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The Merchant Of Venice (1953 Film)
''The Merchant of Venice'' (french: Le marchand de Venise, it, Il mercante di Venezia) is a 1953 French-Italian drama film directed by Pierre Billon and starring Michel Simon, Andrée Debar and Massimo Serato. It is loosely based on William Shakespeare's Elizabethan play of the same name. The film's sets were designed by the art director Giancarlo Bartolini Salimbeni. Cast * Michel Simon as Shylock * Andrée Debar as Portia * Massimo Serato as Antonio * Armando Francioli as Bassanio * Giorgio Albertazzi as Lorenzo * Liliana Tellini as Jessica * Olga Solbelli as Bianca * Clara Auteri Pepe as Nerissa * Franco Balducci as Antonio's Friend * Nerio Bernardi as Doge * Gualtiero Tumiati Gualtiero Tumiati ( 8 May 1876 – 23 April 1971) was an Italian actor and stage director. Life and career Born in Ferrara, Tumiati studied at the College of the Oaks in Florence and there he attended the acting courses held by Luigi Rasi. He ... as Dr. Bellario Plot In order to ...
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Pierre Billon (director)
Pierre Billon (born Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort, 7 February 1901 – died Paris, 31 August 1981) was a French film film director, director and screenwriter. In 1952 he served on the jury of the Cannes Festival. Selected filmography * ''Venetian Nights'' (1931) * ''The House on the Dune (1934 film), The House on the Dune'' (1934) * ''Second Bureau (1935 film), Second Bureau'' (1935) * ''Southern Mail (film), Southern Mail'' (1937) * ''The Silent Battle (1937 film), The Silent Battle'' (1937) * ''The Inevitable Monsieur Dubois'' (1943) * ''Mademoiselle X'' (1945) * ''Ruy Blas (film), Ruy Blas'' (1948) * ''Clear the Ring'' (1949) * ''My Friend Oscar'' (1951) * ''My Seal and Them'' (1951) * ''The Merchant of Venice (1953 film), The Merchant of Venice'' (1953) References

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Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it visual communication, communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style (visual arts), style(s) to use, and when to use motion graphic design, motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the col ...
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Films Scored By Giovanni Fusco
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 sensitiz ...
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Films Based On The Merchant Of Venice
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 ...
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1953 Drama Films
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia. ** The Central Intelligence Agency, CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the Unidentified flying object, UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is First inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower, sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Upr ...
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1953 Films
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1953 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 16 – A new Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. is incorporated following a Consent Judgment to divest their Stanley Warner Theaters. * February 5 – Walt Disney's production of J.M. Barrie's ''Peter Pan'', starring Bobby Driscoll and Kathryn Beaumont, premieres to astounding acclaim from critics and audiences and quickly becomes one of the most beloved Disney films. This is the last Disney animated movie released in partnership RKO Pictures, becoming the last ever smash hit movie of the later company before it bankrupted in 1959. * July 1 – ''Stalag 17'', directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden, premieres and is considered by the critics and audiences to be one of the greatest WWII Prisoner of War films ever made. Holden wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the ...
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Gualtiero Tumiati
Gualtiero Tumiati ( 8 May 1876 – 23 April 1971) was an Italian actor and stage director. Life and career Born in Ferrara, Tumiati studied at the College of the Oaks in Florence and there he attended the acting courses held by Luigi Rasi. He later graduated in law and while working as an apprentice lawyer at his father's law firm he started performing in some local stage companies. Tumiati's breakout role was Cyrano de Bergerac in a critically acclaimed representation of the Edmond Rostand's eponymous play held in 1910. With his wife, the actress and painter Beryl Hight, in 1928 Tumiati founded the "Sala Azzurra" ("Blue Room"), one of the first Avant-garde theaters in Italy. He taught acting at the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome and at the Accademia dei filodrammatici in Milan. Gone blind, his last role was in the blind Tiresias in a representation of Sophocles' ''Oedipus Rex'' held in 1969 in the La Scala La Scala (, , ; abbreviation in Italian of the official name ...
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Nerio Bernardi
Nerio Bernardi (23 July 1899 – 12 January 1971) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in nearly 200 films between 1918 and 1970. He was born in Bologna, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Nero'' (1922) * ''The Shepherd King'' (1923) * '' Full Speed'' (1934) * ''Port'' (1934) * ''Loyalty of Love'' (1934) * '' God's Will Be Done'' (1936) * ''King of Diamonds'' (1936) * ''Bayonet'' (1936) * ''The Black Corsair'' (1937) * '' Abandonment'' (1940) * '' Captain Fracasse'' (1940) * ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (1940) * ''Antonio Meucci'' (1940) * '' The Last Dance'' (1941) * ''The Mask of Cesare Borgia'' (1941) * '' A che servono questi quattrini?'' (1942) * ''The Queen of Navarre'' (1942) * '' Fedora'' (1942) * '' In High Places'' (1943) * ''Special Correspondents'' (1943) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1947) * ''The Courier of the King'' (1947) * ''The Lady of the Camellias'' (1947) * ''Mare Nostrum'' (1948) * '' Be Seeing You, Father'' (1948) * ''The Charterhouse of Parma ...
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Franco Balducci
Franco Balducci (23 November 1922 – 7 June 2001) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 75 films between 1947 and 1978. He was born in Umbria, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Bullet for Stefano'' (1947) - Giacomo * ''Tempesta su Parigi'' (1948) * ''Les Misérables'' (1948) - (uncredited) * ''Il monello della strada'' (1950) - Arizona Bill * '' The Crossroads'' (1951) * ''Lorenzaccio'' (1951) * '' The Captain of Venice'' (1951) * '' Stranger on the Prowl'' (1952) - Morelli * ''Milady and the Musketeers'' (1952) * ''Son of the Hunchback'' (1952) * ''Le marchand de Venise'' (1953) * ''Mystery of the Black Jungle'' (1954) - Kammamuri * '' The Captain of Venice'' (1954) - Marin Soldero * ''Black Devils of Kali'' (1954) - Kammamuri * ''I cinque dell'Adamello'' (1954) - Renato * ''Honey degli uomini perduti'' (1956) * ''Ciao, pais...'' (1956) - Amleto * ''Nights of Cabiria'' (1957) - Spectator on the Stage of the Cinema (uncredited) * ''La grande ombra'' (1957) - Ranuccio * '' ...
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Clara Auteri Pepe
Clara may refer to: Organizations * CLARA, Latin American academic computer network organization * Clara.Net, a European ISP * Consolidated Land and Rail Australia, a property development consortium People * Clara (given name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people and fictional characters with this name) * Saint Clara or Clare of Assisi ; Surname * Florian Clara (born 1988), Italian luger * Roland Clara (born 1982), Italian cross country skier Places France * Clara, Pyrénées-Orientales, a commune of the Pyrénées-Orientales ''département'' in southwestern France Ireland * Clara, County Kilkenny, a parish * Clara, County Offaly, a town in Ireland ** Clara Bog, a wetland near the town of Clara, County Offaly * Clara, County Wicklow, sometimes referred to as the "smallest village in Ireland" United Kingdom *Clara Vale, a village in Tyne and Wear, England United States *Clara, Florida, area on the border of Taylor County and Dixie County * Clara City, Minnesota * ...
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Olga Solbelli
Olga may refer to: People and fictional characters * Olga (name), a given name, including a list of people and fictional characters named Olga or Olha * Michael Algar (born 1962), English singer also known as "Olga" Places Russia * Olga, Russia, an urban-type settlement in Primorsky Krai * Olga Bay, a bay of the Sea of Japan in Primorsky Krai * Olga (river), Primorsky Krai United States * Olga, Florida Olga is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lee County, Florida, United States. The population was 1,952 at the 2010 census, up from 1,398 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida Metropolit ..., an unincorporated community and census-designated place * Olga, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Olga, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Olga, Washington, an unincorporated community * Olga Bay, Alaska, a bay on the south end of Kodiak Island * Olga, a neighborhood of South Pasadena, California Elsewhere * Kata Tjuta, ...
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Liliana Tellini
Liliana Tellini (19 January 1925 - 15 June 1971) was an Italian actress and voice actress. Life and career Born in Florence as Liliana Polledri she was the daughter of a Swiss father and a Venetian mother. She enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, graduating in 1949. After taking part to the Mario Costa's short film ''Breve storia'', Tellini made her film debut in Géza von Radványi's ensemble drama film ''Women Without Names''. Tellini was also active on stage, radio and television, until her retirement in the late fifties. She was married to the director and screenwriter Piero Tellini. Selected filmography * ''Women Without Names'' (1950) * '' Il nido di Falasco'' (1950) * '' Terra senza tempo'' (1950) * ''The Sky Is Red'' (1950) * ''Operation Mitra'' (1951) * ''A Tale of Five Cities'' (1951) * '' Palace Hotel'' (1952) * ''The Merchant of Venice ''The Merchant of Venice'' is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written betwe ...
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