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Giacomo Furia
Giacomo Matteo Furia (2 January 1925 – 5 June 2015) was an Italian film, television and stage actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1948 and 1998. Life and career Born in Arienzo, near Caserta, Furia started his acting career thanks to Eduardo De Filippo, he had met through an after-school summer job; he made his professional debut on stage in 1945, in De Filippo's "Napoli milionaria". He made his film debut three years later, in Mario Mattoli's '' Assunta Spina''; mainly cast in character roles, he was often a sidekick of Totò, notably landing a major role in ''The Band of Honest Men''. His credits include films directed by Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini and Francesco Rosi. In 1997 Furia released an autobiography written in collaboration with Michele Avitabile, ''Le maggiorate, il principe e l'ultimo degli onesti''. He died on 5 June 2015, aged 90. Selected filmography * '' Assunta Spina'' (1948) - Tittariello * ''The Bride Can't Wai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Wife's Enemy
''My Wife's Enemy'' ( it, Il nemico di mia moglie) is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Gianni Puccini. Cast * Marcello Mastroianni - Marco Tornabuoni * Giovanna Ralli - Luciana, sua moglie * Vittorio De Sica - Ottavio Terenzi, padre di Marco * Memmo Carotenuto - Nando Terenzi, padre di Lucia * Luciana Paluzzi - Giulia * Andrea Checchi - Dr. Giuliani * Teddy Reno - Himself * Giacomo Furia - Peppino * Riccardo Garrone - Michele * Raimondo Vianello - Mister La Corata * Enzo Garinei - Scienziato tedesco * Gisella Sofio Gisella Sofio (19 February 1931 – 27 January 2017) was an Italian actress. Life and career Born in Milan, Sofio started her career at the age of 16 as a model. In 1951 she began her acting career in Mario Mattoli's film ''Accidents to the Ta ... - Worker References External links * 1959 films 1950s Italian-language films 1959 comedy films Italian black-and-white films Films directed by Gianni Puccini Italian comedy films 1950s Italian films [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Repubblica
''la Repubblica'' (; the Republic) is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (now known as GEDI Gruppo Editoriale) and led by Eugenio Scalfari, Carlo Caracciolo and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Born as a leftist newspaper, it has since moderated to a milder centre-left political stance, and moved further to the centre after the appointment of Maurizio Molinari as editor. History Foundation ''la Repubblica'' was founded by Eugenio Scalfari, previously director of the weekly magazine ''L'Espresso''. The publisher Carlo Caracciolo and Mondadori had invested 2.3 billion lire (half each) and a break-even point was calculated at 150,000 copies. Scalfari invited a few trusted colleagues: Gianni Rocca, then Giorgio Bocca, Sandro Viola, Mario Pirani, Miriam Mafai, Barbara Spinelli, Natalia Aspesi and Giuseppe Turani. The cartoons were the prerogative of Giorgio Forattini until 1999. Early years The newspaper first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Folk's Sunday
''Good Folk's Sunday'' ( it, La domenica della buona gente) is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Anton Giulio Majano. Plot Several destinies are displayed as the soccer teams of Rome and Naples meet, with Sophia Loren in one of the episodes. Cast *Maria Fiore: Sandra * Sophia Loren: Ines *Renato Salvatori: Giulio *Vittorio Sanipoli: Conti *Ave Ninchi: Elvira * Alberto Talegalli: Clemente *Carlo Romano: Malesci * Mariolina Bovo: Marisa *Memmo Carotenuto: Amleto *Nino Manfredi: Lello *Turi Pandolfini: Priest *Piero Palermini: Pieri * Gisella Monaldi: Gisella *Alfredo Martinelli: Valli *Laura Tiberti: Maria *Eduardo Passarelli: Doorman * Nino Vingelli *Fiorenzo Fiorentini *Bice Valori *Rina Franchetti *Carlo Giuffrè Carlo Giuffrè (3 December 1928 – 1 November 2018) was an Italian stage, film and television actor and a stage director. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1942 and 2002. Biography Giuffrè was born in Naples, Italy and was the brothe ... * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Machine To Kill Bad People
''The Machine to Kill Bad People'' (Italian: ''La Macchina ammazzacattivi'') is a 1952 Italian fantasy comedy film directed by Roberto Rossellini and featuring Marilyn Buferd, William Tubbs and Clara Bindi. It is part of the tradition of neorealism of the post-war years. Having helped neorealism gain international recognition with his 1945 work ''Rome, Open City'', Rossellini was trying to branch out into different styles. Production Rossellini began shooting the film in 1948, but production was beset by many problems.Brunette p.101 Location shooting took place around Amalfi, Salerno and Trani. Synopsis A stranger claiming to be Saint Andrea gives to the village photographer a magic camera with the power to destroy the wicked. When it becomes apparent that no one is immune the photographer turns the device on the giver, who is unmasked as a devil and forced to return everyone to life. Cast * Gennaro Pisano as Celestino * Marilyn Buferd as American tourist *William Tubbs as Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dream Of Zorro
''The Dream of Zorro'' (Italian: ''Il Sogno di Zorro'') is a 1952 Italian comedy adventure film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Walter Chiari, Delia Scala and Vittorio Gassman. The future star Sophia Loren had a minor role in the film. The film's sets were designed by Guido Fiorini. Plot A direct descendant of the legendary Zorro, an elderly gentleman has an only son named Raimondo (Walter Chiari), in whom there is no trace of the original pride of his ancestors. Raimondo is a shy and fearful young man, who has become this way since he was a child, following a terrible fall, in which he hit his head. When the father invites a friend with his daughter to his farm, whom he intends to marry Raimondo, the latter has such a childish and foolish demeanor that everything is upset. Chased out of the house he decides to enter the convent, but on the way he meets a powerful gentleman who conspires against the Governor and, involved in the melee between them and his opponents, Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Microfono è Vostro
''Il Microfono è vostro'' is a 1951 Italy, Italian comedy film directed by Giuseppe Bennati. Plot Cast * Aroldo Tieri * Gisella Sofio * Enrico Viarisio * Guglielmo Inglese * Enrico Luzi * Ada Dondini * Mario Siletti * Rino Salviati * Franco Pucci * Nilla Pizzi * Nunzio Filogamo * Gorni Kramer * Cinico Angelini * Gisella Monaldi * Giacomo Furia * Quartetto Cetra External links * 1951 films 1950s Italian-language films Italian comedy films 1951 comedy films Italian black-and-white films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrivano I Nostri
''Arrivano i nostri'' is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Mario Riva. Cast * Mario Riva * Riccardo Billi as The showman playing Carmen Miranda * Franca Marzi as Gloria Chelli — Garlandi's lover * Lisetta Nava as Lisetta Rapelli * Nyta Dover as Acrobat and circus owner's wife * Alberto Sorrentino * Giuseppe Porelli as Baron Rapelli * Carlo Romano as Garlandi * Gianni Cavalieri * Gino Cavalieri * Guglielmo Inglese * Franco Sportelli * Giacomo Furia Giacomo Matteo Furia (2 January 1925 – 5 June 2015) was an Italian film, television and stage actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1948 and 1998. Life and career Born in Arienzo, near Caserta, Furia started his acting career ... External links * 1951 films 1951 comedy films Commedia all'italiana 1950s Italian-language films Italian black-and-white films Films directed by Mario Mattoli Italian comedy films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-comedy-film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety Lights
''Variety Lights'' ( it, Luci del varietà) is a 1951 Italian romantic drama film produced, directed and written by Federico Fellini and Alberto Lattuada and starring Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, and Giulietta Masina. The film is about a beautiful and ambitious young woman who joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises. A collaboration with Alberto Lattuada in production, direction, and writing, ''Variety Lights'' launched Fellini's directorial career. Prior to this film, Fellini worked primarily as a screenwriter, most notably working on Roberto Rossellini’s ''Rome, Open City''. Plot The filmdancers and performers struggle to make money from town to town, playing to minimal crowds, while the ageing manager of the company falls in love with a newcomer, to the chagrin of his faithful mistress Melina Amour, played by Fellini's real-life wife, Giulietta Masina. The movie begins with a sold-out vaudeville sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto The Sheik
''Toto the Sheik'' ( it, Totò sceicco) is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò.Curti p.145 It is a parody of desert films such as ''The Son of the Sheik'' and ''Siren of Atlantis''. Plot Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family, governed by the Marquis Gastone. Gastone is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the French Foreign Legion. The old Marchesa, his mother, persuades Antonio to enlist to watch over Gastone, and so he arrives in Arabia. There Antonio is led with barrel (because enlistment is secret), and is exchanged by Arabs for their sheikh, who came to lead the revolt against the western invaders. The vicissitudes follow one another, especially when the rebels discover that Antonio is not the Sheikh, and so, having also escaped a death sentence, Antonio ends up in a secret passage, in the lost city of Atlantis, where he meets the beautiful Queen Antinea. Cast * Totò as Antonio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totò Tarzan
''Totò Tarzan'' is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò, Marilyn Buferd and Alba Arnova. It is a parody of Edgar Rice Burroughs's novel ''Tarzan of the Apes''. It was shot at the Farnesina Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone. As with Totò's other films of the era it was a commercial success, taking around 385 million lira at the box office.Chiti & Poppi p.371 Plot Antonio is a foundling who has lived for years in the jungle along with the monkey Bongo. But one day a troop of scouts passed into the forests of the Congo and finds him out. Antonio is well reported in civil society, where he learned, not without many difficulties and funny situations, the usages of men. In addition egl falls also Iva, only girl to truly understand his suffering due to separation from its environment. In fact, Antonio discovers that he also came from a noble family and had inherited a substantial sum of money. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'inafferrabile 12
''The Elusive Twelve'' (Italian: ''L'inafferrabile 12'') is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Walter Chiari, Silvana Pampanini and Isa Barzizza. It was shot at the Farnesina Studios of Titanus in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone. It earned 400 million Italian lira, lira at the domestic box office.Chiti & Poppi p.189 Plot When his wife gives birth to twin boys, her husband sends one to the orphanage as they already have eleven children and thirteen would be unlucky. The two boys grow up completely apart, one becoming a professional footballer for Juventus and the other an employee of the state lottery. Without meeting, the two now keep accidentally crossing paths. The second man is mistaken for the first man by his girlfriend, and ends up playing in a football match in place of his twin. Cast * Walter Chiari as Carletto Esposito\Brandoletti * Silvana Pampanini as Clara * Isa Barzizza as Teresa * Carlo Campanini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snow White And The Seven Thieves
''Snow White and the Seven Thieves'' ( it, Biancaneve e i sette ladri) is a 1949 Italian comedy film directed by Giacomo Gentilomo. It is loosely based on the novella ''Il ladro'' by Anton Germano Rossi. Cast *Peppino De Filippo: Peppino Biancaneve *Mischa Auer: Mirko aka Dr. Lebovich *Silvana Pampanini: Eleonora *Luigi Pavese: commendator Carlo Casertoni * Franca Maresa: Nella Casertoni *Gino Saltamerenda: Zefirino Dossetti *Laura Carli: Laura *Giacomo Furia: brigadiere *Isabella Riva: maid *Lidia Martora: robbed woman *Lamberto Picasso: husband of the robbed woman *Vittorio Sanipoli: chaser of Mirko *Luisa Rossi Luisa Rossi (26 January 1925 – 23 May 1984) was an Italian actress. She appeared in 25 films between 1941 and 1978. Born in Milan, Rossi debuted at young age in a significant role in Mario Mattoli's ''Ho tanta voglia di cantare'' (1943). In ...: woman at Tavernetta References External links * 1949 films 1949 comedy films Italian comedy films Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
