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Bella Starace Sainati
Bella Starace Sainati (June 2, 1878 – August 4, 1958) was an Italian stage and film actress.Goble p.190 Selected filmography * '' The Two Mothers'' (1938) * ''Naples Will Never Die'' (1939) * '' Goodbye Youth'' (1940) * ''Inspector Vargas'' (1940) * '' Saint John, the Beheaded'' (1940) * '' The Sinner'' (1940) * ''First Love'' (1941) * '' The Secret Lover'' (1941) * '' Carmela'' (1942) * ''Jealousy'' (1942) * ''Signorinette'' (1942) * ''Odessa in Flames'' (1942) * ''The Ten Commandments'' (1945) * '' Farewell, My Beautiful Naples'' (1946) * '' Bullet for Stefano'' (1947) * '' Fury'' (1947) * '' Vertigine d'amore'' (1949) * '' Il voto'' (1950) * ''His Last Twelve Hours'' (1951) * '' Cameriera bella presenza offresi...'' (1951) * ''The City Stands Trial ''The City Stands Trial'' ( it, Processo alla città) is a 1952 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Amedeo Nazzari, is based on a revisiting of the Cuocolo murders and the struggle for control of Naples b ...
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Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. Its province-level municipality is the third-most populous metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 3,115,320 residents, and its metropolitan area stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately 20 miles. Founded by Greeks in the first millennium BC, Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in the world. In the eighth century BC, a colony known as Parthenope ( grc, Παρθενόπη) was established on the Pizzofalcone hill. In the sixth century BC, it was refounded as Neápolis. The city was an important part of Magna Graecia, played a major role in the merging of Greek and Roman society, and was a significant cultural centre under the Romans. Naples served a ...
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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 * ...
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1958 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles. ** Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls to Earth from its orbit, and burns up. * January 13 – Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol. * January 27 – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the " Lacy–Zarubin Agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C. * January 31 – The first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, is launched into orbit. February * February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite, to form the United Arab Republic. * February 6 – Seven Manchester United footballers are among the 21 people killed in the Munich air disaster in West G ...
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1878 Births
Events January–March * January 5 – Russo-Turkish War – Battle of Shipka Pass IV: Russian and Bulgarian forces defeat the Ottoman Empire. * January 9 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy. * January 17 – Battle of Philippopolis: Russian troops defeat the Turks. * January 23 – Benjamin Disraeli orders the British fleet to the Dardanelles. * January 24 – Russian revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, Governor of Saint Petersburg. * January 28 – ''The Yale News'' becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States. * January 31 – Turkey agrees to an armistice at Adrianople. * February 2 – Greece declares war on the Ottoman Empire. * February 7 – Pope Pius IX dies, after a 31½ year reign (the longest definitely confirmed). * February 8 – The British fleet enters Turkish waters, and anchors off Istanbul; Russia threatens to occupy Istanbul, but does not carry out the threat. * Febru ...
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The City Stands Trial
''The City Stands Trial'' ( it, Processo alla città) is a 1952 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Amedeo Nazzari, is based on a revisiting of the Cuocolo murders and the struggle for control of Naples by the Camorra in the early 1900s. It is considered to be Zampa's most accomplished film.Moliterno, '' The A to Z of Italian Cinema''p. 342/ref> It was entered into the 3rd Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Amedeo Nazzari as Judge Spicacci * Silvana Pampanini as Liliana Ferrari * Paolo Stoppa as Perrone * Dante Maggio as Armando Capezzuto * Franco Interlenghi as Luigi Esposito * Irène Galter as Nunziata * Gualtiero Tumiati as Consigliere Capo * Rino Genovese as Mimì * Tina Pica as Restaurant's cook * Turi Pandolfini as Don Filippetti * Mariella Lotti as Elena * Franca Tamantini * Bella Starace Sainati * Agostino Salvietti Agostino Salvietti (28 August 1882 - 2 December 1967) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1924 to ...
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His Last Twelve Hours
''His Last Twelve Hours'' (French: ''Pour l'amour du ciel'', Italian: ''È più facile che un cammello...'') is a 1951 French-Italian drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Jean Gabin, Mariella Lotti and Elli Parvo. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. It was shot at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia near Cinecittà in Rome.Chiti & Poppi p.139 Plot Died in a car accident, the wealthy footwear industrialist Carlo Bacchi finds himself in the afterlife, where he is condemned to hell for having committed evil when he was alive. Defending himself from the accusation in a passionate harangue, however, he manages to get back to earth for a few hours, in order to repair the evil committed and above all the bad deed that caused Amedeo Santini's attempted suicide. Cast * Jean Gabin as Carlo Bacchi * Mariella Lotti as Margot, Bacchi's wife * Julien Carette as Amedeo Santini * Elli Parvo as Lidia Guidi, Bacchi's friend * Antonella Lualdi as Mari ...
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Vertigine D'amore
''Vertigine d'amore'' (french: Le Pain des pauvres) is a 1949 Italian-French melodrama film directed by Luigi Capuano. Cast * Gabriele Ferzetti * Gabrielle Fontan * Folco Lulli - Luca / France: Romain Toucas * Piero Lulli - Olivero / France: Ollivier Desmichels * Marcello Mastroianni * Livia Muguet - Gina * Elli Parvo - Silvana Resplanton / France: Sylvaine Resplandin * Jone Salinas - Fifi' * Bella Starace Sainati - Lucia / France: Louisa * Charles Vanel - Mugnaio Resplanton / France: Emile Resplandin References External links *''Vertigine d'amore''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 ... 1949 films 1940s Italian-language films French black-and-white films Films directed by Luigi Capuano Italian black-and-white films Pathé films Mel ...
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Fury (1947 Film)
''Fury'' (Italian: ''Furia'') is a 1947 Italian melodrama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Isa Pola, Rossano Brazzi and Gino Cervi. The film was remade in 1957 as ''Wild Is the Wind'', Anna Magnani's second Hollywood role.Dick p.144 Loosely based on Giovanni Verga's novel '' La lupa'', it is a melodrama set in the horsebreeding community. Cast * Isa Pola as Clara * Rossano Brazzi as Antonio * Gino Cervi as Oreste * Adriana Benetti as Marietta * Checco Durante as Postman * Paolo Ferrara as Doctor * Camillo Pilotto as Priest * Cesare Polacco as Lawyer * Umberto Spadaro as Rocco * Bella Starace Sainati as Priest's Sister * Attilio Torelli * Pina Piovani Pina Piovani (20 March 1897 – 2 January 1955) was an Italian stage and film actress.Bìspuri p.126 She was married to the actor Giulio Battiferri. Partial filmography * ''Napule... e niente cchiù'' (1928) - Paquita - stella del varietá * ' ... * Armando Guarnieri References Bibliograp ...
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Bullet For Stefano
''Bullet for Stefano'' ( it, Il Passatore, also known as ''The Ferryman'') is a 1947 Italian adventure-drama-crime film written and directed by Duilio Coletti and starring Rossano Brazzi and Valentina Cortese. It is loosely based on real-life events of Stefano Pelloni (1824-1851), an Italian highwayman known as "Il Passatore". It grossed 146.2 million lire at the Italian box office. Plot Cast *Rossano Brazzi as Stefano Pelloni *Valentina Cortese as Barbara Montanari *Carlo Ninchi as Don Morini *Camillo Pilotto as Count Gigiazzo Ghilardi * Liliana Laine as Countess Isolina Ghilardi * Carlo Campanini as Peppino *Gualtiero Tumiati as Stefano's Father * Bella Starace Sainati as Stefano's Mother *Giovanni Grasso as Lazzarini *Folco Lulli as The Monk *Alberto Sordi as Innamorato * Carlo Tamberlani as Maresciallo Borghi *Pupella Maggio as Marta *Franco Balducci as Giacomo * Enrico Luzi as Poor Student *Memmo Carotenuto Memmo Carotenuto (23 August 1908 – 23 D ...
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Farewell, My Beautiful Naples (1946 Film)
''Farewell, My Beautiful Naples'' (Italian: ''Addio, mia bella Napoli!'') is a 1946 Italian musical melodrama film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Fosco Giachetti, Vera Carmi and Clelia Matania.Brunetta p.111 It is based on a 1910 play which had previously been made into a 1917 silent film of the same title. Location shooting took place around Naples, including at Pompeii, Amalfi and Capri. Synopsis In Naples, a local composer falls in love with an American tourist. Cast * Fosco Giachetti as Carlo Sanna, composer * Vera Carmi as Roberta Sullivan * Clelia Matania as Yvonne de Fleurette * Paolo Stoppa as Ruocco * Bella Starace Sainati Bella Starace Sainati (June 2, 1878 – August 4, 1958) was an Italian stage and film actress.Goble p.190 Selected filmography * '' The Two Mothers'' (1938) * ''Naples Will Never Die'' (1939) * '' Goodbye Youth'' (1940) * ''Inspector Vargas'' ... * Lidia Drutskoy * Franco Pesce References Bibliography * Brunetta, Gian Piero. ...
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