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Napoli Piange E Ride
''Napoli piange e ride'' (i. e. "Naples cries and laughs") is a 1954 Italy, Italian musical film, musical melodrama film written and directed by Flavio Calzavara and starring Luciano Tajoli and Jula De Palma . Plot Luciano had to give up singing and his theatrical career following an accident, which made him paralyzed: he is a watchmaker.  when the master blasi, a well-known Don Giovanni, discovers that Marisa, Luciano's wife, has a beautiful voice and gets her a profitable contract, the watchmaker, suspecting an affair, is saddened by it.  blasi proposes to the woman to run away with him and when she refuses, she enters Marisa's house at night and tries to use violence on her.  the woman reacts and in the fight blasi is mortally wounded by a shot from his own gun.  Piero, the fiancé of Luciano's sister, rushes in and in a fit of generosity, to save Marisa, pleads guilty to the killing.  Luciano, as he hurries home, falls from his wheelchair and suffers a serious trauma.  h ...
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Flavio Calzavara
Flavio Calzavara (21 February 1900 – 10 March 1981) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 21 films between 1939 and 1956. Filmography * ''Canzone proibita'' (1956) * ''Gli occhi senza luce'' (1956) * ''Napoli piange e ride'' (1954) * ''Rigoletto e la sua tragedia'' (1954) * ''El curioso impertinente'' (1953) * ''Dieci canzoni d'amore da salvare'' (1953) * ''La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi'' (1953) * ''I due derelitti'' (1951) Adaptation of the novel by Pierre Decourcelle * ''Against the Law (1950 film), Contro la legge'' (1950) * ''Red Seal (film), Red Seal'' (1950) * ''Peccatori'' (1945) * ''Resurrection (1944 film), Resurrection'' (1944) * ''Calafuria'' (1943) * ''Dagli Appennini alle Ande (1943 film), Dagli Appennini alle Ande'' (1943) * ''Carmela (film), Carmela'' (1942) * ''The Countess of Castiglione'' (1942) * ''Confessione'' (1941) * ''Don Buonaparte'' (1941) * ''Il signore a doppio petto'' (1941) * ''Il ladro sono io'' (1940) * ''Piccoli naufragh ...
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Edoardo Toniolo
Edoardo Toniolo (22 November 1907 - 31 December 1986) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Life and career Born in Turin, the son of the stage actors Antonio and Rosa Rosaz, at young age Toniolo debuted on stage in supporting roles. He later worked on radio, and in the mid-1930s he started appearing in films, usually in character roles. After the Second World War, and following his role as leading actor in Ferruccio Cerio's ''Posto di blocco'', Toniolo also started working as a dubber, and since 1954 he was also pretty active in television dramas. He was sometimes credited as Edward Douglas. Selected filmography * ''Villafranca'' (1934) * ''Abandon All Hope'' (1937) * ''In the Country Fell a Star'' (1939) * ''The King's Jester'' (1941) * '' Rossini'' (1942) * ''Angelo tra la folla'' (1950) * ''La figlia del diavolo'' (1952) * '' The Legend of the Piave'' (1952) * ''Rivalry'' (1953) * ''Captain Phantom'' (1953) * '' Angels of Darkness'' (1954) * ''Symphony of Love'' (195 ...
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Italian Black-and-white Films
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1954 Drama Films
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 submarine ...
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Films Set In Naples
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ...
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Films Directed By Flavio Calzavara
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ...
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1954 Films
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 – 1954 Blons avalanches, Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau rebellion, Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 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 m ...
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1954 Musical Films
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 – 1954 Blons avalanches, Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau rebellion, Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 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 m ...
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Italian Drama Films
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Renato Navarrini
Renato Navarrini (1892–1972) was an Italian stage and film actor.Verdone p.101 He was married to the actress Fanny Marchiò. Partial filmography * ''La tavola dei poveri'' (1932) * ''Un cattivo soggetto'' (1933) * ''Lohengrin'' (1936) - Il direttore dell'hotel * ''Pietro Micca'' (1938) - Agostino di Sale * ''Tutta la vita in una notte'' (1938) - (uncredited) * ''Veneno do Pecado'' (1938) - (uncredited) * ''Fuochi d'artificio'' (1938) - (uncredited) * ''Fanfulla da Lodi'' (1940) * ''Giuliano de' Medici'' (1941) - Il poliziano * ''Il signore a doppio petto'' (1941) * '' Marco Visconti'' (1941) * ''The Mask of Cesare Borgia'' (1941) * ''The Pirates of Malaysia'' (1941) * ''L'ultimo addio'' (1942) * '' A Pistol Shot'' (1942) - Il capitono Ivanov (uncredited) * ''La bella addormentata'' (1942) * ''Il fanciullo del West'' (1942) * ''Jealousy'' (1942) - L'avvocato dell' accusa * ''The Woman of Sin'' (1942) * ''Mater dolorosa'' (1943) * ''Tempesta sul golfo'' (1943) - Ceremoniere di cor ...
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Enzo Maggio
Enzo Maggio (10 October 1902 – 13 July 1978) was an Italian actor. Born Vincenzo Maggio in Naples into a family of actors, Maggio made a long apprenticeship in the avanspettacolo theaters before and during the Second World War. On stage, he was specialized in macchiette and in the impersonation of the comedian Larry Semon (known in Italy as Ridolini).Antonio Virgilio Savona; Michele Lo Straniero. "Maggio, Famiglia". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. pp. 959-960. After the war, he decided to devote himself to cinema and had a very prolific career even if often cast in character roles. Maggio often worked on stage with his brothers and sisters Dante, Beniamino, Pupella and Rosalia. Partial filmography * ''A Dog's Life'' (1950) - Gigetto * '' È arrivato il cavaliere'' (1950) - Guardia personale del ministro * ''Milano miliardaria'' (1951) - Il parruchiere tifoso * ''Viva il cinema!'' (1952) * ''The White Sheik'' (1952) - ...
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Vincenzo Musolino
Vincenzo Musolino (9 May 1930 – 9 May 1969) was an Italian actor, director, producer and screenwriter. Life and career Musolino was born in Reggio Calabria into a humble family, and lived as a fisherman. During the military service he held in Venice, he was chosen by Renato Castellani for the leading role of Antonio in the neorealist drama ''Two Cents Worth of Hope''. Following the success of the film, Musolino appeared in several films, mainly in supporting roles. In 1964, he dedicated himself to the production of genre films, often working with director Edoardo Mulargia, with whom he also wrote several screenplays. In 1968, one year before his premature death, he was the director to two low-budget Spaghetti Westerns, in which he was credited as Glenn Vincent Davis. Selected filmography * ''The Triumph of Robin Hood ''The Triumph of Robin Hood'' (Italian: ''Il trionfo di Robin Hood'') is a 1962 Italian adventure film directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Don Burnett, ...
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