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Amalia Pellegrini
Amalia Pellegrini (16 June 1873 – 13 September 1958) was an Italian actress. She appeared in more than sixty films from 1935 to 1958. Selected filmography References External links * 1873 births 1958 deaths Italian film actresses {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Americano A Roma
''An American in Rome'' (originally ''Un americano a Roma'') is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Steno. The film consists in a satire of Americanization, and it was referred as "a milestone in the evolution of Italian self-identification". It starred Alberto Sordi, with a young Ursula Andress in a minor role. Overview Sordi reprises the character of Nando Mericoni he played a few months before in an episode of comedy film ''Un giorno in pretura''. The character eventually returned in Sergio Corbucci's ''Di che segno sei?'' (1975). Due to the continuous references of ''Nando'' to Kansas City, Alberto Sordi received in 1955 its honorary citizenship. ''Nando'' would really refer to the state of Kansas and not to the city (he spoke about the life in ''the'' Kansas City and referred to him as a sort of highway policeman of ''the'' K.C.). Plot summary Italy in the Fifties. The image of grandeur and opulence, brought by the arrival of American troops in 1944, still has its eff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chains (1949 Film)
''Catene'' (internationally released as ''Chains'') is a 1949 Italian melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. It had an impressive commercial success, being seen by 6 million people, one in eight Italians of the time, and was followed by a series of six other successful films directed by Matarazzo and featuring the couple Amedeo Nazzari and Yvonne Sanson. The film was remade in 1974. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti. The film features in ''Cinema Paradiso''. Plot and outline A husband kills his wife's ex-boyfriend, who was blackmailing her. He flees to America, but is sent back to Italy to stand trial. The only way he can be set free is if his wife confesses to adultery – so the murder can be considered a crime of passion – but this estranges her from her family. Starring Amedeo Nazzari and actress of Greek origin Yvonne Sanson. Maligned by critics because it did not conform to precepts of neorealism,Dave Keh"The Italian Potboiler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1873 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar. ** The California Penal Code goes into effect. * January 17 – American Indian Wars: Modoc War: First Battle of the Stronghold – Modoc Indians defeat the United States Army. * February 11 – The Spanish Cortes deposes King Amadeus I, and proclaims the First Spanish Republic. * February 12 ** Emilio Castelar, the former foreign minister, becomes prime minister of the new Spanish Republic. ** The Coinage Act of 1873 in the United States is signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant; coming into effect on April 1, it ends bimetallism in the U.S., and places the country on the gold standard. * February 20 ** The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco. ** British naval officer John Moresby discovers the site of Port Moresby, and claims the land for Britain. * March 3 – Censorship: The United States Congress enacts the Comstock La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Carnival Of Venice (film)
''The Carnival of Venice'' (Italian: ''Il carnevale di Venezia'') is a 1939 Italian comedy film directed by Giuseppe Adami and Giacomo Gentilomo and starring Cesco Baseggio, Toti Dal Monte and Junie Astor.De Giusti p.147 It was made at the Cinecittà studios in Rome. Cast * Cesco Baseggio as Momolo * Toti Dal Monte as Ninetta, sua figlia * Junie Astor as Tonina * Guido Lazzarini as Paolo Sagredo * Stefano Sibaldi as Marchetto Zanzi, il fornaio * Greta Gonda as Margherita * Alessandra Adari as Una impiega della manifattura dei tabacchi * Armando Annuale as Il vecchietto curioso * Doris Cafioro * Andreina Carli as L'amica snob di Paolo * Rudi Dal Pra * Loredana Loredana is a feminine given name, claimed to be invented by French author Lucile Aurore Dupin (George Sand) in her novel ''Mattea'' (1833), and later used by Luciano Zuccoli in ''L'amore di Loredana'' (1908). It may have been inspired by the rea ... as Una impiega della manifattura dei tabacchi * Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Romantic Adventure
''A Romantic Adventure'' (Italian: ''Una romantica avventura'') is a 1940 Italian historical drama film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Assia Noris, Gino Cervi and Leonardo Cortese.Aprà p.111 It is inspired by the 1883 short story ''The Romantic Adventures Of A Milkmaid'' by Thomas Hardy. Produced when the two countries were at war, the setting was shifted from the English countryside of the late nineteenth century to Piedmont in the 1830s. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome and on location around Lake Orta. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. It was screened at the 1940 Venice Film Festival. Cast * Assia Noris as Angioletta/Anna/Annetta * Gino Cervi as Luigi * Leonardo Cortese as Il conte * Olga Solbelli as La vedova Cavara * Ernesto Almirante as Berni, il socio di Luigi * Calisto Bertramo as Silvestro * Massimo Girotti as Luciano * Alfredo Martinelli as Il violonista dell'orchestra paesana * Armando Migliari as Il padre di Ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jealousy (1942 Film)
''Jealousy'' (Italian: ''Gelosia'') is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli and starring Luisa Ferida, Roldano Lupi and Ruggero Ruggeri.Reich, Jacqueline & Garofalo, Piero. ''Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943''. Indiana University Press, 2002. p.100. The film was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome with sets designed by the art director Gastone Simonetti. It belongs to the movies of the calligrafismo style. It is based on the 1901 novel ''Il Marchese di Roccaverdina'' by Luigi Capuana, which was later made into a 1953 film ''Jealousy''. Cast * Luisa Ferida as Agrippina Solmo * Roldano Lupi as Il marchese Antonio di Roccaverdina * Ruggero Ruggeri as Il parocco don Silvio * Elena Zareschi as Zosima Munoz * Elvira Betrone as Carmelina Munoz, sua madre * Wanda Capodaglio as La baronessa Santina di Lagomorto * Franco Coop as L'avvocato don Aquilante Guzardi * Bella Starace Sainati as Mamma Grazia * Angelo Dessy as Neli Casaccio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Materassi Sisters
''The Materassi Sisters'' (Italian: ''Sorelle Materassi'') is a 1944 Italian comedy film directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli and starring Emma Gramatica, Irma Gramatica and Olga Solbelli.Reich & Garofalo p.268 The film is an adaptation of the 1934 novel of the same title by Aldo Palazzeschi. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption .... Cast References Bibliography * Reich, Jacqueline & Garofalo, Piero. ''Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943''. Indiana University Press, 2002. External links * 1944 films Italian comedy films 1944 comedy films 1940s Italian-language films Films directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli Films based on Italian novels Italian black-and-white films Films shot at Cinecittà Stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ten Commandments (1945 Film)
''The Ten Commandments'' (Italian: ''I dieci comandamenti'') is a 1945 Italian drama film directed by Giorgio Walter Chili. It features an ensemble of Italian actors in episodes based on the Ten Commandments. It was made during the German occupation of Rome, which brought a halt to all ongoing work at Italian film studios. Only two films made with Vatican support went into production at the time, providing employment for actors and technicians. The other film was Vittorio De Sica's '' The Gates of Heaven''. Their work on the films enabled them to refuse demands that they relocate north to work in the Venice-based film industry of the puppet Italian Social Republic.Gundle, Stephen. ''Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy''. Berghahn Books, 2013. The lengthy production process meant that it wasn't released until long after Rome had been liberated by Allied forces. Cast * Marina Berti as (segment "Non desiderare la roba d'altri") * Carlo Campanini as (segment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ways Of Sin
''The Ways of Sin'' (Italian: ''Le vie del peccato'') is a 1946 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Jacqueline Laurent, Leonardo Cortese and Carlo Ninchi. The film is a melodrama set in Sardinia at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is based on a novel by Grazia Deledda. The film was shot in the Apennine Mountains rather than Sardinia.Urban p.576 Cast * Jacqueline Laurent as Ilaria * Leonardo Cortese as Don Roberto * Carlo Ninchi as Don Sebastiano Pinna * Ada Dondini as Eufemia Pinna * Laura Gore as Carla Pinna * Gualtiero Tumiati as Don Salvatore * Andrea Checchi as Rocco * Lauro Gazzolo as Il farmacista * Umberto Sacripante as Fausto, Il pastore * Michele Riccardini as Il sacerdote * Nino Pavese as Il brigadiere * Franco Coop as Il notaio * Dante Maggio as La guardia carceraria * Rinalda Marchetti as L'amante di Don Sebastiano * Amalia Pellegrini as La domestica dei Pinna * Aldo Silvani Aldo Silvani (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Giorno Nella Vita
''Un giorno nella vita'' ("A Day in Life") is a 1946 Italian war film directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. American title: "A Day In the Life". This film was screened in 2009 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's retrospective "Life Lessons" Italian Neorealism and the birth of modern cinema. Plot A group of partisans seek refuge in a cloistered convent. The sisters reluctantly aid the ailing men, but not without terrible consequences. A day in the life offers an image of a big tent Italy, in which the differences that had earlier cleaved society, especially between the church and the political Left, are temporarily tabled for the higher cause of national unity. Cast * Enzo Biliotti - Don Eusebio * Elisa Cegani - Suor Maria * Ada Colangeli - Suor Gaetana * Ada Dondini - Madre Superiora * Arnoldo Foà - Brusan * Massimo Girotti - Luigi Monotti * Flavia Grande - Suor Luisa * Mariella Lotti - Suor Bianca * Dante Maggio - Carlo * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Carlo Mazza
''Baron Carlo Mazza'' (Italian:''Il barone Carlo Mazza'') is a 1948 Italian musical comedy film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Nino Taranto, Silvana Pampanini and Enzo Turco.D'Amico p.65 The film's art direction was by Virgilio Marchi. Synopsis A penniless baron desperately tries to reverse his fortune, and eventually attempts to marry a wealthy Mexican woman. Cast * Nino Taranto as Barone Carlo Mazza * Silvana Pampanini as Rosa Pezza * Enzo Turco as Cecè Rizzo * Franco Coop as Cosimo * Carlo Lombardi as Borgotti * Mario Riva as Annunciatore * Raimondo Van Riel as Zio Casimiro Pezza * Gianna Dauro as Edwige Mazza * Anna Corinto as La segretaria * Franca Del Frate as Elvira Pezza * Dianora Veiga as Lalla * Paolo Carlini as Fugi * Bruno Corelli as Il conte degli Strozzi * Olga Vittoria Gentilli as La principessa Strozzi * Nino Marchesini as Il nuovo rico * Augusto Di Giovanni as Il commendatore * Margherita Bossi as Sua moglie * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melody Of Love (1952 Film)
''Melody of Love'' or ''Singing City'' (original title ''Città canora'') is a 1952 Italian musical melodrama film directed by Mario Costa and starring Giacomo Rondinella, Maria Fiore and Nadia Gray.Chiti & Poppi p.218 It was shot at Cinecitta Studios in Rome and on location in Naples. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lamberto Giovagnoli. Cast *Nadia Gray as Nadia Sandor * Maria Fiore as Maria Morelli * Giacomo Rondinella as Giacomo D'Angeli *Tina Pica as Concetta *Paola Borboni as Anna *Carlo Romano as Commendator Ferrario *Mirko Ellis as Renato Scala * Giovanni Grasso as Don Salvatore Morelli *Giuseppe Porelli as Don Raffaele Scotto * Leila Calabrese as Governante di Don Raffaele * Dante and Beniamino Maggio as Pasquale and Nicola * Amalia Pellegrini as Amalia * Vittorio Bottone * Salvatore Cafiero * Arturo Gigliati * Luigi De Simone References Bibliography * Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. ''Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
