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Fanfulla Da Lodi
Luigi Visconti, better known by his stage name Fanfulla, (26 February 1913 – 5 January 1971) was an Italian actor and comedian. Life and career Born in Rome, Visconti debuted at very young age on stage alongside his mother, the actress Mercedes Menolesi (best known as "Diavolina"). From the mid-forties to the late fifties, he adopted the stage name Fanfulla and was a popular comedian of cabaret and avanspettacolo shows, acclaimed for his brilliant style, referred to as "The King of Avanspettacolo" and even paired with Ettore Petrolini. His career was relaunched by Federico Fellini, who chose him for the role of Vernacchio in ''Fellini Satyricon'', a role that gave Fanfulla a Nastro d'Argento for best supporting actor. In 1970, Fellini gave him a main role in '' The Clowns''. In 1971, Fanfulla died from a heart attack in a hotel in Bologna, while he was on tour with his avanspettacolo company. Partial filmography *'' Era lui... sì! sì!'' (1951) - La guardia *'' Tizio, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
, established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption = The territory of the ''comune'' (''Roma Capitale'', in red) inside the Metropolitan City of Rome (''Città Metropolitana di Roma'', in yellow). The white spot in the centre is Vatican City. , pushpin_map = Italy#Europe , pushpin_map_caption = Location within Italy##Location within Europe , pushpin_relief = yes , coordinates = , coor_pinpoint = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Italy , subdivision_type2 = Region , subdivision_name2 = Lazio , subdivision_type3 = Metropolitan city , subdivision_name3 = Rome Capital , government_footnotes= , government_type = Strong Mayor–Council , leader_title2 = Legislature , leader_name2 = Capitoline Assemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto In Paris
''Toto in Paris'' ( it, Totò a Parigi, french: Parisien malgré lui, also known as '' Totò innamorato'') is a 1958 Italian-French comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque. Plot The Marquis Gastone De Chemandel plans to kill his lookalike Toto, a poor Neapolitan vagabond who is a perfect double of the Marquis, to collect his life-insurance premium. Cast * Totò: Marquis Gastone De Chemandel / Toto * Sylva Koscina: Juliette Marchand * Fernand Gravey: Dr. Duclos * Lauretta Masiero: The Gypsy * Philippe Clay: The Maître * Paul Guers: Pierre * Tiberio Mitri: The Bodyguard * Luigi Pavese: Professor Calogero Tempesta * Fanfulla: Effeminato del treno * Memmo Carotenuto: Brigadiere * Olimpia Cavalli Olimpia Cavalli (30 August 1930 – 29 March 2012) was an Italian actress. Born in Cadeo, she was mainly active between the late fifties and mid-sixties. After being a star on avanspettacolo alongside Erminio Macario, she made her film debut i ...: Donna nel vagone l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Joy Of Living
''The Joy of Living'' ( it, Che gioia vivere, french: Quelle joie de vivre) is a 1961 Italian-French comedy film directed by René Clément. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Plot The story is set in Rome, in the year 1921. Ulisse ( Alain Delon) enrolls in the Italian Fascist party because he cannot find any employment. The first task entrusted to him by the party leads Ulysses to the printer Fossati, where he's hired as an apprentice. This brings him into contact with a family of anarchists, who will turn him into a reluctant hero for love of the beautiful Franca ( Barbara Lass). However, at a time when he must make a decisive choice, Ulysses obeys neither the anarchists nor the fascists, and risks his life for a different idea of freedom. Cast * Alain Delon as Ulisse Cecconato * Barbara Lass as Franca Fossati * Gino Cervi as Olinto Fossati * Rina Morelli as Rosa Fossati * Carlo Pisacane as Grandfather "Fossati" * Paolo Stoppa as Hairdresser * Giampiero Litt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Thief Of Baghdad (1961 Film)
''The Thief of Baghdad'' (Italian: Il ladro di Bagdad) is a 1961 film directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Steve Reeves. Plot In the time of the Arabian Nights, the city of Baghdad was ruled by Sultan Ali Bajazeth but actually controlled by the scheming Grand Vizier Ghamal. The poor of Baghdad are aided by Karim, the Thief of Baghdad. Prince Osman is due to arrive at the palace to ask for the hand of Sultan Ali's daughter Amina in marriage. Karim sneaks into the palace, waylays Osman, and impersonates the prince, using the opportunity to steal jewels from all of the assembled courtiers. When this is discovered, Karim hides in Princess Amina's quarters. When her attendants leave, Karim reveals himself to her, and the two are immediately drawn to each other (she believes that he is Prince Osman). The following night, Karim secretly returns to the palace. He meets with Amina, and they declare their love for each other. Climbing down into a courtyard to escape the guards, he lands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love In Rome
''Un amore a Roma'' (internationally released as ''Love in Rome'') is a 1960 Italian romantic drama film directed by Dino Risi.Paolo D'Agostini, ''Dino Risi'', Editrice Il castoro, 1995 Plot Marcello (Baldwin), a young writer, loves Anna (Demongeot), a femme fatale-ish beauty who can't remain faithful to any man for very long. Anna has her sights set on a movie career. However, she only seems to be able to secure parts in low-brow peplum films. Marcello is frustrated by Anna's capricious nature, while he himself is involved with two other women, Fulvia (Martinelli) and Eleonora (Perschy). At one point, Marcello even proposes to Eleonora but is unable to follow it through. Cast * Mylène Demongeot: Anna Padoan * Peter Baldwin: Marcello Cenni * Elsa Martinelli: Fulvia * Claudio Gora: Eng. Curtatoni * Maria Perschy: Eleonora Curtatoni * Jacques Sernas: Tony Meneghini * Armando Romeo: Nello D'Amore * Umberto Orsini: Peppino Barlacchi * Fanfulla: Moreno * Vittorio De Sica: the direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Traffic Policeman
''The Traffic Policeman'' ( it, Il vigile) is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Alberto Sordi in the lead role. A representative of the ''commedia all'italiana'' genre, it tells the story of a traffic policeman and the injustice he endures for daring to enforce the law at the expense of people in power. Plot Otello Celletti is a war veteran from a small town in Latium. He has been unemployed since the end of the war and lives with his father, wife Amalia and their son, at the expense of his brother-in-law. When he is offered a menial job in the town's markets, Otello refuses in disdain. After fiercely insisting with the town's Mayor and by leveraging his veteran status, Otello eventually obtains a position with the local traffic police. Though he performs his duties poorly, Otello still abuses his authority to exact petty revenge upon those who had been teasing him while he was jobless. One day, Otello finds himself offering roadside assistance to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Passionate Thief (film)
''The Passionate Thief'' ( it, Risate di gioia) is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Anna Magnani and Totò. Plot Two friends (Toto and Magnani) live by their wits working as comedians and cabaret at Cinecittà, before being invited to friends' parties or masked balls during New Year's Eve in Rome. The two, however, even though they make people laugh all the time in public, live an inner conflict, namely that the two have always to be aware to give a smile to someone, but they can never be rich and happy because they are street artists and with a precarious wage. Cast * Anna Magnani as Gioia Fabbricotti (alias Tortorella) * Totò as Umberto "Infortunio" Pennazzuto * Ben Gazzara as Lello * Fred Clark as The American * Edy Vessel as The girl * Gina Rovere as Mimi * Toni Ucci Antonio "Toni" Ucci (13 January 1922 – 16 or 19 February 2014) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Sceriffa
''La sceriffa'' (''The Sheriff'') is a 1959 Italian Western comedy in black-and-white, directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero. It stars Italian comedy star Ugo Tognazzi. It was released on 16 August 1959. The film starred several comedians and spawned a number of western comedies which followed. Plot A sheriff is killed and his widow (Tina Pica) takes up his job to find the killers. Cast *Tina Pica as Carmela Esposito, 'la Sceriffa' *Ugo Tognazzi as Colorado Joe *Livio Lorenzon as Jimmy Jesse *Tino Scotti as The Judge *Alberto Sorrentino as Brutto Tempo - the Native American * Anita Todesco as Nuvola Rosa - Brutto Tempo's Daughter *Carlo Pisacane as Nick *Carlo Sposito as Gennarino - aka Gen *Annie Alberti as Connie Dallas *Franco Balducci as Jimmy Jesse's Brother *Stelio Candelli as Bruno Carotenuto *Elio Crovetto as Jack - the Texan drunk *Tina De Mola as Dolly - the singer *Fanfulla Luigi Visconti, better known by his stage name Fanfulla, (26 February 1913 – 5 January 1971) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Of A Friend
''Death of a Friend'' ( it, Morte di Un Amico) is a 1959 Italian film directed by Franco Rossi, starring Spyros Focas, Gianni Garko, Angela Luce, Anna Mzzuchelli and Didi Perego. Cast * Gianni Garko as Aldo * Spiros Focas as Bruno * Didi Perego as Lea * Angela Luce as Franca * Anna Mazzuchelli as Adriana *Fanfulla as De Amicis *Olimpia Cavalli as Wanda * Andrea Scotti Andrea Scotti (born 27 August 1931) is an Italian film and television actor. Background Born in Naples, Scotti attended at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, graduating in 1956. During his career he was mainly active in genre f ... as The Frenchman Censorship When ''Morte di Un Amico'' was first released in Italy in 1959, the Italian Committee for the Theatrical Review of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities rated the film not suitable for viewing because it included several immoral scenes which the committee considered to be offensive to public decency. On a second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dam On The Yellow River
''The Dam on the Yellow River'' ( it, Apocalisse sul fiume giallo, french: Le dernier train de Shanghai, released in UK as ''Last Train to Shanghai'') is a 1960 Italian-French drama film written and directed by Renzo Merusi. Plot In China, during the civil war, Mao Tse Tung overrides the retreating nationalists. The rebels decide, at the cost of causing millions of victims, to blow up the dam on the Yellow River. Cast * Anita Ekberg: Miss Dorothy Simmons * Georges Marchal: John Bell * Franca Bettoia: Sister Celeste * George Wang: Wang (credited as Wang Jie) * José Jaspe: Slansky * Dori Dorika: Mamie * Claudio Biava: Anak, Wang's Partner * Miranda Campa: Mary * Fanfulla * Liana Del Balzo Liana Del Balzo (4 March 1899 – 26 March 1982) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 90 films between 1935 and 1979. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and died in Rome, Italy. Even making her film debut quite late, in her fort ... References External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Mattatore
''Love and Larceny'' (in Italian, ''Il mattatore'', "The Showman") is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. It was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot Gerardo is an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy. Due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, he is involved in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant. His inexperience resulted in he is the only one to be arrested and sentenced to several months in prison. There he encounters a vast array of petty criminals, devoted primarily to scams of various kinds. He befriends Chinotto, a con man for whom the doors of the prisons are like "revolving doors of a large hotel." Cast * Vittorio Gassman as Gerardo Latini * Peppino De Filippo as De Rosa, aka "Chinotto" * Dorian Gray as Elena * Anna Maria Ferrero as Annalisa Rauseo * Mario Carotenuto as Lallo Cortina * Alberto Bonucci as Gloria Patri * Fosco Giachetti as General Benito Mesci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quanto Sei Bella Roma
''Quanto sei bella Roma'' ( es, ¡Qué bella eres, Roma!) is a 1959 Italian-Spanish romantic comedy film directed by Marino Girolami and starring Claudio Villa.Renato Venturelli. ''Nessuno ci può giudicare: il lungo viaggio del cinema musicale italiano''. Fahrenheit 451, 1998. . Plot Gino and Claudio are two young friends who work for Nando, one as a mechanic, the other as a taxi driver. Both are officially engaged, and the girlfriends are two sisters, Lorella and Patrizia. Nonetheless, the two young men are not alien to allowing themselves some innocent sentimental adventure when the opportunity arises. Gino by chance makes the acquaintance of Ava and Mary, two American girls who have come to visit Rome and, supported by his friend Claudio, briefly makes friends with the two foreigners. In order not to be disturbed in their adventure, Gino and Claudio give their shy friend Nino the task of keeping the two girlfriends at bay. Despite this precaution, Lorella and Patrizia soon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
