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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 Hilde Sessak (27 July 1915 – 17 April 2003) was a German actress who appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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'' (1943) * ''Storm A storm is any disturbed state of the natural environment or the atmosphere of an astronomical body. It may be marked by significant disruptions to normal conditions such as strong wind, tornadoes, hail, thunder and lightning (a thunderstor ...'' (1954) References Bibliography * Marrone, Gaetana & Puppa, Paolo. ''Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies''. Routledge, 2006. External links * 1903 births 1954 deaths 20th-century Italian screenwriters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa Sanfelice
Luisa or Luigia Sanfelice (1764–1800) was an Italian aristocrat who was executed by Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies Ferdinand I (Italian language, Italian: ''Ferdinando I''; 12 January 1751 – 4 January 1825) was Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, King of the Two Sicilies from 1816 until his death. Before that he had been, since 1759, King of Naples as Ferdinand I ... because of her involvement with the French-backed Parthenopean Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars, although Sanfelice was largely apolitical. As she was generally regarded as the innocent victim of circumstances, she became a legendary figure who was widely portrayed in popular culture. During the nineteenth century she was often depicted as a gentle and naïve beauty whose story closely resembled that of the fictional Fioria Tosca,the heroine of the Puccini opera ''Tosca''.Nicassio p. 117 Amongst those who have depicted Sanfelice's story are the French writer Alexandre Dumas, who wrote the novel ''L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Dondini
Ada Dondini (18 March 1883 – 3 January 1958) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 48 films between 1916 and 1954. Selected filmography * '' The Charmer'' (1931) * '' Just Married'' (1934) * '' Mr. Desire'' (1934) * '' I Love You Only'' (1935) * '' Joe the Red'' (1936) * '' Piccolo mondo antico'' (1941) * '' Schoolgirl Diary'' (1941) * '' The Secret Lover'' (1941) * '' Invisible Chains'' (1942) * '' Malombra'' (1942) * '' Violets in Their Hair'' (1942) * '' Luisa Sanfelice'' (1942) * '' La valle del diavolo'' (1943) * '' The Za-Bum Circus'' (1944) * '' The Innocent Casimiro'' (1945) * '' No Turning Back'' (1945) * '' The Ten Commandments'' (1945) * '' The Ways of Sin'' (1946) * '' Un giorno nella vita'' (1946) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1947) * '' Fear and Sand'' (1948) * '' Little Lady'' (1949) * ''The Cadets of Gascony'' (1950) * '' Women and Brigands'' (1950) * '' Toto the Sheik'' (1950) * '' Honeymoon Deferred'' (1951) * '' Toto the Third Man'' (1951) * ''Tragic S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilde Sessak
Hilde Sessak (27 July 1915 – 17 April 2003) was a German actress who appeared in more than ninety film and television series during her career. She appeared in a number of films during the Nazi era including ''Quax the Crash Pilot'' (1941).Reimer p. 97 Selected filmography * ''Herr Kobin geht auf Abenteuer'' (1934) * ''Light Cavalry (1935 German film), Light Cavalry'' (1935) - Kellnerin Catella * ''The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935 film), The Girl from the Marsh Croft'' (1935) * ''Liebeslied'' (1935) * ''Trouble Backstairs (1935 film), Trouble Backstairs'' (1935) - Paula Schulze, Tochter * ''The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1936 film), The Abduction of the Sabine Women'' (1936) - Marianne Neumeister * ''Schloß Vogelöd'' (1936) - Wally, Tochter des Waldhüters * ''Orders Are Orders (1936 film), Orders Are Orders'' (1936) - Annerl * ''Der verkannte Lebemann'' (1936) - Elsie Schultze - Stubenmädchen im Hotel * ''City of Anatol'' (1936) - Dienstmädchen bei Franziska * ''Die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgilio Marchi
Virgilio Marchi (21 January 1895 – 30 April 1960) was an Italian architect and art director. He designed the sets for more than fifty films during his career. Marchi was stylistically identified with the Futurist movement.Sabatino, Michelangelo. ''Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy''. University of Toronto Press, 2011. p.99. Selected filmography * ''Territorial Militia'' (1935) * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1936) * ''Condottieri'' (1937) * ''Queen of the Scala'' (1937) * '' An Adventure of Salvator Rosa'' (1939) * '' The Marquis of Ruvolito'' (1939) * '' The Count of Brechard'' (1940) * ''A Pilot Returns'' (1942) * ''Luisa Sanfelice'' (1942) * '' Four Steps in the Clouds'' (1942) * '' Annabella's Adventure'' (1943) * ''Maria Malibran'' (1943) * ''Desire'' (1946) * '' Lost in the Dark'' (1947) * ''Baron Carlo Mazza'' (1948) * ''Heaven Over the Marshes'' (1949) * ''The Flowers of St. Francis'' (1950) * '' Margaret of Cortona'' (1950) * ''Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who, upon assuming office as Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister, became the dictator of Fascist Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until Fall of the Fascist regime in Italy, his overthrow in 1943. He was also of Italian fascism from the establishment of the Italian Fasces of Combat in 1919, until Death of Benito Mussolini, his summary execution in 1945. He founded and led the National Fascist Party (PNF). As a dictator and founder of fascism, Mussolini inspired the List of fascist movements, international spread of fascism during the interwar period. Mussolini was originally a socialist politician and journalist at the Avanti! (newspaper), ''Avanti!'' newspaper. In 1912, he became a member of the National Directorate of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), but was expelled for advocating military intervention in World War I. In 1914, Mussolini founded a newspaper, ''Il P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorio Mussolini
Vittorio Mussolini (27 September 1916 – 12 June 1997) was an Italian film critic and producer. He was also the second child of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. However, he was the first officially acknowledged son of Mussolini, with his second wife Rachele; his older half-brother, Benito Albino Dalser, was never officially acknowledged by Mussolini's fascist regime. Biography Vittorio Mussolini was born in Milan, Lombardy, Kingdom of Italy (''Regno d'Italia''). He married Milanese Orsola Buvoli (1914–2009), two years his senior. In January 1938, Mussolini and his wife announced the birth of their first child, a son, Guido, born in Rome. Mussolini served as a Lieutenant (''Tenente'') in the Italian Royal Air Force ('' Regia Aeronautica''). He participated in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II. In Ethiopia, both he and his younger brother Bruno crewed bombers. Unlike his brother, Vittorio was not considered a serious pilot and desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2,746,984 residents in , Rome is the list of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, third most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. The Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, with a population of 4,223,885 residents, is the most populous metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in Italy. Rome metropolitan area, Its metropolitan area is the third-most populous within Italy. Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber Valley. Vatican City (the smallest country in the world and headquarters of the worldwide Catholic Church under the governance of the Holy See) is an independent country inside the city boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinecittà Studios
Cinecittà Studios (; Italian for Cinema City) is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were constructed during the Fascist era as part of a plan to revive the Italian film industry and to compete with Hollywood. Filmmakers such as Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Mel Gibson and Luca Guadagnino have worked at Cinecittà. More than 3,000 movies have been filmed there, of which 90 received an Academy Award nomination and 47 of these won it. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made there led to Rome being dubbed " Hollywood on the Tiber." History The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini, his son Vittorio, and his head of cinema Luigi Freddi under the slogan "''Il cinema è l'arma più forte''" ("Cinema is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma, Lady Hamilton
Dame Emma Hamilton (born Amy Lyon; 26 April 176515 January 1815), known upon moving to London as Emma Hart, and upon marriage as Lady Hamilton, was an English maid, model, dancer and actress. She began her career in London's demi-monde, becoming the mistress of a series of wealthy men, culminating in the naval hero Lord Nelson, and was the favourite model and muse of the portraitist George Romney. In 1791, at the age of 26, she married Sir William Hamilton, British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples, where she was a success at court, befriending the queen who was a sister of Marie Antoinette, and meeting Nelson. Early life She was born Amy Lyon in Ness near Neston, Cheshire, England, the daughter of Henry Lyon, a blacksmith who died when she was two months old. She was baptised on 12 May 1765. She was raised by her mother, Mary Kidd (later Cadogan), and grandmother, Sarah Kidd, at Hawarden, and received no formal education. She later went by the name of Emma Hart. With ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte ( – 21 October 1805) was a Royal Navy officer whose leadership, grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics brought about a number of decisive British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest naval commanders in history. Nelson was born into a moderately prosperous Norfolk family and joined the navy through the influence of his uncle, Maurice Suckling, a high-ranking naval officer. Nelson rose rapidly through the ranks and served with leading naval commanders of the period before obtaining his own command at the age of 20, in 1778. He developed a reputation for personal valour and a firm grasp of tactics, but suffered periods of illness and unemployment after the end of the American War of Independence. The outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars allowed Nelson to return to service, where he was particularly active in the Mediterranean Sea. He f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
