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Leo Menardi
Leo Menardi (1903–1954) was an Italian screenwriter, producer and film director. He also worked as editor and assistant director on ''The Song of Love'' (1930), the first Italian sound film. In 1942 he wrote and directed ''Luisa Sanfelice''.Marrone & Puppa p.461 Selected filmography * ''The Song of Love'' (1930) * '' The Devil's Lantern'' (1931) * '' One Night with You'' (1932) * ''The Haller Case'' (1933) * '' Unripe Fruit'' (1934) * ''Luisa Sanfelice'' (1942) * ''Annabella's Adventure ''Annabella's Adventure'' or ''The Adventure of Annabella'' (Italian:''L'avventura di Annabella'') is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Leo Menardi and starring Fioretta Dolfi, Maurizio D'Ancora and Paola Borboni.Moliterno p.25 The film's s ...'' (1943) References Bibliography * Marrone, Gaetana & Puppa, Paolo. ''Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies''. Routledge, 2006. External links * 1903 births 1954 deaths 20th-century Italian screenwriters Italian male scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is mainly on the western bank of the Po (river), Po River, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alps, Alpine arch and Superga Hill. The population of the city proper is 847,287 (31 January 2022) while the population of the urban area is estimated by Larger Urban Zones, Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD to have a population of 2.2 million. The city used to be a major European political centre. From 1563, it was the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, then of the Kingdom of Sardinia ruled by the House of Savoy, and the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil's Lantern
''The Devil's Lantern'' (Italian: ''La lanterna del diavolo'') is a 1931 Italian drama film directed by Carlo Campogalliani and starring Nella Maria Bonora, Donatella Neri, and Carlo Gualandri.Mancini p.54 It was made at the Cines Studios in Rome. Cast * Nella Maria Bonora * Donatella Neri * Carlo Gualandri as Capobanda * Letizia Quaranta * Carlo Tamberlani * Raimondo Van Riel * Alfredo Martinelli * Guido Celano Guido Celano (19 April 1904 – 7 March 1988) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film director. He appeared in 120 films between 1931 and 1988. He also directed two Spaghetti Westerns: '' Cold Killer'' and '' Gun Shy Piluk''. He was born ... * La Baiocchi * Il Piccolo Lamberto References Bibliography * Mancini, Elaine. ''Struggles of the Italian film industry during fascism, 1930-1935''. UMI Research Press, 1985. External links * 1931 films 1931 drama films Italian drama films 1930s Italian-language films Films directed by Carlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Film Directors
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Italian Male Screenwriters
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1954 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations. * January 21 – The first nuclear-powered subm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 Births
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Annabella's Adventure
''Annabella's Adventure'' or ''The Adventure of Annabella'' (Italian:''L'avventura di Annabella'') is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Leo Menardi and starring Fioretta Dolfi, Maurizio D'Ancora and Paola Borboni.Moliterno p.25 The film's sets were designed by the art director Virgilio Marchi. Cast * Fioretta Dolfi as Annabella * Maurizio D'Ancora as Roberto * Paola Borboni as La madre di Annabella * Enrico Viarisio as Il padre di Annabella * Amelia Chellini as La madre di Roberto * Virgilio Riento as Il padre di Roberto * Cesco Baseggio as Lo zio di Roberto * Anna Magnani as La mondana * Guido Barbarisi * Galeazzo Benti * * Gorella Gori * Alfredo Martinelli Alfredo Martinelli (7 March 1899 – 11 November 1968) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 103 films between 1916 and 1967. He was born and died in Siena, Tuscany. Selected filmography * ''I Topi Grigi'' (1918) * ''Tortured Soul'' (1 ... * * Giacomo Moschini * Stefano Sibaldi * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unripe Fruit
''Unripe Fruit'' (Italian: ''Frutto acerbo'') is a 1934 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Lotte Menas, Nino Besozzi and Maria Wronska. A German-language version of the same story was made in Austria as ''A Precocious Girl''.Piemontese p.372 Cast * Lotte Menas as Lucy Carell - attrice di varietà * Nino Besozzi as Giorgio Verni * Maria Wronska as Madre di Lucy * Ugo Ceseri as Professore Ugoti * Matilde Casagrande as Gertrude - la governante * Giuseppe Porelli as Maggiordomo * Elevira Borelli as Eva * Nino Lary as Gigino * Luigi Cimara as Edoardo Manni * Carlo Petrangeli as Tort * Jone Frigerio as Educatrice * Alberto Gabrielli * Lucia Cannone References Bibliography * Pietro Piemontese. ''Remake: il cinema e la via dell'eterno ritorno''. Castelvecchi, 2000. External links * ''Unripe Fruit'' at Variety Distribution 1934 comedy films Italian comedy films 1934 films 1930s Italian-language films Films directed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Haller Case
''The Haller Case'' (Italian: ''Il caso Haller'') is a 1933 Italian thriller film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Marta Abba, Memo Benassi and Camillo Pilotto.Brizio-Skov p.54 The film is based on the 1893 play '' Der Andere'' by Paul Lindau. It marked the screen debut of Isa Miranda, who had her breakthrough role the following year in ''Everybody's Woman'' and emerged as the most international-renowned Italian actress of the decade. It was shot at the Cines Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Arnaldo Foresti and Alfredo Montori. Cast * Marta Abba as La Rossa * Memo Benassi as Judge Haller * Camillo Pilotto as Gang's leader * Vittorio Vaser as Gang member * Isa Miranda as Badwoman * Cele Abba * Ugo Ceseri * Vasco Creti * Natalia Murray Danesi * Egisto Olivieri * Umberto Sacripante Other film versions * ''The Other'' (January 1913, Germany, directed by Max Mack) * ''The Other'' (August 1930, Germany, directed by Robert Wien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Night With You (1932 Film)
''One Night with You'' ( it, Una notte con te) is a 1932 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Ferruccio Biancini and E. W. Emo and starring Elsa Merlini, Nino Besozzi, and Ugo Ceseri. It was made as a MLV, with a German version ''Little Girl, Great Fortune ''Little Girl, Great Fortune'' (german: Kleines Mädel – großes Glück) is a 1933 German comedy film directed by E. W. Emo and starring Dolly Haas, Carl Esmond, and Adele Sandrock. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin.Klaus p.10 ...'' also released. Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1932 comedy films Italian comedy films 1932 films 1930s Italian-language films Films directed by Ferruccio Biancini Films directed by E. W. Emo Italian multilingual films Films scored by Fred Raymond Italian black-and-white films 1932 multilingual films 1930s Italian films {{1930s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa Sanfelice (1942 Film)
''Luisa Sanfelice'' is a 1942 Italian historical drama film directed by Leo Menardi and starring Laura Solari, Massimo Serato and Osvaldo Valenti.Marrone & Puppa p.461 The film is an adaptation of a novel by Alexandre Dumas based on the story of Luisa Sanfelice (1764-1800) an Italian aristocrat executed in Naples by Ferdinand I for supporting a Republican attempt to overthrow him during the French Revolutionary Wars. Horatio Nelson and Lady Hamilton both feature prominently. It was made at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. One of the film's screenwriters was Vittorio Mussolini, the son of dictator Benito Mussolini, who was heavily involved in the Italian film industry. The film's sets were designed by Virgilio Marchi. Main cast * Laura Solari as Luisa Sanfelice * Massimo Serato as Ferdinando Ferri * Osvaldo Valenti as Nelson * Carlo Ninchi as Il banchiere Gerardo Bacher * Hilde Sessak as Lady Hamilton * Stelio Carnabuci as Andrea Sanfelice - marito de Luisa * Ada Dondini a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
