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The Castiglioni Brothers
''The Castiglioni Brothers'' (Italian: ''I fratelli Castiglioni'') is a 1937 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Corrado D'Errico and starring Camillo Pilotto, Ugo Ceseri and Amedeo Nazzari. It was based on a play of the same title by Alberto Colantuoni. The film's sets were designed by the art director Guido Fiorini. Nazzari, who would go on to be the leading star of Italian cinema over the next two decades, was previously given a screen test by D'Errico who was dismissive of his talents.Gundle p.186-87 Cast * Camillo Pilotto as Mario Castiglioni * Ugo Ceseri as Ismaele Castiglioni * Amedeo Nazzari as Fulvio Castiglioni * Armando Migliari as Armando Castiglioni * Luisa Ferida as Ninetta * Olga Capri as Eusebia * Silvio Bagolini as Valerio * Vanna Vanni as Gisa * Checco Durante as L'oste * Enrico Viarisio as Avvocato De Ambrosio * Raffaello Niccoli as Il notaio Giudi * Claudio Ermelli as L'usciere * Dina Perbellini Dina Perbellini (14 January, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corrado D'Errico
Corrado D'Errico (1902–1941) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. D'Errico was one of a number of directors in the Fascist era to graduate from the Instituto Luce.Brunetta p.76 Selected filmography Director * '' Golden Arrow'' (1935) * '' The Castiglioni Brothers'' (1937) * '' All of Life in One Night'' (1938) * '' Star of the Sea'' (1938) * ''Diamonds'' (1939) * ''Trial and Death of Socrates'' (1939) * '' Captain Tempest'' (1942) * '' The Lion of Damascus'' (1942) Screenwriter * ''Rails'' (1929) * ''Aldebaran'' (1937) * ''The Faceless Voice ''The Faceless Voice'' (French: ''La voix sans visage'') is a 1933 French drama film directed by Leo Mittler and starring Lucien Muratore, Véra Korène and Jean Servais.Oscherwitz & Higgins p. 281 Plot The singer Saltore is accused of murder ...'' (1939) References Bibliography * Brunetta, Gian Piero. ''The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century''. Prince ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisa Ferida
Luisa Ferida, real surname Manfrini, (18 March 1914 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian stage and film actress. She was one of divas in Italian cinema during decade 1935-1945 and she was the highest paid movie star of that period. The actress was famous as a films diva and she is remembered for her tragic death; in fact during the period of anti-fascist vendettas, immediately after Italian Civil War, she was assassinated, as was later proved by the Milan Court of Appeal, by shooting following a summary trial carried out by some criminal partisans: she was shot with her lover, the actor and member of Decima Flottiglia MAS Osvaldo Valenti, as accused of alleged and hypothetical participation in war crimes and torture in connection with so-called Koch gang, facts of which she was then deemed innocent after the war. Therefore a war pension was allocated to the mother, who had no other source of income. Career Born Luisa Manfrini Farnet in Castel San Pietro Terme, near Bologna, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930s Italian-language Films
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1937 Comedy Films
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Italian Black-and-white Films
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Italian Comedy Films
Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Italian, regional variants of the Italian language ** Languages of Italy, languages and dialects spoken in Italy ** Italian culture, cultural features of Italy ** Italian cuisine, traditional foods ** Folklore of Italy, the folklore and urban legends of Italy ** Mythology of Italy, traditional religion and beliefs Other uses * Italian dressing, a vinaigrette-type salad dressing or marinade * Italian or Italian-A, alternative names for the Ping-Pong virus, an extinct computer virus See also * * * Italia (other) * Italic (other) * Italo (other) * The Italian (other) * Italian people (other) Italian people may refer to: * in terms of ethnicity: all ethnic Italians, in and outside of Italy * i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Films
The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first American full-length animated film, ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1937 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 29 – ''The Good Earth'' premieres in the U.S. * April 16 – '' Way Out West'' premieres in the US. * May 7 – ''Shall We Dance'' premieres in the US. * May 11 – ''Captains Courageous'' premieres in New York. The film is released nationwide on June 25. * Monogram Pictures, who had merged with Republic Pictures two years earlier, decide to separate and distribute their own films again. * June 7 – Jean Harlow, one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the decade, dies aged 26 at Good Samaratan Hospital in Los Angeles. The official cause of death is listed as cerebral edema, a complication of kidney failure. * June 11 – '' A Day at the Races'' premieres in the U.S. * July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina Perbellini
Dina Perbellini (14 January, 1901–2 April, 1984) was an Italian actress. She appeared in over sixty films and television series between 1934 and 1969 and was also a leading voice actress, dubbing foreign films for release in Italy. She made her film debut in the 1934 school comedy ''Seconda B''.Reich & Garofalo p.154 Partial filmography * ''Seconda B'' (1934) - Professorina Vanni * '' Three Cornered Hat'' (1935) - Donna Dolores, moglie del governatore * ''Le scarpe al sole'' (1935) - La moglie di Bepo * ''Ginevra degli Almieri'' (1936) * ''Amore'' (1936) - Luisa * ''The Castiglioni Brothers'' (1937) - Berta * '' It Was I!'' (1937) - Signora in villeggiatura * ''The Last Days of Pompeo'' (1937) * ''Il conte di Brechard'' (1938) * ''La sposa dei re'' (1938) - La signora Clary * ''Crispino e la comare'' (1938) - La comare * ''The Marquis of Ruvolito'' (1939) - La contessa Scoperlati * ''Il barone di Corbò'' (1939) - Didone * ''Mad Animals'' (1939) - La direttrice dell'ospedale de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudio Ermelli
Claudio Ermelli (24 July 1892 – 29 October 1964) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1915 to 1962. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ermelli, Claudio 1892 births 1964 deaths Actors from Turin Italian male film actors 20th-century Italian male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaello Niccoli
Raffaello, Raffaele or Raffaellino is an Italian given name. It usually refers to Raphael (a.k.a. Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino), an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. Raffaello may also refer to: * Raffaello (confection), a confection * ''Raffaello'' MPLM, one of the three Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules used to transfer supplies to the International Space Station * SS Raffaello, an Italian ocean liner People People with the given name Raffaello or Raffaellino include: *Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer *Raffaello Ducceschi, Italian race walker * Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary *Raffaello Funghini, Italian catholic clergyman *Raffaello Gestro, Italian entomologist *Raffaello Maffei, Italian humanist, historian and theologian *Raffaello Matarazzo, Italian film-maker *Raffaello da Montelupo, sculptor and architect of the Italian Renaissance *Raffaello Sanzio Morghen, Italian engraver *Raffaello Vanni, Italian painter of the Baroque *Raffaellino del Colle *Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Viarisio
Enrico Viarisio (3 December 1897 – 1 November 1967) was an Italian theatre and cinema actor. Biography Equipped of a fine and elegant humour, Viarisio was discovered by actress Paola Pezzaglia Paolina Pezzaglia Greco (13 September 1886 – 17 December 1925) was an Italian theatre and film actress. Early life Pezzaglia was the only daughter of the VIP hair-stylist Gerolamo Pezzaglia (1854–1899) and Adelinda Monti (1854– ..., who cast him at 19 as "brillante" in her own theatre company. Mario Ferrigni (diretti da), ''Annali del teatro italiano, Volume Secondo, 1921-1923'', Milano, ed. Amedeo Nicola & C., 1923. His career continued with the role of ''amoroso'' or male lover in the Carini-Gentili-Betrone theatre company, then passed to Talli-Melato-Betrone, Antonio Gandusio, Dyne Galli, and Nino Besozzi, and the Merlini-Cialente-Bagni company. To raise the company's small profits, Viarisio became the repertory comedian. Bourgeois audiences appreciated Viarisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Checco Durante
Francesco "Checco" Durante (19 November 1893 – 5 January 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 59 films between 1931 and 1973. He was born and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * '' The Doctor in Spite of Himself'' (1931) * ''The Amnesiac'' (1936) - L'allenatore Marinoni * ''The Ferocious Saladin'' (1937) - Direttore del Teatro Vittoria * ''The Castiglioni Brothers'' (1937) - L'oste * ''I due barbieri'' (1937) * ''The Black Corsair'' (1938) - Carmeau - Korsar * ''Duetto vagabondo'' (1939) * ''Il piccolo re'' (1939) * ''La scuola dei timidi'' (1941) * ''Perdizione'' (1942) - Il padrone dell'autorimessa * ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1942) - Il commendator Biondelli * ''Don Juan'' (1942) * ''Signorinette'' (1942) - Il padre di Iris * ''Il treno crociato'' (1943) - Il capo cuoco (uncredited) * ''L'innocente Casimiro'' (1945) * ''Down with Misery'' (1945) - Il fattorino del radiogrammofono * ''The Sun Still Rises'' (1946) * ''Peddlin' in Society'' (1946) - Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
