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Giuditta Rissone
Giuditta Rissone (10 March 1895 – 22 June 1977) was an Italian film actress who appeared in 25 films between 1933 and 1966. She was born in Genoa and died in Rome. Giuditta Rissone married the director and actor Vittorio De Sica in 1937 in Asti, in the Montferrat region of Piedmont. Her brother Checco Rissone was also an actor. Selected filmography * ''Bad Subject'' (1933) – Susanna, Willy's sister * ''La segretaria per tutti'' (1933) * ''Il trattato scomparso'' (1933) – Miss Alice Baskerville * ''Giallo'' (1934) * ''I Love You Only'' (1936) – Aunt Giuditta * ''Lohengrin'' (1936) – Marianna * '' These Children'' (1937) – Aunt Lucia * '' Triumph of Love'' (1938) – Aunt Lucia * ''At Your Orders, Madame'' (1939) – Evelina Watron * ''La fanciulla di Portici'' (1940) – Marchioness Del Vasto * ''Schoolgirl Diary'' (1941) – boarding school director * ''The Adventuress from the Floor Above'' (1941) – Clara Marchini * ''Teresa Venerdì'' (1941) – governess An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lively Teresa
''Lively Teresa'' (Italian: ''La vispa Teresa'') is a 1943 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Lilia Silvi, Roberto Villa and Carlo Ninchi. It was produced in the style of the White Telephone comedies popular during the Fascist era. The film was only fully released following the Liberation of Rome, alongside other equally innocuous films such as ''The Innocent Casimiro''. This provoked criticism from supporters of the emerging neorealist movement who wanted to promote what they regarded as more innovative films, while the major film companies such as Lux Film and Minverva preferred more populist offerings.Gundle p.268 It was shot at the Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Piero Filippone and Mario Rappini. Plot A wealthy engineer is disturbed when he discovers that his son Alberto has fallen in love with an ambitious manicurist Luisa. He arranges for him to go on holiday to Venice while he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
At Your Orders, Madame
''At Your Orders, Madame'' ( it, Ai vostri ordini, signora) is a 1939 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Antonio Gandusio. Cast * Elsa Merlini as Manon * Vittorio De Sica as Pietro Haguet * Giuditta Rissone as Evelina Watron * Enrico Viarisio as Paolo Vernisset * Enzo Biliotti as Fleury Valée * Pina Renzi as Madame Bagnol * Armando Migliari as Il notaio * Elena Altieri as Ginette * Achille Majeroni s L'attore * Luigi Pavese as Il maître d'hotel * Lauro Gazzolo as Il cameriere all'albergo * Ernesto Almirante as Lorot, l'impiegato del notaio See also *''Breakfast at Sunrise ''Breakfast at Sunrise'' is a 1927 silent film comedy directed by Malcolm St. Clair and produced by and starring Constance Talmadge. It was distributed by First National Pictures. Prints survive at George Eastman House and Library of Congress. ...'' (1927) References External links * 1939 films 1930s Italian-language films 1939 comedy films Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Film Actresses
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1977 Deaths
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 ** 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board. * January 20 – Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th Preside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1895 Births
Events January–March * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. * January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty is founded in England by Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. * January 13 – First Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Coatit – Italian forces defeat the Ethiopians. * January 17 – Félix Faure is elected President of the French Republic, after the resignation of Jean Casimir-Perier. * February 9 – Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts. * February 11 – The lowest ever UK temperature of is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire. This record is equalled in 1982, and again in 1995. * February 14 – Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy ''The Importance of Being Earnest'', is first shown at St Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torment (1950 Italian Film)
''Torment'' (Italian: ''Tormento'') is a 1950 Italian melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson and Annibale Betrone.Bayman p.10 The film's sets were designed by Ottavio Scotti. It was part of a group of popular melodramas featuring Nazzari and Sanson that were released in the post-war years. Cast * Amedeo Nazzari as Carlo Guarnieri * Yvonne Sanson as Anna Ferrari * Annibale Betrone as Gaetano Ferrari * Mario Ferrari as L'avvocato Bianchi * Teresa Franchini as Rosina * Tina Lattanzi as Matilde Ferrari * Aldo Nicodemi as Ruffini * Giuditta Rissone as Madre Celeste * Vittorio Sanipoli as Rossi, un socio di Carlo * Roberto Murolo as Enzo Sandri * Rosalia Randazzo as Pinuccia * Rita Livesi Rita Livesi (born 1915) is an Italian stage and film actress. She is known for Amore amaro (1974), Il berretto a sonagli (1985) and La ragazza del vagone letto (1979). Selected filmography * '' Cavalry'' (1936) * '' Adam's T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto Tours Italy
''Toto Tours Italy'' ( it, Totò al giro d'Italia) is a 1948 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò. The film features cameos of famous cyclists and other sportsmen of the time: Fausto Coppi, Gino Bartali, Fiorenzo Magni, Ferdi Kubler, Giordano Cottur, Gianni Ortelli, Oreste Conte, Adolfo Consolini, Louison Bobet, Briek Schotte, Amos Matteucci, Jean-Pierre Wimille, Ulisse Lorenzetti, Di Segni, Amadeo Deiana, Aldo Spoldi, Giuseppe Tosi, Camillo Achilli and Tazio Nuvolari. Plot Totò Casamandrei, a middle-aged high school professor, sells his soul to the Devil to win the Giro d'Italia and impress the young Doriana, a cycling fan. Cast * Totò as Prof. Toto' Casamandrei * Isa Barzizza as Doriana * Giuditta Rissone as Signora Casamandrei * Walter Chiari as Bruno * Carlo Ninchi as Dante Alighieri * Luigi Catoni as Nerone * Mario Castellani as Renato Stella, allenatore * Carlo Micheluzzi as Il Diavolo * Fulvia Franco as Miss Italia * Alda Mangini as Gerva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stasera Niente Di Nuovo
''Stasera niente di nuovo'' (literally: ''Tonight nothing is new'') is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli. Plot Cesare, a journalist, recognizes among some prostitutes arrested by the police, the young woman that saved his life some time earlier, without his having learned her identity. He tries to help the woman, Maria, and convince her to change her life, but without success. Later on, Maria asks Cesare for his help. She is dying in a hospital, but cannot tell her parents, because, some time earlier, she had told them that she was married. So, in the last hours of her life, Cesare marries Maria, and then calls for her family to be with her. Cast * Alida Valli - Maria * Carlo Ninchi - Cesare Manti * Antonio Gandusio - Il dottore Moriesi * Giuditta Rissone - Clelia, la padrona di casa * Dina Galli - La portinaia * Armando Migliari - Il direttore del giornale * Aldo Rubens - Giorgio, il ballerino * Paolo Bonecchi - Il fattorino del g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four Steps In The Clouds
''Four Steps in the Clouds'' () is a 1942 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti, starring Gino Cervi and Adriana Benetti. It tells the story of a married man who agrees to act as the husband of a young pregnant woman who has been abandoned by her boyfriend. Aesthetically, it is close to Italian neorealism. It was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by Virgilio Marchi. It was nominated for BAFTA as Best Film from any Source. The movie was remade several times, including as '' A Walk in the Clouds'' in 1995. Plot The story deals with a married agent for a candy manufacturer, played by Gino Cervi. He leads a stable, if somewhat boring, family life in a large unnamed city in the North of Italy. While travelling on a South bound train on company business, he sees a young woman about to be put off by the conductor. She has no ticket and cannot afford to buy one. The agent helps her stay on the train, and she asks if he could do one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Story (1942 Film)
''Love Story'' (Italian: ''Una storia d'amore'') is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Assia Noris, Piero Lulli and Carlo Campanini.Aprà p.82 It is based on the play ''Life Begins'' by Mary McDougal Axelson, previously adapted into a 1932 film of the same title and a 1939 film '' A Child Is Born''. Along with '' A Pistol Shot'' it marked an attempt to showcase Noris as a dramatic actress, rather than the White Telephone comedies she had become known for. It was screened at the 1942 Venice Film Festival. It was produced by Lux Film, one of the leading film companies of Fascist Italy. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gastone Medin and Gino Brosio. The future star Marcello Mastroianni appeared briefly as an uncredited extra. Plot A young woman with a troubled past marries a worker from a mechanical engineering factory and tries to live a respectable life. However a man who knows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Invisible Chains (film)
''Invisible Chains'' (Italian: ''Catene invisibili'') is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli, Carlo Ninchi and Giuditta Rissone.Gundle p.236 It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ottavio Scotti and Mario Rappini. Plot Following the death of her industrialist father, a young socialite inherits his business empire. Discovering that she has an illegitimate half-brother, she tries to assist him by finding him employment in the factory, but his criminal behaviour lets her down. Finally, she finds love and companionship in the engineer who runs the factory on her behalf. Cast * Alida Valli as Elena Silvagni * Carlo Ninchi as Carlo Danieli * Giuditta Rissone as La signora Matilde Silvagni * Andrea Checchi as Enrico Leni, il fratellastro * Jone Morino as La madre di Enrico * Carlo Campanini as Cesare Tani * Luigi Almirante as Un amico dei Silvagni * Ada Dondini as La fioraia * Arma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
