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Kean (1956 Film)
''Kean: Genius or Scoundrel'' (Italian: ''Kean - Genio e sregolatezza'') is a 1956 Italian historical biographical film co-written, directed by and starring Vittorio Gassman. It also features Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gérard Landry and Valentina Cortese A dramatization of the life of nineteenth century actor Edmund Kean, it is based on the drama play ''Kean'' (1836) by Alexandre Dumas and its 1953 adaptation with the same name by Jean-Paul Sartre. It was Gassman's first film as director. It was screened at the Locarno Film Festival in 1957. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gianni Polidori. Much of the film was shot at the Teatro Valle in Rome. Plot In 19th century London, Edmund Kean was an adored Shakespearean comedian. An inveterate Don Juan, he amuses good London society with his eloquence and his wit. Eléna, the charming wife of the Danish ambassador, is in love with the actor. The Prince of Wales learns that this emotion is mutual, and offers her to give up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman (; born Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000), popularly known as , was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors, whose career includes both important productions as well as dozens of ''divertissements''. Biography Early life Gassmann was born in Genoa to a German father, Heinrich Gassmann (an engineer from Karlsruhe), and a Jewish mother, Luisa Ambron, born in Pisa. While still very young, he moved to Rome, where he studied at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts. Gassman suffered from bipolar disorder. Career Gassman's debut was in Milan, in 1942, with Alda Borelli in Niccodemi's ''La Nemica'' (theatre). He then moved to Rome and acted at the ''Teatro Eliseo'' joining Tino Carraro and Ernesto Calindri in a team that remained famous for some time; with them he acted in a range of plays from bourgeois comedy to sophisticated intellectual theatre. In 1946, he made his film debut i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, as well as a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to do so. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution." Sartre held an open relationship with prominent feminist and fellow existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Together, Sartre and de Beauvoir challenged the cultural and social assumptions and expectations of their upbringings, which they considered bourgeois, in both lifestyles and thought. The conflict between oppressive, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amedeo Girardi
Amedeo is an Italian given name meaning "lover of God", "loves God", or more correctly "for the love of God" and cognate to the Latin name Amadeus and the Spanish and Portuguese Amadeo. People with this name include: * A number of rulers and nobles associated with the historical region of Savoy ** Amadeus II, Count of Savoy ( 1078–1080) ** Amadeus III, Count of Savoy (r. 1103–1148) ** Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy (r. 1233–1253) ** Amadeus V, Count of Savoy (r. 1285–1323) ** Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (r. 1343–1383) ** Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy (r. 1383–1391) ** Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (r. 1391–1440), better known as Antipope Felix V ** Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (r. 1465–1472) ** Amedeo di Savoia (1845–1890), later Amadeo I of Spain ** Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1898–1942) ** Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1943–2021) *Amedeo Avogadro Italian scientist *Amedeo Felisa (born 1946), CEO of Ferrari and Aston Martin *Amedeo Modigliani (a.k.a. Modi) Italian pain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina Sassoli
Dina Sassoli (15 August 1920 – 24 March 2008) was an Italian film actress. She was born on 15 August 1920, in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was best known for her work with Italian director Mario Camerini. She died on 24 March 2008 in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * '' Kean'' (1940) * '' The Betrothed'' (1941) * ''Two Anonymous Letters'' (1945) * '' Un giorno nella vita'' (1946) * ''The Mill on the Po'' (1949) * ''Little Lady'' (1949) * '' Flying Squadron'' (1949) * '' Cameriera bella presenza offresi...'' (1951) * '' The Last Sentence'' (1951) * ''I figli non si vendono'' (1952) * '' The Other Side of Paradise'' (1953) * ''And Agnes Chose to Die'' (1976) * '' Oggetti smarriti'' (1980) * ''Voltati Eugenio ''Voltati Eugenio'' (internationally released as ''Eugenio'' and ''Turn Around Eugenio'') is a 1980 Italian comedy drama film by Luigi Comencini. It entered the 37th Venice International Film Festival. The film won the David di Donatello for b ...'' (1980) R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Carotenuto
Mario Carotenuto (30 June 1916 – 14 April 1995) was an Italian actor of film and theatre. Biography Carotenuto, the son of a silent film actor and younger brother of the actor Memmo Carotenuto, took various humble jobs for many years before starting his own artistic career in 1946, first as a radio actor and then joining small avanspettacolo companies. He made his film debut in 1950, in ''Abbiamo vinto'', going on to perform as leading or supporting actor in dozens of films, often comedies. He was also very active on stage and television. He died in Rome in 1995. Awards * 1973 Nastro d'argento for best Supporting Actor for the film '' Lo scopone scientifico'' Filmography * ''Scipione l'africano'' (1937) * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1951) * '' Milano miliardaria'' (1951) * ''Beauties in Capri'' (1952) * '' The Beach'' (1954) * ''A Hero of Our Times'' (1955) * ''Sunset in Naples'' (1955) * '' Kean: Genius or Scoundrel'' (1956) * ''I giorni più belli'' (1956) * '' Mio fig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nerio Bernardi
Nerio Bernardi (23 July 1899 – 12 January 1971) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in nearly 200 films between 1918 and 1970. He was born in Bologna, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Nero'' (1922) * ''The Shepherd King'' (1923) * '' Full Speed'' (1934) * ''Port'' (1934) * ''Loyalty of Love'' (1934) * '' God's Will Be Done'' (1936) * ''King of Diamonds'' (1936) * ''Bayonet'' (1936) * ''The Black Corsair'' (1937) * '' Abandonment'' (1940) * '' Captain Fracasse'' (1940) * ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (1940) * ''Antonio Meucci'' (1940) * '' The Last Dance'' (1941) * ''The Mask of Cesare Borgia'' (1941) * '' A che servono questi quattrini?'' (1942) * ''The Queen of Navarre'' (1942) * '' Fedora'' (1942) * '' In High Places'' (1943) * ''Special Correspondents'' (1943) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1947) * ''The Courier of the King'' (1947) * ''The Lady of the Camellias'' (1947) * ''Mare Nostrum'' (1948) * '' Be Seeing You, Father'' (1948) * ''The Charterhouse of Parma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesco Baseggio
Francesco "Cesco" Baseggio (1897–1971) was an Italian stage, film and television actor. He was born in Venice, and was identified with Venetian roles during his film career.Brunetta p.87 He appeared in a mixture of serious, dramatic films, as well as comedies such as '' The Brambilla Family Go on Holiday'' (1941). On the stage he frequently appeared in plays by Carlo Goldoni. Selected filmography * ''The Black Corsair'' (1937) * ''Giuseppe Verdi'' (1938) * '' The Widow'' (1939) * ''The Carnival of Venice'' (1939) * '' The Brambilla Family Go on Holiday'' (1941) * ''Annabella's Adventure'' (1943) * '' Men of the Mountain'' (1943) * ''Measure for Measure'' (1943) * ''The Ten Commandments'' (1945) * '' The White Line'' (1950) * '' The Merry Widower'' (1950) * ''I Chose Love'' (1953) * ''The Barber of Seville ''The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution'' ( it, Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione ) is an ''opera buffa'' in two acts composed by Gioachino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Mazzarella
Carlo Mazzarella (30 July 1919 – 7 March 1993) was an Italian actor and journalist. Life and career Born in Genoa, Mazzarella enrolled in the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1942. Almost immediately he debuted on stage, working with Anna Proclemer and Sergio Tofano, among others. In the aftermath of the Second World War, Mazzarella started a prolific film career as a character actor. In 1955 he started a new career as a television journalist for RAI TV, specializing on news about costume, theater and cinema, and gradually abandoning his acting career. He retired in 1985. Mazzarella died of lung cancer at the age of 73. Partial filmography * '' His Young Wife'' (1945) - Paglieri, il notaio * ''The Models of Margutta'' (1946) - L'esattore * ''Felicità perduta'' (1946) * ''Il vento m'ha cantato una canzone'' (1947) * ''Christmas at Camp 119'' (1947) - Ignazio (uncredited) * ''Arrivederci papà'' (1948) * ''Bitter Rice'' (1949) - Gianetto * ''Viver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Dantine
Helmut Dantine (7 October 1918 – 2 May 1982) was an Austrian-American actor who often played Nazis in thriller films of the 1940s. His best-known performances are perhaps the German pilot in ''Mrs. Miniver'' and the desperate refugee in ''Casablanca'', who tries gambling to obtain travel visa money for himself and his wife. As his acting career waned, he turned to producing. According to one obituary, "He specialized in portrayals of Nazis, sometimes as the handsome but icy SS sadist battling Allied heroes, sometimes as a sympathetic German soldier forced, against his better judgment, to fight". Early life Dantine's father, Alfred Guttman, was the head of the Austrian railway system in Vienna. As a young man, Dantine became involved in Vienna's anti-Nazi movement. In 1938, when he was 19 years old, the Nazis took over Austria during the ''Anschluss''. Dantine was rounded up with hundreds of other opponents of the Third Reich and imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp outsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Maria Ferrero
Anna Maria Ferrero (18 February 1935 – 21 May 2018) was an Italian actress. Early life and career Born Anna Maria Guerra, she changed her last name to Ferrero in honor of the composer :it:Willy Ferrero, Willy Ferrero. Her film debut came at the age of 15 in ''Il cielo è rosso'' (1950), and she was soon cast in such films as ''Il duca di Sant'Elmo'' (1950) and ''Il Cristo proibito'' (1951), the only movie directed by the noted writer Curzio Malaparte. Later career Ferrero's career progressed quickly as she worked with prominent directors, such as Michelangelo Antonioni on ''I vinti'', and actors, like Marcello Mastroianni in Carlo Lizzani's award-winning ''Chronicle of Poor Lovers'' (1953). She appeared with the popular comedian Totò in ''Totò e Carolina'' (1953) and with star Alberto Sordi in ''Una parigina a Roma'' (1954). She appeared with Vittorio Gassman in six films: ''Lorenzaccio'', King Vidor's ''War and Peace (1956 film), War and Peace'', ''Kean'', which Gassman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
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Teatro Valle
Teatro may refer to: * Theatre * Teatro (band) Teatro, Italian for "theatre", is a vocal group signed to the Sony BMG music label. The members of Teatro are Jeremiah James, Andrew Alexander, Simon Bailey and Stephen Rahman-Hughes. Band members Jeremiah James Jeremiah James was born in upst ..., musical act signed to Sony BMG * ''Teatro'' (Willie Nelson album), 1998 * ''Teatro'' (Draco Rosa album), 2008 {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
