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Rosita Pisano
Rosa Pisano (15 October 1919 – 24 December 1975) was an Italian stage, film and television actress. Life and career Pisano was born in Naples, into a family of dialect theatre actors. She debuted on stage as a child actress in her family company, and later entered the stage company of Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo. After the war and after the dissolution of the company she continued working with Eduardo De Filippo, and starting from the 1950s with other companies, notably the one held by Nino Taranto. Pisano was also active in films and on television, even if mainly cast in supporting roles. Partial filmography * ''Non ti pago!'' (1942) - Una giocatrice al lotto * '' Assunta Spina'' (1948) - Una lavorante all stireria (uncredited) * ''Side Street Story'' (1950) - Assunta * ''Filumena Marturano'' (1951) - Lucia * ''Anna'' (1951) - Suor Carmela * ''Toto in Color'' (1952) * ''Deceit'' (1952) - La signora litigiosa * '' Non è vero... ma ci credo'' (1952) - Concetta * ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. Its province-level municipality is the third-most populous metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 3,115,320 residents, and its metropolitan area stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately 20 miles. Founded by Greeks in the first millennium BC, Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in the world. In the eighth century BC, a colony known as Parthenope ( grc, Παρθενόπη) was established on the Pizzofalcone hill. In the sixth century BC, it was refounded as Neápolis. The city was an important part of Magna Graecia, played a major role in the merging of Greek and Roman society, and was a significant cultural centre under the Romans. Naples served a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Two Friends
''The Two Friends'' (Italian: ''I due compari'') is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Borghesio and starring Aldo Fabrizi, Peppino De Filippo and Giulia Rubini.Pintaldi p.69 The film's sets were designed by Flavio Mogherini. Cast * Aldo Fabrizi as Giovanni Bellini * Peppino De Filippo as Ciccillo * Giulia Rubini as Giulietta Bellini * Carlo Ninchi as Pietro Carletti * Germana Paolieri as Signora Carletti * Giacomo Furia as Vincenzo, il sarto * Ilse Peterson as Figlia di Carletti * Loris Gizzi as Un invitato * Leonardo Botta as Enrico Carletti * Vincenzo Talarico as Lorenzucci * Mario Siletti * Lidia Martora * Rosita Pisano * Lia Reiner * Pietro Carloni * Ugo Sasso Ugo Sasso, born Domenico Pasquale Giuseppe Sasso (23 March 1910 - 21 July 1981), was an Italian film and television actor. Life and career Born in Turin, in the early 1930s Sasso moved to Rome to attend the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia ... References Bibliography * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Nostri Mariti
''I nostri mariti'' is a 1966 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Dino Risi and Luigi Zampa. Cast * Alberto Sordi - Giovanni Lo Verso (segment "Il marito di Roberta") * Ugo Tognazzi - Carabiniere (segment "Il Marito di Attilia ovvero nei Secoli Fedeli") * Jean-Claude Brialy - Ottavio (segment "Il Marito di Olga") * Michèle Mercier - Olga (segment "Il Marito di Olga") * Akim Tamiroff - Cesare (segment "Il Marito di Olga") * Lando Buzzanca - Ragionier Malanzin (segment "Il Marito di Olga") * Nicoletta Machiavelli - Roberta (segment "Il marito di Roberta") * Liana Orfei - Attilia (segment "Il Marito di Attilia ovvero nei Secoli Fedeli") * Elena Nicolai - Giovanni's mother-in-law (segment "Il marito di Roberta") * Claudio Gora - The Doctor (segment "Il marito di Roberta") References External links * 1966 films 1966 comedy films Italian comedy films 1960s Italian-language films Italian anthology films Italian black-and-white films Films directed by Luig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'amore Difficile
''L'amore difficile'' (internationally released as ''Of Wayward Love'' and as ''Sex Can Be Difficult'') is a 1962 Italian comedy anthology film. The film represents the directorial debut of the four authors, who were however all experienced in other areas of the film industry (Manfredi and Bonucci as actors, Lucignani and Sollima as writers). The four episodes are based on short stories by well-known Italian novelists ( Mario Soldati, Alberto Moravia, Italo Calvino and Ercole Patti) and share the themes of love and betrayal. The film was co-produced with West Germany where it was released with the title ''Schwierige Liebe''. Cast Le donne *Enrico Maria Salerno: The man *Catherine Spaak: Valeria *Claudia Mori: Bruna (directed by Sergio Sollima) L'avaro *Vittorio Gassman: Tullio Monari * Nadia Tiller: Elena De Gasperis *Lilla Brignone: Tullio's mother (directed by Luciano Lucignani) L'avventura di un soldato *Nino Manfredi: The soldier *Fulvia Franco: The widow (directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black City (film)
''Il re di Poggioreale'' (internationally released as ''Black City'' and ''The King of Poggioreale'') is a 1961 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Duilio Coletti. It is based on real life events of camorra criminal Peppino Navarra. It stars the American actors Ernest Borgnine and Keenan Wynn. Plot Cast *Ernest Borgnine: Peppino Navarra *Keenan Wynn: Di Gennaro *David Opatoshu: commissioner Natalucci *Yvonne Sanson: Mariannina *Cristina Gaioni: Pupetta *Salvo Randone: vescovo *Lino Ventura: bandit *Sergio Tofano: count Pignatelli *Aldo Giuffrè: brigadiere Crisquolo * Max Cartier: Enrico *Carlo Pisacane: Abbate *Rosita Pisano: Donna Amalia *Giacomo Furia: ministro Califano *Nino Vingelli: ministro Sgarra *Renato Terra: agente *Guido Celano Guido Celano (19 April 1904 – 7 March 1988) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film director. He appeared in 120 films between 1931 and 1988. He also directed two Spaghetti Westerns: '' Cold Killer'' and '' Gun Shy Piluk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Traffic Policeman
''The Traffic Policeman'' ( it, Il vigile) is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Alberto Sordi in the lead role. A representative of the ''commedia all'italiana'' genre, it tells the story of a traffic policeman and the injustice he endures for daring to enforce the law at the expense of people in power. Plot Otello Celletti is a war veteran from a small town in Latium. He has been unemployed since the end of the war and lives with his father, wife Amalia and their son, at the expense of his brother-in-law. When he is offered a menial job in the town's markets, Otello refuses in disdain. After fiercely insisting with the town's Mayor and by leveraging his veteran status, Otello eventually obtains a position with the local traffic police. Though he performs his duties poorly, Otello still abuses his authority to exact petty revenge upon those who had been teasing him while he was jobless. One day, Otello finds himself offering roadside assistance to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Vedovo
''Il Vedovo'' (The Widower) is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. Plot Alberto Nardi (Alberto Sordi) is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory (producing lifts and elevators) teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi (Franca Valeri) who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money. Alberto tries to "keep up" with his wife and her rich and successful friends but he only manages to ridicule himself. Amused by his antics Elvira publicly treats her husband as a silly clown, confident that he'll never leave her in the hope of profiting from her fortune. One day a train on which Elvira was supposed to be traveling (to pay visit to her old mother) suffers a horrible accident falling off a bridge and no survivors are reported. Alberto is overjoyed and in a ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuppe Tuppe, Marescià!
''Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!'', also known as ''È permesso Maresciallo?'', is a 1958 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Peppino De Filippo and Giovanna Ralli. Plot In Sagliena, Pietro Stelluti has become a marshal of the Carabinieri and greets the photo of his former superior Antonio Carotenuto, now on leave, while his colleague Baiocchi who has been promoted to the lower rank of brigadier remained under his orders. In a dialogue between Stelluti and Baiocchi, it is revealed that the love story with the "Bersagliera" ended badly. Now the young marshal has fallen in love with Maria, a girl who has a bar in the town square, but her shyness prevents him from declaring himself. Meanwhile, Maria is asked in marriage by Percuoco, a mature upstart who has returned to the village after making a fortune in France. Maria rejects the advances of the latter who then, to force her to surrender, opens another place and hires Carmelina, a busty waitress who attract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Sfida
''La sfida'' ("the challenge") is a 1958 Italian film by Francesco Rosi. It stars José Suárez as a gang leader who challenges a local Camorra boss for supremacy. It won the Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. The film is based on the real-life story of Camorra boss Pasquale Simonetti, known as ''Pasquale 'e Nola'', and his wife and former beauty queen Pupetta Maresca, played by Rosanna Schiaffino. dissertation, July 2007 It was produced by the Italian companies and Vides Cinematografica and the Spanish companies |
I Prepotenti
''I prepotenti'' (''The Bullies'') is a 1958 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Amendola. It has a sequel, ''Prepotenti più di prima'' (1959). Cast * Aldo Fabrizi: Cesare Pinelli * Nino Taranto: Domenico Esposito, aka Mimì * Ave Ninchi: Clelia Pinelli * Wandisa Guida: Marcella Pinelli * Luca Ronconi: Gennarino Esposito * Giuseppe Porelli: Commissioner * Carlo Taranto: Numa * Ferruccio Amendola: Alfredo Pinelli * Clara Bindi: Carmela Esposito * Rosita Pisano: Aunt Rosa * Mario Riva: Vigile References External links *''I prepotenti''at Variety Distribution Variety Distribution is an Italian-based film distribution company. It distributes Italian films worldwide, produced from the 1930s onward. History Variety Distribution (formerly Variety Film and Variety Communications) has been in the film ... 1958 films Italian comedy films 1958 comedy films Films with screenplays by Ruggero Maccari 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Marito
''Il marito'' ( ''The Husband'') is a 1957 Italian-Spanish comedy film directed by Nanni Loy and Gianni Puccini, at their second and last collaboration after '' Parola di ladro''. Alberto Sordi, who was author of the story together with Rodolfo Sonego, submitted the script to Angelo Rizzoli, that was not at all enthusiastic about the subject. Later, he met a Spanish producer, married with eleven children, who recognized himself in the story, so the film, which was initially set in uptown Rome, was shot in Madrid. In Spain the film was released with the title ''El Marido''. Plot Alberto has an unbearable wife who treats him like a nerd and that forces him to satisfy every whim of her. But Alberto decides to get respect and to prove his masculinity, initially destroying the cello's wife, the object that she loved, and after betraying her with a young woman. When the wife deliberately shatters an important deal with a rich and Alberto old widow, her husband is about to kill her in de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
