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La Garçonnière
''La garçonnière'' ("The bachelor apartment") is a 1960 Italian romance-drama film written and directed by Giuseppe De Santis. Plot A building constructor repeatedly betrays his wife in an apartment he rented in a popular neighborhood. She pawns him, finds out the truth and leaves him. The couple will recover together, but things will never be the same again. Cast *Raf Vallone as Alberto Fiorini *Eleonora Rossi Drago as Giulia Fiorini * Marisa Merlini as Pupa * Gordana Miletic as Laura * Nino Castelnuovo as Vincenzo *Maria Fiore as Clementina *Clelia Matania as Angelina *Ennio Girolami as Alvaro *Renato Baldini as Father *Franca Marzi as Mother *Miranda Campa References External links * *La garçonnière' at Variety Distribution Variety Distribution is an Italian-based film distribution company. It distributes Italian films worldwide, produced from the 1930s onward. History Variety Distribution (formerly Variety Film and Variety Communications) has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe De Santis
Giuseppe De Santis (11 February 1917 – 16 May 1997) was an Italian film director. One of the most idealistic neorealist filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s, he wrote and directed films punctuated by ardent cries for social reform. He was the brother of Italian cinematographer Pasqualino De Santis. His wife was Gordana Miletic (native spelling: Miletić), a Yugoslav actress and former ballet dancer. Biography De Santis was born in Fondi, Lazio. He was a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and fought with the anti-German Resistance in Rome during World War II. He was first a student of philosophy and literature before entering Rome's Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. While working as a journalist for ''Cinema'' magazine, De Santis became, under the influence of Cesare Zavattini, a major proponent of the early neorealist filmmakers who were trying to make films that mirrored the simple and tragic realities of proletarian life using location shooting and nonpro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Castelnuovo
Francesco "Nino" Castelnuovo (28 October 1936 – 6 September 2021) was an Italian actor of film, stage and television, best known for his starring role as Guy Foucher in the French musical film ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' (1964). Castelnuovo's other films include ''Rocco and His Brothers'' (1960), ''Camille 2000'' (1969), '' L'emmerdeur'' (1973), ''Il prato macchiato di rosso'' (1973), ''Massacre Time'' (1966), ''The Five Man Army'' (1969), and ''The English Patient'' (1996). Early life Castelnuovo was born the youngest of three boys in Lecco, Lombardy as the son of maid Emilia Paola (née Sala) and button factory employee Camillo Castelnuovo. He had two older brothers, Pierantonio (b. 1930; d. 1976) and Clemente. After being a house painter, a mechanic and a workman, he moved to Milan, where he started working as a sales agent, and at the same time, he enrolled in the acting school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. He became a father for the first time to his son Lorenz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Giuseppe De Santis
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 Romantic Drama Films
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Italian Romantic Drama Films
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1960 Films
The year 1960 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1960 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Top-grossing films by country The highest-grossing 1960 films in countries outside of North America. Events * March 5 – For the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood to film ''G.I. Blues'' * June 16 – Premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's landmark film, '' Psycho'' in the United States. Controversial since release, it sets new standards in violence and sexuality on screen, and is a critical influence on the emerging slasher genre. * August 10 – Filming of ''West Side Story'' begins. * October 6 & December 16 – Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten, receives full screenwriting credit for his work on the films ''Spartacus'' and ''Exodus'', released in the United States on these dates. * October 27 – Film ''Saturday Night and Sunday M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miranda Campa
Miranda Campa (31 January 1914 – 7 May 1989) was a Swiss-born Italian actress and voice actress. Life and career Born Liliana Campa Capodaglio in Geneva, the nephew of actors Pio Campa and Wanda Capodaglio, Campa studied acting at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1938. Mainly active on stage, she was part, among others, of the theatrical companies of Vittorio Gassman, Andreina Pagnani and Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. She made her film debut at mature age, in 1949, usually cast in character role A character actor is a supporting actor who plays unusual, interesting, or eccentric characters.28 April 2013, The New York Acting SchoolTen Best Character Actors of All Time Retrieved 7 August 2014, "..a breed of actor who has the ability to ...s, often playing religious figures. Campa was also very active as a voice actress and as a dubber. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Campa, Miranda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franca Marzi
Franca Marzi (18 August 1926 – 6 March 1989) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 80 films between 1943 and 1977. Life and career Born in Rome as Francesca Marsi, after working in the revue, Marzi made her film debut in her early twenties, in '' The Lovers'' (1946) by Giacomo Gentilomo. She was usually cast in roles of provocative women and femme fatales in films of sentimental or comic genre. The only exception was the Federico Fellini's drama ''Nights of Cabiria'' (1957), in which she played the role of the prostitute Wanda, the best friend of Giulietta Masina, a role for which she was rewarded with the Silver Ribbon for Best Supporting Actress. Selected filmography * ''Harlen'' (1943) - Une spettatrice al teatro * '' The Lovers'' (1946) - Porzia * ''Tombolo'' (1947) - Lidia * '' The Two Orphans'' (1947) - Susanne de la Pleine * ''Mad About Opera'' (1948) - Carmen * ''L'isola di Montecristo'' (1948) - Lucy * ''Letter at Dawn'' (1948) - Lilly - l'amante di Carlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renato Baldini
Renato Baldini (18 December 1921 – 5 July 1995) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 87 films between 1950 and 1983. He was born in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''It's Forever Springtime'' (1950) - Un carabiniere al processo * ''Il Mulatto'' (1950) - Matteo Belfiore * ''Il richiamo nella tempesta'' (1950) * '' Behind Closed Shutters'' (1951) - Primavera * ''Four Ways Out'' (1951) - Paolo Leandri * '' Red Moon'' (1951) - Paolo Cassino * '' Carcerato'' (1951) - Giacomo Marini * ''Rosalba, la fanciulla di Pompei'' (1952) - Vittorio Stelio * ''Non ho paura di vivere'' (1952) * ''Nessuno ha tradito'' (1952) * '' The Legend of the Piave'' (1952) - Don Carlo, capellano * ''Drama on the Tiber'' (1952) - Bruno Rossi * '' Delitto al luna park'' (1952) - Roberto * ''Sins of Rome'' (1953) - Gladiator (uncredited) * ''The Wayward Wife'' (1953) - Luciano Vittoni - L'amante di Gemma * '' Carcerato'' (1953) - Renato * ''Theodora, Slave Empress'' (1954) - Arcas * ''Naples Is Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ennio Girolami
Enio Girolami (14 January 1935 – 16 February 2013), sometimes credited as Thomas Moore, was an Italian film and television actor. Born in Rome, son of director Marino Girolami and brother of director Enzo G. Castellari, Girolami made his film debut at 18 with a role of weight in ''Fratelli d'Italia'' by Fausto Saraceni. He then appeared in many films, sometimes as main actor, working among others with Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini, Mauro Bolognini and Giuseppe De Santis. From 1960 he worked almost exclusively with his father and brother. Selected filmography * ''Brothers of Italy'' (1952) - Sergio * ''Poppy'' (1952) - Marocchi * ''Il viale della speranza'' (1953) - Piazzoni (uncredited) * ''Ci troviamo in galleria'' (1953) - Uno spettatore intransigente * '' The Beach'' (1954) - Riccardo * ''Il seduttore'' (1954) - The Singer with a Guitar in the Restaurant (uncredited) * ''Ho ritrovato mio figlio'' (1954) - Marco * ''Loves of Three Queens'' (1954) - Minor Role (uncr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clelia Matania
Clelia Matania (28 March 1918 – 14 October 1981) was an Italian film and voice actress. Life and career Born in London, the daughter of the Capri-born naturalized Briton painter Fortunino Matania (best known as Saturnino), Matania attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and also followed courses of ballet, singing and music. When the family returned to Italy, she entered the company of the Arts Theater directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia. In the second half of the thirties and during the war she was one of the most popular and requested young actresses of prose in Italy, then, from 1942, she also starred with some success in several revues. Her stage activity include works with Totò, Eduardo De Filippo and the musical comedy ''Enrico '61'' that she also represented in England, first in Liverpool and then in London, also participating in a Royal Performance in the presence of the Royal Family. Her film career mainly consists of supporting roles as a character actress; due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Fiore
Maria Fiore (1 October 1935 – 28 October 2004) was an Italian film and television actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1952 and 1999. Life and career Born Jolanda Di Fiore in Rome, in spite of a non-professional acting background, she made her film debut in a leading role, in the Renato Castellani's pink-neorealist film ''Two Cents Worth of Hope''. Following the success of the film she was one of the most requested actresses until the first half of the 1960s, even if often cast in stock roles of impulsive and genuine low-class girls. Starting from the 1970s she focused on television, where she got several main roles in some series. Selected filmography * ''Two Cents Worth of Hope'' (1952) * ''Beauties on Motor Scooters'' (1952) * '' Melody of Love'' (1952) * '' Half a Century of Song'' (1952) * '' Good Folk's Sunday'' (1953) * ''Graziella'' (1954) * ''Neapolitan Carousel'' (1954) * ''Love Song'' (1954) * '' A Slice of Life'' (1954) * ''I pappagalli'' (1955) * ''Sun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
