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Franco Coop
Franco Coop (27 September 1891 – 27 March 1962), was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 65 films between 1931 and 1960. He was born in Naples, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * '' Before the Jury'' (1931) * '' Mother Earth'' (1931) * '' Five to Nil'' (1932) * '' La segretaria per tutti'' (1933) *''Nini Falpala'' (1933) * '' My Little One'' (1933) * '' Everybody's Woman'' (1934) * ''The Last of the Bergeracs'' (1934) * '' Lady of Paradise'' (1934) * ''Aldebaran'' (1935) * ''Those Two'' (1935) * ''Sette giorni all'altro mondo ''Sette giorni all'altro mondo'' is a 1936 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli. Cast *Camillo Pilotto * Vanna Vanni * Franco Coop *Nietta Zocchi *Emilio Petacci *Virgilio Riento *Guglielmo Barnabò Guglielmo Ba ...'' (1936) * ''The Amnesiac'' (1936) * ''I'll Give a Million (1936 film), I'll Give a Million'' (1936) * ''The Last Days of Pompeo'' (1937) * ''Hands Off Me!'' (1937) * ''The Three W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. Its province-level municipality is the third-most populous metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 3,115,320 residents, and its metropolitan area stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately 20 miles. Founded by Greeks in the first millennium BC, Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in the world. In the eighth century BC, a colony known as Parthenope ( grc, Παρθενόπη) was established on the Pizzofalcone hill. In the sixth century BC, it was refounded as Neápolis. The city was an important part of Magna Graecia, played a major role in the merging of Greek and Roman society, and was a significant cultural centre under the Romans. Naples served a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hands Off Me!
''Hands Off Me!'' () is a 1937 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Gero Zambuto.Moliterno p.179 The film is notable for being the screen début of Totò. Its most famous scenes include one in which he tries to give a haircut to a bald man; another one where he fishes from the fishmonger's counter (this scene was repeated in '' Cops and Robbers'' and ''Toto in Paris'') and also the scene in which he holds a broom, using it as a gun (shooting in "Figaro here, Figaro there"). The scene involving the conductor was also repeated in many subsequent films. It was shot at the Safa Palatino Studios in Rome. Plot In his first story, Totò plays the poor wanderer who meets up with a gentleman in poor economic conditions. The two try to earn a living as best they can, but they always incur misfortune and hatred because of their ineptitude. After being kicked out of a beauty salon because he was disguised as a nurse, Totò makes a bet between nobles and later wins a competi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Carlo Mazza
''Baron Carlo Mazza'' (Italian:''Il barone Carlo Mazza'') is a 1948 Italian musical comedy film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Nino Taranto, Silvana Pampanini and Enzo Turco.D'Amico p.65 The film's art direction was by Virgilio Marchi. Synopsis A penniless baron desperately tries to reverse his fortune, and eventually attempts to marry a wealthy Mexican woman. Cast * Nino Taranto as Barone Carlo Mazza * Silvana Pampanini as Rosa Pezza * Enzo Turco as Cecè Rizzo * Franco Coop as Cosimo * Carlo Lombardi as Borgotti * Mario Riva as Annunciatore * Raimondo Van Riel as Zio Casimiro Pezza * Gianna Dauro as Edwige Mazza * Anna Corinto as La segretaria * Franca Del Frate as Elvira Pezza * Dianora Veiga as Lalla * Paolo Carlini as Fugi * Bruno Corelli as Il conte degli Strozzi * Olga Vittoria Gentilli as La principessa Strozzi * Nino Marchesini as Il nuovo rico * Augusto Di Giovanni as Il commendatore * Margherita Bossi as Sua moglie * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ways Of Sin
''The Ways of Sin'' (Italian: ''Le vie del peccato'') is a 1946 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Jacqueline Laurent, Leonardo Cortese and Carlo Ninchi. The film is a melodrama set in Sardinia at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is based on a novel by Grazia Deledda. The film was shot in the Apennine Mountains rather than Sardinia.Urban p.576 Cast * Jacqueline Laurent as Ilaria * Leonardo Cortese as Don Roberto * Carlo Ninchi as Don Sebastiano Pinna * Ada Dondini as Eufemia Pinna * Laura Gore as Carla Pinna * Gualtiero Tumiati as Don Salvatore * Andrea Checchi as Rocco * Lauro Gazzolo as Il farmacista * Umberto Sacripante as Fausto, Il pastore * Michele Riccardini as Il sacerdote * Nino Pavese as Il brigadiere * Franco Coop as Il notaio * Dante Maggio as La guardia carceraria * Rinalda Marchetti as L'amante di Don Sebastiano * Amalia Pellegrini as La domestica dei Pinna * Aldo Silvani Aldo Silvani (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Without A Woman (film)
''Without a Woman'' (Italian: ''Senza una donna'') is a 1943 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Alfredo Guarini and starring Giuseppe Lugo, Silvana Jachino and Umberto Melnati.Chiti & Lancia p.326 The art directors Piero Filippone and Mario Rappini worked on the film's sets. It was shot at Cinecittà in Rome and the Fert Studios of Turin. Location filming took place around Pieve Ligure near Genoa. Synopsis A misogynistic Duke shuts himself up in a castle along with several other men. However their peace is disturbed by the arrival of some stranded female dancers who have missed their train. Cast * Giuseppe Lugo as Il principe Giannettini detto Giorgio Del Manto * Silvana Jachino as Marta * Umberto Melnati as Il duca Venanzio Navarra * Carlo Campanini as Michelino Panigatti * Guglielmo Barnabò as Adalgiso Barni Vagnoli * Jone Morino as Donna Gloria * Jone Salinas as Valeria * Maria Dominiani as Maria * Doretta Sestan as Stefania * Guglielmo Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jealousy (1942 Film)
''Jealousy'' (Italian: ''Gelosia'') is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli and starring Luisa Ferida, Roldano Lupi and Ruggero Ruggeri.Reich, Jacqueline & Garofalo, Piero. ''Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943''. Indiana University Press, 2002. p.100. The film was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome with sets designed by the art director Gastone Simonetti. It belongs to the movies of the calligrafismo style. It is based on the 1901 novel ''Il Marchese di Roccaverdina'' by Luigi Capuana, which was later made into a 1953 film ''Jealousy''. Cast * Luisa Ferida as Agrippina Solmo * Roldano Lupi as Il marchese Antonio di Roccaverdina * Ruggero Ruggeri as Il parocco don Silvio * Elena Zareschi as Zosima Munoz * Elvira Betrone as Carmelina Munoz, sua madre * Wanda Capodaglio as La baronessa Santina di Lagomorto * Franco Coop as L'avvocato don Aquilante Guzardi * Bella Starace Sainati as Mamma Grazia * Angelo Dessy as Neli Casaccio * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Happy Ghost (1941 Film)
''The Happy Ghost'' (Italian: ''L'allegro fantasma'') is a 1941 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Amleto Palermi and starring Totò, Luigi Pavese and Franco Coop.Aprà p.103 It was shot at the Cinecittà studios in Rome. The film's art direction was by Gastone Medin. Plot The noble Pantaleo Santa Paola dies suddenly, without writing a will. Immediately in the villa go his three grandchildren and three other relatives. All claim family assets, and at the end of the story reaches the poor Nicolino, who is also the nephew of Pantaleo. The Pantaleo ghost appears while the dispute rages and declares his true heir. Cast * Totò as Nicolino & Gelsomino & Antonino * Luigi Pavese as Temistocle * Franco Coop as Maurizio Devalier * Isa Bellini as Rosa * Wilma Mangini as Titti * Thea Prandi as Lilli * Paolo Stoppa as Gigetto * Amelia Chellini as Zia Lia * Dina Perbellini as Zia Giovanna * Elli Parvo as Erika * Claudio Ermelli as Battista * Augusto Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man On The Street
''The Man on the Street'' (Italian:''La bocca sulla strada'') is a 1941 Italian drama film directed by Roberto Roberti and starring Armando Falconi, Carla Del Poggio and Giuseppe Rinaldi.Landy p.184 It was made at Cinecittà in Rome. The film's sets were designed by Giuseppe Spirito and Fratelli Cimino Cast * Armando Falconi as Don Gennaro Cuomo * Carla Del Poggio as Graziella * Giuseppe Rinaldi as Stelio Corsi * Guglielmo Barnabò as L'industriale Sebastiano Corsi * Vera Bergman as Alba Corsi * Franco Rondinella as Salvatore * Franco Coop as Il marchese Andrea Del Fermo * Vittorina Benvenuti as Donna Olimpia Del Fermo * Emilio Petacci as Il notaio * Alfredo Martinelli as Il conte Rosati * Alfredo Morati as Il duca D'Arcetri * Luisa Ventura as Giovanna * Giuseppe Ricagno as Il maggiordomo dei Del Fermo * Sergio Leone as Un bambino * Adele Paternò References Bibliography * Landy, Marcia. ''Italian Film''. Cambridge University Press, 2000. Externa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The King's Jester
''The King's Jester'' ( it, Il re si diverte) is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Michel Simon, María Mercader and Rossano Brazzi. The film is an adaptation of the play ''Le roi s'amuse'' by Victor Hugo and uses music from Verdi's later opera ''Rigoletto''.Fawkes p. 111 It is set at the court of Francis I of France in the Sixteenth century. Cast * Michel Simon as Rigoletto * María Mercader as Gilda * Rossano Brazzi as Il re Francesco Iº * Doris Duranti as Margot * Paola Barbara as La duchessa di Cosse * Elli Parvo as La zingara * Carlo Ninchi as Il conte di Saint Vallier * Juan de Landa as Sparafucile * Loredana as Diana Di Saint Vallier * Franco Coop as Il duca di Cosse * Corrado Racca as Signor De Brion * Giulio Battiferri as Uno dei rapitori di Gilda * Oreste Bilancia as Un cortegiano * Gildo Bocci as Il Gran Visir * Ruggero Capodaglio as Un cortegiano * Stanis Cappello as Un cortegiano * Renato Chiantoni as Il terzo zingaro * Gemm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Pasquale (film)
''Don Pasquale'' is a 1940 Italian comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque and starring Armando Falconi, Laura Solari and Maurizio D'Ancora. It is loosely based on Giovanni Ruffini's libretto for Gaetano Donizetti's ''opera buffa'' ''Don Pasquale''.Francesco Savio. ''Ma l'amore no. Realismo, formalismo, propaganda e telefoni bianchi nel cinema italiano di regime (1930–1943)''. Sonzogno Edit., 1975. It was screened at the 8th Venice International Film Festival. Plot In eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, very miserly, wishes his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to an expensive social life, to marry a rich spinster, both to save on the expenses of her maintenance and to increase the family wealth. Ernesto, however, is in love, reciprocated, with Norina, a beautiful and brilliant singer of the "Pallacorda" theater, but fears, if it were known, of being disinherited. Faced with his resistance, the uncle then decides to take a wife himself and asks his doctor, Doc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Fracasse (1940 Film)
''Captain Fracasse'' (Italian: ''Capitan Fracassa'') is a 1940 Italian historical adventure film directed by Duilio Coletti and starring Elsa De Giorgi, Giorgio Costantini and Osvaldo Valenti. It was made at the Cinecittà studios in Rome. The film is based on the 1863 novel of the same name by Théophile Gautier.Goble p.270 Another adaptation '' Captain Fracasse'' was made three years later as a co-production between France and Italy. Cast * Elsa De Giorgi as Isabella * Giorgio Costantini as Il barone di Sigognac / Capitan Fracassa * Osvaldo Valenti as Il duca Ruggero di Vallombrosa * Nerio Bernardi as Il principe * Clara Calamai as Iolanda De Foix * Olga Vittoria Gentilli as Leonarda, la madre nobile * Egisto Olivieri as Il tiranno & il capocomico * Renato Chiantoni as Scapino * Ernesto Gentili as Leandro * Pia De Doses as Zerbina * Mario Siletti as Giacomo Lampourde * Fiorella Betti as Chiquita * Guido Morisi as Vidalino * Dina Perbellini as La marc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint John, The Beheaded
''Saint John, the Beheaded'' (Italian: ''San Giovanni decollato'') is a 1940 Italian comedy film directed by Amleto Palermi and Giorgio Bianchi and starring Totò, Titina De Filippo and Silvana Jachino.Moliterno p.316 It was based on a play by Nino Martoglio. The film was made at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. Plot In a town, near Naples, in 1900, the cobbler Agostino Miciacio is accused by tenants of his apartment building to be crazy. In fact Agostino is a lively man, mocked by everyone because he is messy. He is very devoted to John the Baptist John the Baptist or , , or , ;Wetterau, Bruce. ''World history''. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1994. syc, ܝܘܿܚܲܢܵܢ ܡܲܥܡܕ݂ܵܢܵܐ, Yoḥanān Maʿmḏānā; he, יוחנן המטביל, Yohanān HaMatbil; la, Ioannes Bapti ..., so Agostino lights a candle every night in a small chapel in the courtyard. But some of the oil in the wax necessary for the luminary, disappears every night. It is a fact that Agosti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
