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Bread, Love And Dreams
''Bread, Love and Dreams'' ( it, Pane, amore e fantasia) is a 1953 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. At the 4th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Silver Bear award. Plot The film is set in Sagliena, an imaginary small town in central Italy; Marshal Antonio Carotenuto, an elderly womanizer who will have to adapt to the monotonous and quiet life of the village, is transferred here immediately after the war. Supported by the maid Caramella, the marshal runs the local police station. Here he meets "Pizzicarella la Bersagliera", a young local girl secretly in love with the carabiniere Stelluti. At first the marshal tries to get engaged to the "Bersagliera", as Paoletta, the sacristan of the parish, is in love with the carabiniere Stelluti, but the latter is actually in love with the Bersagliera and wants her mother to know her. So, thanks to the intervention of Don Emidio, who informs the marshal, Stelluti and the Bersagliera get engaged while the m ...
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Luigi Comencini
Luigi Comencini (; 8 June 1916 – 6 April 2007)
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Vittoria Crispo
Vittoria Crispo (1 May 1900 – 24 December 1973) was an Italian film and television actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), ....Bìspuri p.147 Filmography References Bibliography * Ennio Bìspuri. ''Totò: principe clown : tutti i film di Totò''. Guida Editori, 1997. External links * 1900 births 1973 deaths Italian film actresses Italian television actresses Actresses from Naples {{Italy-screen-actor-stub ...
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1953 Romantic Comedy Films
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1950s Italian-language Films
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Italian Black-and-white Films
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1953 Films
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1953 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 16 – A new Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. is incorporated following a Consent Judgment to divest their Stanley Warner Theaters. * February 5 – Walt Disney's production of J.M. Barrie's ''Peter Pan'', starring Bobby Driscoll and Kathryn Beaumont, premieres to astounding acclaim from critics and audiences and quickly becomes one of the most beloved Disney films. This is the last Disney animated movie released in partnership RKO Pictures, becoming the last ever smash hit movie of the later company before it bankrupted in 1959. * July 1 – ''Stalag 17'', directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden, premieres and is considered by the critics and audiences to be one of the greatest WWII Prisoner of War films ever made. Holden wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the ...
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Barney Fife
Bernard "Barney" Fife is a fictional character in the American television program ''The Andy Griffith Show'', portrayed by comic actor Don Knotts. Barney Fife is a deputy sheriff in the slow-paced, sleepy southern community of Mayberry, North Carolina. He appeared in the first five seasons (1960–65) as a main character, and, after leaving the show towards the end of season five, made a few guest appearances in the following three color seasons (1965–68). He also appeared in the first episode of the spin-off series ''Mayberry R.F.D.'' (1968–1971), and in the 1986 reunion television film ''Return to Mayberry''. Additionally, Barney appeared in the '' Joey Bishop Show'' episode "Joey's Hideaway Cabin", and, unnamed, in the first episode of ''The New Andy Griffith Show''. In 1999, ''TV Guide'' ranked him ninth on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. Production history According to Andy Griffith, the character of Barney Fife was suggested by Don Knotts himself. At ...
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The Andy Griffith Show
''The Andy Griffith Show '' is an American situation comedy television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1960, to April 1, 1968, with a total of 249 half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons—159 in black and white and 90 in color. The series originated partly from an episode of ''The Danny Thomas Show.'' The show stars Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor, the widowed sheriff of Mayberry, North Carolina, a fictional community of roughly 2,000–5,000 people. Other major characters include Andy's cousin, the well-meaning and enthusiastic deputy, Barney Fife ( Don Knotts); Andy's aunt and housekeeper, Bee Taylor (Frances Bavier); and Andy's young son, Opie (Ron Howard). Eccentric townspeople and, periodically, Andy's girlfriends complete the cast. Regarding the tone of the show, Griffith said that despite a contemporary setting, the show evoked nostalgia, saying in a ''Today'' interview, "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of th ...
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Bread, Love And Andalusia
''Bread, Love and Andalusia'' (Italian: ''Pane, amore e Andalusia'', Spanish: ''Pan, amor y Andalucía'') is a 1958 Italian-Spanish comedy film directed by Javier Setó and starring Carmen Sevilla, Vittorio De Sica and Vicente Parra.Bentley p.142 De Sica reprises his role as the Carabinieri officer Carotenuto from ''Bread, Love and Dreams''. He travels to Seville where he falls in love with a beautiful young dancer. Plot A commander of the municipal police of Sorrento (Italy) and director of the music band, makes a trip to Seville to appear at a festival, there he falls in love with a young singer and dancer. Cast * Carmen Sevilla as Carmen García * Vittorio De Sica as Maresciallo Carotenuto * Vicente Parra as Paco * Peppino De Filippo as Peppino * Lea Padovani as Donna Violante Ruotolo * Pastora Imperio as Maestra de baile * Mario Carotenuto as Don Matteo Carotenuto * Josefina Serratosa as Tía de Carmen * Jacinto San Emeterio * Carmen Sánchez as Tía de ...
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Sophia Loren
Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (; born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren ( , ), is an Italian actress. She was named by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest female stars of Classical Hollywood cinema. As of 2022, she is one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema and is the only remaining living person to appear on the AFI's list of the 25 greatest female stars of American film history, positioned at number 21. Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career at age sixteen in 1950. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career. Her film appearances around this time include ''The Pride and the Passion'', '' Houseboat'', and ''It Started in Naples''. During the 1950s, she starred in films as a sexually emancipated persona ...
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Scandal In Sorrento
''Scandal in Sorrento'' (original title ''Pane, amore e...'') is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. This is the third film of the trilogy, formed by ''Bread, Love and Dreams'' in 1953, ''Bread, Love and Jealousy'' in 1954. Innovations include the use of color rather than black and white, as well the location of Sorrento instead of the small village of the previous films of the series. At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Honorable Mention (Best Humorous Film) award. Plot In this Italian romantic comedy set in the beautiful Bay of Naples, Marshal Antonio Carotenuto arrives back in his home town of Sorrento to take care of the local municipal police. Donna Sofia, an attractive fishmonger, has rented the home from the marshal who wants to reclaim his home. The woman refuses to leave but almost accepts marriage to Antonio almost as a joke to make Nicolino, a fisherman who she is genuinely in love with, jealous. She goes along with the marshal's cou ...
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Pane, Amore E Gelosia
''Bread, Love and Jealousy'' ( it, Pane, amore e gelosia), known as ''Frisky'' in the US, is a 1954 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. It is the second part of the Italian trilogy, preceded by ''Bread, Love and Dreams'' and followed by ''Scandal in Sorrento''. Plot Antonio (Vittorio De Sica) is in love with the midwife Annarella (Marisa Merlini), knowing that she has a son. Both of them are in love with each other, until the father of the kid, who also serves in the military, appears and, with the help of the priest Don Emidio (Virgilio Riento), is reunited with his son. Having to spend the next twenty months far from the village, Pietro (Roberto Risso) asks the marshal to take care of Maria (Gina Lollobrigida). Despite not being happy to spend time with the captain, because of her poverty and her need to collect the dowry, she goes to serve at the marshal’s house, since his maid, Caramella (Tina Pica), is ill. The villagers start spreading gossips abou ...
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