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Elli Parvo
Elli Parvo (17 October 1915 – 19 February 2010) was an Italian film actress, born in Milan as Elvira Gobbo. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1934 and 1960. Selected filmography * ''Loyalty of Love'' (1934) as La nobildonna al ballo * '' The Ferocious Saladin'' (1937) as l'attrice truccata all'orientale * '' Abandon All Hope'' (1937) as Gemma * '' I Want to Live with Letizia'' (1938) as Unknown role * '' Departure'' (1938) as La contadina con il neonato * '' The Marquis of Ruvolito'' (1939) as Immacolata * ''The Night of Tricks'' (1939) as Maria * '' The Happy Ghost'' (1941) as Erika * ''The King's Jester'' (1941) as La zingara * ''Beatrice Cenci'' (1941) as Angela * '' Carmen'' (1942) as Pamela * '' Seven Years of Good Luck'' (1942) as Melitta * '' Seven Years of Happiness'' (1943) as Melitta, la cameriera * '' Il fanciullo del West'' (1943) as Lolita de Fuego * ''The Gates of Heaven'' (1945) as La signora provocante * '' Desire'' (1946) as Paola Previtali * '' ... [...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] |
A Yank In Rome
''A Yank in Rome'' ( it, Un americano in vacanza) is a 1946 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Valentina Cortese. Cast * Valentina Cortese as Maria, La maestrina * Andrea Checchi as Roberto * Leo Dale as Dick * Adolfo Celi as Tom * Paolo Stoppa as Sor Augusto * Elli Parvo as Elena * Giovanni Dolfini as Don Giuseppe * Felice Minotti as Il padre di Roberto * Gino Baghetti as Monsignor Caligaris * Anna Maria Padoan as La signorina Paolina * Arturo Bragaglia as Il sacrestano * Oreste Fares as Il portiere di casa Caligaris * Luciano Salce as L'ufficiale americano * Elettra Druscovich as La contessina Arcieri * Achille Ponzi Achille is a French and Italian masculine given name, derived from the Greek mythological hero Achilles. It may refer to: People Artists * Achille Beltrame (1871–1945), Italian painter * Achille Calici (c. 1565–?), Italian painter * Ach ... as Pietro, il cameriere References External links * 1946 films 1946 comedy fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allow Me, Daddy!
''Allow Me, Daddy!'' ( it, Mi permette, babbo!) is a 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Bonnard. Plot Rodolfo, a young man with the ambitions of an opera singer in the bass register, does not work, gets up at midday and lives on the shoulders of his butchers in-laws, who keep his singing studies with a profiteer teacher. Finally, he is cornered by his father-in-law, who expects him to work, as a singer or with any other occupation. The teacher, for fear of losing the profit, arranges for Rodolfo to be hired for just one evening in the small part of Doctor Grenvil in La traviata. Rodolfo, after having created problems in the rehearsals, executes, in general disapproval, the phrase "Consumption does not grant her but a few hours" lowering it by an octave, reaching low C, and furthermore, advancing to the proscenium while the curtain falls. He closes behind him, sings the phrase: «It's off!», not foreseen since, although present in the score, it is traditionally omitted. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'ultimo Amante
''L'ultimo amante'' (literally ''The Last Lover'') is a 1955 Italian melodrama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Amedeo Nazzari and May Britt. It was a remake of Mattoli's 1942 film ''Stasera niente di nuovo''. This version aptly concludes with the score of the famous prelude of La Traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi. Cast * Amedeo Nazzari as Cesare Monti * May Britt as Maria Spanisch * Nino Besozzi as Dr. Moriesi * Frank Latimore as Giorgio * Elena Altieri as Director of the newspaper * María Martín as Girl in the institute (as Mery Martin) * Cesarina Gherardi as The landlady * Ernesto Calindri as Newspaper manager * Elli Parvo as Girl in the institute * Guido Celano as Emergency doctor * Aldo Pini as Nello, the accomplice * Maria Zanoli as Supervisor * Anna Carena Anna Carena (30 January 1899 - 15 April 1990) was an Italian actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1941 to 1983. Filmography References External links * 1899 births 1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loves Of Three Queens
''Loves of Three Queens'' ( it, L'amante di Paride), also known as ''The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships'', is a 1954 Italian anthology film. It was directed by Marc Allégret and Edgar G. Ulmer and stars Hedy Lamarr. Plot A woman going to a costume party tries to work out which Queen she will dress up as. The film follows scenes from the lives of each of the queens. Genevieve, Josephine, and Helen. Cast * Hedy Lamarr as Hedy Windsor / Helen of Troy / Empress Joséphine / Genevieve of Brabant * Massimo Serato as Pâris * Alba Arnova as Vénus * Elli Parvo as Junon * Cathy O'Donnell as Enone * Cesare Danova as Count Siegfried * Terence Morgan as Golo * Gérard Oury as Napoleon * Milly Vitale as Marie-Louise * Richard O'Sullivan as Benoni * John Fraser as Drago * Piero Pastore as Simon * Enrico Glori as Priam * Robert Beatty as Ménélas * Anna Amendola as Minerve * Guido Celano as Jupiter Production The film had its genesis in a proposed televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Art Of Getting Along
''The Art of Getting Along'' ( it, L'arte di arrangiarsi) is a 1954 in film, 1954 comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Alberto Sordi. Following ''Difficult Years'' and ''Easy Years'', it is the third and final chapter in the trilogy about Italian politics under the continuing shadow of fascism conceived by Vitaliano Brancati. In the person of an unprincipled Sicilian rogue, it delivers a satirical portrait of Italian society from 1913 to 1953. In 2008 the film was selected to enter the list of the 100 film italiani da salvare, 100 Italian films to be saved. Plot Sasà Scimoni, nephew and unpaid assistant of the mayor of Catania, adapts himself to any man who may be able to help him advance and to any woman he may be able to take advantage of. Falling for the wife of an honest socialist politician, he becomes an activist and through his machinations the husband gets five years in jail. By then the First World War, which Sasà avoids after feigning madness, has come and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalba, La Fanciulla Di Pompei
''Rosalba, la fanciulla di Pompei'' (''Rosalba, the girl of Pompei'') is a 1952 Italian musical melodrama film. Cast *Roberto Risso: Giorgio de Montera * Silvana Muzi: Rosalba Ambrosano * Natale Montillo: Andrea Ambrosano *Elli Parvo: Laura *Renato Baldini: Vittorio Stelio *Ugo D'Alessio: Nicolino * Beniamino Maggio: Beniamino * Maria Piazzai: Maria Rosa * Renato Vicario: Tonino *Leda Gloria Leda may refer to: Mythology * Leda (mythology), queen of Sparta and mother of Helen of Troy in Greek mythology Places * Leda, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia * Leda makeshift settlement, Bangladesh, a refugee camp ...: Vicina di casa External links * 1952 films 1950s Italian-language films Italian musical drama films 1950s musical drama films Italian black-and-white films Melodrama films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Last Twelve Hours
''His Last Twelve Hours'' (French: ''Pour l'amour du ciel'', Italian: ''È più facile che un cammello...'') is a 1951 French-Italian drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Jean Gabin, Mariella Lotti and Elli Parvo. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. It was shot at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia near Cinecittà in Rome.Chiti & Poppi p.139 Plot Died in a car accident, the wealthy footwear industrialist Carlo Bacchi finds himself in the afterlife, where he is condemned to hell for having committed evil when he was alive. Defending himself from the accusation in a passionate harangue, however, he manages to get back to earth for a few hours, in order to repair the evil committed and above all the bad deed that caused Amedeo Santini's attempted suicide. Cast * Jean Gabin as Carlo Bacchi * Mariella Lotti as Margot, Bacchi's wife * Julien Carette as Amedeo Santini * Elli Parvo as Lidia Guidi, Bacchi's friend * Antonella Lualdi as Mari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto The Third Man
''Toto the Third Man'' ( it, Totò terzo uomo) is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò. Plot In a small village Peter and Paul (both starring Toto), twin brothers of opposite characters, Peter, mayor of the town, is gruff, precise, picky all of a piece and never lets talk about his wife (Bice Valori), is totally different from his brother Paul, who loves the good life and beautiful women, such as the innkeeper's wife Oreste (Carlo Campanini) at the expense of his wife. The dispute between the two brothers is affecting the whole country, because the construction of the new prison, which will give bread and work for all, will be built on land owned by Paul and despite already there is a municipal resolution acquisition of land by part of the town, Peter refuses to carry out the transaction with his brother, blocking the start of work, because they are afraid you might think that makes favoritism to his brother. A groped to take advantage of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'urlo
''The Howl'' ( it, L'urlo) is a 1970 Italian comedy film directed by Tinto Brass. It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Tina Aumont - Anita * Gigi Proietti - Coso * Nino Segurini - Berto Bertuccioli * Germano Longo * Giorgio Gruden - Night watchman * Osiride Pevarello - Cannibal philosopher * Attilio Corsini * Carla Cassola * Sam Dorras - Priest * Tino Scotti - Intellectual at school * Edoardo Florio - Diogenes References External links * 1970 films 1970 comedy films Italian comedy films 1970s Italian-language films Films directed by Tinto Brass Films scored by Fiorenzo Carpi 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mysterious Rider (1948 Film)
''The Mysterious Rider'' ( it, Il cavaliere misterioso, lit=The Mysterious Cavalier) is a 1948 Italian historical-adventure film directed by Riccardo Freda. Cast *Vittorio Gassman: Giacomo Casanova, Cavalier of Seingalt *María Mercader: Elisabetta *Yvonne Sanson: Catherine II *Gianna Maria Canale: Countess Lehmann *Alessandra Mamis: Countess Paola Ipatieff *Hans Hinrich: the Grand Inquisitor *Dante Maggio: Gennaro *Guido Notari: Count Ipatieff *Vittorio Duse: Ivan *Elli Parvo: Dogaressa *Antonio Centa: Baron Porsky *Tino Buazzelli: Joseph Release ''The Mysterious Rider'' was distributed theatrically by Lux Film in Italy on 1 November 1948. It grossed a total of 180,000,000 Italian lire domestically in Italy. In 2005 the film was restored and shown as part of the retrospective "Casanova on the screen" at the 62nd Venice International Film Festival. References Bibliography * External links * 1948 films 1940s historical adventure films Italian historical adventu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
