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Scilla Gabel
Scilla Gabel (born Gianfranca Gabellini; 4 January 1938) is an Italian film, television and stage actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1954 and 1982. Career Born in Rimini, Italy, one of five children, Gabel entered the cinema industry as Sophia Loren's body double. Between 1957 and 1967 she appeared, often as the female lead actress, in dozens of films, but failed to emerge because of the stereotyped roles. Starting from late sixties she focused her activity on stage and television, in which she found most significant roles and critical appreciation. Personal life Gabel married Piero Schivazappa in 1968; they had one child. Father's murder On May 8th, 1999 Gabel's 87 year-old father Giuseppe Gabellini was murdered. He was landlord to a number of tenants at his villa on the via Campi di Torre Flavia two blocks from Ladispoli's beach, about 35 km west of Rome. One tenant, 65 year old Elisa Santilli owed Gabellini Lit. 900,000 ($785 in 2022) for several months rent, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rimini
Rimini ( , ; rgn, Rémin; la, Ariminum) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy and capital city of the Province of Rimini. It sprawls along the Adriatic Sea, on the coast between the rivers Marecchia (the ancient ''Ariminus'') and Ausa (ancient ''Aprusa''). It is one of the most notable seaside resorts in Europe with revenue from both internal and international tourism forming a significant portion of the city's economy. It is also near San Marino, a small nation within Italy. The first bathing establishment opened in 1843. Rimini is an art city with ancient Roman and Renaissance monuments, and is also the birthplace of the film director Federico Fellini. The city was founded by the Romans in 268 BC. Throughout Roman times, Rimini was a key communications link between the north and south of the peninsula. On its soil, Roman emperors erected monuments such as the Arch of Augustus and the Tiberius Bridge to mark the beginning and the end of the Decumanus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legs Of Gold
''Legs of Gold'' (Italian: ''Gambe d'oro'') is a 1958 Italian sports film directed by Turi Vasile and Antonio Margheriti and starring Totò, Memmo Carotenuto and Rossella Como.Bìspuri p.191 Plot Barone Luigi Fontana is a rich and stingy producer of fine wines, as well as president of the amateur football team of Cerignola who, to crown a triumphant championship, is about to be promoted. The environment is idyllic with all the players linked together as brothers. The balance is upset by the arrival of a Milan attorney who declares ready to buy two players, immediately creating the jealousy of others. Cast * Totò as barone Luigi Fontana * Memmo Carotenuto as Armando * Rossella Como as Carla Fontana * Scilla Gabel as Gianna * Paolo Ferrari as Aldo Maggi * Rosario Borelli as Franco Savelli * Dolores Palumbo as Emma, moglie di Armando * Elsa Merlini as Luisa Fontana * Giampiero Littera as Riccardo * Turi Pandolfini as Sindaco * Luigi Pavese as commendatore Renz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Two Colonels
''I due colonnelli'' (internationally released as ''The Two Colonels'') is a 1963 Italian comedy film directed by Steno. The character of Totò took inspiration from a similar character he played in ''Totò Diabolicus''. Plot The story is of Italian and British troops facing off on the Greek-Albanian border in 1943. Both sides take, lose, and retake a border village countless times during the entire movie. The village is taken and retaken by both sides so many times that the locals don't even pay attention to the battles any more and openly collaborate with whichever side is occupying the village at that time. Both sides use the same hotel as their HQ and a friendship and mutual respect even develops between the two opposing commanding officers. This goes on until the Germans arrive and order the Italian commander to destroy the village killing its inhabitants, an order the Italian commander refuses to carry out bringing on a death sentence. His men refuse the German officer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sodom And Gomorrah (1963 Film)
''Sodom and Gomorrah'' – known in the United States as ''The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah'' – is a DeLuxe Color 1962 epic film which is loosely based on the Biblical reading of Sodom and Gomorrah. The film was a Franco-Italian-American co-production made by Pathé, SGC and Titanus. It was directed by Robert Aldrich and produced by Maurizio Lodi-Fe, Goffredo Lombardo and Joseph E. Levine. The screenplay was by Giorgio Prosperi and Hugo Butler, and the music score was composed by Miklós Rózsa. Plot The twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah prosper because of their great deposits of salt, which are mined by an army of slaves. The decadent citizens, who have become wealthy by trading salt, live in luxury and use slaves as servants and for violent games of entertainment. After a night of revelry, Astaroth (Stanley Baker), the Prince of Sodom, tells slave girl Tamar (Scilla Gabel) to carry a message to the king of the Elamites, with whom he plans to overthrow his sister, Bera, Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colossus Of The Arena
''Colossus of the Arena'' ( it, Maciste il gladiatore più forte del mondo, also known as ''Death on the Arena'') is a 1962 Italian peplum film directed by Michele Lupo and starred by Mark Forest. Plot A powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the beautiful Queen in prison, which he thwarts by exposing a sinister duke as a traitor. Cast *Mark Forest as Maciste/Colossus *Scilla Gabel as Talima *José Greci as Resia * Germano Longo as Ligonius *Erno Crisa as Oniris *Dan Vadis as Sidone *Harold Bradley as Tuco *Carlo Pisacane as oste *Vittorio Sanipoli as Slavo * Alfio Caltabiano as Psychios * Sal Borgese Sal Borgese (born 5 March 1937, in Rome) is an Italian film actor. He is sometimes credited as Salvatore Borghese or Mark Trevor. He is noted for extensive work in the Italian film industry from the 1960s to present day, and for his work as a s ... as Gladiator References External links https://www.imdb.com/title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village Of Daughters
''Village of Daughters'' is a 1962 British comedy film directed by George Pollock and starring Eric Sykes, Scilla Gabel, John Le Mesurier, Grégoire Aslan, Graham Stark, and Warren Mitchell Warren Mitchell (born Warren Misell; 14 January 1926 – 14 November 2015) was a British actor. He was a BAFTA TV Award winner and twice a Laurence Olivier Award winner. In the 1950s, Mitchell appeared on the radio programmes ''Educatin .... Plot Herbert Harris is a poor traveling salesman who is forced off the bus at a remote Italian village because he has no more money for the fare. There, he finds many single and attractive women who all pursue him madly. Unbeknownst to him, the villagers have a dilemma. Antonio is a wealthy businessman in London who, in accordance with his father's wish, has decided to marry a woman from his ancestral village. He writes to the mayor and asks him to choose. The mayor wants to select his daughter Annunziata, but the other villagers object. The v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romulus And The Sabines (1961 Film)
''Il ratto delle sabine'' ( en, The Rape of the Sabines) is an Italian adventure comedy film from 1961, directed by Richard Pottier, written by Edoardo Anton, starring Roger Moore and Jean Marais. The scenario was based on a novel of André Castelot. at the ''Films de France'' The film was also known under the title "L'Enlèvement des Sabines" (France), "Il ratto delle sabine" (Italy), "Les femmes de Sabine" (Canada, French title), "Der Raub der Sabinerinnen " (West Germany), "El rapto de las sabinas" (Spain), "Romulus and the Sabines" (USA), "O Rapto das Sabinas" (Portugal). Cast * Mylène Demongeot: Rea * |
Three Faces Of Sin
''Three Faces of Sin'' (french: Le Puits aux trois vérités) is a 1961 French language motion picture comedy directed by François Villiers, based on novel by Jean-Jaques Gauthier. The music score is by Maurice Jarre. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Jean-Claude Brialy, Catherine Spaak and Scilla Gabel. It tells the story of a painter who parts from his mistress and marries her daughter. Principal cast *Michèle Morgan as Renee Plege *Jean-Claude Brialy as Laurent *Catherine Spaak as Daniele Plege *Michel Etcheverry as Inspector *Scilla Gabel as Rossana *Franco Fabrizi Franco Fabrizi (; 15 February 1916 – 18 October 1995) was an Italian actor. Life and career Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, Franco Fabrizi started his career as a model and an actor in fotoromanzi. Fabrizi also starred on several rev ... as Guerbois External links * * * 1961 films French comedy films 1960s French-language films Films directed by François Villiers 1960s French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Festival Girls
''The Festival Girls'' is a 1961 American drama film directed by Leigh Jason and starring Barbara Valentin, Alexander D'Arcy and Scilla Gabel. It was one of a number of low-budget exploitation films Austrian star Valentin appeared in during the early 1960s.Reimer & Reimer p.300 Location shooting took place at several European film festivals. It premiered in West Germany in 1961, and first screened in the United States the following year. It had censorship issues in several American cities. Synopsis Larry Worthington, a down-on-his-luck film producer, discovers Valentine a young model who is rescued half-drowned from the sea outside his European hotel. He casts her in his latest film, which then wins top honours at the Venice Film Festival only to provoke the anger of Nadja. Cast * Barbara Valentin as Valentine * Alexander D'Arcy as Larry Worthington * Scilla Gabel as Nadja * Alain Dijon as Dirk Vangard * Eduard Linkers as Jerome * Regina Seiffert as Liz * Janez Cuk as Hote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mill Of The Stone Women
''Mill of the Stone Women'' ( it, Il mulino delle donne di pietra) is a 1960 Italian horror film directed by Giorgio Ferroni, starring Pierre Brice and Scilla Gabel. It follows a journalist writing a story on a sculptor in 19th-century Holland who falls in love with the artist's sequestered daughter; meanwhile, a series of missing person cases seem to encircle the windmill where the artist lives and works. The film is notable as the first Italian horror film to be shot in color. Plot Writer Hans van Arnhim travels to a remote island in Holland to research a story about the fabled Mill of the Stone Women, a carousel of female statues created by art professor and sculptor Gregorious Wahl. Gregorius allows Hans to stay in the mill's attic, where he stores some of his unused sculptures. Hans meets and quickly falls in love with Elfie, the professor's attractive but ailing daughter. When Hans's girlfriend Liselotte comes to visit him at the mill, she is highly disturbed by the carou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Of The Pirates
''Queen of the Pirates'' ( it, La Venere dei pirati) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Mario Costa (director), Mario Costa. It was followed by ''Tiger of the Seven Seas''. Plot Cast * Gianna Maria Canale: Sandra * Massimo Serato: Cesare Count of Santa Croce * Scilla Gabel: Isabella * Livio Lorenzon: Olandese, Pirate Chief * Moira Orfei: Jana * Paul Muller (actor), Paul Muller: Duke Zulian * José Jaspe: Captain Mirko * Giustino Durano: Battista Production The film was partially shot at Monte Argentario, Grosseto in Tuscany, Italy. Release ''The Queen of the Pirates'' was released in Italy on 26 August 1960. It was released in the United States on July 26, 1961, by Columbia Pictures. Footnotes References * External links * 1960 films Italian adventure films Pirate films Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli Films set in the Mediterranean Sea Films shot in Tuscany 1960 adventure films Films directed by Mario Costa 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Call Girls Of Rome
''Call Girls of Rome'' ( it, I piaceri del sabato notte, lit=The pleasures of Saturday night) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Daniele D'Anza and starring Andreina Pagnani, Jeanne Valérie, Scilla Gabel, and Elsa Martinelli. Jean Murat also appears. Plot Behind the facade of a fashion house in Milan, run by Arabella, lies an efficient high-class prostitution ring. Cast *Andreina Pagnani as Arabella *Jeanne Valérie as Paola Masetti *Maria Perschy as Claudia *Scilla Gabel as Patrizia *Elsa Martinelli as Marisa, model *Pierre Brice as Aldo, lawyer *Jean Murat as General Masetti, father of Paola and Silvana *Romolo Valli as Commissioner *Roberto Risso as Carlo Malpighi *Corrado Pani as Young Blackmailer * Renato Speziale as Luigi, Arabella's lover *Giuseppe Porelli as Commendator Paolo Iavecchia *Luigi Pavese as Baldoni *Maria Grazia Spina as Silvana *Marilù Tolo as Luigi's mistress *Carlo Pisacane as Neapolitan old man *Paola Barbara as Mrs. Masetti, mother of Paola and Silvana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
