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Bice Valori
Maria Bice Valori (13 May 1927 – 17 March 1980) was an Italian actress, comedian and television and radio personality. Life and career Born in Rome, Valori studied at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1948. The same year, she entered the stage company of the Piccolo Teatro of Rome directed by Orazio Costa. After playing in several classics, Valori specialized as a comedic actress, and had her main successes in the musical theatre genre, notably appearing in ''Rugantino'' and ''Aggiungi un posto a tavola''. In films, she was a very active character actress, mainly cast in humorous roles. Valori appeared often on television, as a comedian, a presenter and an actress in series and TV-movies of some success. She also had a consistent success on radio, in which she created the character of "Sora Bice", a shrewish RAI telephone operator. Valori often shared the scene with her husband, the actor and comedian Paolo Panelli, whom she had married in 1952. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianrico Tedeschi
Gianrico Tedeschi (20 April 1920 – 27 July 2020) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Life and career Born in Milan in April 1920, Tedeschi got a degree in pedagogy before enrolling at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art, which he abandoned after two years to make his professional debut with the Evi Maltagliati-Salvo Randone-Tino Carraro stage company. In the late 1940s he entered the Andreina Pagnani-Gino Cervi theatrical company, with whom he got his first personal success for his performance in the comedy play ''Quel signore che venne a pranzo''. He later worked intensively with Luchino Visconti and with the Piccolo Teatro directed by Giorgio Strehler. He also toured in the United States, the Soviet Union, Paris and London. In his variegated career, Tedeschi was very active as a voice actor, a dubber and a radio personality, and starting from the early 1950s he appeared in numerous films and TV series, even if often playing supporting roles. He appeared i ... [...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] |
Marriage (1954 Film)
''Marriage'' (Italian: ''Il matrimonio'') is a 1954 Italian historical comedy film directed by Antonio Petrucci and starring Vittorio De Sica, Silvana Pampanini and Alberto Sordi. It consists of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton Chekhov. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gianni Polidori. Plot Grisna Smirnov Vittorio De Sica courts Elena Silvana Pampanini with almost fatal results. Cast *Vittorio De Sica as Grisna Smirnov *Silvana Pampanini as Elena Ivanovna Popova *Alberto Sordi as Ivan Vassilievic Lomov *Valentina Cortese as Natalia *Renato Rascel as Revunov *Guglielmo Barnabò as Stefan Ciubucov *Bice Valori as Levatrice *Ave Ninchi as Nastasia *Carlo Sposito as Epaminonda Massinovich * Franco Scandurra as Andrej Andrejevich Niunin * Pina Bottin as Daschenka, la sposa * Nino Milano as Kharlampy Marshmallopolis, il mercante greco * Vittorina Benvenuti as Maria, la domestica d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siamo Tutti Inquilini
''Siamo tutti inquilini'' (literally: We are all tenants) is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Aldo Fabrizi. Production The film is a 98 minute black and white that was produced for Documento. Plot Anna has been since childhood the housemaid of an old lady, and has inherited from her a beautiful apartment. She now works in a cafe`, but struggles to keep up with the expenses of the luxurious housing complex. She is alone in the world and apart from her loving fiance Carlo, only the wise caretaker of the building Augusto shows her some fatherly affection. The greedy and tyrannical administrator of the building, the dentist Talloni, would like to exploit the financial difficulties of Anna to buy her out, offering through a figurehead to acquire the apartment much below its real value. Augusto and the lawyer Sassi figure out the scheme, and decide to defend Anna's interests. They first manage to delay for few days the official decision to force ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Folk's Sunday
''Good Folk's Sunday'' ( it, La domenica della buona gente) is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Anton Giulio Majano. Plot Several destinies are displayed as the soccer teams of Rome and Naples meet, with Sophia Loren in one of the episodes. Cast *Maria Fiore: Sandra * Sophia Loren: Ines *Renato Salvatori: Giulio *Vittorio Sanipoli: Conti *Ave Ninchi: Elvira * Alberto Talegalli: Clemente *Carlo Romano: Malesci * Mariolina Bovo: Marisa *Memmo Carotenuto: Amleto *Nino Manfredi: Lello *Turi Pandolfini: Priest *Piero Palermini: Pieri * Gisella Monaldi: Gisella *Alfredo Martinelli: Valli *Laura Tiberti: Maria *Eduardo Passarelli: Doorman * Nino Vingelli *Fiorenzo Fiorentini *Bice Valori *Rina Franchetti *Carlo Giuffrè Carlo Giuffrè (3 December 1928 – 1 November 2018) was an Italian stage, film and television actor and a stage director. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1942 and 2002. Biography Giuffrè was born in Naples, Italy and was the brothe ... * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inganno (film)
''Inganno'' is a 1952 Italian melodrama film directed by Guido Brignone. It stars Gabriele Ferzetti and Nadia Gray. Plot Anna is a policewoman, member of the female section of the Civil Police of the Free Territory of Trieste, she marries Andrea, a doctor with an unclear past but already during the honeymoon begins to have doubts especially after the chance meeting with a former lover of his. Back at work Anna has to investigate this adventurer who seems to be involved not only in drug trafficking but also in the white trade. Andrea is also involved in the investigation and is suspected of complicity, for this reason Anna decides to separate. Andrea, having failed every attempt to reconcile her, wants to go abroad and also asks for help from her ex-lover but then refuses to collaborate with her precisely because he does not want his wife's suspicions to become certainties. Meanwhile, Anna discovers she is pregnant and she would like to leave the police to form a family with A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Heart Sings
''My Heart Sings'' ( it, Anema e core) is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Ferruccio Tagliavini. Cast * Ferruccio Tagliavini - Marco * Franca Marzi - Gina * Riccardo Billi - Riccardo * Mario Riva - Mario * Carlo Campanini - Bossoli * Dorian Gray - Amica di Cocciaglia * Bice Valori - Liliana * Guglielmo Inglese - Brigadiere Bichetti * Giorgio Bixio - Avvocato Pelletti * Silvana Jachino - Cameriera * Alberto Sorrentino * Nino Manfredi - Enrico * Margherita Autuori - Elsa * Bruno Lanzarini - Commissario * Vera Carmi - Madre di Enrico * Carlo Romano - Commendator Russo * Adriana Montuori * Karl Ludwig Diehl - Neurologo * Loris Gizzi Loris Gizzi (16 August 1899 – 6 October 1986) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Life and career Born in Rome, after his university studies Gizzi attended a school of dance and singing. He abandoned the courses when he became an employee ... - Commendator Cocciaglia External links * 1951 films 1950s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Padrone Del Vapore
''The Steamship Owner'' (Italian: ''Il padrone del vapore'') is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Walter Chiari, Delia Scala and Carlo Campanini.Aprà p.101 The film's sets were designed by the art director Alberto Boccianti. Plot A rich American arrives in a little village in the mountains because he wants to advertise a drink he produces. In the village there are also two men from Rome who are at logger-heads with the locals. The coming of the American complicates matters. Cast * Walter Chiari as Himself * Delia Scala as Herself * Carlo Campanini as Mr. Carlo Peonio * Giovanna Pala as Trude * Mario Riva as Mario * Riccardo Billi as Riccardo * Bice Valori as Marga * Aldo Giuffré as Nicola * Carlo Giuffré as Finanziere * Raffaele Pisu as Pino * Gianrico Tedeschi as Pianista * Gisella Sofio as Coreografa * Alberto Sorrentino as Disegnatore * Aldo Bufi Landi as Finanziere napoletano * Anna Maestri as Cameriera dell'albergo * Enz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Hours Of Trouble
''Seven Hours of Trouble'' (Italian: ''Sette ore di guai'') is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Vittorio Metz and Marcello Marchesi and starring Totò, Isa Barzizza and Carlo Campanini.Goble p.958 Plot Toto De Pasquale (Toto) is the holder of a modest tailoring. The day of the baptism of his son, receives the visit of the Advocate Espinaci (Eduardo Passarelli), charge d'notice the seizure of his property because of a debt long overdue and unpaid. When the lawyer discovers that the wife of De Pasquale (Clelia Matania) is an old friend of his, he decides to postpone. Toto, to ingratiate himself further, he decides to do godfather, forgetting that he had already entrusted the task to brother Matthew (Nino Milano), incurable bully. A few minutes later Toto, the lawyer and Matthew discover that the nurse (Bice Valori) has lost the baby after a fight on the streets with her husband. Without saying anything to his wife, Toto goes to look for the child and, in order not to suspect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto The Third Man
''Toto the Third Man'' ( it, Totò terzo uomo) is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò. Plot In a small village Peter and Paul (both starring Toto), twin brothers of opposite characters, Peter, mayor of the town, is gruff, precise, picky all of a piece and never lets talk about his wife (Bice Valori), is totally different from his brother Paul, who loves the good life and beautiful women, such as the innkeeper's wife Oreste (Carlo Campanini) at the expense of his wife. The dispute between the two brothers is affecting the whole country, because the construction of the new prison, which will give bread and work for all, will be built on land owned by Paul and despite already there is a municipal resolution acquisition of land by part of the town, Peter refuses to carry out the transaction with his brother, blocking the start of work, because they are afraid you might think that makes favoritism to his brother. A groped to take advantage of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accidents To The Taxes!!
''Accidents to the Taxes!!'' ( it, Accidenti alle tasse!!) is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by and written by Mario Mattoli. Cast * Riccardo Billi as Gaetano Pellecchia * Mario Riva as Mario * Dorian Gray as Margot * Aroldo Tieri as Il principe Oli * Silvana Jachino as Signora Penna * as Teodoro Penna * Gisella Sofio as Silvia * Pina Renzi as Madame Costanza * Alberto Sorrentino as Arturo * Giuseppe Porelli as Il conte Raffaele Borraciolo * Anna Maestri as La signorina Colombi * Loris Gizzi as Il capufficcio tasse * Clara Bindi as Signora Martinelli * Pina Piovani as La guardiana del collegio 'Le Mimose' * Nietta Zocchi as Insegnante di francese * Liana Billi as Giovanna, moglie di Gaetano * Guglielmo Barnabò as Il gran khan * Enzo Garinei as Lo snob * Nico Pepe Nico Pepe (19 January 1917 – 13 August 1987) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1936 and 1981. Selected filmography * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1936) * ''The Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
