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Don't Sting The Mosquito
''Don't Sting the Mosquito'' ( it, Non stuzzicate la zanzara) is a 1967 Italian "musicarello" film directed by Lina Wertmüller (under the stage name George H. Brown). It is the sequel of '' Rita the Mosquito''. Cast * Rita Pavone: Rita Santangelo * Giancarlo Giannini: Paolo Randi * Giulietta Masina: Maria Cristina * Romolo Valli: Bartolomeo Santangelo * Peppino De Filippo: Carmelo * Enrico Viarisio: General * Mita Medici: Vanessa * Raffaele Pisu: Sergeant * Giusi Raspani Dandolo: Director * Caterina Boratto: Marchesa Filangeri * Ugo Fangareggi: Wolfang * Teddy Reno: Himself * Pietro De Vico Pietro De Vico (1 February 1911 – 10 December 1999) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1948 and 1991. He was born in Naples, and died in Rome. He was married, from 1937 until his death in 1999, to actress Anna Campo ... References External links * 1967 films 1967 musical comedy films Films directed by Lina Wertmüller Musicarelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Wertmüller
Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich (14 August 1928 – 9 December 2021), known as Lina Wertmüller (), was an Italian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 1970s art film, art house films ''Seven Beauties'' (a genre-bending World War II film for which she became the first female director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in 1977), ''The Seduction of Mimi'', ''Love and Anarchy'', and ''Swept Away (1974 film), Swept Away''. In 2019, Wertmüller was announced as one of four recipients of the Academy Honorary Award for her career, the second female director to be so honoured. Early life Wertmüller was born Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich in Rome in 1928 to Federico, a lawyer from Palazzo San Gervasio, Basilicata, belonging to a devoutly Catholic family of distant Swiss descent, and to Maria Santamaria-Maurizio born in Rome. Wertmüller depicted her childhood as a period of adv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mita Medici
Mita Medici (born 20 August 1950) is an Italian actress and singer. She was sometimes credited as Patrizia Perini. Biography Born in Rome as Patrizia Vistarini, daughter of the actor Franco Silva, she was launched in 1965 by winning the " Miss Teenager" pageant. Medici made her film debut in 1966, at 16, in Luciano Salce's ''How I Learned to Love Women''. She is also active in television, in which she hosted shows such as ''Canzonissima'' and ''Sereno variabile'' and appeared in several TV-series. She was also a singer, active between late 60's and early 80's, and her main success was the song "A ruota libera", which in 1973 ranked 10 in the Italian Hit Parade. In 1968, she was the subject of the song "Mita, Mita, Mita" by progressive rock group Le Orme. Discography Studio albums *''…A ruota libera'' (1973) *''Per una volta'' (1975) Singles *"Questo amore finito così" (1969) *"Un posto per me/Avventura che nasce" (1970) *"Un amore/Una storia come tante" (1971) *"Quei giorni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musicarelli
The musicarello (; plural: musicarelli) is a film subgenre which emerged in Italy and which is characterised by the presence in main roles of young singers, already famous among their peers, and their new record album. In the films there are almost always tender and chaste love stories accompanied by the desire to have fun and dance without thoughts. Musicarelli reflect the desire and need for emancipation of young Italians, highlighting some generational frictions. The genre began in the late 1950s, and had its peak of production in the 1960s. Name According to critics, the name "musicarello" is a reference to the successful TV series ''Carosello''. In particular, the name "musicarello" combines the words "'" ("music") and "''Carosello''": in fact, the singers who were the protagonists of the musicarelli, thanks to their notoriety, often appeared in many episodes of TV series ''Carosello''. Background The genre began in the late 1950s, and had its peak of production in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Lina Wertmüller
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Musical Comedy Films
Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and commercial relations (not diplomatic ones). ** Charlie Chaplin launches his last film, ''A Countess from Hong Kong'', in the UK. * January 6 – Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch '' Operation Deckhouse Five'' in the Mekong Delta. * January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts. * January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Étienne Eyadema. * January 14 – The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the Summer of Love. * January 15 ** Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species '' Kenyapithecus africanus''. ** American football: The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10 in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Films
The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered one of the most ground-breaking years in American cinema, with "revolutionary" films highlighting the shift towards forward thinking European standards at the time, including: '' Bonnie and Clyde'', ''The Graduate'', ''Guess Who's Coming to Dinner'', '' Cool Hand Luke'', ''The Dirty Dozen'', '' In Cold Blood'', '' In the Heat of the Night'', ''The Jungle Book'' and '' You Only Live Twice''. Highest-grossing films North America The top ten 1967 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Outside North America The highest-grossing 1967 films in countries outside North America. Events * The prototype for the IMAX large-format-film acquisition and screening system is exhibited at Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada * The MPAA adopts a new logo, which is still used today. * July 8 - Vivien Leigh, best known for ''Gone with the Wind'' and ''A Streetcar Named Desire'', dies f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro De Vico
Pietro De Vico (1 February 1911 – 10 December 1999) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1948 and 1991. He was born in Naples, and died in Rome. He was married, from 1937 until his death in 1999, to actress Anna Campori. Selected filmography * ''Christmas at Camp 119'' (1947) - (uncredited) * ''Toto Looks for a House'' (1949) - Cinese * ''Toto the Sheik'' (1950) - L'arabo della stanza bianca * ''Rome-Paris-Rome'' (1951) - Sposino * ''The Passaguai Family'' (1951) - Il ragazzo di Marcella * '' The Passaguai Family Gets Rich'' (1952) - Un autista * ''Il viale della speranza'' (1953) - Tonio * ''La valigia dei sogni'' (1953) - Il regista del provino * '' Ore 10: lezione di canto'' (1955) - Pietro - uno dei Five Jolly * ''Eighteen Year Olds'' (1955) - Campanelli * ''Una voce, una chitarra, un po' di luna'' (1956) - Franz * ''Sette canzoni per sette sorelle'' (1957) - Romeo * ''Serenata a Maria'' (1957) - Pasqualino, the painter * ''A sud niente di nuovo'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teddy Reno
Teddy Reno (born 11 July 1926) is an Italian singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. Life and career Born in Trieste as Ferruccio Merk Ricordi, Reno made his debut on Radio Trieste during the Anglo-American administration of the city, launching the song "Eterno ritornello (Te vojo ben)". He later entered as a singer the orchestra of Teddy Foster, with whom he toured across Europe and North Africa.Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. . In 1948 he founded one of Italy's first record companies, CGD (i.e. Compagnia Generale del Disco), which he later sold to Ladislao Sugar, a publisher of Hungarian origin and future owner of the Sugar Group.Mark Worden. "Sugarmusic Turns 70". '' Billboard''. Vol. 115, Num. 3, p.23, 18 January 2003. . He enjoyed a great degree of success as a singer in the 1950s. In the 1960s he focused his career on discovering and producing new talents, mainly through the Festival degli sconosciuti (Festival of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ugo Fangareggi
Ugo Fangareggi (30 January 1938 – 20 October 2017) was an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Genoa, Fangareggi worked as a dental technician when in 1961 he was noticed by Luigi Squarzina who chose him to act in the play ''Ciascuno a suo modo''. He later moved to Rome to devote himself to a professional acting career and in a short time he became one of the most active character actors in Italian cinema. Mainly devoted to humorous roles, he is best known for the role of Mangold in Mario Monicelli's '' The Incredible Army of Brancaleone''. Fangareggi was also active in several successful TV series. On 20 October 2017, Fangareggi died in Rome after a lengthy battle with Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms becom ..., aged 79. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caterina Boratto
Caterina Boratto (15 March 1915 – 14 September 2010) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1936 and 1993. Life and career Born in Turin, Boratto studied at the Musical Lyceum in her hometown with the purpose of becoming a singer; noted by Guido Brignone, she made her debut in '' To Live'', alongside Tito Schipa. Thanks to the film's success, she immediately became a star in the Telefoni Bianchi genre, and also got a seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which eventually dissolved because of the World War II. In 1943, Boratto lost two brothers, the partisan Renato and the soldier Filiberto, killed in the massacre of the Acqui Division. In 1944, she married a doctor, Armando Ceratto, with whom she had two children. Except for a film in 1951, she basically retired from show business for twenty years before accepting to play two key roles in ''8½'' and ''Juliet of the Spirits'' by Federico Fellini, who had known her in the set of ''The Peddler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giusi Raspani Dandolo
Giusi Raspani Dandolo (23 August 1916 – 14 January 2000) was an Italian stage, film, television and radio actress. Life and career Born in Trani, the daughter of a magistrate, Raspani Dandolo enrolled at the Bolzano Conservatory as to become an opera singer, but eventually abandoned her studies to move to Rome, where in 1940 she graduated from the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica. She made her professional debut in 1941, with the stage company of Laura Adani. Mainly active on stage, she got critical acclaim for her performances at the Piccolo Teatro under the direction of Giorgio Strehler. Typically cast in humorous roles, Raspani Dandolo was the recipient of a in 1964 for her performance in the comedy play ''La fastidiosa''. She was also active in films, TV-series and on radio. Selected filmography * ''The Steamship Owner'' (1951) *''Passionate Song'' (1953) *''The Letters Page'' (1955) *''Angel in a Taxi'' (1958) *''You're on Your Own'' (1959) *''Con rispetto parlando'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaele Pisu
Raffaele Pisu (24 May 1925 – 31 July 2019) was an Italian actor and comedian. Life and career Born in Bologna as Guerrino Pisu into a family of Sardinian origin, Pisu debuted in the drama theater and in 1945 he was one of the founders of the stage company L'attico. He later focused on the avanspettacolo, working with the Nava Sisters, Isa Barzizza and Wanda Osiris. He reached a large popularity with several variety shows on radio and later on television, notably with the variety television ''L'amico del giaguaro'' (1961–1964).Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni, ''Enciclopedia della Televisione'', Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003. . Pisu was also active in TV-movies and in films, usually in supporting roles. In 2005, Pisu won the Nastro d'Argento for best supporting actor for his performance in Paolo Sorrentino's ''The Consequences of Love ''The Consequences of Love'' ( it, Le Conseguenze dell'Amore) is a 2004 Italian psychological thriller film written and directed by Pao ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
