Maria Grazia Francia
Maria Grazia Francia (17 September 1931 – 4 March 2021) was an Italian actress of classic cinema. Career Born in Florence, in the mid-1940s Francia moved to Rome to attend the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. She eventually left the course to star alongside Anna Magnani in Gennaro Righelli's '' Abbasso la ricchezza!''. Since then she appeared in several important films, directed by directors such as Luigi Zampa, Giuseppe De Santis and Mario Bonnard. She was also active on stage and on television dramas, before retiring from acting in the early 1970s. She died on March 4, 2021 at the age of 90i n Terni, Italy. Selected filmography *'' Peddlin' in Society'' (1946) *'' L'onorevole Angelina'' (1947) *''Bitter Rice'' (1949) * '' Flying Squadron'' (1949) *''No Peace Under the Olive Tree'' (1950) *'' The Outlaws'' (1950) *'' Il voto'' (1950) *'' Santa Lucia luntana...'' (1951) *''Due sorelle amano'' (1951) *'' Auguri e figli maschi'' (1951) *''I figli non si vendono'' (1952) ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico anno 2013, datISTAT/ref> Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy (established in 1861). The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Ital ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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I Pappagalli
''I pappagalli'' (''The Parrots'') is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Bruno Paolinelli. Cast *Aldo Fabrizi: Antonio *Alberto Sordi: Alberto Tanzi *Maria Fiore: Caterina *Maria Pia Casilio: Fulvia *Peppino De Filippo: Beppi *Titina De Filippo: wife of Antonio *Elsa Merlini: Antonietta *Cosetta Greco: Giulietta * Madeleine Fischer: Liliana, Alberto's wife *Gianrico Tedeschi: The painter *Carlo Delle Piane: The corporal *Laura Gore *Marco Tulli * Raffaele Pisu *Maria Grazia Francia Maria Grazia Francia (17 September 1931 – 4 March 2021) was an Italian actress of classic cinema. Career Born in Florence, in the mid-1940s Francia moved to Rome to attend the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. She eventually left the cou ... References External links * 1955 films Italian comedy films 1955 comedy films Films directed by Bruno Paolinelli Italian black-and-white films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Goodbye Naples
''Goodbye Naples'' (Italian: ''Addio, Napoli!'') is a 1955 Italian melodrama film directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero and starring Tamara Lees, Andrea Checchi and Giorgio De Lullo.Chiti & Poppi p.19 The film's sets were designed by the art director Ivo Battelli and Alfredo Montori. Cast * Tamara Lees as Irene * Andrea Checchi as Frank * Giorgio De Lullo a sTom * Leopoldo Valentini as Carmine * Maria Grazia Francia as Clara * Virna Lisi: Clara's friend (uncredited) * Charles Fawcett as Charles Burton * Dante Maggio as Pasquale * Anna Pretolani as Nunziata * Antonio Corevi Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular mal ... as Gaetano Fortunati * Nino Vingelli as Pasqualino De Rosa * Domenico Maggio as Giulio Lombardo * Pasquale Martino as The Priest * Vittoria ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Schiava Del Peccato
''Schiava del peccato'' (''Slave to Sin'') is a 1954 Italian melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. Cast * Silvana Pampanini as Mara Gualtieri * Marcello Mastroianni as Giulio * Irene Genna as Dina * Franco Fabrizi as Carlo * Renato Vicario as Husband of Dina * Camillo Pilotto as Inspector * Liliana Gerace as Elena * Olinto Cristina as Director * Paul Muller as Voyager * Dina Perbellini as Miss Cesira * Maria Materzanini as Maria Grazia Sandri * Maria Grazia Francia * Irène Galter * Laura Gore * Turi Pandolfini * Loris Gizzi * Miranda Campa * Giorgio Capecchi * Adriana Danieli * Mirella Di Lauri * Franca Dominici * Checco Durante * Lia Lena * Maria Grazia Monaci * Aldo Pini * Isarco Ravaioli Isacco Ravaioli, best known as Isarco Ravaioli (3 March 1933 – 15 February 2004), was an Italian film actor. Life and career Born in Ravenna, Ravaioli obtained a diploma of teaching in his hometown, and he started working as a primary school ... * Andreina Zani ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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I Piombi Di Venezia
I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''i'' (pronounced ), plural '' ies''. History In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative () in Egyptian, but was reassigned to (as in English "yes") by Semites, because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent , the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words. The Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician ''yodh'' as their letter ''iota'' () to represent , the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represent and this use persists in the languages that descended from Latin. The modern letter ' j' originated as a variation of 'i', and both were used interchangeably for ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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La Peccatrice Dell'isola
''La Peccatrice dell'isola'' (''The Island's Sinner'') is a 1952 Italian melodrama film. Cast * Silvana Pampanini: Carla * Folco Lulli: Don Pietro Ingarsia * Vittorio Duse: Ispettore De Santis * John Kitzmiller: Pescatore * Maria Grazia Francia: Maria * Mirella Uberti: Carmela * Mario Vitale: Francesco * Gianni Glori: Rosario External links * ''La Peccatrice dell'Isola''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 in the film p ... 1952 films 1950s Italian-language films Films directed by Sergio Corbucci Films directed by Sergio Grieco Italian drama films 1952 drama films Italian black-and-white films Melodrama films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Milady And The Musketeers
''Milady and the Musketeers'' (Italian: ''Il boia di Lilla'', also known as ''Vengeance of the Musketeers'' and ''La vita avventurosa di Milady'') is 1952 French-Italian historical adventure film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi and starring Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Lebon and Armando Francioli. It is based on the 1844 novel ''The Three Musketeers'' by Alexandre Dumas, and was a popular success.Moliterno p.94 The film's sets were designed by the art director Giancarlo Bartolini Salimbeni. Cast * Rossano Brazzi as Count de la Fere aka Athos * Yvette Lebon as Milady Anne * Armando Francioli as Herbert de la Salle * Maria Grazia Francia as Gisèle * Nerio Bernardi as Porthos * Massimo Serato as Rochefort * Jean-Roger Caussimon as Mastro Pietro / Boia di Lilla * Raymond Cordy as Nobile * Enzo Fiermonte * Vittorio Sanipoli Vittorio Sanipoli (1915–1992) was an Italian stage, film and television actor. He appeared in around a hundred films and television series between 1942 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rimorso
''Rimorso'' is a 1952 Italian melodrama film. Cast *Maria Grazia Francia as Maria * Otello Toso as Corrado Anselmi *Linda Sini as Tamara *Mirko Ellis as Luciano * Agostino Salvietti as Raffaele *Tina Pica as Assunta *Enzo Maggio as Gennaro *Ignazio Balsamo Ignazio Balsamo (25 October 1912 – 7 August 1994) was an Italian film and stage actor. Life and career Born in Catania, Balsamo began his career on stage, being part of several Sicilian language theatrical companies. Discovered by Pietr ... as Police Commissioner External links * 1952 films 1950s Italian-language films Italian drama films 1952 drama films Melodrama films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Voice Of Silence (1953 Film)
''Voice of Silence'' ( it, La voce del silenzio, french: La maison du silence) is a 1953 French-Italian drama film directed by G. W. Pabst, written by Giuseppe Berto, starring Aldo Fabrizi and Jean Marais.Rentschler p.285 The film's sets were designed by the art director Guido Fiorini. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome, Italy. Plot A group of people, to try to make sense of their existence, retreats to a convent because each has problems considered insurmountable: a war veteran who is given up for dead returns from captivity in a sensational way and once home he finds his wife married and happy with another man; a partisan, during a war action, causes the death of three people; a votive candle dealer is too selfish to practice his trade. Then a writer famous for his production of works for adults arrive at the convent through which, according to many detractors, he corrupts many young minds, and a young priest who, dismayed by such a tumult of souls, is seized by mis ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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L'angelo Del Peccato
''The Angel of Sin'' (Italian: ''L'angelo del peccato'') is a 1952 Italian melodrama film directed by Leonardo De Mitri and Vittorio Carpignano and starring Roldano Lupi, Gaby André and Luigi Tosi.Chiti & Poppi p.417 The film's sets were designed by the art director Arrigo Equini. Cast * Roldano Lupi as Conte * Gaby André as Elena * Luigi Tosi as Bruno * Maria Grazia Francia as Annetta * Umberto Spadaro Umberto Spadaro (8 November 1904 – 12 October 1981) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in around 95 films between 1940 and 1979. His brother Peppino Spadaro was also an actor. Selected filmography * ''Cavalleria rusticana'' (1939) – ... as Scarpone * André Le Gall as Tore * Mario Mazza as Don Fabio * Violetta Gragnani as Maria Rosa * Guglielmo Ferro as Lunardo - padre di Bruno * Renato Lupi as L'amministratore * Anna Parisi as La Perpetua * Riccardo Ferri as Grippa - marito di Maria Rosa * Daniele Danielli as Medico References Bibliogr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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I Figli Non Si Vendono
''I figli non si vendono'' (literally, ''Children must not be sold'') is a 1952 Italian melodrama film by Mario Bonnard. Plot Cast * Lea Padovani as Anna * Jacques Sernas as Carlo Dazzeni / Roberto Dazzeni * Maria Grazia Francia as Luisa * Paola Barbara as Signora Elena Dazzeni * Antonella Lualdi as Daniela * Dario Michaelis as Gianni * Checco Durante as Paolo Dazzeni * Galeazzo Benti * Dina Sassoli * Dina Perbellini Dina Perbellini (14 January, 1901–2 April, 1984) was an Italian actress. She appeared in over sixty films and television series between 1934 and 1969 and was also a leading voice actress, dubbing foreign films for release in Italy. She made her ... References External links * 1952 films 1950s Italian-language films Films directed by Mario Bonnard Italian drama films Italian black-and-white films 1952 drama films Melodrama films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |