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Circo Equestre Za-Bum
''The Za-Bum Circus'' ( it, Circo equestre Za-bum) is a 1944 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Galeazzo Benti. Cast * Galeazzo Benti (segment "Galop finale al circo") * Carlo Campanini(segment "Gelosia") * Vera Carmi (segment "Galop finale al circo") * Ada Dondini (segment "Galop finale al circo") * Aldo Fabrizi as The postman (segments "Dalla finestra" and "Il postino") * Roldano Lupi (segments "Contatto telefonici", "Gelosia" and "Galop finale al circo") * Ave Ninchi (segment "Galop finale al circo") * Carlo Ninchi Carlo Ninchi (31 May 1896 – 27 April 1974) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1931 and 1963. He was born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, and died on 27 April 1974 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Selected filmogra ... (segments "Contatto telefonici" and "Galop finale al circo") References External links * 1944 films 1944 comedy films Italian comedy films 1940s Italian-language films Italian blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Mattoli
Mario Mattoli (; 30 November 1898 – 26 February 1980) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 86 films between 1934 and 1966. His 1939 film ''Defendant, Stand Up!'' was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. Filmography * ''Full Speed (1934 film), Full Speed'' (1934) * ''I Love You Only'' (1935) * ''The Man Who Smiles'' (1936) * ''Sette giorni all'altro mondo'' (1936) * ''La damigella di Bard (film), La damigella di Bard'' (1936) *''Music in the Square'' (1936) * ''The Last Days of Pompeo'' (1937) * ''These Children'' (1937) * ''Felicità Colombo'' (1937) * ''Destiny (1938 film), Destiny'' (1938) * ''Triumph of Love (1938 film), Triumph of Love'' (1938) * ''Nonna Felicità '' (1938) * ''A Lady Did It'' (1938) * ''The Lady in White'' (1938) * ''We Were Seven Sisters'' (1939) * ''At Your Orders, Madame'' (1939) * ''We Were Seven Widows'' (1939) * ''Defendant, Stand Up!'' (1939) * ''Mille chilometr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Dondini
Ada Dondini (18 March 1883 – 3 January 1958) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 48 films between 1916 and 1954. She was born in Cosenza, Italy and died in Chieti, Italy. Selected filmography * '' The Charmer'' (1931) * ''Just Married'' (1934) * ''Mr. Desire'' (1934) * '' I Love You Only'' (1935) * ''Joe the Red'' (1936) * ''Piccolo mondo antico'' (1941) * ''Schoolgirl Diary'' (1941) * ''The Secret Lover'' (1941) * '' Invisible Chains'' (1942) * '' Malombra'' (1942) * ''Luisa Sanfelice'' (1942) * ''La valle del diavolo'' (1943) * ''The Za-Bum Circus'' (1944) * ''The Innocent Casimiro'' (1945) * ''The Ten Commandments'' (1945) * ''The Ways of Sin'' (1946) * ''Un giorno nella vita'' (1946) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1947) * ''Fear and Sand'' (1948) * ''Little Lady'' ( 1949) * ''The Cadets of Gascony'' (1950) * ''Women and Brigands'' (1950) * ''Toto the Sheik'' ( 1950) * '' Honeymoon Deferred'' (1951) * ''Toto the Third Man'' (1951) * ''Tragic Spell'' (1951) * '' Sunda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Black-and-white Films
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1940s Italian-language Films
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Italian Comedy Films
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1944 Comedy Films
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1944 Films
The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning ''Going My Way'' plus popular murder mysteries such as ''Double Indemnity'', ''Gaslight'' and '' Laura''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1944 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *March 10 – MGM's ''A Guy Named Joe'', starring Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne, is released nationally in the United States. *May 3 – The film ''Going My Way'', directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald, premieres in New York City. The highest-grossing picture of the year, it goes on to win a total of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for McCary, Best Actor for Crosby and Best Original Song for "Swinging on a Star". *May 13 – Dale Evans appears in her first film with future husband, Roy Rogers – '' Cowboy and the Senorita''. *July 20 – ''Since You Went Away'' is released. *August 16–September 11 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Ninchi
Carlo Ninchi (31 May 1896 – 27 April 1974) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1931 and 1963. He was born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, and died on 27 April 1974 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Before the Jury'' (1931) - Marcello Barra, il guardacaccia * '' Mother Earth'' (1931) - Il commandatore Bordani * ''La stella del cinema'' (1931) * ''La scala'' (1931) - Avvocato Giulio Terpi - suo marito * ''Il solitario della montagna'' (1931) * '' La Wally'' (1932) - Hagenbach * ''Red Passport'' (1935) - Un passeggero sul 'Santa Fe' * '' I Love You Only'' (1936) - Cesare Baldi * ''Conquest of the Air'' (1936) - Gabriele Adanti di Perugia (uncredited) * '' Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal'' (1937) - Lelius * ''Cavalleria rusticana'' (1939) - Alfio * ''La conquista dell'aria'' (1939) - Gabriello Danti * '' Dora Nelson'' (1939) - Giovanni Ferrari * ''Scandalo per bene'' (1940) - Marco Alviano, mercante di vetri * ''L'uomo d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ave Ninchi
Ave Maria Ninchi (14 December 1914 – 10 November 1997) was an Italian supporting actress who played character roles on stage, television, and in over 98 feature films that included ''Tomorrow Is Too Late'' (1949) and Louis Malle's ''Murmur of the Heart'' (1971) and '' Lacombe Lucien'' (1974). Ninchi worked with some of Italy's top movie stars, including Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, Marcello Mastroianni, Alberto Sordi, and Gina Lollobrigida; her performances playing in duo with Aldo Fabrizi and Totò are particularly memorable. Her television career was at its peak during the 1960s and 1970s when she was appearing in some of Italy's top-rated series. Selected filmography *'' Circo equestre Za-bum'' (1944) - (segment "Galop finale al circo") *''Un giorno nella vita'' (1946) - Suor Celeste *'' Un uomo ritorna'' (1946) - Un'amica di Adele *''Canto, ma sottovoce...'' (1946) - Laura, la cameriera *''Before Him All Rome Trembled'' (1946) - Nina *''Roma città libera'' (1946) - L' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roldano Lupi
Roldano Lupi (8 February 1909 – 13 August 1989) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1942 and 1967. He was born in Milan, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Jealousy'' (1942) * '' Yes, Madam'' (1942) * ''Farewell Love!'' (1943) * ''The Priest's Hat'' (1944) * ''The Za-Bum Circus'' (1944) * ''The Gates of Heaven'' (1945) * ''The Ten Commandments'' (1945) * '' The Testimony'' (1946) * '' The Adulteress'' (1946) * ''Flesh Will Surrender'' (1947) * '' The White Devil'' (1947) * '' Cab Number 13'' (1948) * ''Prelude to Madness'' (1948) * '' Sicilian Uprising'' (1949) * '' Altura'' (1949) * '' The Angel of Sin'' (1952) * ''Wolves Hunt at Night'' (1952) * '' Koenigsmark'' (1953) * ''Frine, Courtesan of Orient'' (1953) * ''House of Ricordi'' (1954) * ''The Contessa's Secret'' (1954) * '' Crossed Swords'' (1954) * '' The Affair of the Poisons'' (1955) * '' The Courier of Moncenisio'' (1956) * ''The Mongols'' (1961) * '' Avenger of the Sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldo Fabrizi
Aldo Fabrizi (; born Aldo Fabbrizi; 1 November 1905 – 2 April 1990) was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and comedian, best known for the role of the heroic priest in Roberto Rossellini's ''Rome, Open City'' and as partner of Totò in a number of successful comedies. Life and career Born in Rome into a humble family, Fabrizi debuted on stage in a suburban theater in 1931. He soon got local success thanks to his comical sketches and '' macchiette'' (i.e. comical monologues caricaturing stock characters), and became a star of the Roman revue and ''avanspettacolo''. He made his film debut during the war, in 1942, and in a short time established himself as one of the most talented actors of the time, spacing from comedy to drama. After a number of successful comedies, in 1945 he played the iconic Don Pietro in the neo-realist drama ''Rome, Open City'', and following the critical and commercial success of the film he had a number of leading roles in other neo-realist films. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Carmi
Vera Carmi (23 November 1914 – 6 September 1969) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1940 and 1956. She was born in Turin, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Life and career Carmi was born Virginia Doglioli in Turin. After being spotted by the director Ferdinando Maria Poggioli in a beauty contest, she made her film debut in 1940, in a supporting role in Poggioli's ''Goodbye Youth (1940 film), Goodbye Youth'' and in a short time she became one of the most requested actresses in the Telefoni Bianchi genre. After the war she got critical acclaim for a number of dramatic performances, notably Mario Soldati's ''His Young Wife'' and Luciano Emmer's ''Sunday in August''. She was also very active on stage. Gradually cast in less important roles, she eventually retired in the second half of the 1950s. Carmi was the first wife of the football player Aldo Giuseppe Borel. Partial filmography * ''Goodbye Youth (1940 film), Goodbye Youth'' (1940 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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