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Osvaldo Valenti
Osvaldo Valenti (17 February 1906 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1928 and 1945. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey to a Sicilian carpet trader and a wealthy Lebanese woman of Greek descent. He and his lover, Luisa Ferida, were executed by partisans in Milan, Italy, due to their links with Fascism. Their story was portrayed in the 2008 film '' Wild Blood''. Partial filmography * ''Hungarian Rhapsody'' (1928) – Der Fähnrich * ''Five to Nil'' (1932) – Barenghi * ''La signorina dell'autobus'' (1933) – Giacomo * ''La fortuna di zanze'' (1933) * '' Ragazzo'' (1934) – Malvivente di borgata * ''Creatures of the Night'' (1934) * ''The Dance of Time'' (1936) * '' The Countess of Parma'' (1936) – Duca di Fadda * ''Queen of the Scala'' (1937) * ''Mia moglie si diverte'' (1938) – Tommy Bolden * ''Ettore Fieramosca'' (1938) – Guy de la Motte * ''La signora di Montecarlo'' (1938) * ''A Thousand Lire a Month'' (1939) – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istanbul
Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, cultural and historic hub. The city straddles the Bosporus strait, lying in both Europe and Asia, and has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of Turkey. Istanbul is the list of European cities by population within city limits, most populous European city, and the world's List of largest cities, 15th-largest city. The city was founded as Byzantium ( grc-gre, Βυζάντιον, ) in the 7th century BCE by Ancient Greece, Greek settlers from Megara. In 330 CE, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great made it his imperial capital, renaming it first as New Rome ( grc-gre, Νέα Ῥώμη, ; la, Nova Roma) and then as Constantinople () after himself. The city grew in size and influence, eventually becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frenzy (1939 Film)
''Frenzy'' (Italian: ''Frenesia'') is a 1939 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Dina Galli, Antonio Gandusio and Betty Stockfeld.Goble p.150 It was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. Cast * Dina Galli as Marta * Antonio Gandusio as Stefano * Betty Stockfeld as Maud * Vivi Gioi as Daniela * Titina De Filippo as Carolina * Osvaldo Valenti as Sigfrido * Paolo Stoppa as Bobby * Giulio Stival as Giacomo * Ky Duyen as Sam Lee * Stefano Sibaldi Stefano Sibaldi (June 11, 1905 – July 2, 1996) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Livorno, Sibaldi was considered to be among the most successful of the early actors and dubbers of the 20th century. He began his acting care ... as Il poeta * Fernando Simbolotti as Il maggiordomo References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mask Of Cesare Borgia
''The Mask of Cesare Borgia'' (Italian: ''La maschera di Cesare Borgia'') is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Duilio Coletti and starring Osvaldo Valenti, Elsa De Giorgi and Carlo Tamberlani. Coletti asserted that the 1948 20th Century Fox film ''Prince of Foxes'' was a remake of his work, the American studio having bought the rights, although the latter film's source is credited as a novel of the same title by Samuel Shellabarger.Anile p.129 It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in 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 film's sets were designed by the art directors Antonio Tagliolini and Enrico Verdozzi. Cast References Bibliography * Alberto Anile. ''Orson Welles in Italy''. Indiana University Press, 2013. External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatrice Cenci (1941 Film)
''Beatrice Cenci'' is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Carola Höhn, Giulio Donadio and Tina Lattanzi. It is one of several films portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.Waters p.40 The film's sets were designed by the art director Guido Fiorini. The costume design was by Gino Sensani. Cast * Carola Höhn as Beatrice Cenci * Giulio Donadio as Francesco Cenci * Tina Lattanzi as Lucrezia Cenci * Osvaldo Valenti as Giacomo Cenci * Elli Parvo as Angela * Enzo Fiermonte as Olimpio Calvetti * Sandro Ruffini as Il giudice Moscato * Luigi Pavese as Catalano * Marcello Giorda as Il presidente del tribunale * Arturo Bragaglia as Don Lorenzo * Iginia Armilli * Franco Cuppini * Aulo D'Anzio as Il segretario del giudice * Giovanni Dal Cortivo as Il brigante nella grotta * Gualtiero De Angelis as Curzio * Angelo Dessy * Carlo Duse as Il capitano dei gendarmi * Pina Gallini as La gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Iron Crown
''The Iron Crown'' () is a 1941 Italian adventure written and directed by Alessandro Blasetti, starring Massimo Girotti and Gino Cervi. The narrative revolves a sacred iron crown and a king who is prophesied to lose his kingdom to his nephew. It blends motifs from several European myths, legends and modern works of popular fiction. The film won a Coppa Mussolini award, which is the ancestor to the Golden Lion. Plot Sedemondo (Gino Cervi) succeeds his brother Licinio (Massimo Girotti) upon his death as king of Kindaor, and a messenger bearing a crown made from a nail from the true cross requests permission to cross the kingdom. The crown by legend will stay wherever injustice and corruption prevail. Sedemondo takes it to a gorge where it is swallowed by the earth. A wise woman prophesies to the king that his wife will bear a daughter and Licinio's widow (Elisa Cegani) a son, that the two will fall in love, and the son take the kingdom from Sedemondo. When he gets home, he is to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The King Of England Will Not Pay
''The King of England Will Not Pay'' (Italian: ''Il re d'Inghilterra non paga'') is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Giovacchino Forzano and starring Andrea Checchi, Silvana Jachino and Osvaldo Valenti.Gundle p.181 It was shot at the Tirrenia Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Antonio Valente and Savino Fino. Synopsis In the thirteenth century a leading Florentine banking family are faced with ruin when the King of England The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the constitutional form of government by which a hereditary sovereign reigns as the head of state of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies (the Bailiw ... refuses to repay a large loan he has taken out from them. Main cast References Bibliography * Gundle, Stephen. ''Fame Amid the Ruins: Italian Film Stardom in the Age of Neorealism''. Berghahn Books, 2019. External links * 1941 films Italian historical f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idyll In Budapest
''Idyll in Budapest'' (Italian: ''Idillio a Budapest'') is a 1941 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Ansoldi and Gabriele Varriale and starring Germaine Aussey, Osvaldo Valenti and Sergio Tofano.Chiti & Poppi p.177 It was shot at the Pisorno Studios in Tirrenia. The film's sets were designed by the art director Marcello Avenati. Cast * Germaine Aussey as Rosy * Osvaldo Valenti as Sandor * Sergio Tofano as Altezza * Inge Dawry as Paolina * Giulio Alfieri * Elena Altieri * Arnaldo Arnaldi * Liana Del Balzo * Adele Garavaglia * Fausto Guerzoni * Loredana * Renato Malavasi * Evelina Paoli * Michele Riccardini Michele Mario Alberto Riccardini (October 2, 1910 – July 24, 1978) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in around fifty films during his career as well as several television episodes. In 1943 he played the role of Don Remigio in Luchino Visc ... References Bibliography * Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. ''I film: Tutti i film italiani dal 1930 al 1944''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Fracasse (1940 Film)
''Captain Fracasse'' (Italian: ''Capitan Fracassa'') is a 1940 Italian historical adventure film directed by Duilio Coletti and starring Elsa De Giorgi, Giorgio Costantini and Osvaldo Valenti. It was made at the Cinecittà studios in Rome. The film is based on the 1863 novel of the same name by Théophile Gautier.Goble p.270 Another adaptation '' Captain Fracasse'' was made three years later as a co-production between France and Italy. Cast * Elsa De Giorgi as Isabella * Giorgio Costantini as Il barone di Sigognac / Capitan Fracassa * Osvaldo Valenti as Il duca Ruggero di Vallombrosa * Nerio Bernardi as Il principe * Clara Calamai as Iolanda De Foix * Olga Vittoria Gentilli as Leonarda, la madre nobile * Egisto Olivieri as Il tiranno & il capocomico * Renato Chiantoni as Scapino * Ernesto Gentili as Leandro * Pia De Doses as Zerbina * Mario Siletti as Giacomo Lampourde * Fiorella Betti as Chiquita * Guido Morisi as Vidalino * Dina Perbellini as La marc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Zia Smemorata
''La zia smemorata'' (i.e. "The Amnesiac Aunt") is a 1940 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Ladislao Vajda and starring Dina Galli.Fabrizio Sarazani (14 March 1941). "La zia smemorata" (review). ''Il Giornale d'Italia''. Plot Jealous of his girlfriend, the lawyer Alberto Moretti is convinced that she spent a couple of days in a high mountain refuge in the company of the engineer Paolo Ravelli, a friend of the lawyer. However, it is only a misunderstanding and therefore, to clarify his position and restore the truth, the engineer proposes to his friend and his girlfriend to find the girl who in the shelter had passed herself off as the lawyer's girlfriend. However, an intrusive and bizarre aunt joins the party who, by meddling in everything, causes further misunderstandings and misunderstandings to no end. However, the group manages to discover that the mysterious girl was not the lawyer's girlfriend at all. The two slandered youths managed to re-establish the tru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boccaccio (1940 Film)
''Boccaccio'' is a 1940 Italian operetta film directed by Marcello Albani and starring Clara Calamai, Osvaldo Valenti and Silvana Jachino. It is based on the 1879 operetta ''Boccaccio'' by Franz von Suppé.Goble p.693 It was made at the Scalera Studios in Rome. Cast * Clara Calamai as Giannina, falso Boccaccio * Osvaldo Valenti as Berto * Silvana Jachino as Fiammetta * Luigi Almirante as Maestro Scalza * Osvaldo Genazzani as Il principe di Parnormo * Virgilio Riento as Il bottaro * Anita Farra as Beatrice * Bice Parisi as Peronella * Nera Novella as Isabella * Raffaele di Napoli as Il duca di Calabria * Rudi Dal Pra as Leonetto * Amilcare Pettinelli as Il Siniscalco * Daniella Drei as Una ancella * Gino Bianchi as Lambertuccio * Dino De Laurentiis Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiis (; 8 August 1919 – 10 November 2010) was an Italian-American film producer. Along with Carlo Ponti, he was one of the producers who brought Italian cinema to the inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abandonment (film)
''Abandonment'' (Italian: ''Abbandono'') is a 1940 Italian historical drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Corinne Luchaire, George Rigaud and Maria Denis.Lancia & Melelli p.159 It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Guido Fiorini. Plot In the 1830s, there is shock when the son of a wealthy shipowner returns from a distant voyage with a new wife. Cast * Corinne Luchaire as Anna * George Rigaud as Capitano Stefano Courier * Maria Denis as Maria, sua sorella * Camillo Pilotto as Moran * Lia Orlandini as La signora Courier * Osvaldo Valenti as Leonard * Enrico Glori as Il marito di Maria * Sandro Ruffini as Pierre Courier * Giulietta De Riso as Dolores * Nerio Bernardi as Ridaud * Carlo Duse as Richard * Nino Marchesini Nino Marchesini (1895 – 13 January 1961) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1931 to 1961. Filmography References External links * 1895 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond Love (film)
''Beyond Love'' (Italian: ''Oltre l'amore'') is a 1940 Italian historical drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Alida Valli, Amedeo Nazzari and Osvaldo Valenti.Nowell-Smith p.119 It is based on the 1829 novella ''Vanina Vanini'' by Stendhal. It was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Guido Fiorini and Ivo Battelli. Plot Cast * Alida Valli as Vanina Vanini * Amedeo Nazzari as Pietro Mirilli * Camillo Pilotto as Il duca Vanini * Osvaldo Valenti as Livio Sabelli * Germaine Aussey as Maria Talleschi * Lamberto Picasso as Meschiori * Lauro Gazzolo as Il conte Sabelli-Catanzaro, ministro di polizia * Amina Pirani Maggi as Elisa * Carlo Bressan as Santucci * Emilio Cigoli as Ippoliti * Romolo Costa as Un carbonaro * Claudio Ermelli as Una Spia * Oreste Fares as Padre Notari * Augusto Marcacci Augusto Marcacci (4 June 1892 – 7 December 1969) was an Italian actor and voice actor.Mancini p.229 Selected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
