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The Sensuous Sicilian
''The Sensual Man'' ( it, Paolo il caldo, also known as ''The Sensuous Sicilian'') is a 1974 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marco Vicario. It is loosely based on the novel of the same name written by Vitaliano Brancati. It was shot in Catania, Sicily and in Rome. Plot A Sicilian baron, Paolo Castorini has spent his life (beginning before puberty) dealing with girls, and later, women, usually in matters of the flesh. But later in life he begins to search for a deeper meaning to life. When his father is brought to his deathbed, Paolo (after making a pass at the dying man's nurse) is surprised to learn that the apparently staid, upright father had been unfaithful as a young man, as also Paolo's grandfather, and that such unfaithfulness had brought consequences both moral and medical. Cast * Giancarlo Giannini: Paolo Castorini * Rossana Podestà: Lilia * Riccardo Cucciolla: Paolo's father * Lionel Stander: Paolo's Grandfather, Baron Castorini * Gastone Moschin: Unc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Vicario
Marco Vicario (20 September 1925 – 10 September 2020) was an Italian film actor, screenwriter, film producer and director. He appeared in 23 films between 1950 and 1958. He also wrote for 13 films, produced 12 and directed a further 11. He was born in Rome, Italy in September 1925. Vicario died in September 2020 at the age of 94. Selected filmography * ''Wifemistress'' (1977 - wrote and directed) * ''The Sensual Man'' (1974 - wrote and directed) * '' Man of the Year'' (1971 - wrote and directed) * ''The Swinging Confessors'' (1970 - wrote and directed) * ''Machine Gun McCain'' (1969 - produced) * '' Seven Times Seven'' (1968 - produced) * ''Seven Golden Men'' (1965 - directed) * '' The Naked Hours'' (1964 - wrote, directed, and produced) * '' Danza macabra'' (1964 - produced) * ''Songs of Italy ''Songs of Italy'' (Italian: ''Canzoni di tutta Italia'') is a 1955 Italian musical film directed by Domenico Paolella and starring Marco Vicario, Rossana Podestà and Silvana Pamp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriana Asti
Adriana Asti (born 30 April 1931) is an Italian stage, film, and voice actress. Biography On stage, she starred in ''Saint Joan'' by George Bernard Shaw, ''Happy Days'' by Samuel Beckett, ''The Mistress of the Inn'' by Carlo Goldoni, and ''Three Men for Amalia''. She won the SIAE prize in 1990, and the Duse prize in 1993. In 1999, she wrote and starred in Alcohol. In 2000, she starred in ''French Ferdinand''. Personal life She was first married to Bernardo Bertolucci. Selected filmography *''Arrangiatevi!'', by Mauro Bolognini (1959) *''Rocco and His Brothers'', by Luchino Visconti (1960) *''Accattone'', by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1961) *'' Il disordine'', by Franco Brusati (1962) *''Before the Revolution'', by Bernardo Bertolucci (1964) *'' I visionari'', by Maurizio Ponzi (1968) *'' Più tardi, Claire, più tardi'', by Brunello Rondi (1968) *''Metti una sera a cena'', by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (1969) *''Homo Eroticus'', by Marco Vicario (1971) *''La schiava io ce l'ho e tu no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Walter
Eugene Ferdinand Walter, Jr. (November 30, 1921 – March 29, 1998) was an American screenwriter, poet, short-story author, actor, puppeteer, gourmet chef, cryptographer, translator, editor, costume designer and well-known raconteur. During his years in Paris, he was nicknamed Tum-te-tum. His friend Pat Conroy observed that Walter had lived a "pixilated wonderland of a life." Walter was labeled "Mobile's Renaissance Man" because of his diverse activities in many areas of the arts. In later life, he maintained a connection with Mobile by carrying a shoebox of Alabama red clay around Europe. Biography Youth Walter was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama, which he described as "a separate kingdom. We are not North America; we are North Haiti." He claimed that he ran away from home at the age of three and was raised by his paternal grandparents. He and Truman Capote became acquainted in Mobile, attending matinees at the Saenger Theatre downtown together as children. His grandparen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attilio Dottesio
Attilio Dottesio (16 July 1909 – 12 February 1989) was an Italian film character actor and singer. He appeared in 170 films between 1940 and 1985. Born in Brescia, Dottesio began his career in France, where first he obtained some success as a pop singer and later debuted as an actor in the film ''The Pearls of the Crown'' directed by Sacha Guitry. Back in Italy, he attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, then he began an intense career as a character actor. His first Italian film was ''La peccatrice'' by Amleto Palermi (1940). In 1955, he had his only experience as a director, with the documentary film ''Amazzonia terra sconosciuta''. Selected filmography * ''The Pearls of the Crown'' (1937) * '' The Sinner'' (1940) * ''The Hero of Venice'' (1941) * ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1942) * ''The Man with a Cross'' (1943) * ''Giacomo the Idealist'' (1943) * ''The Charterhouse of Parma'' (1948) * '' The Wolf of the Sila'' (1949) * '' Ring Around the Clock' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Pisu
Mario Pisu (21 May 1910 – 17 July 1976) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Montecchio Emilia, Pisu was considered to be one of the most elegant performers of the Italian cinema. He began his career on stage and screen in 1935, making his debut appearance in ''The Joker King'' and also making frequent on-stage collaborations with Andreina Pagnani, Evi Maltagliati, Rina Morelli, Paolo Stoppa and Gino Cervi. Pisu appeared in 90 films between 1935 and 1976 and among his most popular appearances includes the 1965 film ''Juliet of the Spirits'' starring Giulietta Masina. He also appeared on television. Pisu was also a popular voice actor and dubber. ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oreste Lionello
Oreste Lionello (18 April 1927 – 19 February 2009) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Lionello was born in Rhodes (which was then a possession of Italy), to Calabrian parents, and grew up in Reggio Calabria. He began his career as a theatre actor, and was considered amongst the founders of Italian cabaret. In 1953 he entered the Musical Theatrical Company of RAI (Italian state TV) and the following year he debuted in television with ''Marziano Filippo'', a boys' show. In the 1960s, he was one of the founders of the Bagaglino comic theatre and TV company and he had found success as an entertainer on Italian TV in the 1970s and 1980s. As an actor, Lionello acted in over 56 feature films and several television shows. He appeared in five episodes of ''Le avventure di Laura Storm'' and he made his debut film appearance in ''The Cheerful Squadron''. As a voice actor, Lionello was the official Italian voice of Woody Allen. Other actors he dubbed included Charlie Chaplin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orchidea De Santis
Orchidea De Santis (born 20 December 1948, Bari) is an Italian television and film actress. Biography Orchidea De Santis is an Italian actress in cinema, theatre and television. Her films include '' Il Vizio di Famiglia'' directed by Mariano Laurenti, ''Per Amare Ofelia'' by Flavio Mogherini, '' Concerto per Pistola Solista'' by Michele Lupo, ''Colpo di Stato'' by Luciano Salce (1969) and '' Paolo il caldo'' by Marco Vicario (1973). She appeared briefly in '' Il Nero'' by Giovanni Vento (1965) and ''Una Macchia Rosa'' by Enzo Muzii (1970). Since the mid-1980s, her film work has declined in favor of other activities. Her theater work includes comedies such as '' Morto un Papa se ne fa un Altro'', ''Strega Roma'' and '' Chicchignola'' written by Ettore Petrolini, all of which were directed by Ghigo De Chiara and Fiorenzo Fiorentini. De Santis appeared in '' Sottoveste'' by Castellacci e Ventimiglia and ''Love and Life'' by Mike Immordino. She wrote and acted i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umberto D'Orsi
Umberto D'Orsi (30 July 1929 – 31 August 1976) was an Italian character actor and comedian. Born in Trieste, D'Orsi took a degree in law in 1953, but he was already active in theater from 1950, performing in small companies of prose and revue. From 1962 till his death, D'Orsi was a prolific supporting actor, appearing in as many as fifteen films a year. He died in Rome at 47 from kidney failure. Selected filmography * '' A Girl... and a Million'' (1962) * ''The Thursday'' (1963) * ''The Girl from Parma'' (1963) * ''The Hours of Love'' (1963) * ''Shivers in Summer'' (1963) * ''The Verona Trial'' (1963) * '' Countersex'' (1964) * ''Let's Talk About Women'' (1964) * '' Me, Me, Me... and the Others'' (1965) * ''I soldi'' (1965) * '' Hot Frustrations'' (1965) * ''I complessi'' (1965) * ''Rita the American Girl ''Rita the American Girl'' (Italian: ''Rita, la figlia americana'') is a 1965 Italian "musicarello" film directed by Piero Vivarelli with Totò and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Femi Benussi
Eufemia "Femi" Benussi (born 4 March 1945) is a Yugoslav-Italian film actress. She appeared in 82 films between 1965 and 1983. Benussi was born in Rovigno, Italy (now Rovinj, Croatia). She debuted on stage at the ''Teatro del Popolo'' of Rijeka, then she moved to Rome and made her film debut at 19 in ''Il boia scarlatto'', with the stage name Femy Martin. Benussi was mainly active in genre films, and in the seventies she became a star of the commedia sexy all'italiana subgenre. Selected filmography * ''Bloody Pit of Horror'' (1965) * ''The Hawks and the Sparrows'' (1966) * ''Death Walks in Laredo'' (1966) * '' Il tempo degli avvoltoi'' (1967) * ''Born to Kill'' (1967) * ''Deadly Inheritance ''(1968) * ''Requiem for a Gringo ''(1968) * ''Death Knocks Twice'' (1969) * ''Poppea's Hot Nights'' (1969) * ''Tarzana, the Wild Girl'' (1969) * ''Hatchet for the Honeymoon'' (1970) * '' Man of the Year'' (1971) * ''La mala ordina'' (1972) * ''So Sweet, So Dead'' (1972) * ''The Countess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilar Velázquez
Pilar Velázquez (born 13 February 1946) is a Spanish actress. Born as María del Pilar Velázquez Llorente in Madrid, she made her debut in 1964 at the Teatro Español, with the drama ''Caminos de Damasco''. Between 1966 and 1977 she starred in about 50 films and television roles; she was active in Italian genre cinema, especially in Spaghetti Western The Spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...s. In 1979 Velázquez married the Spanish singer and actor Miguel Gallardo. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Velazquez, Pilar Spanish film actresses 1946 births Actresses from Madrid Living people Spaghetti Western actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dori Dorika
Dori Dorika ( 1 October 1913 – 1 January 1996) was a Russian-born Italian actress. She was sometimes credited as Dory Dorika. Life and career Born Dorotea Massa in Odessa, the daughter of a Russian mother and a Neapolitan father, she moved in Milan at very young age, and started her career on stage, in operettas and revues. She got a large popularity in the musical comedy theatre, notably thanks to ''Un paio d’ali'', whose film adaptation A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film. Although often considered a type of derivative work, film adaptation has been conceptualized recently by academic scholars such as Robert Stam as a dial ... marked her debut on the big screen. From then she started an intense film career as a character actress, usually cast in humorous roles. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dorika, Dori Italian film actresses Italian television actresses Italian stage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neda Arnerić
Neda Arnerić ( sr-cyr, Неда Арнерић; 15 July 1953 – 10 January 2020) was a Serbian film, stage and television actress, and politician. A graduate art historian, she was considered a sex symbol of Yugoslav cinematography. Personal life Neda Arnerić was born in Knjaževac. Her mother was an ethnic Serb, whilst her father was an ethnic Croat, who worked as military doctor, born on the island of Korčula. Her grandfather was from Rovinj, where she often spent summers. In 1980 she graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy with a degree in Art History. In 1981 she married Serbian physician, Milorad Mešterović, who died in December 2018. They had no children. In February 2019, her brother Predrag found her unconscious, whereupon she spent 40 days at the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade. On 10 January 2020, she died aged 66. Her brother found her dead in her own home in the Belgrade municipality of Vračar, where she is believed to have suff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
