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1953 In Film
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1953 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 16 – A new Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. is incorporated following a Consent Judgment to divest their Stanley Warner Theaters. * February 5 – Walt Disney's production of J.M. Barrie's ''Peter Pan'', starring Bobby Driscoll and Kathryn Beaumont, premieres to astounding acclaim from critics and audiences and quickly becomes one of the most beloved Disney films. This is the last Disney animated movie released in partnership RKO Pictures, becoming the last ever smash hit movie of the later company before it bankrupted in 1959. * July 1 – ''Stalag 17'', directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden, premieres and is considered by the critics and audiences to be one of the greatest WWII Prisoner of War films ever made. Holden wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianna Maria Canale
Gianna Maria Canale (12 September 1927 – 13 February 2009) was an Italian film actress. Biography Canale was born in 1927 in Reggio Calabria. In 1947, she competed in the Miss Italia beauty contest, where she was runner-up to Lucia Bosè. Following this, she appeared in many Italian magazines, with her looks being compared to those of Ava Gardner. Canale was offered a role in a movie by Riccardo Freda, with whom she eventually fell in love. They moved to Brazil where they were married and worked together in two movies. As Canale did not enjoy living in South America, the couple returned to Italy where, often directed by her husband, she starred in many sword and hood movies, as well as horror and adventure ones. '' I vampiri'' was her last film with Freda. Canale retired from acting in 1964 at the age of 37. She died in Sutri, Viterbo in January 2009. Filmography External links *Gianna Maria Canaleat MSN MSN (meaning Microsoft Network) is a web portal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiki Urbani
Kiki or Ki Ki may refer to: Places * Ki Ki, South Australia, Australia, a village * Ki Ki, Iran, a village * Kiai, Iran, a village also known as Kiki * Kiki, Łask County, Poland, a village * Kiki, Poddębice County, Poland, a village * Kiki Station, a train station in Minami, Japan People * Kiki (name), a list of people with the given name, nickname or surname * Kiki Dee, stage name of British singer Pauline Matthews (born 1947) * Xu Jiaqi (born 1995), Chinese singer and actress known as "Kiki" * Alice Prin (1901–1953), French artist, writer and model known as "Kiki de Montparnasse" or "Kiki" * Kiki of Paris, pseudonym of a Parisian photographer (born 1945) Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Kiki Strike, one of the main characters in the Kiki Strike book series by Kirsten Miller * Kiki, the protagonist of the Japanese animated film ''Kiki's Delivery Service'' * Kiki, a minor character in ''Saint Seiya'', a Japanese manga series * Kiki, a character created b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camillo Mastrocinque
Camillo Mastrocinque (11 May 1901 – 23 April 1969) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 60 films between 1937 and 1968, and is known to horror film fans for directing '' Terror in the Crypt'' (1964) starring Christopher Lee, and ''An Angel for Satan'' (1966) starring Barbara Steele. Selected filmography * '' Queen of the Scala'' (1937) * ''I Want to Live with Letizia'' (1938) * ''The Cuckoo Clock'' (1938) * '' Don Pasquale'' (1940) * '' The Last Dance'' (1941) * '' Fedora'' (1942) * '' A Living Statue'' (1943) * '' Lost in the Dark'' (1947) * '' Be Seeing You, Father'' (1948) * '' The Fighting Men'' (1950) * ''That Ghost of My Husband'' (1950) * ''Anna's Sin'' (1952) * ''Toto in Hell'' (1955) * ''Are We Men or Corporals?'' (1955) * '' Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy'' (1956) * '' Toto, Peppino and the Outlaws'' (1956) * '' The Band of Honest Men'' (1956) * '' Totò lascia o raddoppia?'' (1956) * '' The Lady Doctor'' (1957) * '' The Beautiful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attanasio Cavallo Vanesio
Attanasio is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *A. A. Attanasio (born 1951), American science fiction writer *Antonio Attanasio (1950–1982), Italian swimmer *Dino Attanasio (born 1925), comics artist *Gianluca Attanasio (born 1979), Italian composer, singer-songwriter and music producer *Luca Attanasio (1977–2021), Italian diplomat *Mark Attanasio (born 1957), American investment banker and owner of the Milwaukee Brewers *Orazio Attanasio (born 1959), Italian economist *Paul Attanasio Paul Albert Attanasio (born November 14, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film and television producer. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, for ''Quiz Show (film), Quiz Show'' (1994) and ''Donnie ... (born 1959), American screenwriter and television producer {{surname, Attanasio Italian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulietta Masina
Giulia Anna "Giulietta" Masina (22 February 1921 – 23 March 1994) was an Italians, Italian film actress best known for her performances as Gelsomina in ''La Strada'' (1954) and Cabiria in ''Nights of Cabiria'' (1957), for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. Cinema historian Peter Bondanella described Masina's work as "masterful" and "unforgettable," and Charlie Chaplin, with whose work Masina's is often compared,Masina reference filmsdefrance.com; accessed 19 October 2018.Reference to Masina filmbug.com; accessed 19 October 2018. called her "the actress who moved him most." Both ''La Strada'' and ''Nights of Cabiria'' won Academ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Berti
Elena Maureen Bertolino (29 September 1924 – 29 October 2002), known professionally as Marina Berti, was an Italian film actress. She was born in London from an Italian father and an English mother. Biography Her first screen appearance was in the Anna Magnani film, ''La Fuggitiva'' in 1941. She appeared mainly in small roles and in the occasional leading role in nearly 100 films both Italian and American. Her appearances include ''Quo Vadis'' (1951), '' Abdulla the Great'' (1955), '' Ben Hur'' (1959), ''Cleopatra'' (1963), '' If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium'' (1969), '' What Have They Done to Your Daughters?'' (1974), '' Last Stop on the Night Train'' (1975), and the TV miniseries' ''Moses the Lawgiver'' (1975) and ''Jesus of Nazareth'' (1977). Her last film appearance was in the Costa-Gavras film '' Amen.'' in 2002. She was married to the Italian actor Claudio Gora from 1944 until his death in 1998. She was the mother of actor Andrea Giordana and actress Marina Giord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Girotti
Massimo Girotti (18 May 1918 – 5 January 2003) was an Italian film actor whose career spanned seven decades. Born in Mogliano, in the province of Macerata, Girotti developed his athletic physique by swimming and playing polo. While studying engineering, he attracted the attention of Mario Soldati, who offered him a small part in the film '' Dora Nelson'' (1939), but it was not until later, in Alessandro Blasetti's ''La corona di ferro'' (''The Iron Crown'') (1941) and Roberto Rossellini's '' Un Pilota ritorna'' (''A Pilot Returns'') (1942), that he began to make an impression as a serious actor. In 1943 came a turning point in his career when Luchino Visconti cast him opposite the torrid Clara Calamai in '' Ossessione'' (''Obsession''), an earlier adaptation of the same novel on which Hollywood's '' The Postman Always Rings Twice'' is based. The film marked, in a sense, the birth of Italian neo-realism. Some of his notable post- war films include '' Caccia tragica'' (''The Tragi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Lizzani
Carlo Lizzani (3 April 1922 – 5 October 2013) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic. Biography Born in Rome, before World War II Lizzani worked as a scenarist on such films as Roberto Rossellini's '' Germany Year Zero'', Alberto Lattuada's '' The Mill on the Po'' (both 1948) and Giuseppe De Santis' '' Bitter Rice'' (1949), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story. After directing documentaries, he debuted as a feature director with the admired World War II drama '' Achtung! Banditi!'' (1951). Respected for his awarded drama '' Chronicle of Poor Lovers'' (1954), he has proven a solid director of genre films, notably crime films such as ''The Violent Four'' (1968) and '' Crazy Joe'' (1974) or crime-comedy '' Roma Bene'' (1971). His film '' L'oro di Roma'' (1961) examined events around the final deportation of the Jews of Rome and the Roman roundup, ''grande razzia'', of October 1943. For his 1968 film '' Bandits in Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
At The Edge Of The City
''At the Edge of the City'' ( it, Ai margini della metropoli) is a 1953 Italian crime film drama directed by Carlo Lizzani. The film stars Massimo Girotti, Marina Berti and Giulietta Masina. In Rome a young man is falsely accused of killing his girlfriend. It was shot at the Palatino Studios in Rome and on location in the city. The film used neorealist style and was based on a real-life case. Plot Mario Ilari, a young unemployed worker, is unjustly accused of killing a girl he knows of him. Once arrested, he manages to escape and hide in the house of his partner Gina, but ends up in prison again. The lawyer Roberto Marini agrees to take his defense after being contacted by Luisa, a friend of Gina, convinced that the trial will give him the opportunity to assert himself. The situation, however, is complicated by the fact that Calì, a homeless man, says he saw Ilari at the scene of the crime. Ilari confesses that he met Greta through a female friend, who should have facilitated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldo Fiorelli
Aldo Fiorelli (1915–1983) was an Italian actor who appeared in around thirty films between 1938 and 1960. One of his final roles was Argos, the Shipbuilder in the 1958 film ''Hercules''Hughes p.2 and its 1959 sequel ''Hercules Unchained ''Hercules Unchained'' ( it, Ercole e la regina di Lidia , "Hercules and the Queen of Lydia") is a 1959 Italian-French epic fantasy feature film starring Steve Reeves and Sylva Koscina in a story about two warring brothers and Hercules' tribulati ...''. Filmography References External links * Bibliography * Hughes, Howard. ''Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult''. I.B.Tauris, 2011. 1915 births 1983 deaths Italian male film actors People from the Province of Florence 20th-century Italian male actors {{Italy-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Frau
Maria Frau (born 6 August 1930) is a retired Italian film actress.Ringgold & Bodeen p.167 She made her debut in 1950 when she played the title role in '' Margaret of Cortona''. After appearing in eighteen films she retired from acting in 1957, following her marriage. Selected filmography * '' Margaret of Cortona'' (1950) * '' Red Moon'' (1951) * ''Frontier Wolf'' (1952) * '' Il prezzo dell'onore'' (1952) * '' Sul ponte dei sospiri'' (1953) * '' I Had Seven Daughters'' (1954) * '' Barrier of the Law'' (1954) * '' The Star of Rio'' (1955) * ''Toto in Hell ''Toto in Hell'' ( it, Totò all'inferno) is a 1955 Italian fantasy- comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque. Italian cult horror film director Lucio Fulci co-wrote the screenplay. Plot Antonio Marchi, a depressed thief, after several a ...'' (1955) * '' The Goddess of Love'' (1957) References Bibliography * Gene Ringgold & DeWitt Bodeen. ''Chevalier: The Films and Career of Maurice Chevalier''. Citadel Press, 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
