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The Old Lady
''The Old Lady'' ( it, La vecchia signora) is a 1932 Italian comedy film directed by Amleto Palermi. It features Vittorio De Sica in his first sound film. Cast * Emma Gramatica as Maria * Nella Maria Bonora as Bianchina * Maurizio D'Ancora as Fausto * Armando Falconi as Zaganello * Memo Benassi as Lenticcio * Maria Della Lunga Mandarelli * Vittorio De Sica * Anna Maria Dossena as Bianca La Nipotina * Camillo Pilotto * Lydia Simoneschi Lydia Simoneschi (4 April 1908 – 5 September 1981) was an Italian actress and voice actress. During her career, she gave her voice to actresses mainly during the Golden Ages. Biography Born in Rome and the daughter of silent film actor and dir ... References External links * 1932 films 1932 comedy films Italian comedy films 1930s Italian-language films Italian black-and-white films Films directed by Amleto Palermi 1930s Italian films {{1930s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amleto Palermi
Amleto Palermi (11 July 1889 – 20 April 1941) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 70 films between 1914 and 1942. He directed '' The Old Lady'', which starred Vittorio De Sica in his first sound film. Selected filmography * '' The Story of a Poor Young Man'' (1920) * '' A Woman's Story'' (1920) * '' The Second Wife'' (1922) * ''La dama de Chez Maxim's'' (1923) * ''The Last Days of Pompeii'' (1926) * '' The Flight in the Night'' (1926) * '' Floretta and Patapon'' (1927) * '' The Confessions of a Woman'' (1928) * '' The Old Lady'' (1932) * '' Zaganella and the Cavalier'' (1932) * '' La segretaria per tutti'' (1933) *''Nini Falpala'' (1933) * ''Port'' (1934) * ''Creatures of the Night'' (1934) * ''The Matchmaker'' (1934) * '' God's Will Be Done'' (1936) * ''Il signor Max'' (1937) * '' To Live'' (1937) * ''The Two Misanthropists'' (1937) * ''The Black Corsair'' (1937) * ''Naples of Olden Times ''Naples of Olden Times'' (Italy: ''Napoli d'alt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Maria Dossena
Anna Maria Dossena (1912–1990) was an Italian stage and film actress.Walman p.162 Selected filmography * ''Television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...'' (1931) * '' The Old Lady'' (1932) *'' Music in the Square'' (1936) * '' We Were Seven Sisters'' (1939) * '' We Were Seven Widows'' (1939) * '' Empty Eyes'' (1953) * '' Il bambino e il poliziotto'' (1989) References Bibliography * Waldman, Harry. ''Missing Reels: Lost Films of American and European Cinema''. McFarland, 2000. External links * 1912 births 1990 deaths Italian stage actresses Italian film actresses {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Black-and-white Films
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1930s Italian-language Films
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era A calendar era is the period of time elapsed since one ''epoch'' of a calendar and, if it exists, before the next one. For example, it is the year as per the Gregorian calendar, which numbers its years in the Western Christian era (the Coptic ... became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Pertinax, Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Comedy Films
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1932 Comedy Films
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 Films
The following is an overview of 1932 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1932 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events The Film Daily Yearbook listed the following as the ten leading headline events of the year. * Sidney Kent leaves Paramount Pictures and joins Fox Film. * Merlin H Aylesworth succeeds Hiram S Brown as president of RKO. * Jesse L. Lasky leaves Paramount and becomes an independent producer for Fox. * Sam Katz leaves Paramount. * James R Grainger leaves Fox and is succeeded by John D Clark, formerly of Paramount. * Publix and Fox decentralization of cinemas. * New industry program, including standard exhibition contract along lines of 5-5-5, proposed by Motion Picture Theater Owners of America and Allied. * Joe Brandt retires from Columbia Pictures joins World-Wide and later resigns again. * Two Radio City theaters open, under dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydia Simoneschi
Lydia Simoneschi (4 April 1908 – 5 September 1981) was an Italian actress and voice actress. During her career, she gave her voice to actresses mainly during the Golden Ages. Biography Born in Rome and the daughter of silent film actor and director Carlo Simoneschi, she began her acting career when she was very young in Camillo Pilotto's stage company; in the early 1930s she made her film debut, but her inconspicuous physical appearance did not help her in front of the camera. However, her persuasive, passionate and sophisticated voice paved the way for her to become a voice actress. From the early 1940s until the first half of the 1960s, Simoneschi became one of the most prominent Italian voice actresses, lending her voice to almost all the greatest Hollywood and European divas which include Barbara Stanwyck, Susan Hayward, Ingrid Bergman, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Olivia de Havilland, Vivien Leigh and Maureen O'Hara. One of Simoneschi's main skills was that of bei ... [...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] |
Memo Benassi
Domenico "Memo" Benassi (21 June 1886 – 24 February 1957) was an Italian film actor who appeared in more than forty films in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He played the composer Beethoven in the 1942 film '' Rossini''.Mathew & Walton p.337 Selected filmography * ''Notte di tempesta'' (1916) * ''Mimì e gli straccioni'' (1916) * ''Il gioiello sinistro'' (1917) * ''La nemica'' (1917) * ''Margheritella'' (1918) * ''La scala di seta'' (1920) * ''The Love Letters of Baroness S'' (1924) - Straßenmusikant Giovanni * ''The Adventures of Sybil Brent'' (1925) - Theo Hartwig, Schriftsteller * ''The Old Lady'' (1932) - Joe * '' The Lucky Diamond'' (1933) - Il maggiordomo * ''Il trattato scomparso'' (1933) - John Brown - detective * ''The Haller Case'' (1933) - Judge Haller * ''L'impiegata di papà'' (1934) - Banchiere Monti * ''Everybody's Woman'' (1934) - Leonardo Nanni * ''Conquest of the Air'' (1936) - Francesco Lama di Brescia (uncredited) * '' Lady of Paradise'' (1937) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Gramatica
Emma Gramatica (born Aida Laura Argia Gramatica; 25 October 1874 – 8 November 1965) was an Italian stage and film actress. She appeared in 29 films between 1919 and 1962. She was born in Borgo San Donnino, today Fidenza, Province of Parma and died in Ostia. Her sisters Irma and Anna Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 12 ... were also actresses. Filmography References External links * * * 1874 births 1965 deaths People from Fidenza Italian stage actresses Italian film actresses 20th-century Italian actresses {{Italy-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armando Falconi
Armando Falconi (1871–1954) was an Italian stage and film actor who appeared in more than forty films during his career. He played the lead in the 1931 comedy '' The Charmer''.Landy p.63-65 Life and career Born in Rome, Falconi was the son of two Neapolitan stage actors. His elder brother Arturo Falconi also became an actor. He first worked as an employee and an officer before starting to work as a professional actor in the late 1890s. In 1901 he married the actress Tina Di Lorenzo, with whom he often teamed up on stage. Following several national and foreign tours, in 1912 he founded the Stable Company of the Manzoni Theatre in Milan. Following the retirement of his wife in 1920, he directed the company Compagnia Comoedia, and headed in a number of other companies, notably having a remarkable success with the musical comedy ''Wunder Bar''. After having appeared in some silent films between 1915 and 1918, in the 1930s Falconi intensified his cinema activities, starring in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
