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Ciccio Barbi
Ciccio Barbi (19 January 1919 – 26 November 1992) was an Italian film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Last Wagon'' (1943) - Young Friend of Toto (uncredited) * '' Angelina'' (1947) - (uncredited) * ''Auguri e figli maschi!'' (1951) - Vinicio Paciottini * ''Il padrone del vapore'' (1951) - Un alpino * ''Finalmente libero!'' (1953) - Pasquale Galli * ''Papà Pacifico'' (1954) - The Man identifying the ring * ''Cuore di mamma'' (1954) - Police Commissioner Vargas * ''Il seduttore'' (1954) - Ragionier Abele * ''An American in Rome'' (1954) - Armando, impresario (uncredited) * ''La campana di San Giusto'' (1954) * ''A Hero of Our Times'' (1955) - Employee * '' The Belle of Rome'' (1955) - Il parroco * ''Accadde al penitenziario'' (1955) - Un automobilista in lite (uncredited) * '' Bravissimo'' (1955) - Barbi - the Lawyer (uncredited) * '' Roman Tales'' (1955) - The Plump Policeman near the Stadium (uncredited) * ''Torna piccina mia!'' (1955) - Poliziotto * ''Guardia, guardi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Manfredi
Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi (22 March 1921 – 4 June 2004) was an Italian actor, voice actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, radio personality and television presenter. He was one of the most prominent Italian actors in the ''commedia all'italiana'' genre. During his career he won several awards, including six David di Donatello awards, six Nastro d'Argento awards and the Prix de la première oeuvre (Best First Work Award) at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for ''Between Miracles''. Typically playing losers, marginalised, working-class characters yet "in possession of their dignity, morality, and underlying optimism", he was referred to as "one of the few truly complete actors in Italian cinema". Life and career Early life Manfredi was born in Castro dei Volsci, Frosinone into a humble family of farmers. His father recruited in Public Safety, where he reached the rank of Maresciallo, and in the early 1930s, he was transferred to Rome, where Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tempo Di Villeggiatura
''Time of Vacation'' ( it, Tempo di villeggiatura) is a 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Antonio Racioppi, at his directorial debut. For this film Marisa Merlini won a Silver Ribbon for Best supporting Actress. Plot In a hotel in Corniolo, a small village on the outskirts of the city of Rome that has become a tourist resort, the many stories of various people are interwoven. An accountant courts a young lady, pretending to be shy. An aspiring actor asks the waitresses for help to survive. A driver falls in love with a former dancer causing his girlfriend to react. A medical student is ashamed of his father, an honest head waiter. Cast *Vittorio De Sica: Il ragionier Aristide Rossi *Giovanna Ralli: Lella, la fidanzata *Memmo Carotenuto: Alfredo, il capo cameriere *Nino Manfredi: Carletto, l'attore *Marisa Merlini: La signorina Margherita Pozzi *Maurizio Arena: Checco, l'autista * Bella Visconti: Silvana * Gabriele Tinti: Luciano, lo studente *Dina Perbellini: La signora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girl With A Suitcase
''Girl with a Suitcase'' ( it, La ragazza con la valigia) is a 1961 cinema of Italy, Italian romantic drama film by Valerio Zurlini starring Claudia Cardinale as a spirited but naive young woman who lives on the fluctuating good will of others. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Aida leaves her boyfriend Piero, a musician, for Marcello, a wealthy young nobleman who promises great things and then dumps her at a garage with her suitcase. When she tracks him to the family mansion, he sends his sixteen-year-old brother, Lorenzo, out to get rid of her. Taking pity on the girl, he takes her with her suitcase to a pensione where she can spend the night. He is meant to be studying by day, but sneaks away to spend time with Aida and slips presents and money to her. One evening he stays drinking and dancing with friends she has met, who depart at midnight leaving the two alone. When he creeps home at dawn, his hostile aunt spots him and his secret is out. Next time he i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferragosto In Bikini
''Ferragosto in bikini'' is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Marino Girolami. The film is named after a hit song of musical group Quartetto Cetra, who also makes a brief cameo appearance. Cast * Walter Chiari: Walter * Ennio Girolami: Dario * Valeria Fabrizi: Ainé * Lauretta Masiero: Paola Piccoli * Raimondo Vianello: Ragionier Piccoli * Marisa Merlini: Marta * Mario Carotenuto: Cavalier Bonaccorsi * Gérard Landry: Franz Heinrich * Bice Valori: Gladys * Mara Fiè: Elena * Alberto Talegalli: Bagnante paesano * Carlo Delle Piane: Carlo * Toni Ucci: Raffaele * Tiberio Murgia: Carmelo Pappalardo * Luigi Pavese: Commedator Cazzaniga * Virgilio Vidor: Bambino che discute con il Cavaliere * Elyane Pade: Denise * Nietta Zocchi: Miss Porro * Dori Dorica: moglie del bagnante paesano * Enzo Garinei: bagnante delle parole crociate * Ciccio Barbi: segretario del cavaliere * Tino Bianchi: Dr. Labianca * Silvio Bagolini: Subacqueo * Pina Gallini Pina Gallini (19 March 1888 &ndas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everybody Go Home
''Everybody Go Home'' ( it, Tutti a casa) is a 1960 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Luigi Comencini. It features an international cast including the U.S. actors Martin Balsam, Alex Nicol and the Franco-Italian Serge Reggiani. Nino Manfredi was rejected for the starring role because Alberto Sordi wanted it. The film is set during the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943. It is one of the most famous films of the Commedia all'italiana genre. It also belongs to a large genre of Italian films about Italy during the chaos after the invasion and double occupation of September 1943 - others include ''Rome, Open City'', ''Paisan'', '' General Della Rovere'', ''Violent Summer'', ''Long Night in 1943'', '' Escape by Night'', ''Two Women'', ''The Fascist'', '' The Abandoned'', '' The Four Days of Naples'', and ''Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom''. Plot Along the Venetian seaside, on the morning of September 8, 1943, Alberto Innocenzi, junior NCO of the Royal Italian Army is shocked when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fountain Of Trevi (film)
''Fountain of Trevi'' (Italian:''Fontana di Trevi'') is a 1960 Italian-Spanish comedy film directed by Carlo Campogalliani and starring Claudio Villa, Rubén Rojo and Carlo Croccolo.Parish p.156 It follows the life of two men working for a travel agency next to Rome's Fountain of Trevi. Cast * Claudio Villa as Claudio Marchetti * Rubén Rojo as Roberto Proietti * Carlo Croccolo as Wizard assistant * Maria Grazia Buccella as Franca / Manuela * Tiberio Murgia as Pertica * Mario Carotenuto as The Wizard * Marisa Mantovani * Pilar Vela as Dolores * Arnaldo Arnaldi as Giovanni Camilloni * Dori Dorika as La sora Nannina * Maria Letizia Gazzoni as Carmencita * Amelia de Castro * Rafael Durán (actor), Rafael Durán * Edda Ferronao * Marta Grau * Miguel Ligero (Spanish actor), Miguel Ligero * Rosario Maldonado as Rosita * Alfredo Mayo as Rafael Castillo * Gisia Paradis * Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (actor), Miguel Ángel Rodríguez * Elisabetta Velinska * Ciccio Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audace Colpo Dei Soliti Ignoti
''Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti'' (also known as ''Fiasco in Milan'' or ''Hold-up à la milanaise'') is a 1959 Italian comedy crime film directed by Nanni Loy. The film stars Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori and Claudia Cardinale. It is the sequel to Mario Monicelli's ''I soliti ignoti'' (1958) and is followed by ''Big Deal After 20 Years'' (1985). Plot A Milanese gangster contacts Peppe (Gassman); he has identified him and his accomplices as the perpetrators of the bungled attempt at the Madonna Street pawn shop. His offer is to reunite the same men for a daring robbery in Milan, where the local offices of football betting pool A betting pool, syndicate, sports lottery, sweep, or office pool if done at work, is a form of gambling, specifically a variant of parimutuel betting influenced by lotteries, where gamblers pay a fixed price into a ''pool'' (from which taxes and ... Totocalcio shift the weekly revenue on Sunday afternoon via a common car with just an accountant a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Moralist
''The Moralist'' (Italian: ''Il moralista'') is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi. Starring Alberto Sordi and Vittorio de Sica, it satirises both the upholders of traditional sexual morality and the exploiters selling sex in a willing market. Plot In Rome in 1959, Agostino is the ferocious new Secretary-General of the Italian branch of the worldwide International Organization for Public Morality. A teetotal bachelor, he attacks with vigour public manifestations of sexual immorality. Neither bribes nor female charms deflect him from his crusade against lewdness in films and night clubs. So devoted is he that the aristocratic President of the Organisation even considers he might be a husband for his so far unmarried 29-year-old daughter. But both President and Secretary-General also have private lives. After Agostino denounces a night club to the police and it is closed, the mistress of the owner befriends the widowed President and introduces him to an exclus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Of Miracles
''World of Miracles'' ( it, Il mondo dei miracoli) is a 1959 Italian melodrama film directed by Luigi Capuano. Plot Laura and Marco are two young lovers who act for a theater company. But one day Marco, having come into conflict with her father, who is an old actor, leaves the company to seek greater fortune in Rome, in the world of cinema. Laura, after some time, is moved by a letter full of affection that Marco sent her, so she joins him in Rome, where he has rented a room from Franca, a good woman who tries to advise him well and who feels happy to welcome Laura in their own home. But the couple is put in crisis by the presence - unexpected for Laura - of another woman, a snobbish actress who seeks Marco's company and often calls him to invite him to her hotel room. Laura, saddened, then returns to her father, who, due to too many emotions, dies during a performance on the stage of the theater. Meanwhile, Marco understands more and more that he does not want to give up on L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Tartassati
''I Tartassati'' is an Italian comedy film from 1959, directed by Stefano Vanzina, written by Aldo Fabrizi, starring Totò and Louis de Funès. The film is known under the titles ''The Overtaxed'' (English) and ''Fripouillard et Compagnie'' (French). Plot Mr. Pezzella (Totò) owns and runs a successful luxury clothes shop. He does not like to pay taxes, and he resorts to the services of a tax consultant (interpreted by Louis de Funès) in order minimize this expense and exploit every loophole. Unfortunately for Pezzella, the Borders and Revenue police (Guardia di Finanza) suspects his high income, and orders an inspection by marshal Topponi (Aldo Fabrizi) and brigadier Bardi. Pezzella is advised by his incompetent tax consultant to try bribing the marshal in every possible way. Pezzella's clumsy attempts and intrusiveness create many misunderstandings and comedic situations. The honest marshal remains unaffected and completes his report, which would force Pezzella to pay a heavy 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'amore Nasce A Roma
''L'amore nasce a Roma'' (i.e. "Love was born in Rome") is a 1958 Italian comedy film written and directed by Mario Amendola and starring Claudio Villa, Antonio Cifariello, Rossella Como and Valeria Moriconi. Plot Lello, a painter, and Mario, a singer, move to Rome looking for fortune and success, their native country village far behind them. Expressing little in the way of artistic sophistication, their initial experiences are discouraging. They end up meeting Doretta and Silvia, two gracious flower stand sellers in Piazza di Spagna, and they immediately hit it off romantically. Doretta falls for Lello, and Silvia for Mario, and together they do what they can to help out their new love interests navigate the city's many challenges. One day it is revealed that Lello actually is a talented singer, so that the painter transforms into "the singer". Feeling slighted, Mario, out of sheer spite, takes Lello's brushes and proceeds to make his own paintings, which immediately attract i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Marito
''Il marito'' ( ''The Husband'') is a 1957 Italian-Spanish comedy film directed by Nanni Loy and Gianni Puccini, at their second and last collaboration after '' Parola di ladro''. Alberto Sordi, who was author of the story together with Rodolfo Sonego, submitted the script to Angelo Rizzoli, that was not at all enthusiastic about the subject. Later, he met a Spanish producer, married with eleven children, who recognized himself in the story, so the film, which was initially set in uptown Rome, was shot in Madrid. In Spain the film was released with the title ''El Marido''. Plot Alberto has an unbearable wife who treats him like a nerd and that forces him to satisfy every whim of her. But Alberto decides to get respect and to prove his masculinity, initially destroying the cello's wife, the object that she loved, and after betraying her with a young woman. When the wife deliberately shatters an important deal with a rich and Alberto old widow, her husband is about to kill her in de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
