|
Maria Pia Casilio
Maria-Pia Casilio (5 May 1935 – 10 April 2012) was an Italian film actress, best known for major roles in ''Umberto D.'' and ''Un americano a Roma''. Born in San Pio delle Camere, L'Aquila, Casilio was quite active between 1952 and 1960, usually filling roles as a querulous and naive small-town girl. After her marriage with voice actor Giuseppe Rinaldi, she semi-retired from acting. On the Criterion Collection DVD release of ''Umberto D.'' Vittorio De Sica comments she was a lucky charm to have her in his films. Partial filmography * ''Umberto D.'' (1952) - Maria * ''Half a Century of Song'' (1952) * ''Siamo tutti inquilini'' (1953) - Una cameriera * ''Terminal Station'' (1953) - Young bride from Abruzzo (uncredited) * ''Il viale della speranza'' (1953) - Concettine * ''Therese Raquin'' (1953) - Georgette, la bonne * ''La valigia dei sogni'' (1953) - Mariannina * ''Bread, Love and Dreams'' (1953) - Paoletta * '' Angels of Darkness'' (1954) - The Young Girl * ''Mid-Century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi (15 June 1920 – 24 February 2003) was an Italian actor, voice actor, singer, comedian, director and screenwriter. Early life Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician and the last of five children, Sordi was named in honour of an older sibling, who died several days after his birth. Sordi enrolled in Milan's dramatic arts academy but was kicked out because of his thick Roman accent. In the meantime, he studied to be a bass opera singer. His vocal distinctiveness would become his trademark. Career Cinema and television In a career that spanned seven decades, Sordi established himself as an icon of Italian cinema with his representative skills at both comedy and light drama. His movie career began in the late 1930s with bit parts and secondary characters in wartime movies. Early roles included Fellini's'' The White Sheik'' in 1952, Fellini's ''I vitelloni ''(1953), a movie about young slackers, in which he plays a weak immature loafer and a starring role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bread, Love And Dreams
''Bread, Love and Dreams'' ( it, Pane, amore e fantasia) is a 1953 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. At the 4th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Silver Bear award. Plot The film is set in Sagliena, an imaginary small town in central Italy; Marshal Antonio Carotenuto, an elderly womanizer who will have to adapt to the monotonous and quiet life of the village, is transferred here immediately after the war. Supported by the maid Caramella, the marshal runs the local police station. Here he meets "Pizzicarella la Bersagliera", a young local girl secretly in love with the carabiniere Stelluti. At first the marshal tries to get engaged to the "Bersagliera", as Paoletta, the sacristan of the parish, is in love with the carabiniere Stelluti, but the latter is actually in love with the Bersagliera and wants her mother to know her. So, thanks to the intervention of Don Emidio, who informs the marshal, Stelluti and the Bersagliera get engaged while the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuore Matto
"Cuore matto" is a song composed by Armando Ambrosino and Totò Savio, and performed by Little Tony. The song premiered at the seventeenth Sanremo Music Festival, in which Little Tony presented the song in couple with Mario Zelinotti. The single peaked at first place for nine consecutive weeks on the Italian hit parade. It sold in excess of a million copies and was awarded a gold disc in May 1967. The song also named a film, '' Cuore matto... matto da legare '', directed by Mario Amendola and starred by the same Little Tony and by Eleonora Brown. The song was later covered by several artists, including Dalida, Gianni Morandi, Teruhiko Saigō, Fausto Leali and Kati Kovács. It was also used in several films, notably Bernardo Bertolucci's ''Besieged'' and Pedro Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (; (often known simply as Almodóvar) born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish filmmaker. His films are marked by melodrama, irreverent humour, bold colour, glossy décor, quotatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Judgment (1961 Film)
''The Last Judgment'' ( it, Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino Ventura. The film was a huge flop, massacred by critics and audiences when it was released. It was filmed in black and white, but the last sequence, the dance at theatre, is in color. Plot At the morning of a normal day of a Naples that begins to hear complex and not always positive effects of the economic boom, a stentorian voice (Nicola Rossi-Lemeni) which seems to come down from heaven announces that "At 18 begins the Last Judgement!". The announcement is repeated with increasing insistence, first treated with disdain and then more and more frightening. The plot is fragmented into a series of scenarios and stories intertwined: the preparation of the great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mogli Pericolose
''Mogli pericolose'' ("Dangerous wives") is a 1958 Italian comedy film written and directed by Luigi Comencini. Cast * Sylva Koscina: Tosca, Pirro's wife * Dorian Gray: Ornella, Bruno's wife * Renato Salvatori: Dr. Federico Carpi * Nino Taranto: Pirro * Franco Fabrizi: Bruno * Mario Carotenuto: Benito "Benny" Bertuetti * Giorgia Moll: Claudina Carpi * Pupella Maggio: Aurelia "Lolita" Bertuetti * Bruno Carotenuto: Tato * Maria-Pia Casilio: Elisa * Rosalba Neri: Angelina * Pina Gallini: Mrs. Zamparini * Pina Renzi: Ornella's mother * Nando Bruno: Taxi driver * Yvette Masson: Corinne * Vittoria Crispo: Caterina * Ciccio Barbi Ciccio Barbi (19 January 1919 – 26 November 1992) was an Italian film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Last Wagon'' (1943) - Young Friend of Toto (uncredited) * '' Angelina'' (1947) - (uncredited) * '' Auguri e figli maschi!'' (1951) ... References External links * 1958 comedy films Italian comedy films Films directed by Luigi Comenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto, Peppino And The Outlaws
''Toto, Peppino and the Outlaws'' ( it, Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge) is a List of Italian films of 1956, 1956 Cinema of Italy, Italian comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque. For this film Peppino De Filippo was awarded with a Silver Ribbon for Nastro d'Argento Best supporting Actor, best supporting actor. Plot Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa, who does not allow him in any way to have fun, as Antonio would like. One day Antonio and Peppino take advantage of the fact that the bandit "Il Torchio" has returned to terrorizing the country, pretending to be kidnapped by the band. The two astutely send a message with threats to Teresa, asking for money for the payment of the ransom, with which they go to spend a night of joy. Teresa, however, learns the truth and is furious, and does not believe the stories of Antonio, even when he is really kidnapped by the "Torchio". Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Dangerous Turning
''Dangerous Turning'' (French: ''Le tournant dangereux'') is a 1954 French-Italian drama film directed by Robert Bibal and starring Viviane Romance, Philippe Lemaire and Armand Mestral.Chiti & Poppi p.70 Cast * Viviane Romance as Lucienne Courtois * Philippe Lemaire as Freddy * Armand Mestral as Daniel Courtois * Maria Pia Casilio as Paquita Simoni * Enrico Glori as Simoni, le brigadier * Guy Decomble as Monsieur Léon * Georges Aminel * Charles Blavette * Dany Caron * Robert Berri * Huguette Doriane * Henri Arius * Antonin Berval Antonin Berval (1891–1966) was a French film actor.Goble p.4 He is sometimes credited simply as Berval. Selected filmography * ''Notre Dame d'amour'' (1923) * ''Arthur'' (1931) - Hubert de Fondragon * ''Le costaud des PTT'' (1931) * ''To the P ... References Bibliography * Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. ''Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959''. Gremese Editore, 1991. External links * 1954 films French drama fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bread, Love And Jealousy
''Bread, Love and Jealousy'' ( it, Pane, amore e gelosia), known as ''Frisky'' in the US, is a 1954 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. It is the second part of the Italian trilogy, preceded by ''Bread, Love and Dreams'' and followed by '' Scandal in Sorrento''. Plot Antonio (Vittorio De Sica) is in love with the midwife Annarella ( Marisa Merlini), knowing that she has a son. Both of them are in love with each other, until the father of the kid, who also serves in the military, appears and, with the help of the priest Don Emidio (Virgilio Riento), is reunited with his son. Having to spend the next twenty months far from the village, Pietro (Roberto Risso) asks the marshal to take care of Maria (Gina Lollobrigida). Despite not being happy to spend time with the captain, because of her poverty and her need to collect the dowry, she goes to serve at the marshal’s house, since his maid, Caramella (Tina Pica), is ill. The villagers start spreading gossips ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doctor Of The Mad
''The Doctor of the Mad'' ( it, Il medico dei pazzi) is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò, Franca Marzi and Aldo Giuffrè.Bìspuri p.147 It is based on a 1908 Naples-set play of the same name by Eduardo Scarpetta. Plot summary Felice Sciosciammocca is the mayor of Roccasecca, who sent in Naples the nephew Ciccillo, so that he will become a good doctor. But Ciccillo does anything but study, and makes a debt with a loan shark. Also receives a letter that his uncle is going to come to Naples with his family to find him. Ciccillo, who lives in the "Stella Hotel", a full house of "eccentric" people, pretends that Felice believes that the pension is the clinic, and the customers the fools. Felice Sciosciammocca admires everything, but Ciccillo, to heal his debt, must move away. So Felice is left alone in the guest house, doesn't know how to get himself out of trouble... Cast * Totò as Felice Sciosciammocca * Franca Marzi as La moglie di Crist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appassionatamente
''Appassionatamente'' (i.e. "Passionately") is a 1954 Italian melodrama film directed by Giacomo Gentilomo and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Myriam Bru. It is loosely based on the drama play ''La Dame de Saint-Tropez'' by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Adolphe d'Ennery. Cast *Amedeo Nazzari as Andrea Morandi * Myriam Bru as Elena D'Alberti *Andrea Checchi as Antonio * Umberto Melnati as Duprè *Vera Carmi as Paola *Isa Barzizza as Ortensia Duprè * Giorgio De Lullo as Carlo * Antonio Machì as Giacomo *Maria Zanoli as Maria * as Giorgio D'Alberti * Maria Pia Casilio as Giannina *Enzo Biliotti Enzo Biliotti (28 June 1887 – 19 November 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 80 films between 1916 and 1958. He was born in Livorno, Italy and died in Bologna, Italy. Selected filmography * '' The Betrothed'' (1923) * '' Villafr ... as The Minister References External links * 1954 films 1954 drama films Italian drama films Films directed by Giacomo Gent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Air Of Paris
''The Air of Paris'' (French: ''L'air de Paris'') is a 1954 French-Italian drama film directed by Marcel Carné and starring Jean Gabin, Arletty and Roland Lesaffre. Gabin won the Volpi Cup at the 1954 Venice International Film Festival. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris with sets designed by the art director Paul Bertrand. Synopsis An aging former boxer who now runs a training gym with his wife is on the prowl to find a young talent and take him to the top. He is in the process of doing so, but his wife wants him to retire. The young boxer's indecisiveness and weakness for women make him a difficult training prospect. Cast *Jean Gabin as Victor Le Garrec *Arletty as Blanche Le Garrec * Roland Lesaffre as André Ménard * Marie Daems as Corinne * Folco Lulli as Angelo Posi * Maria-Pia Casilio as Maria Posi * Ave Ninchi as Angela Posi * Jean Parédès as Jean-Marc * Simone Paris as Chantal * Maurice Sarfati as Jojo References Bibliography * Edward Baron Tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
