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Paolo Panelli
Paolo Panelli (15 July 1925 – 18 May 1997) was an Italian comedian and film actor. He appeared in 55 films between 1948 and 1996. He was married to Bice Valori. Selected filmography * '' Guarany'' (1948) * ''Arrivederci, papà!'' (1948) * ''Vertigine d'amore'' (1949) * '' Flying Squadron'' (1949) - Allievo * '' Against the Law'' (1950) - Tremolino * ''Hearts at Sea'' (1950) - Leone - un allievo ufficiale * ''Paris Is Always Paris'' (1951) - Nicolino Percuoco * '' The Last Sentence'' (1951) - Michele * ''Wife for a Night'' (1952) - Gualteri * ''Solo per te Lucia'' (1952) - Tonino Moriconi * ''I Chose Love'' (1953) * '' Voice of Silence'' (1953) * ''Scampolo 53'' (1953) * ''Laugh! Laugh! Laugh!'' (1954) - Innamorato litigioso * ''Bella, non piangere!'' (1955) - Il soldato balbuziente * '' Submarine Attack'' (1955) * ''La moglie è uguale per tutti'' (1955) - Vincenzo * '' Folgore Division'' (1955) * ''I pinguini ci guardano'' (1956) * ''Terrore sulla città'' (1957) * ''I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bice Valori
Maria Bice Valori (13 May 1927 – 17 March 1980) was an Italian actress, comedian and television and radio personality. Life and career Born in Rome, Valori studied at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1948. The same year, she entered the stage company of the Piccolo Teatro of Rome directed by Orazio Costa. After playing in several classics, Valori specialized as a comedic actress, and had her main successes in the musical theatre genre, notably appearing in ''Rugantino'' and ''Aggiungi un posto a tavola''. In films, she was a very active character actress, mainly cast in humorous roles. Valori appeared often on television, as a comedian, a presenter and an actress in series and TV-movies of some success. She also had a consistent success on radio, in which she created the character of "Sora Bice", a shrewish RAI telephone operator. Valori often shared the scene with her husband, the actor and comedian Paolo Panelli, whom she had married in 1952. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Assassin (1961 Film)
''The Assassin'' ( it, L'assassino) is a 1961 Italian crime film directed by Elio Petri. It is the feature film debut of Petri. It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot Early one morning at an expensive apartment in Rome, the police arrest Alfredo, a good-looking bachelor who runs an upmarket antique business selling fakes. The charge is murder: Adalgisa, his wealthy former mistress, has been found dead in a seaside hotel. Alfredo is dumbfounded, since he had visited her that night to ask for more time to repay a loan and they had made love, but he would never have dreamed of killing her. His life becomes a nightmare as the police stick regardless to their theory, interrogating him endlessly and probing into his past life. He comes to see that the existence he had never examined before was founded on egoism and lies. His relationships with his widowed mother, with his innocent fiancée, with the customers he cheated, and with the dead Adalgisa were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Splendor (1989 Film)
''Splendor'' is a 1989 Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola. Plot Jordan (Marcello Mastroianni) runs a struggling cinema called Splendor in a small town in Italy. Low ticket sales mean that the cinema is no longer a viable business, and Jordan reflects on his experiences running Splendor, from his arrival in the town as a child with his father. He meets French showgirl Chantal (Marina Vlady) at one of her performances, and she comes to work for him as an usher. Cinephile Luigi (Massimo Troisi) repeatedly attends screenings of ''Il Sorpasso'' in order to see Chantal, with whom he is besotted, and after a brief fling he begins working for Jordan as the projectionist. Attendance at the cinema decreases with the rise of television and Jordan considers bringing in strippers to try to solve his financial problems. Throughout are seen clips of the films shown at the cinema: ''Metropolis'', ''It’s a Wonderful Life'', ''La Grande Guerra'', '' Amarcord'', amongst others. Cast * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grandi Magazzini
''Grandi magazzini'' ( Department Stores) is a 1986 Italian anthology-comedy film directed by Castellano & Pipolo. Plot summary Various characters and stories intertwine inside the Grandi Magazzini store. Evaristo Mazzetti is a cleaner at the department store. As a favour to his friend De Rossi, he agrees to replace him as a clerk in the sanitary department, not knowing that the man owes 30 million Italian lira to a loan shark named Puccio and that De Rossi is actually the son of the engineer Gruber, owner of the G.M. During the day, Evaristo is visited several times by the debt collector sent by Puccio to collect the debt: at each appearance, he causes several bone fractures. As chance would have it, Helena, wife of Dr Umberto Anzellotti, head of personnel, has discovered that Gruber's son is working under a false name as a clerk in the sanitary department. Having revealed this to her husband, the woman leads him to believe that this son is Mazzetti himself; so between an inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Questo E Quello
''Questo e Quello'' () is a 1983 Italian comedy film directed by Sergio Corbucci. Plot First segment: the life of a comic book artist in a creative crisis is revolutionised by the casual encounter with a beautiful stranger. Second segment: a writer in his sixties goes in the spas of Montecatini in search of inspiration. The daughter of an old friend, a 20-year-old girl, will awake his senses. Cast ;"This Impossible Love" * Renato Pozzetto as Giulio Scacchi * Janet Agren as Lucy / Lucilla * Gianni Agus as the Editor * Nino Manfredi: as the Doctor * Michela Miti as Fianceè of Giulio ;"In The Red Beret" * Nino Manfredi as Sandro * Desirée Becker as Daniela * Sylva Koscina as Mother of Daniela * Renato Pozzetto as Gregory * Paolo Panelli as Doctor *Nanda Primavera as Grandmother of Daniela *Franco Scandurra as Prince Release The film was released in 1983. The film was a box office hit in Italy on its release. Reception In a retrospective review of the film, Roberto Curti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sing Sing (film)
''Sing Sing'' is a 1983 Italian comedy film directed by Sergio Corbucci. It stars Adriano Celentano, Enrico Montesano and the British actress, Vanessa Redgrave. It was released in Italy on 15 October 1983. Plot Part 1 A Rome mechanic becomes convinced that he is the son of the Queen of the United Kingdom (Redgrave). My Movies. Retrieved on 31 August 2010. Italian Part 2 And an inspector has to protect a film dubber pursued by a psychopath.Cast * as Alfredo Boghi * as Edoardo * |
Count Tacchia
''Il conte Tacchia'', internationally released as ''Count Tacchia'', is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Sergio Corbucci. The main character of the film is inspired by the real count Tacchia, Adriano Bennicelli.Claudio Rendina. ''Storia insolita di Roma''. Newton & Compton, 2001. . Plot In 1910 in Rome, the poor carpenter Francesco, by a twist of fate, is recognized as a member of a noble family in the process of decay. Francesco knows the cynical and ruthless Prince Torquato Terenzi, disappointed by life and progress, and also falls in love with the beautiful Duchess Elisa. When Prince Terenzi dies, Francesco realizes that he is not enriched by the inheritance, because the noble family is broke; so he enlists himself for the Italo-Turkish War in Libya, but quickly returns to Italy, disgusted by the atrocities of the fighting. Cast *Enrico Montesano: Francesco Puricelli / Count Tacchia *Vittorio Gassman: Prince Torquato Terenzi *Zoé Chauveau: Fernanda Toccacieli *P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mezzanotte D'amore
''Mezzanotte d'amore'' (Italian for ''Midnight of love'') is a 1970 Italian "musicarello" film directed by Ettore Maria Fizzarotti and starring Al Bano and Romina Power. It is the sequel of '' Il suo nome è Donna Rosa''.Daniele Magni, ''Cuori matti - Dizionario dei musicarelli anni '60'', Bloodbuster Edizioni, 2012. . Cast * Romina Power as Rosetta Belmonte * Al Bano as Andrea * Dolores Palumbo as Maria, Andrea's Mother * Stelvio Rosi as Giorgio De Barberis * Nino Terzo as Gaetano * Enzo Cannavale as Gennarino * Carlo Taranto as Francesco * Nino Vingelli as Ferdinando * Lino Banfi as The Revenue Officer * Ignazio Balsamo as The Carabiniere * Walter Brugiolo: as Pietro * Nino Taranto as Antonio Belmonte * Bice Valori as Rosa De Barberis * Paolo Panelli as Paolo De Barberis * Nicoletta Elmi Nicoletta Elmi (born 13 February 1964) is an Italian film actress. She appeared in many films in the 1970s as a child actress, but also appeared in several roles in ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perdono (film)
''Perdono'' (, i.e. "Forgive Me") is a 1966 Italian "musicarello" film directed by Ettore Maria Fizzarotti. It is named after the Caterina Caselli's hit song "Perdono". It is the sequel to '' Nessuno mi può giudicare''.Daniele Magni, ''Cuori matti - Dizionario dei musicarelli anni '60'', Bloodbuster Edizioni, 2012. . Plot Federico, his girlfriend Laura and her cousin, Caterina, are three young people full of hope, united by a great friendship that seems indissoluble. The three work in a department store but, when Caterina decides to attempt a musical career, given her vocal skills, everything changes. Caterina becomes a successful singer and Federico falls in love with her. Caterina, who however does not want to make her cousin Laura suffer, pretends not to reciprocate the young man by making him put his head in order. Meanwhile, the plots of various secondary characters evolve, in particular the fresh marriage between the security guard Antonio and the secretary of the departme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita The Mosquito
''Rita the Mosquito'' ( it, Rita la zanzara) is a 1966 Italian "musicarello" film directed by Lina Wertmüller (under the stage name George H. Brown). It has a sequel, ''Don't Sting the Mosquito''. Plot Cast * Rita Pavone: Rita * Giancarlo Giannini: Professor Paolo Randi * Peppino De Filippo: Carmelo * Nino Taranto: Director of education * Turi Ferro: Sicilian professor * Bice Valori: Luigina * Laura Efrikian: Lili * Tanya Lopert: Lida * Vittorio Congia: Ciccio * Giusi Raspani Dandolo: "Catherine Spaak" * Paolo Panelli: Peppino * Gino Bramieri: Drunkard * Milena Vukotic: Dance instructor * Ugo Fangareggi Ugo Fangareggi (30 January 1938 – 20 October 2017) was an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Genoa, Fangareggi worked as a dental technician when in 1961 he was noticed by Luigi Squarzina who chose him to act in the play ''Ciascuno a suo ...: Wolfgang * Teddy Reno: Himself * Silvia Dionisio: Collettina References External links * 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amore All'italiana
''Amore all'italiana'' (''Love Italian Style'') is a 1965 Italian comedy film directed by Steno. The film stars Walter Chiari. Cast *Walter Chiari *Raimondo Vianello *Paolo Panelli *Paolo Carlini *Vivi Bach *Luigi De Filippo * Alicia Brandet *Rika Dialina *Isabella Biagini *Adriana Ambesi * Nicole Faida * Susanna Clemm (as Susanna Clem) * Silvia Daniels *Lucretia Love (as Lucrezia Love) *Angela Portaluri *Bruno Scipioni Bruno Scipioni (29 July 1934 – 5 December 2019) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Rome, Scipioni graduated in accountancy and then, in 1958, he attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. He started his film caree ... External links * 1965 films 1960s Italian-language films Italian black-and-white films 1965 comedy films Italian comedy films 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
