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Rina De Liguoro
Rina De Liguoro (24 July 1892 – 15 April 1966) was an Italian film actress. Born Elena Caterina Catardi, she changed her name after marrying film actor and director Wladimiro De Liguoro in 1918. She appeared in leading roles in a number of Italian epics during the 1920s such as ''The Last Days of Pompeii''.Wood, Mary P. (2005) ''Italian Cinema''. Berg. p. 158. . She later appeared in character roles after an unsuccessful spell in Hollywood. Her final film was Luchino Visconti's ''The Leopard''. Selected filmography * '' Savitri Satyavan'' (1923) * ''Messalina'' (1924) * ''Quo Vadis'' (1924) * '' The Hearth Turned Off'' (1925) * ''The Last Days of Pompeii'' (1926) * '' Anita'' (1927) * ''The Loves of Casanova'' (1927) * '' The Courier of Moncenisio'' (1927) * ''Cagliostro'' (1929) * ''The Mysterious Mirror'' (1928) * '' The Beautiful Corsair'' (1928) * '' Assunta Spina'' (1930) * ''Madame Satan'' (1930) * ''Romance'' (1930) as Nina * '' Behold My Wife'' (1934) * ''The Mad Em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Messalina (1924 Film)
''Messalina'' is a 1924 Italian historical drama film directed by Enrico Guazzoni and starring Rina De Liguoro, Calisto Bertramo, and Gildo Bocci.Moliterno p.158 It portrays the life of Messalina, the third wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius. Cast * Rina De Liguoro as Messalina * Calisto Bertramo * Gildo Bocci as Apollonio * Bruto Castellani as Tigrane * Mario Cusmich * Édouard de Max * Alfredo de Felice * Aristide Garbini Aristide Garbini (1890–1950) was an Italian film actor.Verdone p.83 Selected filmography * '' The Crusaders'' (1918) * ''Messalina'' (1924) * '' Miryam'' (1929) * ''Five to Nil'' (1932) * '' Ragazzo'' (1934) * '' The Old Guard'' (1934) * ''Ald ... as Narciso * Rita Jolivet * Augusto Mastripietri as Claudio * Gino Talamo as Ennio * Gianna Terribili-Gonzales as Mirit * Adolfo Trouché * Lucia Zanussi as Egle References Bibliography * Moliterno, Gino. ''Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2008. Externa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Loves Of Casanova
''The Loves of Casanova'' or ''Casanova'' is a 1927 French Historical drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff and starring Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti and Diana Karenne. The film portrays the life and adventures of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798). Many of those involved with the film were Russian emigres who had come to France following the Russian Revolution. Cast *Ivan Mosjoukine as Casanova *Suzanne Bianchetti as Catherine II *Diana Karenne as Maria, Duchess de Lardi *Jenny Jugo as Thérèse *Rina De Liguoro as Corticelli *Nina Koshetz as Countess Vorontzoff *Raymond Bouamerane as Djimmy *Olga Day as Lady Stanhope *Albert Decoeur as Duke of Bayreuth *Dimitri Dimitriev as Lord Stanhope *Paul Franceschi *Paul Guidé as Gregori Orloff *Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Czar Peter III * Nathalie Lissenko *Michel Simon as henchman *Carlo Tedeschi as Menucci *Maria Ivogün as soprano Costume design Boris Bilinsky designed with Barbara Karinska Varvara Jmoudsky, better known as B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1892 Births
Year 189 ( CLXXXIX) 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 Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 189 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 * Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring riots in the city. China * Liu Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty. * Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor. * Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han. By topic Arts and sciences * Galen publishes his ''"Treatise on the various temperaments"'' (aka ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951 Italian Film)
''Tomorrow Is Another Day'' (Italian: ''Domani è un altro giorno'') is a 1951 Italian melodrama film directed by Léonide Moguy and starring Pier Angeli, Aldo Silvani and Anna Maria Ferrero. It was produced as a follow-up to the hit film '' Tomorrow Is Too Late'' also directed by Moguy and starring Angeli in her screen debut. Afterwards Angeli moved to Hollywood as a contract star of MGM. Plot While she was contemplating committing suicide by drowning, a young woman is stopped by a doctor whose job, all night long, is to save people who try to commit suicide. Insistently, the doctor convinces the girl to follow him around her. Once they arrive at the hospital, the two listen to the story of a girl who, left alone, had been exploited by a man who initially showed himself good but who later turned out to be unscrupulous. The girl had tried to kill herself but was saved while her exploiter was arrested; repentant of her previous gesture, the girl repeats «I want to live, I want ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buffalo Bill In Rome
''Buffalo Bill in Rome'' ( it, Buffalo Bill a Roma) is a 1949 black-and-white Italian Western film directed by Giuseppe Accatino. It is set in 1905 with Buffalo Bill William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846January 10, 1917), known as "Buffalo Bill", was an American soldier, Bison hunting, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa, Le Claire, Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), but ... as the main character. Cast References External links * {{IMDb title, 0041214 1949 films 1949 Western (genre) films Italian Western (genre) films Italian black-and-white films Cultural depictions of Buffalo Bill 1940s Italian films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caterina Da Siena
Catherine of Siena (Italian: ''Caterina da Siena''; 25 March 1347 – 29 April 1380), a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, was a mystic, activist, and author who had a great influence on Italian literature and on the Catholic Church. Canonized in 1461, she is also a Doctor of the Church. Born and raised in Siena, she wanted from an early age to devote herself to God, against the will of her parents. She joined the " mantellates", a group of pious women, primarily widows, informally devoted to Dominican spirituality. Her influence with Pope Gregory XI played a role in his 1376 decision to leave Avignon for Rome. The Pope then sent Catherine to negotiate peace with Florence. After Gregory XI's death (March 1378) and the conclusion of peace (July 1378), she returned to Siena. She dictated to secretaries her set of spiritual treatises ''The Dialogue of Divine Providence''. The Great Schism of the West led Catherine of Siena to go to Rome with the pope. She sent numerou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mad Empress
''The Mad Empress'' is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico (Nagel) and his struggles against Benito Juarez (Robards). Empress Carlotta (Novora) is the "mad" empress who has a breakdown when she realizes her husband is condemned to death. Cast *Conrad Nagel – Maximilian I of Mexico, Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico *Medea de Novara – Carlota of Mexico, Empress Carlotta of Mexico *Duncan Renaldo – Colonel Miguel López *Lionel Atwill – François Achille Bazaine, General Achille Bazaine *Guy Bates Post – French Emperor Napoleon III *Jason Robards Sr. – Benito Juarez *Frank McGlynn Sr. – Abraham Lincoln *Earl Gunn – Porfirio Díaz References External links * * * * 1939 films American black-and-white films Second French intervention in Mexico films Depictions of Abraham Lincoln on film Cultural depictions of Napoleon III Cultural depictions of Porfirio Díaz American historical comedy-drama films 1930s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behold My Wife! (1934 Film)
''Behold My Wife!'' is a 1934 drama film directed by Mitchell Leisen. It stars Sylvia Sidney and Gene Raymond. Based on a novel by Sir Gilbert Parker, ''The Translation of a Savage'', Retrieved November 19, 2022. the story had been filmed before in the silent era in 1920 as '' Behold My Wife!'' starring [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romance (1930 Film)
''Romance'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film directed by Clarence Brown, starring Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, and Gavin Gordon (actor), Gavin Gordon. The movie was adapted by Edwin Justus Mayer and Bess Meredyth from the Romance (Sheldon play), 1913 play by Edward Sheldon. A 1920 silent film also called ''Romance (1920 film), Romance'' was one of the first releases by then new United Artists and starred Doris Keane, the actress in Sheldon's 1913 play. Plot On New Year's Eve, Harry (Elliott Nugent) tells his grandfather (Gavin Gordon (actor), Gavin Gordon), a bishop, that he intends to marry an actress, even though that is frowned upon by his social class. However, his grandfather recounts via flashback a cautionary tale of a great love affair with a "fallen women" during his own youth. When he is 28 years old, Tom Armstrong, the son of an aristocratic family and the rector of St. Giles, meets the famous Italian opera star Rita Cavallini (Greta Garbo) at an eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Satan
''Madam Satan'' or ''Madame Satan'' is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film in black and white with Multicolor sequences. It was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starred Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth, and Roland Young ''Madam Satan'' has been called one of the oddest films DeMille made and certainly one of the oddest MGM made during Hollywood's "golden age". Thematically, this marked an attempt by DeMille to return to the boudoir comedies genre that had brought him financial success about 10 years earlier. Plot Socialite Angela Brooks (Kay Johnson) reads in a newspaper that her husband Bob ( Reginald Denny) and "Mrs. Brooks" were in night court together along with Bob's best friend Jimmy Wade (Roland Young). The woman is actually Trixie (Lillian Roth), a showgirl Bob has been seeing, but Bob tries to pretend that she is Jimmy's wife. Angela is more amused than angered by the clumsy lies, but it soon becomes clear that Bob has lost interest i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assunta Spina (1930 Film)
''Assunta Spina '' is a 1930 Italian silent drama film directed by Roberto Roberti and starring Rina De Liguoro and Febo Mari. It is based on the play of the same title by Salvatore Di Giacomo. Plot Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy. Cast * Rina De Liguoro as Assunta Spina * Febo Mari as Michele Boccadifuoco * Elio Steiner * Alfredo Martinelli * Carlos Montes * Cellio Bucchi * Goffredo D'Andrea Goffredo D'Andrea was an Italian film actor who appeared mainly during the silent era.Goble p.417 He also worked occasionally as a screenwriter and film director. Selected filmography * '' Castigo'' (1917) * '' La principessa di Bagdad'' (1918) * ... References External links * 1930 films 1930s Italian-language films Films directed by Roberto Roberti Italian silent films 1930 drama films Italian drama films Italian films based on plays Italian black-and-white films Silent drama films 1930s Italian films {{1930s-Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beautiful Corsair
''The Beautiful Corsair'' (Italian: ''La bella corsara'') is a 1928 Italian silent film directed by Wladimiro De Liguoro and starring Rina De Liguoro, Bruto Castellani and Carlos Montes.Parish p.147 Cast * Rina De Liguoro as La bella corsara * Carlos Montes Carlos Montes is a nationally respected leader in the Chicano, immigrant rights, and anti-war movements. He was a co-founder of the Brown Berets, a Chicano working class youth organization in the United States in the late 1960s and 1970s. The Bro ... as Il corsaro della nave nemica * Bruto Castellani as L'altro corsaro References Bibliography * Monaco, James. ''Film Actors Guide''. Scarecrow Press, 1977. External links * 1928 films Italian silent feature films 1920s Italian-language films Films directed by Wladimiro De Liguoro Italian black-and-white films Pirate films Silent adventure films {{Italy-silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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