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Peppino Spadaro
Peppino Spadaro (1898-1950) was an Italian actor.Paietta p.162 His brother Umberto Spadaro was also an actor. Selected filmography * ''1860'' (1934) * ''Saint John, the Beheaded'' (1940) * ''Jealousy'' (1942) * ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1942) * ''Music on the Run'' (1943) * ''Farewell Love!'' (1943) * ''Lively Teresa'' (1943) * ''L'abito nero da sposa'' (1945) * '' Romulus and the Sabines'' (1945) * '' The Street Has Many Dreams'' (1948) * ''Margaret of Cortona'' (1950) * ''Night Taxi'' (1950) * '' Terra senza tempo'' (1950) * ''Cavalcade of Heroes'' (1950) * ''Ring Around the Clock ''Ring Around the Clock'' (Italian: ''Vogliamoci bene!'') is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Paolo William Tamburella and starring Nando Bruno, Lauro Gazzolo, and Peppino Spadaro.Paietta p.162 The film's sets were designed by Arrigo Equin ...'' (1950) References Bibliography * Ann C. Paietta. ''Saints, Clergy and Other Religious Figures on Film and Television, 1895–2003''. McFarland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bicycle Thieves
''Bicycle Thieves'' ( it, Ladri di biciclette; sometimes known in the United States as ''The Bicycle Thief'') is a 1948 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It follows the story of a poor father searching in post-World War II Rome for his stolen bicycle, without which he will lose the job which was to be the salvation of his young family. Adapted for the screen by Cesare Zavattini from the 1946 novel by Luigi Bartolini, and starring Lamberto Maggiorani as the desperate father and Enzo Staiola as his plucky young son, ''Bicycle Thieves'' received an Academy Honorary Award (most outstanding foreign language film) in 1950, and in 1952 was deemed the greatest film of all time by ''Sight & Sound'' magazine's poll of filmmakers and critics; fifty years later another poll organized by the same magazine ranked it sixth among the greatest-ever films. In the 2012 version of the list the film ranked 33rd among critics and 10th among directors. The film was also c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'abito Nero Da Sposa
''L'abito nero da sposa'' () is a 1945 Italian historical drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Fosco Giachetti. It is based on the play ''The Cardinal'' by Louis N. Parker. Cast * Fosco Giachetti as Il cardinale Giovanni de Medici * Jacqueline Laurent as Berta Chigi * Enzo Fiermonte as Giuliano de Medici * Carlo Tamberlani as Andrea Strozzi * Aldo Silvani as Bartolomeo Chigi * Domenico Viglione Borghese as Il governatore Baglioni * Manoel Roero as Raffaello (as Manuel Roero) * Fausto Guerzoni as Beppe, il campanaro * Evelina Paoli as Madonna de Medici * Peppino Spadaro as Luigi * Renato Chiantoni as Bernardino * Emilio Petacci as Un mercante della statua di Venere * Franco Pesce as Un invitato alla festa Production ''L'abito nero da sposa'' is based on the play ''The Cardinal'' by Louis N. Parker. The film had some notoriety in Italy as it was blacklisted by the church. The film was originally going to be the directorial debut of Mario Pannunzio, who dropped out o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Male Stage Actors
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1950 Deaths
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establish his he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, ''J'Accuse…!'', is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper ''L'Aurore'', accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The USS ''Maine'' explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, killing 266 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ring Around The Clock
''Ring Around the Clock'' (Italian: ''Vogliamoci bene!'') is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Paolo William Tamburella and starring Nando Bruno, Lauro Gazzolo, and Peppino Spadaro.Paietta p.162 The film's sets were designed by Arrigo Equini. Plot A dispute breaks out in a small town over planned repairs to the historic clock. Cast * Nando Bruno as Parboni * Lauro Gazzolo as Guerrieri * Mario Nicotra as Police Chief * Peppino Spadaro as Don Paolo * Arturo Bragaglia as Mayor * Paolo Stoppa as Rocchetti * Patrizia Mangano as Luisa * Gemma Bolognesi * Margherita Bossi as Signora Contonieri * Agostino Carucci as Francesco * Marga Cella as Signorina Guerrieri * Bruno Corelli * Alfred De Leo as Gino Maruchelli * Carlo Delle Piane as Vincenzo * Attilio Dottesio as Mario * Vittoria Febbi * Aristide Garbini as Bruno * Leda Gloria as Rosa * Zoe Incrocci as Concettina * Renato Malavasi as Capobanda * Nino Marchetti as Giulio * Mario Mazza as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cavalcade Of Heroes
''Cavalcade of Heroes'' ( it, Cavalcata d'eroi) is a 1950 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Mario Costa and starring Cesare Danova, Carla Del Poggio and Vittorio Sanipoli. It depicts the events around the founding of the short-lived Roman Republic of 1849. Plot Love story of a patriot and a girl with a noble lineage, already linked to a Frenchman, against the backdrop of the second assault of the French troops in Rome which took place between June 3 and July 2, 1849. With the French entry and victory, who install a provisional government, the two lovers will decide, once the differences of a social nature have been overcome, to follow Garibaldi's troops in Northern Italy. Partial cast *Cesare Danova as Massimo Ruffo * Carla Del Poggio as Giulia Fabbri * Vittorio Sanipoli as Ottavio Monis * Otello Toso as Angelo Masina * Camillo Pilotto as Alessandro Fabbri * Paola Borboni as La marchesa Ferrari * Alfredo Varelli as Luciano Manara * Carlo Tamberlani as Pisacane * U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terra Senza Tempo
''Terra senza tempo'' is a 1950 Italian film directed by Silvestro Prestifilippo. Cast * Barbara Berg *Leonardo Cortese *Jone Frigerio as Baroness Capuana *Achille Millo *Aldo Silvani *Peppino Spadaro *Liliana Tellini Liliana Tellini (19 January 1925 - 15 June 1971) was an Italian actress and voice actress. Life and career Born in Florence as Liliana Polledri she was the daughter of a Swiss father and a Venetian mother. She enrolled at the Centro Speriment ... * Adriana Mafrici Mariuccia External links * 1950 films Italian drama films 1950s Italian-language films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Taxi
''Night Taxi'' (Italian: ''Taxi di notte'') is a 1950 French-Italian comedy film about a taxicab driver, directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Beniamino Gigli, Danielle Godet and Philippe Lemaire.Apra p.93 After finding a baby left abandoned in his cab, a singing taxi driver tries to find its mother. Cast *Beniamino Gigli as Nello Spadoni *Danielle Godet as Laura Morani *Philippe Lemaire as Alberto Franchi * Virginia Belmont as Luisa Forenti *Carlo Ninchi as Forenti l'Industriale *William Tubbs as Mr. William Simon *Jone Morino as Signora Forenti *Aroldo Tieri as Conte Tattini *Giuseppe Varni as Major Domo *Giuseppe Rinaldi as Il raggionere, inamorato di Luisa *Renzo De Luca as Il piccolo abandonato in taxi *Giulio Battiferri *Franco Coop *Peppino Spadaro * Edda Soligo * Ciro Berardi * Gustavo Serena * Nico Pepe * Pina Piovani Pina Piovani (20 March 1897 – 2 January 1955) was an Italian stage and film actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Of Cortona (film)
''Margaret of Cortona'' (Italian: ''Margherita da Cortona'') is a 1950 Italian historical drama film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Maria Frau, Isa Pola and Galeazzo Benti.Scaraffia & Zarri p.299 It portrays the life of the thirteenth century saint Margaret of Cortona. The film's sets were designed by the art director Virgilio Marchi. Cast * Maria Frau as Margherita * Isa Pola as Lucia, la matrigna * Galeazzo Benti as Arsenio del Monte * Aldo Nicodemi as Marco * Mario Pisu as Rinaldo Degli Uberti * Giovanni Grasso as Tancredi, padre di Margherita * Lorenza Mari as Francesca degli Uberti * Virginia Balestrieri as Druba * Carlo Tamberlani as Vescovo * Mino Doro as Capitano del popolo * Raimondo Van Riel as messer Dal Monte * Fulvio Battistini as Zufolo * Riccardo Billi as Menestrello * Domenico Serra * Giovanna Galletti as Madre del bambino ammalato * Rita Andreana as Popolana al torneo * Arnaldo Mochetti * Diego Pozzetto * Ivo Karavany * Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Street Has Many Dreams
''The Street Has Many Dreams'' (Italian: ''Molti sogni per le strade'') is a 1948 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Anna Magnani, Massimo Girotti and Checco Rissone.Mera & Burnand p.32 The film's sets were designed by the art director Alberto Boccianti Alberto Boccianti was an Italian art directorBayman p.192 who designed the sets for more than a hundred films during his career. Selected filmography * ''Two Hearts Among the Beasts'' (1943) * ''Special Correspondents'' (1943) * '' Come Back to S .... Cast References Bibliography * Miguel Mera & David Burnand. ''European Film Music''. Ashgate Publishing, 2006. External links * 1948 films Italian comedy films 1948 comedy films 1940s Italian-language films Films directed by Mario Camerini Italian black-and-white films Lux Film films 1940s Italian films {{1940s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romulus And The Sabines (1945 Film)
''Romulus and the Sabines'' (Italian: ''Il ratto delle sabine'') is a 1945 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Totò, Carlo Campanini, and Clelia Matania. It was one of several of Totò's postwar comedies to use elements of neorealism.Brizio-Skov p.115 The film is based on the German comedy '' Der Raub der Sabinerinnen'' (1884) by Franz von Schönthan and Paul von Schönthan. Plot summary Toto is the actor of a penniless theater group: they arrive in a small town to offer their theatrical calendar to the mayor. Meanwhile, a professor: caught but shy, presents to the community his play, "The Rape of the Sabine Women", but the provincial inhabitants hate mortally the theater. The professor is in despair, but Toto willingly accepts the part of the work, just to eat something. At the end, the opera is performed at the theater, but it is a disaster, because the genre is drama, but Toto gullibility makes it a comic farce. Cast * Totò as Aristide Tromboni * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
