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Her Favourite Husband
''Her Favourite Husband'' (also known by the alternative titles ''The Taming of Dorothy'' and ''Quel bandito sono io'') is a 1950 British-Italian comedy film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Jean Kent, Robert Beatty and Margaret Rutherford. It was based on a play by Peppino De Filippo. The film's art direction was by Piero Gherardi. Plot Mild mannered Italian bank clerk Antonio, much dominated by his English wife Dorothy, is the double of Leo L'Americano, a local gangster. The gangster kidnaps Antonio and takes his place as husband in the family, to give him cover for a big bank robbery, which he plans to pin on Antonio. Farcical confusions ensue. Cast * Jean Kent as Dorothy Pellegrini * Robert Beatty as Antonio Pellegrini * Gordon Harker as Godfrey Dotherington * Margaret Rutherford as Mrs. Dotherington * Rona Anderson as Stellina * Walter Crisham as Caradiotto * Max Adrian as Catoni * Tamara Lees as Rosana * Michael Balfour as Pete * Jack McNaughton as El Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Soldati
Mario Soldati (17 November 1906 – 19 June 1999) was an cinema of Italy, Italian writer and film director. In 1954 he won the Strega Prize for ''Lettere da Capri.'' He directed several works adapted from novels, and worked with leading Italian actresses, such as Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida. Biography A native of Turin, Soldati attended the ''Liceo Sociale'', a Society of Jesus, Jesuit school, and finished secondary school at age 17. He then studied humanities at the University of Turin. At that time, the University was a hotbed of intellectual activity and the young Soldati would meet and befriend the likes of activist and writer Carlo Levi and journalist Giacomo Debenedetti, who were his seniors. He later studied History of Art at the University of Rome. He started publishing novels in 1929. He achieved the widest notice with ''America primo amore'', published in 1935, a memoir of the time he spent teaching at Columbia University. He won literary awards for his work, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Title
An alternative title is a media sales device most prominently used in film distribution. Books and films are commonly released under a different title when they are screened or sold in a different country. This can vary from small change to the title, such as the addition of ''The'', to wholesale changes. Film titles are also often changed when they are released on DVD or VHS. Reasons The reasons for this are varied, but usually point towards marketable, linguistic or cultural differences. Some titles may not be easily understood in other parts of the world, and may even be considered offensive. Most title changes are commercial. An example is Italian director's Sergio Leone's 1971 film ''Duck, You Sucker!'', initially released with this title as he was convinced it was a well-known English saying. When the film performed poorly, it was subsequently rebranded as '' A Fistful of Dynamite'', similar in name to his 1964 film ''A Fistful of Dollars'', part of the successful Dollar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Illing
Peter Illing (4 March 1899 – 29 October 1966) was an Austrian-born British film and television actor. Selected TV series * ''Deadline Midnight'' (1961) as Captain Dnieprovsky * ''The Saint'' (1962) as Inspector Buono Filmography * ''The Silver Darlings'' (1947) – Foreign Buyer * '' The End of the River'' (1947) – Ship's Agent * '' Against the Wind'' (1948) – Andrew * ''Eureka Stockade'' (1949) – Raffaello * ''Floodtide'' (1949) – Senor Arandha * ''The Huggetts Abroad'' (1949) – Algerian Detective * ''Poet's Pub'' (1949) – Charles (uncredited) * ''Madness of the Heart'' (1949) – Dr. Matthieu * '' Children of Chance'' (1949) * '' State Secret'' (1950) – Macco, the magician * '' My Daughter Joy'' (1950) – Sultan * ''Her Favourite Husband'' (1950) – Commissario Scaletti * ''Traveller's Joy'' (1950) – Tilsen * ''I'll Get You for This'' (1951) – Armando Ceralde * ''Outcast of the Islands'' (1952) – Alagappan * ''The Woman's Angle'' (1952) – Sergei * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Hinton (actress)
Mary Hinton (1896–1979) was a British stage, film and television actress. She was born as Emily Rachel Forster to the politician Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster and the Honourable Rachel Cecily Douglas-Scott-Montagu, daughter of Henry Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu. She was a great-granddaughter of Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch. Hinton became a regular British character actor for several decades. In the West End she appeared in Wilfrid Grantham's '' Mary Tudor'' (1935), Rose Franken's '' Claudia'' (1942) and Lesley Storm's '' Great Day'' (1945). She was married to George Pitt-Rivers from 1915 to 1930 and had two sons Michael Pitt-Rivers and Julian Pitt-Rivers. Selected filmography Film * ''Once in a New Moon'' (1934) * ''Poison Pen'' (1939) * ''Gaslight'' (1940) * ''Penn of Pennsylvania'' (1941) * '' Hatter's Castle'' (1942) * ''Women Aren't Angels'' (1943) * ''Broken Journey'' (1948) * '' Quartet'' (1948) * ''The Winslow Boy'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joss Ambler
Joss Ambler (23 June 1900 – 1959) was an Australian-born British film and television actor. He usually played somewhat pompous and irascible figures of authority, particularly in comedy films. He was an effective foil to George Formby in both '' Trouble Brewing'' (as Lord Redhill) and '' Come On George!'' (as Sir Charles), and similarly to Will Hay in ''The Black Sheep of Whitehall ''The Black Sheep of Whitehall'' (the opening credits read ''Black Sheep of Whitehall'') is a 1942 British black-and-white comedy war film, directed by Will Hay and Basil Dearden, starring Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney and Thora Hird in h ...'', (as a government minister). Filmography References External links * 1900 births 1959 deaths Australian male film actors Australian male television actors British male film actors British male television actors 20th-century British male actors 20th-century Australian male actors Australian emigrants to the United Kingdom Date of d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Green (actor)
Danny Green (26 May 1903 – 1973) was an English character actor. He was best known for his role as the slow-witted ex-boxer "One-Round" Lawson in '' The Ladykillers''. He worked regularly in film, television and on the stage, including playing comic gangsters in the original London productions of ''Guys and Dolls'' (1953) and '' Do Re Mi'' (1961). One of his last roles was as ''Lord Surrey'' in the '' Randal and Hopkirk'' episode ''Just for the Record'' in 1969. Filmography * ''The Crooked Billet'' (1929) - Rogers * ''Atlantic'' (1929) - Passenger * '' The Fire Raisers'' (1934) - Stedding's Henchman (uncredited) * '' Wild Boy'' (1934) - Driver (uncredited) * ''Things Are Looking Up'' (1935) - Big Black Fox * ''Crime Over London'' (1936) - Klemm * '' Silver Blaze'' (1937) - Barton, Moriarty's Henchman (uncredited) * '' Midnight Menace'' (1937) - Socks, American Henchman * ''Gangway'' (1937) - Shorty * ''Jericho'' (1937) - Sergeant (uncredited) * '' The Squeaker'' (1937) - Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Shelley
Norman Shelley (16 February 1903 – 21 August 1980) was a British actor, best known for his work in radio, in particular for the BBC's '' Children's Hour''. He also had a recurring role as Colonel Danby in the long-running radio soap opera ''The Archers''. Perhaps Shelley's single best-known role was as Winnie-the-Pooh in ''Children's Hour'' adaptations of A.A. Milne's stories; for many British people of the mid-20th century, his is the definitive voice of Pooh. Other roles for ''Children's Hour'' included Dr. Watson (opposite Carleton Hobbs as Holmes) in the 1952–1969 Sherlock Holmes radio series; Toad in Kenneth Grahame's ''The Wind in the Willows''; and the roles of The Magician and Captain Higgins in the specially written ''Toytown'' series. Shelley also played the parts of Gandalf and Tom Bombadil in the 1955-6 radio adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings''. In the 1973 BBC television series ''Jack the Ripper'' Shelley played Detective Constable Walt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack McNaughton
Jack McNaughton (22 December 190522 February 1990) was a British stage and film actor. As a character actor he mostly played supporting roles, but occasionally featured in major roles such as playing the male lead in the 1951 comedy ''Cheer the Brave''. He was married to the Canadian-born actress Kay Callard. Selected filmography * ''They Made Me a Fugitive'' (1947) - Soapy * '' Brighton Rock'' (1948) - Trudy brother - pierrot (uncredited) * ''London Belongs to Me'' (1948) - Jimmy * '' The Guinea Pig'' (1948) - (uncredited) * '' Brass Monkey'' (1948) - Porter * '' Badger's Green'' (1949) - Mr. Twigg * ''Cardboard Cavalier'' (1949) - Uriah Group * ''Man on the Run'' (1949) - First Man at Soho Pub * ''Madness of the Heart'' (1949) - Attendant * ''No Place for Jennifer'' (1950) - Coffee Stall Attendant * ''Her Favourite Husband'' (1950) - El Greco * ''She Shall Have Murder'' (1950) - Barman * ''The Man in the White Suit'' (1951) - Taxi Driver * ''Cheer the Brave'' (1951) - Bill Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Balfour (actor)
Michael Creighton Balfour (11 February 1918 – 24 October 1997) was an English actor, working mainly in British films and TV, following his TV debut in the BBC's ''The Marvellous History of St Bernard'', in 1938. He was a recognisable face, often in small character parts and supporting roles, in nearly two hundred films and TV shows, from the 1940s to the 1990s, often playing comical villain, heavies or otherwise shady characters notable for their "loud" clothes, sometimes convincingly cast as an American. He worked for a roll call of film directors, including Tony Richardson, Pete Walker (director), Pete Walker, Billy Wilder, Lewis Gilbert, Roman Polanski, Leslie Norman (director), Leslie Norman, Tim Burton, John Frankenheimer, François Truffaut, John Gilling, Stanley Donen, Ken Annakin, Alberto Cavalcanti, Cavalcanti, Lance Comfort, Terence Young (director), Terence Young, Gerald Thomas, Pasolini, John Paddy Carstairs, Terence Fisher, Val Guest, Frank Launder, John Huston, Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamara Lees
Tamara Lees (14 December 1924 – 22 December 1999), born as, Diana Helena Tamara Mapplebeck was an Austrian-born English film actress. She appeared in 48 films between 1947 and 1961. Selected filmography * ''While the Sun Shines'' (1947) * ''Bond Street'' (1948) * '' A Piece of Cake'' (1948) * ''Stop Press Girl'' (1949) * '' Marry Me'' (1949) * ''Trottie True'' (1949) * ''Her Favourite Husband'' (1950) * '' Romanticismo'' (1950) * ''Toto the Sheik'' (1950) * ''A Dog's Life'' (1950) * ''Filumena Marturano'' (1951) * '' Song of Spring'' (1951) * ''Four Ways Out'' (1951) * ''Frontier Wolf'' (1952) * '' The Phantom Musketeer'' (1952) * ''Beauties in Capri'' (1952) * ''The Piano Tuner Has Arrived'' (1952) * '' Verginità'' (1952) * '' Il tallone di Achille'' (1952) * '' Girls Marked Danger'' (1952) * ''Noi peccatori'' (1953) * ''Frine, Courtesan of Orient'' (1953) * ''Perdonami!'' (1953) * '' Queen of Babylon'' (1954) * ''The Contessa's Secret'' (1954) * ''Songs of Italy'' (1955 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Adrian
Max Adrian (born Guy Thornton Bor; 1 November 1903 – 19 January 1973) was an Irish stage, film and television actor and singer. He was a founding member of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. In addition to his success as a character actor in classical drama, he was known for his work as a singer and comic actor in revue and musicals, and in one-man shows about George Bernard Shaw and Gilbert and Sullivan, and in cinema and television films, notably Ken Russell's ''Song of Summer'' as the ailing composer Delius. Early years Adrian was born in Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland, the son of Edward Norman Cavendish Bor and Mabel Lloyd Thornton. He was born in the provincial Bank of Ireland branch in Kilkenny, where his father was the bank manager, into a Church of Ireland family, the seventh of eight children. His paternal ancestry was Dutch people, Dutch, from settlers who arrived in Ireland with William III of England, William of Orange in 1689. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Harker
William Gordon Harker (7 August 1885 – 2 March 1967) was an English stage and film actor. Harker was one of the sons of Sarah Elizabeth Harker, née Hall, (1856–1927), and Joseph Harker (1855–1927), a much admired set painter for the theatre for whom the ''Dracula'' character Jonathan Harker was named. Harker had a long career on the stage, from 1902 to the 1950s. In addition, he appeared in 68 films between 1921 and 1959, including three silent films directed by Alfred Hitchcock and in several scenes in ''Elstree Calling'' (1930), a revue film co-directed by Hitchcock. He was known for his performance as Inspector Hornleigh in a trilogy of films produced between 1938 and 1940, as well in ''Saloon Bar'' (1940), based on a stage play he had starred in and another one of his stage successes The Poltergeist made into the film ''Things Happen at Night'' (1947), a poltergeist comedy he co-starred in with Alfred Drayton and Robertson Hare. His last major screen role was as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |