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Tito Vuolo
Tito Vuolo (22 March 1893 – 14 September 1962) was an Italian-born American actor, best known for his supporting work playing often stereotypical Italian characters. Prior to his film career, he toured the United States as a stage actor. His wife was Grazia "Grace" Vuolo. Vuolo was born in Gragnano, Campania, Italy, and died in Los Angeles, California. Partial filmography * 1941 ''Shadow of the Thin Man'' as Luis, Waiter Pushing Sea Bass (uncredited) * 1947 ''Out of the Blue (1947 film), Out of the Blue'' as Mario, Proprietor (uncredited) * 1947 ''The Web (film), The Web'' as Emilio Canepa * 1947 ''Kiss of Death (1947 film), Kiss of Death'' as Luigi (uncredited) * 1947 ''Mourning Becomes Electra (film), Mourning Becomes Electra'' as Joe Silva * 1947 ''The Bishop's Wife'' as Maggenti * 1947 ''Daisy Kenyon'' as Dino (uncredited) * 1947 ''T-Men'' as Pasquale, Hotel Proprietor (uncredited) * 1948 ''B.F.'s Daughter'' as Mario, Speakeasy Waiter (uncredited) * 1948 ''Mr. Blandings Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lawless Years
''The Lawless Years'' is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from April 16, 1959, to September 22, 1961. The series is the first of its kind, set during the Roaring 20s, having antedated American Broadcasting Company, ABC's far more successful ''The Untouchables (1959 TV series), The Untouchables'' by six months Cast Main * James Gregory (actor), James Gregory as Barney Ruditsky * Robert Karnes as Max Fields * John Dennis as Dutch Schultz * Norman Alden as Lulu * Brad Trumbull as Brody * John Vivyan as Louis Buchalter * Stanley Adams (actor), Stanley Adams as Gurrah * Carol Eve Rossen as Anna * Paul Richards (actor), Paul Richards as Louis 'Louy' Kassoff * Robert Ellenstein as Legs Diamond * Henry Corden as Wavey Gordon * Robert Sampson (actor), Robert Sampson as Mad Dog Coll Guest stars * Tige Andrews * Clegg Hoyt * Martin Landau * Ruta Lee * Vic Morrow * Warren Oates * Burt Reynolds * Harry Dean Stanton * Nita Talbot Episodes Season 1: Spring/Summer 1959 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fountainhead (film)
''The Fountainhead'' is a 1949 American black-and-white drama film produced by Henry Blanke, directed by King Vidor, and starring Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Robert Douglas and Kent Smith. The film is based on the bestselling 1943 novel of the same name by Ayn Rand, who also wrote the screenplay adaptation. Although Rand's screenplay was used with minimal alterations, she later criticized the editing, production design and acting. The story follows the life of the fictional character Howard Roark, an individualistic young architect who chooses to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision. Roark fights to design modern architecture despite resistance from the traditionally minded architectural establishment. Roark's complex relationships with the individuals who assist or hinder his progress allow the film to be both a romantic drama and a philosophical work. Roark represents Rand's embodiment of the human spirit, and his strugg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Caruso
''The Great Caruso'' is a 1951 biographical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Mario Lanza as Enrico Caruso. It was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Joe Pasternak with Jesse L. Lasky as associate producer from a screenplay by Sonya Levien and William Ludwig. The original music was by Johnny Green and the cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg. Costume design was by Helen Rose and Gile Steele. The film is a highly fictionalized biography of the life of Caruso. Cast The Opera Montage are Metropolitan Opera stars, notably sopranos Teresa Celli, Lucine Amara and Marina Koshetz, mezzo-soprano Blanche Thebom, baritone Giuseppe Valdengo and bass Nicola Moscona. Factual discrepancies Although the film follows the basic facts of Caruso's life, several of the characters and most of the incidents portrayed in the movie are entirely fictional. Members of the Caruso family in Italy successfully sued MGM for damages because of this. Here are a few of the many factual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up Front (film)
''Up Front'' is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Tom Ewell and David Wayne very loosely based on Bill Mauldin's World War II characters ''Willie and Joe''. Mauldin repudiated it and refused his advising fee; he claimed never to have seen it. It takes place during the Italian campaign (World War II), Italian Campaign of World War II. Plot Cast *David Wayne as Joe *Tom Ewell as Willie *Marina Berti as Emi Rosso *Jeffrey Lynn as Capt. Ralph Johnson *Richard Egan (actor), Richard Egan as Capa * Maurice Cavell as Vuaglio *Vaughn Taylor (actor), Vaughn Taylor as MP Maj. Lester * Silvio Minciotti as Poppa Rosso *Paul Harvey (actor), Paul Harvey as Col. Akeley * Roger De Koven as Sabatelli * Grazia Narciso as Signora Carvadossi * Tito Vuolo as Tarantino *Mickey Knox (actor), Mickey Knox as Driver * Hal Baylor as Smitty * John Doucette as Walsh * William Frambes as Rogers * Henry Rowland (actor), Henry Rowland as Kr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Enforcer (1951 Film)
''The Enforcer'' (aka ''Murder, Inc.'' in the United Kingdom) is a 1951 American film noir co-directed by Bretaigne Windust and an uncredited Raoul Walsh, who shot most of the film's suspenseful moments, including the ending. The production, largely a police procedural, stars Humphrey Bogart and is based on the Murder, Inc. trials. The supporting cast features Zero Mostel and Everett Sloane. Plot The action is set in an unnamed American city and is told mainly in flashback, and flashbacks within flashbacks. The Terrified Witness Under heavy police protection, gangster Joe Rico ( Ted de Corsia) arrives late at night at the courthouse to testify against crime lord Albert Mendoza (Everett Sloane). There have been several attempts on Rico's life and he is a bag of nerves, but lead prosecutor ADA Martin Ferguson (Humphrey Bogart) reminds him that he himself faces plenty of charges that could "burn you a dozen times". Ferguson is bound and determined to get Mendoza "in the electric ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mating Season (film)
''The Mating Season'' is a 1951 American comedy-drama romance film directed by Mitchell Leisen, and produced by Charles Brackett from a screenplay by Charles Brackett, Richard Breen, and Walter Reisch, based on the play ''Maggie'' by Caesar Dunn. The ensemble cast stars Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins, and Thelma Ritter. Plot Ellen McNulty (Thelma Ritter) gives up her hamburger stand in New Jersey when the bank calls in her loan, and goes to visit her son Val (John Lund) in Ohio. Val has recently married a socialite, Maggie (Gene Tierney). To help Maggie put on a dinner party, Val has an employment service send a cook; Ellen arrives first, and Maggie mistakes her for the cook. Ellen, to avoid embarrassing Maggie, does not correct her. After the party, Val follows her home, and persuades her to move in with them. The next morning, Ellen arrives with her things, and continues the deception, explaining to Val that a mother-in-law in the house would only cause friction. Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Cheated Himself
''The Man Who Cheated Himself'' is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Felix E. Feist and starring Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt and John Dall. Plot Wealthy socialite Lois Frazer, divorcing her fortune-hunter husband, Howard, finds a gun he had bought. She kills him with it in front of the new man in her life, Lt. Ed Cullen, a homicide detective with the San Francisco police. Cullen takes control, discarding the weapon and moving the body. Cullen ends up assigned to investigate the case, assisted by kid brother Andy, who is new to the homicide division and delays the honeymoon to keep working on his first big case. The gun is found and used in another killing by a young punk, Nito Capa, and Cullen—with few options to save himself and his paramour Lois—tries to pin both crimes on him. However, Andy keeps connecting Ed to the first murder, catching him in a number of evasions and lies. In desperation, Ed knocks Andy out, ties and gags him, and calls Lois and tells her they ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southside 1-1000
''Southside 1-1000'' is a 1950 semidocumentary-style film noir directed by Boris Ingster featuring Don DeFore, Andrea King, George Tobias and Gerald Mohr as the off-screen narrator. It is about a Secret Service agent (Don DeFore) who goes undercover and moves into a hotel run by a beautiful female manager (Andrea King), so that he can investigate a counterfeiting ring. The agent is up against hardened felons such as the gang member played by George Tobias, an unusual example of casting against type for the typically comic actor. It is one of Ingster's two film noirs, the other being '' Stranger on the Third Floor'' (1940), which is considered the first noir film. Plot Based on a true story, the US Secret Service searches for a gang of counterfeiters, whose brilliant engraver Eugene Deane (Morris Ankrum) has secretly made his plates while in San Quentin prison on a life sentence, and had them smuggled out by a priest tricked into serving as a mule. The film starts as documentary-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deported (film)
''Deported'' is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Märta Torén and Jeff Chandler. Plot An American gangster deported back to his native to Italy woos a countess in a plot to bring loot into the country. Cast * Märta Torén as the Countess di Lorenzi * Jeff Chandler as Vittorio Mario Sparducci alias "Vic Smith" * Claude Dauphin as Bucelli * Marina Berti as Gina * Richard Rober as Bemardo Gervaso * Silvio Mindotti as Armando Sparducci * Carlo Rizzo as Guido Caruso * Mimi Aguglia as Teresa Sparducci * Adriano Ambrogi as Father Genaro * Michael Tor as Ernesto Pampilone * Erminio Spalla as Benjamino Barda * Dino Nardi as Donadi * Guido Celano as Aldo Brescia * Tito Vuolo as Postal clerk Production The film was originally titled ''Paradise Lost '49'' and was to star Dana Andrews, who had appeared in ''Sword in the Desert'', also produced by Robert Buckner, Andrews became unavailable and Victor Mature and John Garfield were discussed as possibl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Between Midnight And Dawn
''Between Midnight and Dawn'' is a 1950 American film noir crime film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien and Gale Storm.. Plot Childhood friends Rocky Barnes (Stevens) and Dan Purvis (O'Brien) are Los Angeles prowl car cops on night duty. Barnes is easygoing while Purvis is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum. Both men are attracted to radio communicator Kate Mallory (Storm) but she is reluctant to get involved with policemen, her cop father having been killed in the line of duty. One night Rocky and Dan arrest murderous racketeer Ritchie Garris (Buka) but he escapes and swears vengeance. In a thrill-packed climax, Garris makes a desperate escape using a little kid as a shield. After Garris' girlfriend (Robbins) is killed stepping in front of his gun, Purvis shoots Garris. Cast * Mark Stevens as Rocky Barnes * Edmond O'Brien as Daniel Purvis * Gale Storm as Katherine Mallory * Donald Buka as Ritchie Garris * Gale Robbins as Terry Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Petty Girl
''The Petty Girl'' (1950), known in the UK as ''Girl of the Year'', is a musical romantic comedy Technicolor film starring Robert Cummings and Joan Caulfield. Cummings portrays painter George Petty who falls for Victoria Braymore (Caulfield), the youngest professor at Braymore College who eventually becomes "The Petty Girl". Plot In New York City, George Petty (Robert Cummings) tries to convince car manufacturer B. J. Manton to use pretty women to help advertise his dreary new car model. He is not succeeding when Manton's daughter, the often-married Mrs. Connie Manton Dezlow (Audrey Long), interrupts the business meeting, takes a liking to the handsome young artist, and makes herself his patron. Soon, she has furnished him with a lavish apartment, complete with a butler named Beardsley (Melville Cooper). She also talks him into abandoning his cheesecake paintings in favor of more respectable portraits. Meanwhile, Victoria Braymore (Joan Caulfield), the youngest professor at Bray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everybody Does It
''Everybody Does It'' is a 1949 comedy film starring Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell and Celeste Holm. In the film, a businessman's wife tries to become an opera star, failing miserably due to her lack of talent. When it turns out that her totally untrained husband is found to have a marvelous singing voice and goes on tour under an assumed name, his wife is livid.. Darnell sings long stretches of an imaginary opera, ''L'Amore di Fatima.'' The music for it was written by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. In a little tongue-in-cheek detail, the poster for the opera lists Tedesco – who wrote real operas — as the composer. To add to the illusion of the opera's authenticity, Douglas also sings some known songs, including a musical setting of the Rudyard Kipling poem ''Mandalay'' and the ''Toreador Song'' from ''Carmen.'' The operatic scenes were staged by Vladimir Rosing. The film is a word-for-word remake of 1939's ''Wife, Husband and Friend'', which starred Warner Baxter as Borl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
