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Cele Abba
Cele Abba (25 May 1906 – 1 January 1992) was an Italian actress, sister of actress Marta Abba. She was born in Milan, Italy. Biography Her career experienced some reflected light, conditioned by the great popularity obtained by her older sister, the famous Marta, muse of Luigi Pirandello. Second daughter of the merchant Pompeo Abba and Giuseppina Trabucchi, she made her debut on the theater stage next to her sister who wanted her by her side for the 1927–1928 season in the Pirandelliana Company directed by the famous writer and playwright Luigi Pirandello. In the 1929–1930 season, she had roles as the second woman in the Za-Bum Theater Company directed by Mario Mattoli and in the following one, 1930–1931, she performed in company with Renzo Ricci, Irma Gramatica and Luigi Carini. In the summer of 1931, she performed in the theatrical staging of Campo di Maggio, written and directed by Giovacchino Forzano. In the 1932–1933 season she acted with Ruggero Ruggeri and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has 3.26 million inhabitants. Its continuously built-up urban area (whose outer suburbs extend well beyond the boundaries of the administrative metropolitan city and even stretch into the nearby country of Switzerland) is the fourth largest in the EU with 5.27 million inhabitants. According to national sources, the population within the wider Milan metropolitan area (also known as Greater Milan), is estimated between 8.2 million and 12.5 million making it by far the largest metropolitan area in Italy and one of the largest in the EU.* * * * Milan is considered a leading alpha global city, with strengths in the fields of art, chemicals, commerce, design, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruggero Ruggeri
Ruggero Ruggeri (14 November 1871 – 20 July 1953) was an Italian stage and film actor. Ruggeri was a celebrated theatre actor, appearing alongside Lyda Borelli on stage in 1909.Dalle Vacche p.260 From 1914 onward he sporadically made films in both the silent and sound eras. Selected filmography * ''Hamlet'' (1917) * ''The Prince of the Impossible'' (1918) * '' The Beautiful Wife'' (1924) * '' Queen of the Night'' (1931) * '' The Widow'' (1939) * ''The Document'' (1939) * '' The Betrothed'' (1941) * ''Jealousy'' (1942) * ''Vanity'' (1947) * ''The Temptress'' (1952) * ''The Little World of Don Camillo'' (1952, voice) * ''The Return of Don Camillo ''The Return of Don Camillo'' (Italian: ''Il ritorno di Don Camillo''; French: ''Le Retour de don Camillo'') is a 1953 French-Italian comedy film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Fernandel, Gino Cervi and Édouard Delmont. The film's set ...'' (1953, voice) References External links * Bibliography * Dalle Vacche, Angela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 Deaths
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1906 Births
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Italian Film Actresses
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Red Passport
''Red Passport'' (Italian: ''Passaporto rosso'') is a 1935 Italian historical drama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Isa Miranda, Filippo Scelzo and Ugo Ceseri. A group of Italian immigrants to South America join in a revolution. It was shot at the Cines Studios in Rome and on location at Sabaudia in Lazio. The film's sets were designed by the art director Guido Fiorini. The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini watched the film, and ordered some scenes to be altered as he felt the film was providing an example of revolutionary techniques to potential enemies of his Fascist regime.Gundle p.35 Partial cast * Isa Miranda as Maria Brunetti * Filippo Scelzo as Lorenzo Casati * Ugo Ceseri as Antonio Spinelli * Giulio Donadio as Don Pancho Rivera * Tina Lattanzi as Giulia Martini * Federico Collino as Luigi Martini * Olga Pescatori as Manuela Martini * Mario Pisu as Gianni Casati * Oreste Fares as Andrea Brunetti * Mario Ferrari as Don Pablo Ramirez * Carlo Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Haller Case
''The Haller Case'' (Italian: ''Il caso Haller'') is a 1933 Italian thriller film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Marta Abba, Memo Benassi and Camillo Pilotto.Brizio-Skov p.54 The film is based on the 1893 play '' Der Andere'' by Paul Lindau. It marked the screen debut of Isa Miranda, who had her breakthrough role the following year in ''Everybody's Woman'' and emerged as the most international-renowned Italian actress of the decade. It was shot at the Cines Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Arnaldo Foresti and Alfredo Montori. Cast * Marta Abba as La Rossa * Memo Benassi as Judge Haller * Camillo Pilotto as Gang's leader * Vittorio Vaser as Gang member * Isa Miranda as Badwoman * Cele Abba * Ugo Ceseri * Vasco Creti * Natalia Murray Danesi * Egisto Olivieri * Umberto Sacripante Other film versions * ''The Other'' (January 1913, Germany, directed by Max Mack) * ''The Other'' (August 1930, Germany, directed by Robert Wien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Almirante
Luigi Almirante (30 September 1884 – 6 May 1963) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in 62 films between 1921 and 1955. Life and career The son of a stage actor, Almirante was born in Tunis, where the theatrical company of his father was touring at the time. He debuted on stage aged 14 years old.Roberta Ascarelli. "Almirante, Luigi". ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', Volume 34. Treccani, 1988. Active in humorous roles since 1907, Almirante had his acting breakthrough in 1909 with the "Grand Guignol" stage company directed by . During the World War I, he served at the Soldier's Theatre in Udine, under Renato Simoni. After the war, he was part of the Antonio Gandusio company for three years, and then joined the Theater Company Niccodemi, staying there until 1923.Roberta Ascarelli. "Almirante, Luigi". ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', Volume 34. Treccani, 1988. In 1925 Almirante formed with his cousin Italia Almirante Manzini a stage compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt (; born Maximilian Goldmann; 9 September 1873 – 30 October 1943) was an Austrian-born Theatre director, theatre and film director, theater manager, intendant, and theatrical producer. With his innovative stage productions, he is regarded as one of the most prominent directors of German-language theatre in the early 20th century. In 1920, he established the Salzburg Festival with the performance of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's ''Jedermann (play), Jedermann''. Life and career Reinhardt was born Maximilian Goldmann in the spa town of Baden bei Wien, Baden near Vienna, the son of Wilhelm Goldmann (1846–1911), a History of the Jews in Austria, Jewish merchant from Stupava, Slovakia, Stupava, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and his wife Rachel Lea Rosi "Rosa" Goldmann (''née'' Wengraf; 1851–1924). Having finished school, he began an apprenticeship at a bank, but already took acting lessons. In 1890, he gave his debut on a private stage in Vienna with the stage name ''Max ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovacchino Forzano
Giovacchino Forzano (; 19 November 1884 – 28 October 1970) was an Italian playwright, librettist, stage and film director. A resourceful writer, he authored numerous popular plays and produced opera librettos for most of the major Italian composers of the early twentieth century, including the librettos for Giacomo Puccini's ''Suor Angelica'' and ''Gianni Schicchi''.Julian Budden: "Giovacchino Forzano", ''Grove Music Online'' ed. L. Macy (Accessed 4 March 2009)(subscription access)/ref> Biography Forzano was born in Borgo San Lorenzo, in the province of Florence. He studied medicine before embarking on a brief career as an operatic baritone. He then began studying law and, after finishing his diploma, became a freelance journalist, contributing regularly to several of Italy's major newspapers. In 1914 he met and befriended Puccini who asked him to write the librettos for his ''Il trittico'', a collection of three one-act operas. Forzano agreed to write the librettos for two o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lombardy
Lombardy ( it, Lombardia, Lombard language, Lombard: ''Lombardia'' or ''Lumbardia' '') is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in the northern-central part of the country and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population. Over a fifth of the Italian gross domestic product (GDP) is produced in the region. The Lombardy region is located between the Alps mountain range and tributaries of the Po river, and includes Milan, the largest metropolitan area in the country, and among the largest in the European Union (EU). Of the fifty-eight UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy, eleven are in Lombardy. Virgil, Pliny the Elder, Ambrose, Gerolamo Cardano, Caravaggio, Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Stradivari, Cesare Beccaria, Alessandro Volta and Alessandro Manzoni; and popes Pope John XXIII, John XXIII and Pope Paul VI, Paul VI originated in the area of modern-day Lombardy region. Etymology The name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Carini
is a fictional character featured in video games and related media released by Nintendo. Created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, Luigi is portrayed as the younger fraternal twin brother and sidekick of Mario, Nintendo's mascot. Luigi appears in many games throughout the ''Mario'' franchise, oftentimes accompanying his brother. Luigi first appeared in the 1983 Game & Watch game ''Mario Bros.'', where he is the character controlled by the second player. He would retain this role in many future games, including ''Mario Bros.'', ''Super Mario Bros.'', '' Super Mario Bros. 3'', ''Super Mario World'', among other titles. He was first available as a primary character in ''Super Mario Bros. 2''. In more recent appearances, Luigi's role became increasingly restricted to spinoffs, such as the ''Mario Party'' and ''Mario Kart'' series; however, he has been featured in a starring role in '' Luigi's Hammer Toss'', ''Mario is Missing'', ''Luigi's Mansion'', '' Luigi's Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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