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Gina Mascetti
Gina Mascetti (1911-1995) was an Italian film actress. A character actress, she appeared in a number of comedy films notably as Alberto Sordi's wife in the ''The White Sheik'' (1952). The same year she also featured in the neorealist drama ''Two Cents Worth of Hope''.Cardullo p.146 Selected filmography * ''Variety Lights'' (1950) * '' Red Moon'' (1951) * '' Cameriera bella presenza offresi...'' (1951) * ''The White Sheik'' (1952) * ''Two Cents Worth of Hope'' (1952) * '' One Hundred Little Mothers'' (1952) * ''Drama on the Tiber'' (1952) * ''Five Paupers in an Automobile'' (1952) * '' A Parisian in Rome'' (1954) * ''It Happened at the Police Station'' (1954) * '' The Song of the Heart'' (1955) * '' Da qui all'eredità'' (1955) * ''Oh! Sabella'' (1957) * ''Three Strangers in Rome'' (1958) * '' Cavalier in Devil's Castle'' (1959) * '' The Thief of Baghdad'' (1961) * '' The Witch's Curse'' (1962) * '' What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?'' (1964) * ''Pensiero d'amore ''Pensiero d'amore' ... [...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] |
It Happened At The Police Station
''It Happened at the Police Station'' (Italian: ''Accadde al commissariato'') is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring Nino Taranto, Alberto Sordi and Walter Chiari.Lanzoni p.18 Cast * Nino Taranto as Police Commissioner * Alberto Sordi as Alberto Tadini * Walter Chiari as Luigi Giovetti * Lucia Bosè as Stefania Rocca, wife of Luigi * Riccardo Billi as Riccardo, 1st tram driver * Mario Riva as 2nd tram driver * Carlo Dapporto as Antonio Badimenti * Lauretta Masiero as Silvana Moretti * Mara Berni as Arnalda Bazzini * Turi Pandolfini as Cannizzaro, the old man * Mario Abbate as Lucio Davila, the singer * Bruna Corrà as Street walker * Natale Cirino as Marshal (Italy), Marshal Cannavò * Andreina Paul as The maid * Carlo Romano as Thief's victim * Anna Campori as The woman protesting against the strike * Alberto Sorrentino as Comic actor * Ignazio Balsamo as Taxi driver * Teresa Werlen as Enrichetta Biagioli * Pie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Deaths
File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strikes Kobe, Japan, killing 5,000-6,000 people; The Unabomber Manifesto is published in several U.S. newspapers; Gravestones mark the victims of the Srebrenica massacre near the end of the Bosnian War; Windows 95 is launched by Microsoft for PC; The first exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered; Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Space station Mir in a display of U.S.-Russian cooperation; The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is bombed by domestic terrorists, killing 168., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 O. J. Simpson murder case rect 200 0 400 200 Kobe earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Unabomber Manifesto rect 0 200 300 400 Oklahoma City bombing rect 300 200 600 400 Srebrenica massacre rect 0 400 200 600 Space Shuttle Atlant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1911 Births
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * January 3 ** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people. ** Siege of Sidney Street in London: Two Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. Home Secretary Winston Churchill arrives to oversee events. * January 5 – Egypt's Zamalek SC is founded as a general sports and Association football club by Belgian lawyer George Merzbach as Qasr El Nile Club. * January 14 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall, on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. * January 18 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS ''Pennsylvania'' stationed in San Francisco harbor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man
''Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man'' ( it, Uomini si nasce poliziotti si muore) is a 1976 Italian poliziotteschi crime film, directed by Ruggero Deodato and starring Marc Porel and Ray Lovelock. Cast * Marc Porel as Fred * Ray Lovelock as Tony * Adolfo Celi as The Boss * Franco Citti as Rudy Ruginski * Silvia Dionisio as Norma * Marino Masé as Rick Conti * Renato Salvatori as Roberto Pasquini, a.k.a. Bibi * Sergio Ammirata as Sergeant * Bruno Corazzari as Morandi * Daniele Dublino as Corrupt police inspector * Sofia Dionisio as Lina Pasquini (credited as "Flavia Fabiani") * Tom Felleghy as Major * Margherita Horowitz as Mona, a hostage woman * Gina Mascetti as Maricca * Marcello Monti as 3rd kidnapper * Claudio Nicastro as Commissioner * Gino Pagnani as Paul, the dog trainer * Enzo Pulcrano as Mario, Pasquini's henchman * Alvaro Vitali as Concierge at Pasquini's building Production ''Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man'' was based on a screenplay by Fernando Di Leo, originall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trastevere (film)
''Trastevere'' is a 1971 Italian comedy film. This is the first and only film directed by actor and screenwriter Fausto Tozzi. The film was heavily cut by producer Alberto Grimaldi, who cut the roles of Umberto Orsini, Martine Brochard, and Riccardo Garrone. Cast *Nino Manfredi: Carmelo Mazzullo *Rosanna Schiaffino: Caterina Peretti aka Rama *Vittorio Caprioli: Don Ernesto *Ottavia Piccolo: Nanda *Vittorio De Sica: Enrico Formichi *Leopoldo Trieste: The professor * Mickey Fox (as Mikey Fox): Sora Regina * Milena Vukotic: Delia, wife of professor *Gigi Ballista: The count * Ronald K. Pennington (as Ronald Kerry Pennington): Kerry *Luigi Uzzo: Cesare * Lino Coletta: Alvaro Diotallevi *Don Powell: John *Rossella Como: Teresa, the prostitute *Fiammetta Baralla (as Fiammetta): Gigliola, other prostitute *Enzo Cannavale: Straccale' *Nino Musco: The sergeant * Luigi Valanzano: The Barman * Lino Murolo: The policeman *Luciano Pigozzi: Angry man *Franca Scagnetti: Woman near other angry ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pensiero D'amore
''Pensiero d'amore'' (Italian for ''Thought of love'') is a 1969 Italian "musicarello" film directed by Mario Amendola and starring Mal and Silvia Dionisio.Daniele Magni, ''Cuori matti - Dizionario dei musicarelli anni '60'', Bloodbuster Edizioni, 2012. . Plot Cast * Mal as Reg * Silvia Dionisio as Paola * Stelvio Rosi as Kurt * Angela Luce as Stefania Varaldi * Francesco Mulè as Sor Domenico * Carlo Delle Piane as Ovidio * Gina Mascetti as Miss Tibiletti * Pietro De Vico as Enrico * Beatrice Bensi as Gilda aka Paperona * Umberto D'Orsi as Giovanni Tibiletti * Pippo Franco as Leone * Franco Allocca as Gianluca * Fulvio Mingozzi as Renzetti * Gianni Pulone as TV Director * Luca Sportelli Luca Sportelli (11 March 1927 - 29 August 1999) was an Italian actor who appeared in more than one hundred films from 1964 to 1991. Selected filmography References External links * 1927 births 1999 deaths Italian male film actors< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Ever Happened To Baby Toto?
''What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?'' ( it, Che fine ha fatto Totò Baby?) is a 1964 Italian black comedy film written and directed by Ottavio Alessi, starring Totò. It is a parody of Robert Aldrich's '' What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?''. Plot A pair of step brothers, Totò Baby and Pietro, make a living stealing suitcases at the Termini Station in Rome. They discover within a stolen piece of luggage a corpse. Trying to get rid of the incriminating evidence, they mistakenly swap the suitcase with a German hitchhiker. Forced to retrieve the "corpus delicti" they are discovered by Mischa, a Count who is hosting the beautiful foreign tourists. He decides to blackmail the step brothers, asking for their assassination of his rich wife, in exchange for his silence with the police. After the death of the woman (who loses her life as a result of a fright), Totò Baby becomes a sadistic serial killer as he loses all inhibition after starting to eat by mistake marijuana as if it were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Witch's Curse
''The Witch's Curse'' ( it, Maciste all'inferno, lit=Maciste in Hell) is a 1962 peplum- fantasy film, directed by Riccardo Freda. Plot In the mid-1500s, a witch is burned in Scotland and places a curse on the inhabitants before she dies. One hundred years later, the tree she was chained to and burned still stands with no one daring to destroy it. The curse remains by forcing women to commit suicide. The witch's descendant, Martha Gunt, is sentenced to be burned for witchcraft. As she is placed in a prison cell, Maciste comes forth to fight evil. When he uproots the cursed tree, he finds an entrance to Hell where he attempts to track down the original witch to rescind her curse and attempts to help the damned from their plight. Cast * Kirk Morris as Maciste * Hélène Chanel as Fania * Vira Silenti as Martha Gaunt * Andrea Bosic as Judge Parrish * Charles Fernley Fawcett as the Doctor * Remo De Angelis as Prometheus * John Karlsen * Gina Mascetti * Puccio Ceccarelli Produc ... [...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] |
Cavalier In Devil's Castle
''Cavalier in Devil's Castle'' ( it, Il cavaliere del castello maledetto), also known as ''The Cavaliers of Devil's Castle'', is a 1959 Italian swashbuckler film written and directed by Mario Costa and starring Massimo Serato, Irène Tunc and Luisella Boni. Plot Ugone di Collefeltro has succeeded through a stratagem to imprison his uncle, Count Oliviero, legitimate lord of the fief of Valgrande, and is now trying to obtain from him a document in which the count declares to give him his rights. But the count refuses to sign such a declaration. Then Ugone calls Countess Isabella, daughter of Oliviero, back to her castle, with the intention of marrying her, thus becoming the legitimate owner of the fief. Cast * Massimo Serato as Captain Ugone di Collefeltro * Irène Tunc as Marquise Fiamma * Luisella Boni as Countess Isabella * Pierre Cressoy as Astolfo * Livio Lorenzon as Guidobaldo Fortebraccio * Maria Sima as Violante * Carlo Tamberlani as Conte Oliviero * Aldo Bufi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Strangers In Rome
''Tre straniere a Roma'', also known as ''Three Strangers in Rome'', is a 1958 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Claudio Gora starring Claudia Cardinale. The film was one of the first movies with Cardinale in a leading role. Cast *Yvonne Monlaur: Nanda *Claudia Cardinale: Marisa * Françoise Danell: Elsa *Luciano Marin: Sandro Nencioni *Roy Ciccolini: Sergio *Leonardo Botta: Franco *Tamara Lees: Sandro's girlfriend *Renato Chiantoni: Pasquale *Nando Bruno: Vincenzo's father *Guglielmo Inglese: Michele *Alberto Talegalli: Uncle Gaetano *Gina Mascetti: Owner of the Pensione Aurora *Dolores Palumbo: Sergio's mother *Andrea Scotti: Osvaldo * Marino Barreto Junior: Himself *Marco Tulli Marco Tulli (20 November 1920 – 20 March 1982) was an Italian character actor, probably best known in the role of "Smilzo" in the Don Camillo film series. Born in Rome, Tulli debuted as actor while he was still a university student, at the end ... External links * 1958 films 1958 ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
