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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] |
Lina Wertmüller
Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich (14 August 1928 – 9 December 2021), known as Lina Wertmüller (), was an Italian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 1970s art film, art house films ''Seven Beauties'' (a genre-bending World War II film for which she became the first female director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in 1977), ''The Seduction of Mimi'', ''Love and Anarchy'', and ''Swept Away (1974 film), Swept Away''. In 2019, Wertmüller was announced as one of four recipients of the Academy Honorary Award for her career, the second female director to be so honoured. Early life Wertmüller was born Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich in Rome in 1928 to Federico, a lawyer from Palazzo San Gervasio, Basilicata, belonging to a devoutly Catholic family of distant Swiss descent, and to Maria Santamaria-Maurizio born in Rome. Wertmüller depicted her childhood as a period of adv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanya Lopert
Tanya Lopert (born 19 June 1942 in New York City) is a French actress and the daughter of Ilya Lopert ''Ilya Lopert'' (May 1, 1905 – February 27, 1971) was a Russian Empire-born United States, American film producer and distributor. He was renowned for distributing foreign films for both arthouse and mainstream release in the United States. He w .... She appeared in more than seventy films since 1961. Selected filmography External links * French film actresses 1942 births Living people {{France-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musicarelli
The musicarello (; plural: musicarelli) is a film subgenre which emerged in Italy and which is characterised by the presence in main roles of young singers, already famous among their peers, and their new record album. In the films there are almost always tender and chaste love stories accompanied by the desire to have fun and dance without thoughts. Musicarelli reflect the desire and need for emancipation of young Italians, highlighting some generational frictions. The genre began in the late 1950s, and had its peak of production in the 1960s. Name According to critics, the name "musicarello" is a reference to the successful TV series ''Carosello''. In particular, the name "musicarello" combines the words "'" ("music") and "''Carosello''": in fact, the singers who were the protagonists of the musicarelli, thanks to their notoriety, often appeared in many episodes of TV series ''Carosello''. Background The genre began in the late 1950s, and had its peak of production in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Lina Wertmüller
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 Musical Comedy Films
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. ** A Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in Lagos, Nigeria, primarily to discuss Rhodesia. * January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. * January 15 – 1966 Nigerian coup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 Films
The year 1966 in film involved some significant events. '' A Man for All Seasons'' won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Top-grossing films North America The top ten 1966 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Outside North America The highest-grossing 1966 films in countries outside North America. Events * October 19 - Gulf and Western Industries acquire Paramount Pictures. * November - Seven Arts Productions reach agreement to acquire Warner Bros. for $32 million, later forming a new company Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. * December 15 - Entertainment pioneer Walt Disney, best known for his creation of Mickey Mouse, breakthroughs in the field of animation, filmmaking, theme park design and other achievements, dies at the age of 65. He died while he was producing ''The Jungle Book'', ''The Happiest Millionaire'', and ''Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day''; the last three films under his personal supervision. Awards Academy Awards: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Dionisio
Silvia Dionisio (born 28 September 1951) is an Italian actress who appeared in several movies in the 1970s. Born in Rome, Dionisio made her debut in the world of cinema when she was only 14 years old in the movie ''Darling''. Her career followed with parts in mediocre musical Italian movies, along with singers like Mario Tessuto, Gianni Dei, Little Tony and Mal. On the set of one of these movies she met director Ruggero Deodato, who became her husband. They had a son, Saverio Deodato-Dionisio, who worked as an actor. In 1970, she played in '' A Girl Called Jules'', a semi-erotic film with several non-nude scenes portraying lesbian sex. She also co-starred in ''The Young, the Evil and the Savage'' (1968) and Andy Warhol's ''Blood for Dracula''. In 1975 Dionisio was the protagonist of '' Ondata di piacere'', an erotic thriller set on a small yacht, sco-starring Al Cliver and John Steiner, directed by Deodato. The same year, she played Ugo Tognazzi's lover in '' Amici miei'' by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teddy Reno
Teddy Reno (born 11 July 1926) is an Italian singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. Life and career Born in Trieste as Ferruccio Merk Ricordi, Reno made his debut on Radio Trieste during the Anglo-American administration of the city, launching the song "Eterno ritornello (Te vojo ben)". He later entered as a singer the orchestra of Teddy Foster, with whom he toured across Europe and North Africa.Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. . In 1948 he founded one of Italy's first record companies, CGD (i.e. Compagnia Generale del Disco), which he later sold to Ladislao Sugar, a publisher of Hungarian origin and future owner of the Sugar Group.Mark Worden. "Sugarmusic Turns 70". '' Billboard''. Vol. 115, Num. 3, p.23, 18 January 2003. . He enjoyed a great degree of success as a singer in the 1950s. In the 1960s he focused his career on discovering and producing new talents, mainly through the Festival degli sconosciuti (Festival of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 modo''. He later moved to Rome to devote himself to a professional acting career and in a short time he became one of the most active character actors in Italian cinema. Mainly devoted to humorous roles, he is best known for the role of Mangold in Mario Monicelli's '' The Incredible Army of Brancaleone''. Fangareggi was also active in several successful TV series. On 20 October 2017, Fangareggi died in Rome after a lengthy battle with Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms becom ..., aged 79. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milena Vukotic
Milena Vukotic (, ; born 23 April 1935) is an Italian former ballerina and a stage, television, and film actress. Biography Vukotic was born in Rome, to a Serb Montenegrin comedy playwright father and an Italian pianist/composer mother. As a child she studied acting and classical dance, in Italy and France. A brilliant character actress, Vukotic became well known for her role of Pina Fantozzi in the ''Fantozzi'' series of comedy films (winning a Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress for her role in '' Fantozzi in paradiso'') and, later in her life, for the role of Grandma Enrica in the TV series ''Un medico in famiglia''. She worked with Federico Fellini, Luis Buñuel and Andrei Tarkovsky. On stage, she became one of Rina Morelli's favourite actresses and worked in other prestigious theatrical productions with directors like Franco Zeffirelli, Giorgio Strehler, Paolo Poli and Jean Cocteau. She had a recurring role on the French television series ''Une famille fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gino Bramieri
Gino Bramieri (; 21 June 1928 – 18 June 1996) was an Italian comedian and actor. He was especially known as a television comedian, but also performed in theatres, on radio, and in about thirty movies. He was nicknamed "Il Re della barzelletta" ("the King of jokes") for his burlesque comic style, which was largely based on his skill at telling funny stories. His jokes were sometimes as quick as a cut and thrust, and bordering on surrealism. They have been collected in a series of books, such as ''50 chili fa'' ("50 kilos ago", a collection he published after dieting). Biography Bramieri was born in Milan, Italy, into a humble family. He made his stage debut in 1943, with the prose company in prose of Egisto Olivieri. He later graduated in accountancy at night school. In 1948 he got married and had a son. Bramieri's career was launched by Erminio Macario, who entered him in his revue company in 1949. In his career, he has performed together with many prominent Italian co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
