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Jessica (film)
''Jessica'' is a 1962 comedy drama film directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Maurice Chevalier, Angie Dickinson and Sylva Koscina, with cinematography by Piero Portalupi and art direction by Giulio Bongini. It was a co-production between France, Italy and the United States. Location shooting took place around Forza d'Agrò on Sicily. Plot When her husband dies in Sicily while on their honeymoon, Jessica, a nurse, decides to remain there rather than return home and becomes a midwife in the village of Forza d'Agrò. Men of the town pay quite a bit of attention to the attractive Jessica, causing women to resent her presence. While she at times welcomes their attentions, she has a strict rule to never get involved with any man who has any standing attachment to another woman. The wives conspire to abstain from relations with their husbands, reasoning that if no babies are born, no midwife is needed. Parish priest Father Antonio disapproves of their scheme. Jessica develops a rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Negulesco
Jean Negulesco (born Ioan Negulescu; – 18 July 1993) was a Romanian-American film director and screenwriter.Oliver, Myrna"Jean Negulesco 1900–1993 ''The Los Angeles Times'', 22 July 1993. He first gained notice for his film noirs and later made such notable films as '' Johnny Belinda'' (1948), ''How to Marry a Millionaire'' (1953), ''Titanic'' (1953), and '' Three Coins in the Fountain'' (1954). He was called "the first real master of CinemaScope". Biography Early life Born in Craiova, Negulesco was the son of a hotel keeper and attended Carol I High School. When he was 15, he was working in a military hospital during World War I. Georges Enesco, the Romanian composer, came to play the violin to the war wounded; Negulesco drew a portrait of him, and Enesco bought it. Negulesco decided to be a painter and studied art in Bucharest. Negulesco went to Paris in 1920, and enrolled in the Académie Julian. He sold one of his paintings to Rex Ingram. America In 1927, he visite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noël-Noël
Noël-Noël (born Lucien Noël, 9 August 1897 – 5 October 1989) was a French actor and screenwriter. Partial filmography * ''La prison en folie'' (1931) - Yves Larsac * '' When Do You Commit Suicide?'' (1931) - Léon Mirol * '' Mistigri'' (1931) - Zamore * ''La brigade du bruit'' (1931) * '' A Father Without Knowing It'' (1932) - Léon Jacquet * ''Monsieur Albert'' (1932) - Monsieur Albert * ''Mon coeur balance'' (1932) - Le comte Noel * ''A Star Disappears'' (1932) - Himself * ''Pour vivre heureux'' (1932) - Jean Mauclair * ''Les jeux sont faits'' (1932) * ''Mannequin'' (1933) - Alfred * ''Vive la compagnie'' (1934) - Jean-Jacques Bonneval * ''Une fois dans la vie'' (1934) - Léon Saval * ''Adémaï aviateur'' (1934) - Adémaï * ''Mam'zelle Spahi'' (1934) - Bréchu - l'ordonnance du colonel * ''Adémaï au moyen âge'' (1935) - Adémaï * ''Moutonnet'' (1936) - Moutonnet et Mérac * ''Tout va très bien madame la marquise'' (1936) - Yonnik Le Ploumanech * ''L'innocent'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Films
The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with ''Lawrence of Arabia'' winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1962 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * February – Warner Bros. buy the film rights for ''My Fair Lady'' for the unprecedented sum of $5.5 million plus 47¼% of the gross over $20 million. * May – The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government. * June 18 – MCA Inc. finalize their merger with Decca-Universal. * July 25 – Darryl F. Zanuck, one of the founders of 20th Century Fox, becomes president, replacing Spyros Skouras. Skouras becomes chairman of the board. * August 5 – Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe is found dead of a drug overdose. * September 7 – Filming of Sergei Bondarchuk's ''War and Peace'' begins and will continue for another 5 years. * October 5 – '' Dr. No'' launch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Musy
Giovanni Musy (August 3, 1931 – October 7, 2011) was an Italian actor and dubbing artist. Biography Born in Milan, the son of actors Enrico Glori and Gianna Pacetti, he started his career as a child actor at eleven years old. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in his hometown. Starting from the late 1950s, Musy began an intense career as a character actor, being often cast in roles of villain. Musy became best known through his television work, notably the RAI TV-series '' Le inchieste del commissario Maigret'', '' E le stelle stanno a guardare'', ''Dov'è Anna''. Musy was also very active as a voice actor and a dubber. He was the primary Italian voice of Dumbledore from the '' Harry Potter'' film franchise as well as Gandalf from ''The Lord of the Rings''. He sometimes dubbed actors such as Richard Harris, Marlon Brando, Christopher Plummer, Sean Connery, George Peppard, James Coburn and more. Personal life Musy was the father of voice actress Stella Musy. He als ... [...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 Giordana. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Rabagliati
Alberto Rabagliati (27 June 1906 in Milan – 8 March 1974 in Rome) was an Italian singer. Early career Alberto Rabagliati was born in Milan in 1906 and was the son of piedmontese spouses: his father Leandro Valentino Rabagliati and his mother Delfina Besso were both natives of Casorzo, a common on the hills of the Montferrat in the Province of Asti (Italy). In 1927, he moved to Hollywood as the winner of a Rudolph Valentino look-alike contest. He later recalled: "For someone like me, who had seen no more than Lake Como or Monza Cathedral so far, finding myself on board a luxury steamer with three cases full of clothes, a few rolls of dollars, gran-duchesses and countesses flirting with me was something extraordinary". He remained in America for four years, but his career as an actor never took off. However, during his stay he had the opportunity to get to know new musical genres such as jazz, swing, and scat singing. Alberto Rabagliati married Maria Antonietta Tonnini in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rossana Rory
Rossana Rory (born 7 September 1927) is an Italian retired actress best known for her performance as Norma in Mario Monicelli's caper film ''Big Deal on Madonna Street'' (1958). Career Rory began working as a model at the age of seventeen, posing mainly for the stylist Vincenzo Ferdinandi and in fotoromanzi in the weekly magazines ''Sogno'', ''Luna Park'', and ''Cine Illustrato''. In 1951, she made her film debut in Max Neufeld's '' Licenza premio''. Dissatisfied by a series of supporting roles, Rory went to London to attend acting courses at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, with hopes of a career in Hollywood. Her lack of luck in American films convinced her to return to Italy, where she appeared in Guido Malatesta's ''El Alamein'' (1957) and Mario Monicelli's ''Big Deal on Madonna Street'' (1958). The last film she made before her retirement from cinema was Michelangelo Antonioni's ''L'eclisse'' (1962). Partial filmography * ''The Ungrateful Heart'' (1951) * '' It Takes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgette Anys
Georgette Anys (15 July 1909 – 4 March 1993) was a French film and television actress. A character actress, she appeared mainly in French productions, but also some American films which were shot in Europe including Alfred Hitchcock's ''To Catch a Thief'' in which she plays Cary Grant's housekeeper Germaine.Glancy p.533 Selected filmography * '' Le Roi des resquilleurs'' (1930) * ''Sending of Flowers'' (1950) - La spectatrice exubérante * '' Old Boys of Saint-Loup'' (1950) - La voyageuse à l'enfant (uncredited) * ''Quay of Grenelle'' (1950) - Minor rôle (uncredited) * ''Mystery in Shanghai'' (1950) * '' Beware of Blondes'' (1950) - Une sténodactylo (uncredited) * ''La rue sans loi'' (1950) - (uncredited) * ''Without Leaving an Address'' (1951) - La concierge de Forestier * ''Under the Sky of Paris'' (1951) - Madame Malingret * '' Mr. Peek-a-Boo'' (1951) - Maria (uncredited) * '' The Two Girls'' (1951) - La lavandière * ''They Were Five'' (1951) - (uncredited) * ''La vie ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Croccolo
Carlo Croccolo (9 April 1927 – 12 October 2019) was an Italian actor, voice actor, director and screenwriter. Biography Born in Naples, Croccolo began his acting career on the radio and he appeared in more than 100 films since 1949. His debut came in the 1949 film ''The Firemen of Viggiù'' and he made his first television debut in 1956. He was best known for some of his collaborations with Totò mainly throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Croccolo’s international appearance came from the 1996 film '' In Love and War'' directed by Richard Attenborough. He also had an intense theatrical career as he often starred in plays directed by Eduardo De Filippo and Giorgio Strehler. As a voice actor, Croccolo performed the Italian voice of Oliver Hardy in the 1951-1953 redubs of ''Laurel and Hardy'' in which he was paired with Fiorenzo Fiorentini (the Italian voice of Stan Laurel). He returned to dub Hardy in the 1968-1970 redubs, this time, paired with Franco Latini. Since 1957, Croccolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerima (actress)
Kerima (born 10 February 1925) is a French former actress best known for her role in the 1951 British film ''Outcast of the Islands''. For publicity reasons, she was portrayed as of exotic extraction including Javanese and Algerian. Film career ''Outcast of the Islands'' was set in Indonesia and Kerima's role was that of a native girl. In casting the role, director Carol Reed sought someone "seductive, radiant", "as the soul of the country with its mysterious forests". He felt no available actresses were right for the part. In an interview with ''Der Spiegel'', he claimed to have searched for almost a year in Egypt, Singapore, and Borneo, auditioning "dancers, fashion models, beauty queens" before friends recommended Kerima, "daughter of a very wealthy Arab in Algiers". Although her background was not Indonesian, film publicity sought to portray her as an indigenous islander. In London, she was quoted as saying "I live the life of Nature. I ride bareback, I walk barefoot, I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Cifariello
Antonio Cifariello (19 May 1930 – 12 December 1968) was an Italian actor and documentarist. Life and career Born in Naples, son of the sculptor Filippo Cifariello, Antonio started his career in 1950 as the main actor, credited as Fabio Montale, in ''La sposa che vestiva di bianco'', a film which had several production issues and that was released only in 1953. In the meanwhile Cifariello appeared in several fotoromanzi using the stage name Mauro Vellani, and enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, graduating in 1953. The same year, he was chosen by Federico Fellini to star in ''Marriage Agency'', a segment of the anthology film '' Love in the City''. Following the release of the film, in a short time Cifariello established himself as one of the most requested young actors in Italian cinema, mainly active in romantic comedies and adventure films. Tired of playing stereotypal characters of seducers or boyfriends, in the 1960s Cifariello gradually m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle De Metz
Danielle De Metz (born 27 July 1938) is a French actress who appeared in movies and television during the 1960s and early 1970s. Career Movie columnist Louella Parsons reported that film director Jean Negulesco met De Metz when he was in Paris, France, and told her to contact him if she came to Hollywood, California. When she came and called him, he had no role available, so he put her in school at 20th Century Fox. De Metz guest starred in such shows as ''Dr. Kildare'', ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', '' The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.'', ''The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'', ''The Tab Hunter Show'', ''My Three Sons'', ''I Dream of Jeannie'', ''77 Sunset Strip'', ''Combat!'', '' Lock-Up'', ''Perry Mason'', '' Thriller'', ''I Spy'', ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'', ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' and '' Have Gun - Will Travel''. Her film work includes ''Return of the Fly'' (1959), '' Valley of the Dragons'' (1961), '' The Magic Sword'' (1962), ''Gidget Goes to Rome'' (1963), '' The Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
