prosecutor * Enzo Biliotti as The Judge * Marisa Valenti as Mara Lauri * Pino Locchi as Fofò * Angela Lavagna as Miss Giorpani * Franco Andrei as Pier Luigi Dodi * Cesarina Gheraldi as The Thief * Nino Milano as commissario * Luisella Boni as Donatella * Anita Durante as Ponte Nero's Doorkeeper * Ada Colangeli as Ceccacci's Doorkeeper * Anna Di Leo as Maria Teresa * Ciccio Barbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Slice Of Life (1954 Film)
''A Slice of Life'' ( it, Tempi nostri, link=no, french: Quelques pas dans la vie, link=no, also known as ''The Anatomy of Love'') is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and Paul Paviot. Plot Mara From a story by Vasco Pratolini, written by the author. Vasco and Mara get to know in a restaurant, go to the cinema, and spent the evening intimately, fall in love. She tells him that, being short of money, will try to work the next morning in a brothel, but he convinces her to desist from this connection, to begin to live with him, who has a job as a teacher, even if their economic situation may be difficult. The baby Written by Alberto Moravia. Young couple the suburbs of Rome are in financial trouble. She would like to work, but must take care of the child who has recently given birth. The two then set out, reluctantly, to leave the baby in a church, but the mother can not decide on the right place and finally the father has second thoughts. Outdoor scene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chronicle Of Poor Lovers
''Chronicle of Poor Lovers'' ( it, Cronache di poveri amanti) is a 1954 Italian drama film directed by Carlo Lizzani. It competed for the Grand Prix at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Florence, spring of 1925, the young typographer Mario moves to the Santa Croce district, in via del Corno, to be closer to his sweetheart, Bianca, thus becoming in turn a "crowsman" (pun between the name of the inhabitants of the via del "Corno", but also the croaking "crows") and finding themselves sharing the daily events of the inhabitants of that small popular world in the dark years of the rise of Fascism. His landlord is the farrier Corrado, known as Maciste, a well-known anti-fascist and formerly Ardito del Popolo like his friend Ugo, a street vendor of fruit and entertainment. The small street is also home to a couple of convinced fascists: the accountant Carlino Bencini, a legionary from Rijeka and an insurance employee; and his colleague, friend and roommate Osvaldo. Among the other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Of Those
''One of Those'' ( it, Una di quelle, also known as ''Totò, Peppino e... una di quelle'') is a 1953 Italian comedy-drama film produced, written, directed and starred by Aldo Fabrizi. Plot Maria is a widow with a dependent child, in debt with her landlord, and she tries to get by on small tailoring jobs. One day she receives a visit from a neighbor, a prostitute. Praising the beauty of Maria, and understanding her economic difficulties, the prostitute suggests her to attempt the same profession, in her view the only way for a single woman to find the money to live. Desperate by the personal and economic situation, Maria reluctantly accepts the advice and the next day she went to a nightclub, where she encounter two wealthy country men, the brothers Martino and Rocco. Cast *Lea Padovani as Maria Rossetti *Peppino De Filippo as Martino Bardelli *Totò as Rocco Bardelli *Aldo Fabrizi as Dr. Ubaldo Mancini *Mara Landi as L'entraineuse *Giulio Calì as Guardamacchine *Nando ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prisoner In The Tower Of Fire
''Prisoner in the Tower of Fire'' ( it, Prigioniera della torre di fuoco, also known as ''The Prisoner in the Fuoco Tower'') is a 1953 Italian historical drama film written and directed by Giorgio W. Chili. Plot 15th century. Two young people belonging to families in conflict with each other form a strong friendship: their loyalty is severely tested when they fall in love with the same woman. Cast *Elisa Cegani as Bianca Maltivoglio *Milly Vitale as Germana Della Valle *Ugo Sasso as Cesco Di Maltivoglio *Carlo Giustini as Marco Pepli *Attilio Dottesio as Carlo Pepli *Nino Manfredi as Stornello *Oscar Andriani as Friar Anselmo *Cesare Fantoni as Lorenzo Pepli *Carlo Ninchi as Giovanni Sforza *Rossano Brazzi as Cesare Borgia *Franco Pesce as Pietro *Memmo Carotenuto as Raimondo *Giulio Calì as Giulio *Ada Colangeli Ada Colangeli (5 March 1913 – 29 February 1992) was an Italian character actress. Life and career Born in Rome, Colangeli began acting in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lieutenant Giorgio
''Lieutenant Giorgio'' (Italian: ''Il Tenente Giorgio'') is a 1952 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Massimo Girotti, Milly Vitale and Paul Muller. Chiti & Poppi p.357 It was shot at the Ponti-De Laurentiis Studios in Rome and on location around San Giovanni in Fiore in Calabria. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone. Synopsis In 1866 during the Risorgimento, an infantry lieutenant in Calabria fighting bandits is brought to a castle. There it is arranged for him to spend the night with a young woman, whose identity is concealed from him. Unknown to him, she is the daughter of an aristocratic family whose husband has failed to get her pregnant. Years, later, having left the army, the officer returns to the area still intrigued by the mysterious woman. Cast *Massimo Girotti as Lt. G. Biserta *Milly Vitale as Countess Elisa * Paul Muller as Count Stefano di Monserrato *Gualtiero Tumiati as St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
