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Giorgio Bianchi (director)
Giorgio Bianchi (18 February 1904 – 9 February 1967) was an Italian film director and actor. Selected filmography * '' Mother Earth'' (1931) * ''Resurrection'' (1931) * '' The Charmer'' (1931) * ''Before the Jury'' (1931) * ''The Blue Fleet'' (1932) * '' Two Happy Hearts'' (1932) * ''Five to Nil'' (1932) * ''Venus'' (1932) * ''Saint John, the Beheaded'' (1940) * ''A Little Wife'' (1943) * ''Crime News'' (1947) * ''Twenty Years'' (1949) * ''Hearts at Sea'' (1950) * '' Porca miseria'' (1951) * '' Il caimano del Piave'' (1951) * '' Amor non ho... però... però'' (1951) * '' The Enemy'' (1952) * ''The Shadow'' (1954) * ''Io piaccio'' (1955) * '' Buonanotte... avvocato!'' (1955) * '' Count Max'' (1957) * '' Vacations in Majorca'' (1959) * ''The Moralist'' (1959) * ''Le olimpiadi dei mariti'' (1960) * ''Femmine di lusso'' (1960) * '' The Orderly'' (1961) * ''Il mio amico Benito'' (1962) * '' Toto and Peppino Divided in Berlin'' (1962) * '' The Changing of the Guard'' (1962) * ''I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
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Porca Miseria
''Porca Miseria'' is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi. Plot Two friends, Giacomino and Carletto, have no job and no money and are looking for a job, or any device that will help them to meet expenses and especially will give them the opportunity to fill their stomachs. After several misadventures, they seem reduced to despair, but a ray of hope appears on the horizon. The two learn of a variety show they could participate in, if only they had a companion, a girl with a nice pair of legs. Their early searches are unsuccessful, but then their salvation appears in the guise of a poor and beautiful roommate whom the landlady kicked out for not paying the rent. The trio is hired, but because of the ineptitude of Jack, the show ends in disaster and the two friends, hungrier than ever, must flee with their new partner. In the course of their further adventures, the two friends fall in love with the girl and each believes he is the favorite. They are both greatly dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Mio Amico Benito
''Il mio amico Benito'' (Italian for "My friend Benito") is a 1962 commedia all'italiana film directed by Giorgio Bianchi. Plot Peppino Di Gennaro is a simple clerk who wants to make a career without success. After a friend gave him a photo taken during the First World War that shows him together with Benito Mussolini, he tries to take advantage of it getting an invitation from Duce, but the OVRA stops him every time. After numerous failed attempts he eventually succeeds in entering his office in the exact moment Mussolini was on the balcony announcing the Italian entry into the war; disappointed and embittered, Peppino goes away destroying the photo. Cast * Peppino De Filippo: Giuseppe Di Gennaro * Didi Perego: Italia * Mario Carotenuto: Mariani * Andrea Checchi: Commissioner * Emma Gramatica: Giuseppe's Mother * Mac Ronay: Landolfi * Luigi De Filippo: Fioretti * Carlo Pisacane: Signor Arturo * Riccardo Billi: Renzi * Ciccio Barbi: Sor Achille * Luigi Pavese: Pieroni * F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Orderly (1961 Film)
''The Orderly'' ( it, Gli attendenti) is a 1961 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi. Cast * Vittorio De Sica: Colonel Filippo Bitossi * Renato Rascel: Remigio De Acutis * Dorian Gray: Lauretta * Gino Cervi: Maggiore Penna * Didi Perego: Valeria Bitossi * Andreina Pagnani: Madre di Osvaldo * Luigi Pavese: Colonel Terenzi * Vicky Ludovici: Nunziatina * Vittorio Congia: Domenico Damiani * Lelio Luttazzi: Lt. Marchetti * Franco Giacobini * Ciccio Barbi * 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 ... References External links * 1961 comedy films 1961 films Italian comedy films Films directed by Giorgio Bianchi Films scored by Armando Trovajoli Military humor in film 1960s Italian-language films 1960s Italian films {{19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Femmine Di Lusso
Femmine di lusso is a 1960 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring Ugo Tognazzi, Elke Sommer, Walter Chiari and Sylva Koscina. It was also known as Intrigo a Taormina, Love, the Italian Way, Luxury Vacations and Travelling in Luxury. It was released in the US in 1965 as Love, the Italian Way. Premise The screenplay concerns a group of passengers travelling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoying various adventures and becoming romantically involved with each other. Cast * Ugo Tognazzi - Ugo Lemeni * Elke Sommer - Greta * Walter Chiari - Walter * Sylva Koscina - Luciana * Gino Cervi - Ugo's father * Caprice Chantal - Elena Le Garde * Mario Scaccia - Edmondo, the butler * Belinda Lee - Adriana Bessan Production In June 1960 it was reported the producer offered Maria Callas a role.Maria Callas Gets Offer of Film Role Chicago Daily Tribune 8 June 1960: b2. Belinda Lee has a cameo. References External links *Film pageat BFILove the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Olimpiadi Dei Mariti : Waiter
''Le olimpiadi dei mariti'' (''Husbands' Olympics'') is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi. Cast *Ugo Tognazzi: Ugo *Raimondo Vianello: Raimondo *Delia Scala: Delia * Sandra Mondaini: Sandra *Gino Cervi: Director of the newspaper *Hélène Chanel: Helke *Anna Rasmussen: Greta *Andrea Rapisarda: Colonel von Gruber *Francis Blanche * John Anderson *Ernesto Calindri *Lola Braccini *Toni Ucci Antonio "Toni" Ucci (13 January 1922 – 16 or 19 February 2014) 16 February ... References External links * 1960 films 1960 comedy films[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Moralist
''The Moralist'' (Italian: ''Il moralista'') is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi. Starring Alberto Sordi and Vittorio de Sica, it satirises both the upholders of traditional sexual morality and the exploiters selling sex in a willing market. Plot In Rome in 1959, Agostino is the ferocious new Secretary-General of the Italian branch of the worldwide International Organization for Public Morality. A teetotal bachelor, he attacks with vigour public manifestations of sexual immorality. Neither bribes nor female charms deflect him from his crusade against lewdness in films and night clubs. So devoted is he that the aristocratic President of the Organisation even considers he might be a husband for his so far unmarried 29-year-old daughter. But both President and Secretary-General also have private lives. After Agostino denounces a night club to the police and it is closed, the mistress of the owner befriends the widowed President and introduces him to an exclus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vacations In Majorca
''Vacations in Majorca'' ( it, Brevi amori a Palma di Majorca) is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi. Plot Anselmo Pandolfini lives in Palma de Mallorca. He meets a famous American diva Mary Moore who initially dislikes him, but persuades her to let him act as her bodyguard. Cast *Alberto Sordi: Anselmo Pandolfini *Gino Cervi: André Breton *Belinda Lee: Mary Moore *Dorian Gray: Hélène *Antonio Cifariello: Ernesto *Rossana Martini: Angela *Mercedes Alonso: Clementina *Vicente Parra: Gianni *Giulio Paradisi Giulio Paradisi (born 21 March 1934) is an Italian film director, actor and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Rome, Paradisi enrolled the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and immediately after the graduation he made his acting debut w ...: Miguel Production The cast featured British actor Belinda Lee, then based in Europe. References External links *Film pageat BFI 1959 comedy films 1959 films Italian comedy film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Count Max (1957 Film)
''Count Max'' (Italian:''Il conte Max'') is a 1957 Italian-Spanish comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica and Anne Vernon. It is a remake of the 1937 film ''Il signor Max'' in which De Sica had played the title role. This film was itself remade in 1991. A newspaper vendor masquerades as a count, falling in with a baroness and her wealthy, aristocratic friends. He believes he is love with her, but comes to realize he has more in common with her maid. The film's art direction was by Flavio Mogherini. Plot Alberto Boccetti, Roman newsagent in Via Veneto, is mistaken for Count Max Orsini Varaldo, a penniless nobleman and scrounger, while on vacation in Cortina (where he went instead of going on vacation to the village of Capracotta as desired by his uncle). Here he meets Baroness Elena di Villombrosa, who invites him to join the company of nobles, headed to Seville, but also meets their housekeeper Lauretta. In Seville, after contrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buonanotte
Diego Mario Buonanotte Rende (; born 19 April 1988) is an Argentine naturalized Chilean footballer who plays for Peruvian club Sporting Cristal as an attacking midfielder and winger. He began his career with River Plate, where he won the Apertura in 2008, and later played in Spain with Málaga and Granada. Buonanotte was part of the Argentine squad that won the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics. Club career River Plate Born in Teodelina, Santa Fe, Buonanotte made his professional debut as a 17-year-old on 9 April 2006, in the 3–1 win against Instituto. On 7 October 2007, only one week after his first game, he scored his first goal at senior level. Buonanotte was picked by coach Daniel Passarella to start in the derby against Boca Juniors. River Plate won 2–0, with Buonanotte playing a key role in the victory. He was named by ''World Soccer'' magazine as one of the '50 most exciting teenagers in the world game'. Buonanotte was part of the 2008 Apertura winning team. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Io Piaccio
''Io piaccio'' (also known as ''La via del successo... con le donne'') is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi. Plot Professor Maldi, a researcher on the company held by Commendatore Tassinetti (Aldo Fabrizi), experiments on various animals, and especially on the capon Gildo, its preparation which should give courage to the men. Pressed by Tassinetti Maldi decides to experiment on himself the latest version of its compound, without waiting to know the reaction of the capon. Soon, the shy Maldi finds himself desired by every woman he meets: rather than courage, his discovery provides an irresistible fascination for twenty-four hours. Cast * Walter Chiari: Prof. Roberto Maldi * Aldo Fabrizi: Commendatore Tassinetti * Peppino De Filippo: Nicolino Donati * Dorian Gray: Doriana Paris * Bianca Maria Fusari: Sandra, Maldi's assistant * Tina Pica: Sibilla * Mario Carotenuto: Marassino * Sandra Mondaini:Giovanna * Lina Volonghi: Lucia, Tassinetti's wife * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shadow (1954 Film)
''The Shadow'' ( it, L'ombra) is a 1954 Italian melodrama film directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring Märta Torén and Pierre Cressoy. Plot Lamont Cranston, a psychiatrist on retainer to the police department, is asked to assist in the Case of the Cotton Kimono murder investigation. Lamont and his girlfriend Margot Lane are not satisfied with Detective Harris' analysis and call on the two prime suspects: the victim's voice instructor and her boyfriend. When Harris, convinced that the boyfriend is guilty, frames the young man for the crime, Lamont is forced to assume his secret identity as "The Shadow", and cloaked by his power of invisibility, seeks to force the true killer to reveal himself. Cast *Märta Torén as Alberta *Pierre Cressoy as Gerardo * Gianna Maria Canale as Elena *Filippo Scelzo as Dr. Magre *Paolo Stoppa as Michele *Emma Baron as Luisa *Renato Navarrini Renato Navarrini (1892–1972) was an Italian stage and film actor.Verdone p.101 He was married t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
