Count Max (1957 Film)
''Count Max'' (Italian:''Il conte Max'') is a 1957 Italian-Spanish comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica and Anne Vernon. It is a remake of the 1937 film ''Il signor Max'' in which De Sica had played the title role. This film was itself remade in 1991. A newspaper vendor masquerades as a count, falling in with a baroness and her wealthy, aristocratic friends. He believes he is love with her, but comes to realize he has more in common with her maid. The film's art direction was by Flavio Mogherini. Plot Alberto Boccetti, Roman newsagent in Via Veneto, is mistaken for Count Max Orsini Varaldo, a penniless nobleman and scrounger, while on vacation in Cortina (where he went instead of going on vacation to the village of Capracotta as desired by his uncle). Here he meets Baroness Elena di Villombrosa, who invites him to join the company of nobles, headed to Seville, but also meets their housekeeper Lauretta. In Seville, after contrac ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Giorgio Bianchi (director)
Giorgio Bianchi (18 February 1904 – 9 February 1967) was an Italian film director and actor. Selected filmography * '' Mother Earth'' (1931) * ''Resurrection'' (1931) * '' The Charmer'' (1931) * ''Before the Jury'' (1931) * ''The Blue Fleet'' (1932) * '' Two Happy Hearts'' (1932) * ''Five to Nil'' (1932) * ''Venus'' (1932) * ''Saint John, the Beheaded'' (1940) * ''A Little Wife'' (1943) * ''Crime News'' (1947) * ''Twenty Years'' (1949) * ''Hearts at Sea'' (1950) * '' Porca miseria'' (1951) * '' Il caimano del Piave'' (1951) * '' Amor non ho... però... però'' (1951) * '' The Enemy'' (1952) * ''The Shadow'' (1954) * ''Io piaccio'' (1955) * '' Buonanotte... avvocato!'' (1955) * '' Count Max'' (1957) * '' Vacations in Majorca'' (1959) * ''The Moralist'' (1959) * ''Le olimpiadi dei mariti'' (1960) * ''Femmine di lusso'' (1960) * '' The Orderly'' (1961) * ''Il mio amico Benito'' (1962) * '' Toto and Peppino Divided in Berlin'' (1962) * '' The Changing of the Guard'' (1962) * ''I ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Italian Language
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 million people (2022), Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons), San Marino, and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria (Croatia and Slovenia). Italian is also spoken by large immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia.Ethnologue report for language code:ita (Italy) – Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version Itali ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mino Doro
Mino Doro (6 May 1903 – 13 April 1992) was an Italian actor who appeared in more than a hundred films between 1932 and 1970. Doro generally played supporting and character roles. He appeared as a blackshirt in the 1934 Fascist propaganda film '' The Old Guard''. In popular magazines of the 1930s, Doro was portrayed as the Italian equivalent of the American actor Clark Gable.Forgacs & Gundle p. 159 Selected filmography * '' The Last Adventure'' (1932) * ''T'amerò sempre'' (1933) - Il conte Diego * '' Fanny'' (1933) - Mario * ''Il trattato scomparso'' (1933) - Carlo - suo figlio * ''Cento di questi giorni'' (1933) - Guglielmo * '' The Old Guard'' (1934) - Roberto * ''Tenebre'' (1934) - Emerson * '' Lady of Paradise'' (1934) - Delfo Delfi * ''Quella vecchia canaglia'' (1934) - Giovanni * ''La fanciulla dell'altro mondo'' (1934) - Rigo * ''Music in the Square'' (1936) * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1936) - Il sergente Roberto Magni * ''The Anonymous Roylott'' (1936) * '' Doctor A ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tina Pica
Tina Pica (31 March 1884 – 15 August 1968) was an Italian supporting actress who played character roles on stage. Her film debut came in 1935 with ''The Three-Cornered Hat''. In the 1950s, she became a celebrity thanks to her role as Caramella in the successful film series ''Bread, Love and Dreams'' (1953), ''Bread, Love and Jealousy'' (1954), ''Scandal in Sorrento'' (1955), ''Bread, Love and Andalusia'' (1958) and the last one, (which was never filmed). In 1955, she won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress. Partial filmography * (1916) * (1916) * ''The Three-Cornered Hat'' (1935) as Assunta, a commoner (uncredited) * '' Hands Off Me!'' (1937) as Giulia, the housemaid * ''A Lady Did It'' (1938) as Teresa, the doorkeeper * ''The Marquis of Ruvolito'' (1939) as Miss Mangialardo * ''No Man's Land'' (1939) as Maruzza * '' Lost in the Dark'' (1947) * '' Hey Boy'' (1948) as Maddalena, the cook * (1950) * ''Filumena Marturano'' (1951) as Rosalia Solimena * (1951) ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Susana Canales
Susana Canales Niaucel (5 September 1933 – 22 March 2021) was a Spanish film and television actress. Initially a child actor she switched to playing grown-up parts in the early 1950s. She starred in the 1951 drama ''Black Sky'' (1951). Canales died on 22 March 2021 in her hometown, Madrid, at the age of 87 from natural causes. Selected filmography * '''' (1948) * ''[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Flavio Mogherini
Flavio Mogherini (25 March 1922 – 23 April 1994) was an Italian production designer, art director and film director. His career spanned from 1947 to 1994. His daughter Federica Mogherini was High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union from 2014 to 2019. Selected filmography * '' The Lion of Amalfi'' (1950) * ''The Knight Has Arrived!'' (1950) * ''The Reluctant Magician'' (1951) * ''Vacation with a Gangster'' (1951) * ''The Two Friends'' (1955) * '' Count Max'' (art direction, 1957) * ''The Wonders of Aladdin'' (art direction, 1961) * ''To Love Ophelia'' (1974) * '' Paolo Barca, Schoolteacher and Weekend Nudist'' (1975) * '' Lunatics and Lovers'' (1976) * ''The Pyjama Girl Case'' (1977) * ''Le braghe del padrone ''Le braghe del padrone'' is a 1978 Italian comedy film directed by Flavio Mogherini and starring Enrico Montesano. It is based on the novel with the same name written by Italo Terzoli and Enrico Vaime. Cast ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Art Direction
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style(s) to use, and when to use motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the collective imagination while resolving conflicting agendas and inconsistencies bet ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maid
A maid, or housemaid or maidservant, is a female domestic worker. In the Victorian era domestic service was the second largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work. In developed Western nations, full-time maids are now only found in the wealthiest households. In other parts of the world, maids remain common in urban middle-class households. "Maid" in Middle English meant an unmarried woman, especially a young one, or specifically a virgin. These meanings lived on in English until recent times (and are still familiar from literature and folk music), alongside the sense of the word as a type of servant. Description In the contemporary Western world, comparatively few households can afford live-in domestic help, usually relying on cleaners, employed directly or through an agency (Maid service). Today a single maid may be the only domestic worker that upper-middle class households employ, as was historically the case. In less developed nations, v ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Baroness
Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often Hereditary title, hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knight, but lower than a viscount or count. Often, barons hold their fief – their lands and income – directly from the monarch. Barons are less often the vassals of other nobles. In many kingdoms, they were entitled to wear a smaller form of a crown called a ''coronet''. The term originates from the Late Latin, Latin term , via Old French. The use of the title ''baron'' came to England via the Norman Conquest of 1066, then the Normans brought the title to Scotland and Italy. It later spread to Scandinavia and Slavic lands. Etymology The word '':wikt:baron, baron'' comes from the Old French , from a Late Latin "man; servant, soldier, mercenary" (so used in Salic law; Alemannic law has in the same sense). The scholar ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Count
Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Pine, L. G. ''Titles: How the King Became His Majesty''. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1992. p. 73. . The etymologically related English term "county" denoted the territories associated with the countship. Definition The word ''count'' came into English from the French ''comte'', itself from Latin ''comes''—in its accusative ''comitem''—meaning “companion”, and later “companion of the emperor, delegate of the emperor”. The adjective form of the word is "comital". The British and Irish equivalent is an earl (whose wife is a "countess", for lack of an English term). In the late Roman Empire, the Latin title ''comes'' denoted the high rank of various courtiers and provincial officials, either military or administrative: before Anthemius became emperor in the West in 467, he was a military ''comes ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vendor
In a supply chain, a vendor, supplier, provider or a seller, is an enterprise that contributes goods or services. Generally, a supply chain vendor manufactures inventory/stock items and sells them to the next link in the chain. Today, these terms refer to a supplier of any goods or service. Description A vendor is a supply chain management term that means anyone can sell at events and provides goods or services of experience to another entity. Vendors may sell B2B (business-to-business; i.e., to other companies), B2C (business to consumers or Direct-to-consumer), or B2G (business to government). Some vendors manufacture inventoriable items and then sell those items to customers, while other vendors offer services or experiences. The term vendor and the term supplier are often used indifferently. The difference is that the vendors ''sells'' the goods or services while the supplier ''provides'' the goods or services. In most of business context, except retail, this difference has ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th century ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |