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Lia Amanda
Lia Amanda (born 2 September 1932) is an Italian former film actress. Life and career Born in Rome as Lia Molfesi, Amanda was the daughter of the character actor Mario Molfesi. She debuted at very young age with her real name in Mario Monicelli and Steno (director), Steno's ''Totò cerca casa'', in which she played the daughter of Totò. She adopted her stage name since her second film, ''Cento piccole mamme'', in which she also had her first leading role. After several significant roles in critically appreciated films including Augusto Genina's ''Tre storie proibite'', at the peak of her career, at the 1955 Punta del Este Film Festival Amanda announced her retirement from acting to move in Brasil with her husband, the Argentine businessman Arnaldo Carraro. In 1975 she made a fleeting return to acting with a supporting role in the giallo ''Nude per l'assassino''. Selected filmography * ''Toto Looks for a House'' (1949) * ''One Hundred Little Mothers'' (1952) * ''Past Lovers'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
, established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption = The territory of the ''comune'' (''Roma Capitale'', in red) inside the Metropolitan City of Rome (''Città Metropolitana di Roma'', in yellow). The white spot in the centre is Vatican City. , pushpin_map = Italy#Europe , pushpin_map_caption = Location within Italy##Location within Europe , pushpin_relief = yes , coordinates = , coor_pinpoint = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Italy , subdivision_type2 = Region , subdivision_name2 = Lazio , subdivision_type3 = Metropolitan city , subdivision_name3 = Rome Capital , government_footnotes= , government_type = Strong Mayor–Council , leader_title2 = Legislature , leader_name2 = Capitoline Assemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nude Per L'assassino
''Nude per l'assassino'' (English: ''Strip Nude for Your Killer'') is a 1975 ''giallo'' film directed by Andrea Bianchi. Written by Massimo Felisatti, the film stars Nino Castelnuovo, Edwige Fenech and Solvi Stubing, and features music by Berto Pisano. ''Nude per l'assassino'' has received mixed to negative reviews from critics. After a model dies while undergoing an illegal abortion, a killer disguised in a motorcycle helmet tracks down and kills the doctor involved. Several models and photographers working at the same agency as the dead girl are also murdered, leading two surviving photographers to fear for their lives as they try to track down the killer. ''Nude per l'assassino'' is one of several collaborations between Bianchi, Felisatti and cinematographer Franco Delli Colli. The film has been described as a formulaic ''giallo'' thriller, and has been cited as an influence on the development of the American slasher film genre. Plot After a fashion model dies while underg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Film Actresses
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Actresses From Rome
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 Births
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Count Of Monte Cristo
''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (french: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (''père'') completed in 1844. It is one of the author's more popular works, along with ''The Three Musketeers''. Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815–1839: the era of the Bourbon Restoration in France, Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France. It begins on the day that Napoleon left his first island of exile, Elba, beginning the Hundred Days period when Napoleon returned to power. The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book, an adventure story centrally concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness. It centers on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune, and set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alarm In Morocco
''Alarm in Morocco'' (French: ''Alerte au sud'', Italian: '' Allarme a sud'') is a 1953 French-Italian adventure film directed by Jean-Devaivre and starring Jean-Claude Pascal, Gianna Maria Canale and Erich von Stroheim.Lennig p.458-59 Partly shot on location in Morocco, it was made using the Gevacolor process. Plot In the south of French Morocco, two members of the Foreign Legion uncover what they believe to be the testing of a secret weapon. Cast * Jean-Claude Pascal as Jean Pasqier * Gianna Maria Canale as Nathalie Provence * Erich von Stroheim as Conrad Nagel * Jean Tissier as Guillaume Provence * Albert Dinan as Roland * Peter van Eyck as Howard * Daniel Sorano as Serge Depoigny * Lia Amanda as Michèle * Jean Murat as Le Colonel * Daniel Lecourtois as Le commandant * Simone Bach as Solange * as Le commissaire * Thomy Bourdelle as Berthier * Antoine Balpêtré as Le juge * Marcel Pérès as Le général * as La petite rousse * Dario Michae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Past Lovers
''Past Lovers'' (Italian: ''Amanti del passato'') is a 1953 Italian melodrama film that was directed by Adelchi Bianchi and starring Lia Amanda, Vittorio Sanipoli and Irene Genna."Amanti del passato". ''Segnalazioni Cinematografiche''. Vol. XXXIV, 1953. Main cast * Lia Amanda as Anna *Vittorio Sanipoli as Carlo *Irene Genna as Roberta *Lauro Gazzolo as Servitore *Michele Malaspina as Count Bernardo *Gino Leurini *Mirko Ellis Mirko Ellis (4 September 1923 – 11 September 2014) was a Swiss-Italian film, stage and television actor. Born Mirko Korcinsky in Locarno to a family of Lithuanian origin, Ellis moved, after his studies, to Italy, where he made his film debut i ... * Nino Milano References External links * 1953 films 1953 romantic drama films Italian romantic drama films Films directed by Adelchi Bianchi 1950s Italian-language films Italian black-and-white films Melodrama films 1950s Italian films {{romantic-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Hundred Little Mothers
''One Hundred Little Mothers'' (Italian: ''Cento piccole mamme'') is a 1952 Italian melodrama film directed by Giulio Morelli and starring William Tubbs, Lia Amanda and Clelia Matania. It is a remake of the 1936 French film ''Forty Little Mothers''. Cast * William Tubbs as Prof. Martino Prosperi * Lia Amanda as Anna * Clelia Matania as director Sampieri * Checco Durante as commissioner * Juan de Landa as Don Michele * Ugo D'Alessio See also * ''Forty Little Mothers'' (1936) * ''Forty Little Mothers ''Forty Little Mothers'' is a 1940 American comedy-drama film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring Eddie Cantor. Plot Out-of-work professor Gilbert Jordan Thompson stops a suicidal stranger named Marian Edwards from jumping off a pier and he ...'' (1940) References External links * 1952 films Italian drama films 1950s Italian-language films Italian remakes of French films Films directed by Léonide Moguy 1952 drama films Italian black-and-white films 1950s Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto Looks For A House
''Toto Looks for a House'' ( it, Totò cerca casa) is a 1949 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli and Steno. The film is stylistically related to Italian neorealism, though it can be seen as a parody. It was a commercial success, being the second most popular film at the box office that year.Bondanella p.113 Plot In an afterwar Italy the problem for every citizen is to find a comfortable place to live. Beniamino Lomacchio (Totò) is one of the many people without a home and, together with his family, he's been living in a school. He cannot live there much longer, though, because school re-opens in September. Beniamino is a poor clerk and does not know what to do; he just hopes he'll find a comfortable apartment with a landlord who doesn't ask for too much rent. One day, however, Beniamino finds a place to move into: a cemetery caretaker's house. Not all the family is convinced it's a great idea. They stay there for a short while, fleeing when they think they see a gh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giallo
In Italian cinema, ''Giallo'' (; plural ''gialli'', from ''giallo'', Italian for yellow) is a genre of mystery fiction and thrillers that often contains slasher, crime fiction, psychological thriller, psychological horror, sexploitation, and, less frequently, supernatural horror elements. This particular style of Italian-produced murder mystery horror-thriller film usually blends the atmosphere and suspense of thriller fiction with elements of horror fiction (such as slasher violence) and eroticism (similar to the French '' fantastique'' genre), and often involves a mysterious killer whose identity is not revealed until the final act of the film. The genre developed in the mid-to-late 1960s, peaked in popularity during the 1970s, and subsequently declined in commercial mainstream filmmaking over the next few decades, though examples continue to be produced. It was a predecessor to, and had significant influence on, the later American slasher film genre. Literature In the Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Character Actor
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 be almost unrecognizable from part to part, and yet play many, many roles convincingly and memorably. .." The term, often contrasted with that of leading actor, is somewhat abstract and open to interpretation. In a literal sense, all actors can be considered character actors since they all play "characters", but the term more commonly refers to an actor who frequently plays a distinctive and important supporting role. Character actors are generally well-known and recognizable by the audience (by appearance if not by name), even if they play different types of roles in different movies. A character actor may play characters who are very different from the actor's off-screen real-life personality, while in another sense a character actor may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
