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Taxi De Nuit
''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] |
Carmine Gallone
Carmine Gallone (10 September 1885 – 11 March 1973) was an early Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer, who was also controversial for his works of pro-Fascist propaganda and historical revisionism. Considered one of Italian cinema's leading early directors, he directed over 120 films in his fifty-year career between 1913 and 1963. Life and career Carmine Gallone was born as Carmelo Camillo Gallone on 10 September 1885 in Taggia (in the province of Imperia), but grew up in Naples. His father was Italian, from Sorrento, and his mother was French, from Nice.G. Martini, ''Patchwork: 100 anni di cinema in Italia : un viaggio attraverso le regioni'', Finzioni, 1997, p. 168 He began writing plays at 15 and in 1911 won first prize at a national drama competition for his drama ''Brittanico''. He later moved to Rome where in 1912 he was hired as a general worker by the Teatro Argentina company, all the while continuing to write plays. In the same year he had his fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Varni
Giuseppe Varni (born Józef Bruno Winawer) (1902-1965) was a Polish-born Italian stage actor, stage and film actor.Anile p.135 Selected filmography * ''Oltre l'amore'' (1940) - Il commissario * ''Amami Alfredo'' (1940) - (uncredited) * ''Eternal Melodies'' (1940) - Un detrattore * ''Maddalena, Zero for Conduct'' (1940) - Amilcare Bondani, il bidello * ''L'orizzonte dipinto'' (1941) - Un pagliaccio * ''The Secret Lover'' (1941) - Il portiere dell'albergo * ''First Love (1941 film), First Love'' (1941) - L'editore Wolkoff * ''The Two Orphans (1942 film), The Two Orphans'' (1942) - Picard, il cameriere * ''La signorina'' (1942) * ''Luisa Sanfelice (1942 film), Luisa Sanfelice'' (1942) * ''The Woman of Sin'' (1942) * ''Odessa in Flames'' (1942) - Lo scrivone * ''Harlem (film), Harlem'' (1943) - Un gangster * ''La danza del fuoco'' (1943) * ''Sad Loves'' (1943) - Il cavaliere Rublo * ''Sogno d'amore'' (1943) * ''Finalmente sì'' (1944) * ''Rigoletto'' (1946) - Count of Ceprano * ''Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s Italian-language Films
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Italian Comedy Films
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French Comedy Films
French comedy films are comedy films produced in France. Comedy is the most popular French genre in cinema. Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque. Characteristics of French comedy films French comedy films are very often social comedies, which differs largely from American comedies."La comédie française se différencie ..par son aspect social, une lutte des classes généralement absente des comédies américaines." . Social comedy Culture shock, in several French comedies, oftentimes contain several 'clichés', which include: * Religion – ''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' in the 1970s, and ''Serial (Bad) Weddings'' in the 2010s * Social background – ''Life Is a Long Quiet River'' in the 1980s, and ''The Intouchables'' in the 2010s * Difference of life between two places – '' Welcome to the Land of ch'tis'' in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 Films
The year 1950 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1950 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 13 – Three weeks after its world premiere at the Paramount and Rivoli theatres in New York City, Cecil B. DeMille's ''Samson and Delilah'' opens in Los Angeles. The film is a massive commercial success and wins the awards for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design at the 23rd Academy Awards. * February 15 – Walt Disney Studios' animated film ''Cinderella'' debuts. The film is the most successful the studio has made since ''Dumbo'', and saves the studio from four million dollars in debt. * July 19 – Walt Disney Studios' first completely live-action film ''Treasure Island'' debuts. Awards Top ten money making stars Notable films released in 1950 US unless stated # *'' 47 morto che parla'', starring Totò – (Italy) *''711 Ocean Drive'', starring Edmond O'Brien and J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lite ....Bìspuri p.126 She was married to the actor Giulio Battiferri. Partial filmography * ''Napule... e niente cchiù'' (1928) - Paquita - stella del varietá * ''The Pirate's Dream'' (1940) - Una popolana * ''La fanciulla di Portici'' (1940) - L'ostessa * ''La zia smemorata'' (1940) - La cameriera di Clara * ''Tosca (1941 film), Tosca'' (1941) - Angela (uncredited) * ''Il signore a doppio petto'' (1941) * ''Se non son matti non li vogliamo'' (1941) - La padrona della caffetteria * ''Il leone di Damasco'' (1942) * ''Street of the Five Moons'' (1942) - Anna * ''Sleeping Beauty (1942 film), Sleeping Beauty'' (1942) - Nunziata * ''Una storia d'amore'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nico Pepe
Nico Pepe (19 January 1917 – 13 August 1987) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1936 and 1981. Selected filmography * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1936) * ''The Cavalier from Kruja'' (1940) * '' Captain Fracasse'' (1940) * ''Don Pasquale'' (1940) * ''The Mask of Cesare Borgia'' (1941) * ''A Husband for the Month of April'' (1941) * ''Giarabub'' (1942) * ''The Countess of Castiglione'' (1942) * '' Men of the Mountain'' (1943) * ''Mad About Opera'' (1948) * ''Crossroads of Passion'' (1948) * '' Be Seeing You, Father'' (1948) * ''Night Taxi'' (1950) * '' Feathers in the Wind'' (1950) * ''Pact with the Devil'' (1950) * '' The Beggar's Daughter'' (1950) * ''Beauties on Bicycles'' (1951) * '' Accidents to the Taxes!!'' (1951) * ''Napoleon'' (1951) * ''Son of the Hunchback'' (1952) * ''Frine, Courtesan of Orient'' (1953) * ''Captain Phantom'' (1953) * ''The Three Thieves'' (1954) * ''The Count of Bragelonne'' (1954) * ''Orphan of the Ghetto'' (1954) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Serena
Gustavo Serena (5 October 1881 – 16 April 1970) was an Italian actor and film director. He appeared in 107 films between 1909 and 1961. He also directed 33 films between 1912 and 1932. He was born in Naples and died in Rome. Selected filmography * ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (1912) * ''Quo Vadis'' (1913) * '' Assunta Spina'' (1915) * '' The Lady of the Camellias'' (1915) * '' The Blind Woman of Sorrento'' (1916) * '' The Clemenceau Affair'' (1917) * ''Mariute'' (1918) * '' Niniche'' (1918) * '' The Race to the Throne'' (1919) * ''The Fear of Love'' (1920) * '' Diana Sorel'' (1921) * ''A Dying Nation'' (1922) * '' The Cry of the Eagle'' (1923) * ''The White Sister'' (1923) * '' Zaganella and the Cavalier'' (1932) * ''Giuseppe Verdi'' (1938) * '' Shipwrecked'' (1939) * ''It Always Ends That Way'' (1939) * ''The Flame That Will Not Die'' (1949) * ''Night Taxi'' (1950) * ''The Cliff of Sin'' (1950) * ''The Beggar's Daughter ''The Beggar's Daughter'' ( it, La figlia del mendicante) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciro Berardi
Ciro Berardi (1909–1961) was an Italian actor.Bìspuri p.51 Selected filmography * '' Light in the Darkness'' (1941) * ''Lucky Night'' (1941) * ''Street of the Five Moons'' (1942) * ''After Casanova's Fashion'' (1942) * '' Love Story'' (1942) * ''The Peddler and the Lady'' (1943) * '' A Living Statue'' (1943) * ''The Ten Commandments'' (1945) * '' Romulus and the Sabines'' (1945) * ''The Opium Den'' (1947) * '' The Street Has Many Dreams'' (1948) * ''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 i ...'' (1950) * '' The Beggar's Daughter'' (1950) * '' Free Escape'' (1951) * '' Stasera sciopero'' (1951) * '' Cops and Robbers'' (1951) References Bibliography * Ennio Bìspuri. ''Totò: principe clown : tutti i film di Totò''. Guida Editori, 1997. External links * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edda Soligo
Edda Soligo (1905–1984) was an Italian film and television actress.Verdone p.111 Selected filmography * ''Adam's Tree'' (1936) * '' The Man from Nowhere'' (1937) * ''The Former Mattia Pascal'' (1937) * ''Il signor Max'' (1937) * '' To Live'' (1937) * '' Tonight at Eleven'' (1938) * '' A Romantic Adventure'' (1940) * ''Lucky Night'' (1941) * ''The Secret Lover'' (1941) * ''The King's Jester'' (1941) * ''Torrents of Spring'' (1942) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1942) * ''Lively Teresa'' (1943) * ''Peddlin' in Society'' (1946) * ''Night Taxi'' (1950) * ''La figlia del diavolo'' (1952) * ''Naples Sings'' (1953) * ''Storms'' (1953) * ''Frine, Courtesan of Orient'' (1953) * ''The Most Wonderful Moment'' (1957) * '' The Law'' (1959) * ''Girl with a Suitcase ''Girl with a Suitcase'' ( it, La ragazza con la valigia) is a 1961 cinema of Italy, Italian romantic drama film by Valerio Zurlini starring Claudia Cardinale as a spirited but naive young woman who lives on the fluctuating good will of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |