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Giuseppe Porelli
Giuseppe Porelli (24 November 1897 – 5 March 1982) was an Italian stage, film and television actor. Life and career Born Giuseppe Porcelli in Naples, he graduated from the Istituto Tecnico and became an employee of Ferrovie dello Stato. While there, he spent his free time involved in amateur dramatics. In 1918 he left his job to accept employment as a professional actor in the company of Irma Gramatica. Porelli later entered some of the most important stage companies of the time, specializing as a sidekick in revue shows. Active on films since 1926, he had an intense career as a character actor, mostly cast in roles of elegant and fashionable gentlemen in comedy films. He was married to the actress Rinalda Marchetti. Selected filmography * ''Just Married'' (1934) * ''Unripe Fruit'' (1934) * ''Thirty Seconds of Love'' (1936) * '' Felicita Colombo'' (1937) * ''Naples of Olden Times'' (1938) *''The House of Shame'' (1938) * ''Naples Will Never Die'' (1939) * '' Heartbeat'' ... [...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] |
First Love (1941 Film)
''First Love'' (Italian: ''Primo amore'') is a 1941 Italian drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Leonardo Cortese, Vivi Gioi and Luigi Almirante.Nowell-Smith, Hay & Volpi p.57 It was made at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. Cast * Leonardo Cortese as Pietro Redi / Peter Reed * Vivi Gioi as Jane Blue * Luigi Almirante as Girolamo Redi * Valentina Cortese as Nerina Redi * Bianca Della Corte as Celeste Redi * Clelia Matania as Silvia Redi * Osvaldo Valenti as Giovannino Cafiero * Giuseppe Porelli as Peppino Percoppo * Luigi Cimara as Il maestro Giacomo Asquini * Carlo Bressan as Il maestro Gargiulo * Guido Celano as Il capitano del "Flavio Gioia" * Oreste Fares as Il dottore Lanzara * Nicola Maldacea as Don Gennaro Del Pezzo * Dina Romano as Nannina * Gina Ror as Donna Concetta * Bella Starace Sainati as Zia Giovanna * Giuseppe Varni as L'editore Wolkoff * Augusto Marcacci * Roberto Semprini The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melody Of Love (1952 Film)
''Melody of Love'' or ''Singing City'' (original title ''Città canora'') is a 1952 Italian musical melodrama film directed by Mario Costa and starring Giacomo Rondinella, Maria Fiore and Nadia Gray.Chiti & Poppi p.218 It was shot at Cinecitta Studios in Rome and on location in Naples. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lamberto Giovagnoli. Cast *Nadia Gray as Nadia Sandor *Maria Fiore as Maria Morelli *Giacomo Rondinella as Giacomo D'Angeli *Tina Pica as Concetta *Paola Borboni as Anna *Carlo Romano as Commendator Ferrario *Mirko Ellis as Renato Scala *Giovanni Grasso as Don Salvatore Morelli *Giuseppe Porelli as Don Raffaele Scotto *Leila Calabrese as Governante di Don Raffaele * Dante and Beniamino Maggio as Pasquale and Nicola *Amalia Pellegrini as Amalia * Vittorio Bottone *Salvatore Cafiero * Arturo Gigliati * Luigi De Simone References Bibliography * Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. ''Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959''. Gremese Edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oggi Sposi (1952 Film)
''It Was She Who Wanted It!'' (Italian: ''Era lei che lo voleva!'') is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Marino Girolami and starring Walter Chiari, Lucia Bosè and Carlo Campanini.Chiti, Poppi & Lancia p.140 The film's sets were designed by the art director Alberto Boccianti. It involves the emotional bickering between a psychiatrist and a rather brusque boxer. Plot After seeing the famous Dinamite boxer in a sports magazine, a girl has visions, seeing in every person she meets the face of the boxer. Her doctor manages to remind her of having met him in a fleeting and unpleasant occasion, but concludes that the visions are the result of her unconscious love for the boxer. Cast * Walter Chiari as Walter Martini * Lucia Bosé as Nausicaa * Carlo Campanini as Antonio * Jone Morino as Donna Eva * Giuseppe Porelli as Comm. Invernaghi * Carmen de Lirio as Carmen * Mario Ruspoli as The Cousin Raoul * Belle Tildy as The Maid at Invernaghi's * Giovanni D'Anzi as Kid Tart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris Is Always Paris
''Paris Is Always Paris'' ( it, Parigi è sempre Parigi, french: Paris est toujours Paris) is a 1951 Italian-French comedy film directed by Luciano Emmer. It was entered into the competition at the 12th Venice International Film Festival. Cast * Aldo Fabrizi as Andrea De Angelis * Henri Guisol as Monsieur Morand * Ave Ninchi as Elvira de Angelis * Jeannette Batti as Claudia * Hélène Rémy as Christine * Henri Génès as Paul Gremier * Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello Venturi * Lucia Bosé as Mimi de Angelis * Carlo Sposito as Toto Mancuso (credited as Carletto Sposito) * Giuseppe Porelli as Raffaele D'Amore * Janine Marsay as Praline * Galeazzo Benti as Gianni Forlivesi * Paolo Panelli as Nicolino Percuoco * Franco Interlenghi as Franco Martini * Yves Montand as himself * Eartha Kitt as uncredited cameo as herself / cabaret singer * Roland Lesaffre References External links * 1951 films 1950s Italian-language films 1950s French-language films 1951 comedy films French bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women And Brigands
''Women and Brigands'' (Italian: ''Donne e briganti'') is a 1950 French-Italian historical melodrama film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Maria Mauban and Jean Chevrier. It is based on the story of the legendary guerilla fighter Fra Diavolo, who led a major uprising against French forces in Naples during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1953 it was released in a dubbed version in the United States under the alternative title ''The King's Guerrillas''. The film was made at the Farnesina Studios in Rome with Location shooting taking place at the Royal Palace of Caserta. The films's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti. It earned around 206 million lira at the Italian box office.Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. ''Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959''. Gremese Editore, 1991. p. 126. (in Italian) . Cast *Amedeo Nazzari as Michele Pezza/Fra Diavolo *Maria Mauban as Marietta *Jean Chevrier as General Hugo *Paolo Stoppa as Peppino Luciani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
È Arrivato Il Cavaliere!
''The Knight Has Arrived!'' (Italian: ''È arrivato il cavaliere!'') is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli and Steno and starring Tino Scotti, Silvana Pampanini and Nyta Dover. The film's sets were designed by the art director Flavio Mogherini. It earned around 254 million lira at the Italian box office.Chiti & Poppi p.135 It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival in 2010. Synopsis The eccentric leader of a group of small-time Hawkers known as "The Knight" tries to prevent the area they use from being redeveloped as part of a new business and Metro station complex. Employing a number of surreal schemes, he is eventually successful. Cast *Tino Scotti as Il Cavaliere *Silvana Pampanini as Carla Colombo *Enrico Viarisio as Il Ministro *Enzo Biliotti as Il Commissario * Nyta Dover as Musette *Rocco D'Assunta as Capo dei Banditi *Galeazzo Benti as Marchese Bevilacqua *Marcella Rovena as Signor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost In The Dark (1947 Film)
''Lost in the Dark'' ( it, Sperduti nel buio) is a 1947 Italian melodrama film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque. It was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival. The film was based on a 1901 play of the same title by Roberto Bracco which had earlier been made into a 1914 silent film.Mancini p.13 The film's sets were designed by the futurist architect Virgilio Marchi. Cast * Vittorio De Sica as Nunzio * Fiorella Betti as Paolina * Jacqueline Plessis as Livia * Enrico Glori as Paolo Nardone * Olga Solbelli as Emilia * Anna Corinto as Lolotta * Luigi Pavese as Frantz Cardillo * Giuseppe Porelli as Giovanni * Pietro Bigerna * Leo Dale * Primo Di Gennaro * Augusto Di Giovanni * Claudio Ermelli * Pupella Maggio * Annielo Mele * Tina Pica * Maria Luisa Reda * Alfredo Rizzo * Sandro Ruffini * Agostino Salvietti * Domenico Serra Domenico Serra (1899–1965) was an Italian stage and film actor. He made more than sixty films, many of them during the silent era including M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime News
''Cronaca nera'' (Italian for ''Black news'') is a 1947 Italian crime film directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring María Denis, Gino Cervi and Andrea Checchi. The title refers to the section given over to crime stories in Italian newspapers. Plot synopsis A mob boss (Gino Cervi) wanted by the police takes refuge at the home of his unsuspecting associate's (Andrea Checchi) honest family, aiming to regroup his gang again when the time is right. In the process, he falls in love with his associate’s sister (María Denis) and decides to go straight. Critical reception On the occasion of ''Cronaca neras 2015 showing on Harvard's film program, the film was described as " neorealist cinema itself" and as "exemplifying the fatalism associated with noir" in "films such as ''Ossessione'' (1943)." The program also noted that "among the film’s screenwriters are Sergio Amidei and Cesare Zavattini, who between them worked on most of the postwar masterpieces by Rossellini and de Sica." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unknown Man Of San Marino
''The Unknown Man of San Marino'' (Italian: ''Lo Sconosciuto di San Marino'') is a 1946 Italian drama film directed by Michał Waszyński and starring Anna Magnani, Vittorio De Sica and Antonio Gandusio.Sieglohr p.156 It was shot at the Icet Studios in Milan and on location around the Republic of San Marino where it is set. The screenwriter Cesare Zavattini and the actors Anna Magnani and Vittorio De Sica were key figures in the neorealist movement which was at its height when the film was made. Synopsis During the closing stages of the Second World War, refugees pour into San Marino. One of them is a foreigner who has apparently lost his memory. Liana, a prostitute, is very sympathetic towards him. He also bonds with members of the Polish Army he encounters. However, during a religious procession to mark the fall of the German Gothic Line, he is jolted by the memory of an atrocity he committed while serving with German forces against a similar procession. Filled with remorse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Met You In Naples
''I Met You in Naples'' (Italian: ''Io t'ho incontrata a Napoli'') is a 1946 Italian musical melodrama film directed by Pietro Francisci and starring Anna Nievo, Leo Dale and Peppino De Filippo. The film takes its name from a popular song of the same title. It is part of the neorealist trend in post-Second World War Italian films.Cardullo p.217 Synopsis An American soldier and a young Italian aspiring actress meet in wartime Naples in 1944. They fall in love and eventually marry. At the end of the film she emigrates to the United States with him, hoping to be able to pursue her career there. Cast * Anna Nievo as Angela l'attrice * Leo Dale as ufficiale americano *Peppino De Filippo *Giuseppe Porelli *Claudio Gora *Paolo Stoppa *Lola Braccini *William Bye *Nino Pavese *Massimo Sallusti *Renzo Giovampietro Renzo Giovampietro (23 June 1924 – 10 March 2006) was an Italian actor, theatre director and playwright. Life and career Born in Velletri, Rome, the son of a carp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peddlin' In Society
''Peddlin' in Society'' or ''Down With Riches!'' ( it, Abbasso la ricchezza!) is a 1946 Italian romance-drama film directed by Gennaro Righelli. it was a loose sequel to the 1945 film ''Down with Misery'' by the same director and also starring Magnani. Cast *Anna Magnani as Gioconda Perfetti *Vittorio De Sica as il conte Ghirani *Virgilio Riento as Don Nicola *Laura Gore as Anna * Zora Piazza as Lucia Perfetti * John Garson as Lucky Brandy *Lauro Gazzolo as Commendator Bardacò *Giuseppe Porelli as Bonifazio * Vittorio Mottini as Nino *Galeazzo Benti as Rorò di Torretia * Vito Annichiarico as Little Tranquillo * Domenico Gambino as Tranquillo's Uncle *Checco Durante as Greengrocer *Anita Durante as Caterina *Dina Romano as Marquise of Mendoza *Enrico Glori as Commissioner *Edda Soligo as Zefira *Maria Grazia Francia Maria Grazia Francia (17 September 1931 – 4 March 2021) was an Italian actress of classic cinema. Career Born in Florence, in the mid-1940s Francia m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
