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The Adventuress From The Floor Above
''The Adventuress from the Floor Above'' (Italian: ''L'avventuriera del piano di sopra'') is a 1941 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Vittorio De Sica, Clara Calamai and Giuditta Rissone. It was made at the Palatino Studios in Rome. The film was part of the popular White Telephone genre of comedies.Moliterno p.58 Synopsis When his wife goes away to attend her sister's wedding, the young lawyer Fabrizio Marchini expects a quiet time at home. However that evening, a woman bursts into his apartment and demands refuge, claiming that her angry husband Signor Rossi is searching for her. He shelters her when the abrasive Rossi, who rents the apartment above, enters and demands to search the place. Once he is gone, she spends the night in his bed while he sleeps on the sofa. In the morning, however he discovers that both she and his wife's valuable pearl necklace have disappeared. With the assistance of a friend he attempts to track her do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaello Matarazzo
Raffaello Matarazzo (17 August 1909 – 17 May 1966) was an Italian filmmaker. Life Matarazzo started writing film reviews for the Roman newspaper ''Il Tevere'' before re-editing scripts for the Italian film company Cines. His first films were comedies until he shifted to making melodramas. With '' Catene'', produced by Titanus in 1949, he became the most successful director in Italy. Audience loved his melodramas. Critics, however, have tended to disparage his work, saying that Matarazzo films were ''Neorealismo d'appendice'' (neorealism wannabe). Since the 1970s, some film critics have tried to restore Matarazzo's reputation. French magazine '' Positif'' loved his erotic-historical peplum '' Ship of Lost Women''. Filmography * '' The Telephone Operator'' (1932) * ''Littoria'' (1933) * '' Fanny'' (1933) * ''Tourist Train'' (1933) * ''Unripe Fruit'' (1934) * '' Kiki'' (1934) * '' The Serpent's Fang'' (''Il serpente a sonagli'') (1935) * ''Joe the Red'' (1936) * '' The Amb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Telephone
''Telefoni Bianchi'' (; white telephones) films, also called deco films, were made by Italian film industry in the 1930s and the 1940s in imitation of American comedies of the time in a sharp contrast to the other important style of the era, calligrafismo, which was highly artistic. The cinema of ''Telefoni Bianchi'' was born from the success of the Italian film comedy of the early 1930s; it was a lighter version, cleansed of any intellectualism or veiled social criticism. Name The name derives from the presence of white telephones in the sequences of the first films produced in this period, symptomatic of social well-being, a status symbol capable of marking the difference from the "popular" bakelite telephones, cheaper and therefore more widespread, which instead were black. Another definition given to these films is "deco cinema" due to the strong presence of furnishing objects that recall the international deco style, in vogue in those years. Origins The roots of the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Comedy Films
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Italian Comedy Films
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1941 Films
The year 1941 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, '' Citizen Kane''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1941 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January 17 ''Gone with the Wind'' goes into general release after touring in a roadshow version during 1940. Becoming a cultural phenomenon, it sells an estimated 60 million tickets this year alone. Adjusted for inflation with numerous rereleases, it remains the highest grossing domestic film of all time with $1.8 billion. *March 24 - Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie '' Sun Valley Serenade'' for Twentieth Century Fox *May 1 – '' Citizen Kane'', consistently rated as one of the greatest films of all time, is released. *July 2 – '' Sergeant York'', the film biopic of World War I hero Alvin C. York, starring Gary Cooper in the title role, premieres in New York City. It is the highest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina Romano
Dina Romano (born Geltrude Ricci; 16 February 1876 – 7 November 1957) was an Italian stage and film actress. She appeared in more than fifty films during her career including ''The Materassi Sisters'' (1944).Landy p.285 Selected filmography * ''Aldebaran'' (1935) * ''The Ancestor'' (1936) * '' God's Will Be Done'' (1936) * ''Adam's Tree'' (1936) * ''But It's Nothing Serious'' (1936) * '' The Three Wishes'' (1937) * ''The Two Mothers'' (1938) * ''A Thousand Lire a Month'' (1939) * ''Marionette'' (1939) * ''Saint John, the Beheaded'' (1940) * ''First Love'' (1941) * ''The Adventuress from the Floor Above'' (1941) * '' The Brambilla Family Go on Holiday'' (1941) * ''A Garibaldian in the Convent'' (1942) * ''Fedora'' (1942) * ''The Materassi Sisters'' (1944) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1947) * ''The Flame That Will Not Die'' (1949) * ''Love and Blood'' (1951) * ''Shadows Over Naples ''Shadows Over Naples'' (german: Schatten über Neapel) is a 1951 German-Italian crime film directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giselda Gasperini
Giselda is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Giselda Leirner (born 1928), Brazilian writer, illustrator, and artist *Giselda Volodi (born 1959), Italian actress *Giselda Zani Giselda Zani (1909 in Italy – 1975 in Argentina) was a Uruguayan poet, short story writer and art critic of Italian origin. A member of the ''Generación del 45'', she had a career as a journalist and diplomat in Buenos Aires in Argentina. Works ... (1909–1975), Uruguayan poet, short story writer, and art critic See also * Griselda {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto Almirante
Ernesto Almirante (24 September 1877 – 13 December 1964) was an Italian film and stage actor. Life and career Born in Mistretta into a family of actors, Almirante worked several years on stage along his father Nunzio. He was also active as agent and organizer of several stage companies. After an occasional film role in the 1919 mute film ''Federica d'Illirio'', starting from mid-1930s Almirante became one of the most active character actors of his time. In 1955 he retired from acting and moved into a retirement home for actors in Bologna. He was the uncle of politician Giorgio Almirante. Partial filmography * ''Federica d'Illiria'' (1919) * ''Red Passport'' (1935) - L'addetto di passaporto clandestini * ''At Your Orders, Madame'' (1939) - Lorot, l'impiegato del notaio * ''We Were Seven Widows'' (1939) - L'anziano capitano della nave * ''Defendant, Stand Up!'' (1939) - André Copersche, il presidente del tribunal * ''La mia canzone al vento'' (1939) * ''The Document'' (193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Campanini
Carlo Campanini (5 October 1906 – 20 November 1984), was an Italian actor, singer and comedian. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1939 and 1969. Life and career Born in Turin, Campanini attended a technical school and a course of singing, then he started his career at nineteen entering the company of prose Casaleggio, with whom he toured six months in Argentina. In the following years Campanini was cast as singer-comedian and even as a tenor in a number of revue and operetta companies. In 1936 he became the leading actor in the company of Vivienne D'Arys, in which he successfully teamed with Carlo Dapporto. He made his film debut in 1939, in '' Lo vedi come sei... lo vedi come sei?'' alongside Macario, then he soon became a very usual presence in comedy films, in roles of sidekick or as a character actor. In 1945 he had his only film leading role, in the critically appreciated Mario Soldati's drama '' Le miserie del signor Travet''. Since 1950, starting from the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camillo Pilotto
Camillo Pilotto (6 February 1888 Birth name: Camillo Raul Vittorio Pilotto. – 27 May 1963) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 101 films between 1916 and 1963. He was born and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''The Song of Love'' (1930) * ''The Old Lady'' (1932) * ''Five to Nil'' (1932) * '' The Telephone Operator'' (1932) * ''Three Lucky Fools'' (1933) * ''The Haller Case'' (1933) * ''La segretaria per tutti'' (1933) * ''Port'' (1934) * ''The Matchmaker'' (1934) * '' Full Speed'' (1934) * ''Sette giorni all'altro mondo'' (1936) * '' The Great Appeal'' (1936) * ''The Anonymous Roylott'' (1936) * '' Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal'' (1937) * ''The Last Days of Pompeo'' (1937) * '' The Make Believe Pirates'' (1937) * '' The Three Wishes'' (1937) * ''The Two Misanthropists'' (1937) *''The Castiglioni Brothers'', (1937) * ''Pietro Micca'' (1938) * ''Giuseppe Verdi'' (1938) * '' All of Life in One Night'' (1938) * ''The Count of Brechard'' (1938) * ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pearl
A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate (mainly aragonite or a mixture of aragonite and calcite) in minute crystalline form, which has deposited in concentric layers. The ideal pearl is perfectly round and smooth, but many other shapes, known as baroque pearls, can occur. The finest quality of natural pearls have been highly valued as gemstones and objects of beauty for many centuries. Because of this, ''pearl'' has become a metaphor for something rare, fine, admirable and valuable. The most valuable pearls occur spontaneously in the wild, but are extremely rare. These wild pearls are referred to as ''natural'' pearls. ''Cultured'' or ''farmed'' pearls from pearl oysters and freshwater mussels make up the majority of those currently sold. Imitation pearls are also widely s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
