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Anita Durante
Anita Durante (28 September 1897 – 2 May 1994) was an Italian actress. Born Anita Bianchi in Rome into a humble family, after attending a dramatic society for several years Durante made her official debut on stage in 1919, in Ettore Petrolini's ''Romani de Roma''. Married with the actor Checco Durante, she stayed with the Petrolini's stage company nine years, then she formed a company with her husband. Also active in films, where she is best remembered as the Alberto Sordi's mother in ''Un americano a Roma'', Durante was active on stage until 1992. She died in 1994, aged 96, following an accidental fall from the balcony of her home, while cleaning the windows. Partial filmography * ''Scampolo'' (1941) - La proprietaria della stireria * '' The Last Wagon'' (1943) - Adele Urbani * ''Peddlin' in Society'' (1946) - Caterina (uncredited) * ''Fatalità'' (1947) - Adele * ''Cavalcade of Heroes'' (1950) * '' The Two Sisters'' (1950) - Agatina * ''The Ungrateful Heart'' (1951) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Checco Durante
Francesco "Checco" Durante (19 November 1893 – 5 January 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 59 films between 1931 and 1973. He was born and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * '' The Doctor in Spite of Himself'' (1931) * ''The Amnesiac'' (1936) - L'allenatore Marinoni * ''The Ferocious Saladin'' (1937) - Direttore del Teatro Vittoria * ''The Castiglioni Brothers'' (1937) - L'oste * ''I due barbieri'' (1937) * ''The Black Corsair'' (1938) - Carmeau - Korsar * ''Duetto vagabondo'' (1939) * ''Il piccolo re'' (1939) * ''La scuola dei timidi'' (1941) * ''Perdizione'' (1942) - Il padrone dell'autorimessa * ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1942) - Il commendator Biondelli * ''Don Juan'' (1942) * ''Signorinette'' (1942) - Il padre di Iris * ''Il treno crociato'' (1943) - Il capo cuoco (uncredited) * ''L'innocente Casimiro'' (1945) * ''Down with Misery'' (1945) - Il fattorino del radiogrammofono * ''The Sun Still Rises'' (1946) * ''Peddlin' in Society'' (1946) - Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angels Of Darkness
''Angels of Darkness'' (Italian: ''Donne proibite'') is a 1954 Italian melodrama film directed by Giuseppe Amato and starring Linda Darnell, Anthony Quinn and Valentina Cortese. The film's sets were designed by the art director Virgilio Marchi. Plot A brothel is suddenly closed as a prostitute, Tamara, attempts suicide by throwing herself out of the window; she is admitted to the hospital in serious condition. Three of her colleagues, Vally, Franca and Lola, are forced to ask for hospitality from Rosa, who has long since abandoned the profession and now has a nice apartment. Vally wants to change her life and meets Francesco from Abruzzo. They decide to get married, but since the man has to emigrate, they resort to a marriage by proxy. When the young man discovers his troubled past about him, he reproaches it; the woman escapes from despair and goes to meet a tragic death. Tamara, physically damaged, after her hospitalization, has a mystical crisis and will be welcomed in an in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adorabili E Bugiarde
''Adorabili e bugiarde'' (also known as ''Adorable and a Liar'') is a 1958 Italian comedy film directed by Nunzio Malasomma. Plot Three beautiful girls, a model, a journalist and a painter, eager for celebrity at all costs, decide to stage a fake murder to attract the attention of the press. At some point, one of them really disappears, being found only after many vicissitudes. The three young women understand that it is better to live a quiet life far from the spotlight. Cast *Isabelle Corey: Anna Pelti *Ingeborg Schöner: Paola Brini *Eloisa Cianni: Marisa Dalli *Franco Fabrizi: Geronti * Paolo Ferrari: Carlo *Nino Manfredi: Mario *Rick Battaglia: Giorgio Pitagora *Roberto Risso: Gino Gorni *Franco Silva: police commissioner *Loris Gizzi: court clerk *Enrico Glori: Donatello *Carlo Tamberlani: chief editor *Lauro Gazzolo: president of the tribunal *Edoardo Toniolo: instruction judge *Manlio Busoni: public attorney *Carlo Delle Piane: Nasone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladro Lui, Ladra Lei
''Ladro lui, ladra lei'' is a 1958 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa. Starring Alberto Sordi and Sylva Koscina, it tells the story of a young woman in Rome who is first sucked into a life of crime by a released convict and then has an awakening of conscience. Plot From a poor district beside the railway tracks, Cesira tries to earn a living as an ill-paid salesgirl but will not accept the male advances that go with the job. Back into her life breezes Cencio, a career criminal who is just out of jail and looking for new opportunities. He tries blackmailing all of Cesira's former employers who have forced their attentions on her, and from one of them steals an expensive watch. This he gives to Cesira as a present but she, needing money not useless ostentation, sells it to a jeweller who is also a notorious fence. Cencio dresses as a policeman, arrests the jeweller, empties his safe, and takes him to jail. The man gets 10 years for his crimes. Cesira's last employer, Raim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Prezzo Della Gloria
''Il prezzo della gloria'' is a 1955 Italian war film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti. Plot The story takes place on the torpedo boat Sparviero and focuses on the disagreement between the unit commander, Alberto Bruni, and his first officer, Lieutenant Stefano Valli, second in command. But the commander is wounded, and then his collaborator concludes the dangerous mission alone. Cast *Gabriele Ferzetti: Comm. Alberto Bruni *Dina Perbellini: Aunt Dora *Pierre Cressoy:Lt. Stefano Valli *Nino Marchetti: Ruggero's father *Anita Durante: Aunt Bettina *Mike Bongiorno: Ruggero Grimaldi * Fiorella Mari: Luisa * Riccardo Garrone: Morabito * Liliana Gerace: Ms. Sandri *Eleonora Rossi Drago Eleonora Rossi Drago, born Palmira Omiccioli, (23 September 1925 – 2 December 2007) was an Italian film actress. She was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy, and had the leading role in '' Le amiche''. She appeared in ''Un maledetto imbr ... References External links * 1955 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Courier Of Moncenisio (1956 Film)
''The Courier of Moncenisio'' ( it, Il vetturale del Moncenisio) is a 1954 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Roldano Lupi, Virna Lisi and Arnoldo Foà. It is the last of three film adaptation of the 1852 novel '' Jean le Coucher'' by Jean Bouchardy. Plot Nineteenth century. A woman, believing she has been widowed by her carrier husband, remarries a noble. He is actually plotting to get hold of a large inheritance, but he gets caught and kills himself. At this point, the woman's first husband, believed dead, reappears and rejoins the family. Cast References External links * ''The Cuorier of Moncenisio''at Variety Distribution Variety Distribution is an Italian-based film distribution company. It distributes Italian films worldwide, produced from the 1930s onward. History Variety Distribution (formerly Variety Film and Variety Communications) has been in the film p ... 1954 films Italian historical drama films 1950s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bigamist (1956 Film)
''The Bigamist'' ( it, Il bigamo) is a 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Luciano Emmer. Plot Mario De Santis, an enterprising trade representative who sells toothpastes, regularly married to Valeria, sees his life upset by the accusation of being bigamous. Accompanied to the police station, he is confronted with a certain Isolina Fornaciari, whom he would have married in Forlimpopoli a few years earlier. Mario, furious at the accusation, goes into de facto ways with Isolina's father, with whom he has a fight so much that he is put under arrest. Moreover, no one seems to believe in his innocence, not even his wife, who lets herself be negatively influenced by her sister and the family lawyer. When Mario is granted bail, his case is entrusted to an eccentric prince of the forum, talkative and extravagant. A friend of Mario's, met in prison, realizes that it could be a case of the same name and sets out to travel all over Rome in search of Isolina's real husband. When he finds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Tales (film)
''Roman Tales'' ( it, Racconti romani) is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Gianni Franciolini. It is based on several short stories collected in ''Racconti romani'' by Alberto Moravia. The film won two David di Donatello Awards, for best director and best producer. Plot In Rome, during the Fifties, three boys attempt to commit a robbery. They're Mario, Alvaro and Otello, aided by a trickster, Professor Semprini, who claims to be a great intellectual. In reality the man is just the garbage boy of the upright lawyer Mazzoni Baralla, who goes on the trail of the three boys as soon as they attempt the shot. Indeed, Alvaro, Mario and Otello are arrested, after being deceived by Semprini, who demands from them a payment for the design of the plan. In fact the three first attempt to pass off counterfeit notes, then pretend to be guards from the vice squad in Villa Borghese. After the arrest and acquittal, the three decide to return to their old and simple jobs. Cast * Totò: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Hero Of Our Times
''A Hero of Our Times'' ( it, Un eroe dei nostri tempi) is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Alberto Sordi. Plot Alberto is an employee who is the Italian average of society of the Fifties. Alberto is a go-getter, attached only to his work, and believes that everyone meets him wants to bring Alberto bad luck. Alberto refuses every contact with other people, but soon finds himself caught in misunderstandings and so the people, to take revenge on him and his meanness, force him to change his identity. Cast * Alberto Sordi as Alberto Menichetti * Franca Valeri as Vedova De Ritis * Giovanna Ralli as Marcella * Tina Pica as Clotilde * Mario Carotenuto as Gustavo * Leopoldo Trieste as Aurelio * Alberto Lattuada as * Bud Spencer as Fernando (as Carlo Pedersoli) * Pina Bottin as Secretary * Lina Bonivento as Aunt Giovanna * Mino Doro as Prof. Bracci * Giulio Calì Giulio Calì (26 March 1895 – 20 January 1967) was an Italian film actor. He a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sign Of Venus
''The Sign of Venus'' ( it, Il segno di Venere) is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi and starring Sophia Loren. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Plot The story revolves around an attractive woman named Agnese (Loren) who has many suitors. She lives with her cousin Cesira (Franca Valeri), who has the opposite problem with men. Vittorio De Sica plays a poet in need of money and Alberto Sordi plays a man who deals in stolen cars. Cast * Franca Valeri as Cesira * Sophia Loren as Agnese Tirabassi * Vittorio De Sica as Alessio Spano * Peppino De Filippo as Mario * Alberto Sordi as Romolo Proietti * Raf Vallone as Ignazio Bolognini Vigile del fuoco * Virgilio Riento as Agnese's father * Tina Pica as Zia Tina * Lina Gennari as Signora Pina * Eloisa Cianni as Daisy * Leopoldo Trieste as Pittore * Maurizio Arena as Maurice * Franco Fantasia as Dottore * Marcella Rovena as Elvira * Mario Meniconi as Vigile Urbano * Furio Meniconi as Proprietario del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An American In Rome
''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 effe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guai Ai Vinti
''Guai ai vinti'' (''Woe to the Vanquished Ones'') is a 1954 Italian melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. It is based on the novel ''Vae Victis'' by Annie Vivanti. Plot During the First World War the Italian front at Caporetto is overwhelmed by an attack of adverse troops. Luisa and her sister Clara remain in their villa, prisoners of the Austrians. They are forced to undergo all sorts of violence, so that Mirella, the little daughter of Luisa, lost the use of the word following the trauma. Cast * Lea Padovani: Luisa * Anna Maria Ferrero: Clara * Pierre Cressoy: Franco * Clelia Matania: Teresa * Camillo Pilotto: Bonechi * Gualtiero Tumiati: Don Marzi * Rolf Tasna: Claudio * Paola Quattrini: Mirella * Giulio Ottavi: Giovanni * Emilio Cigoli: Pietro * Mario Del Monaco: Mario Abbate * Marcella Rovena: Countess Amelia * Isa Querio: Miss Bonechi * Bianca Doria: Contadina nel granaio * Teresa Franchini: Contadina nel granaio * Anita Durante: Popolana * Irene Cefaro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |