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Torna!
''Torna!'' (i.e. "Come Back!") is a 1953 Italian melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Yvonne Sanson. Plot Cast *Amedeo Nazzari as Roberto Varesi *Yvonne Sanson as Susanna *Franco Fabrizi as Giacomo Marini * Enrica Dyrell as Viviana * Giovanna Scotto as Antonia * Liliana Gerace as Luisa * Maria Grazia Sandri as Lidia *Teresa Franchini as Reverend Mother *Olinto Cristina as Attorney *Rita Livesi as Governess * Giulio Tomasini as Vittorio * Giorgio Capecchi as Lawyer Antonio Mezzara *Nino Marchesini Nino Marchesini (1895 – 13 January 1961) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1931 to 1961. Filmography References External links * 1895 births 1961 deaths Italian male film actors {{Italy-film- ... as Notary References External links * Italian drama films 1953 drama films 1953 films Films directed by Raffaello Matarazzo Melodrama films 1950s Italian films {{195 ... [...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] |
Franco Fabrizi
Franco Fabrizi (; 15 February 1916 – 18 October 1995) was an Italian actor. Life and career Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, Franco Fabrizi started his career as a model and an actor in fotoromanzi. Fabrizi also starred on several revues and stage works, then he debuted on the big screen with a supporting role in ''Chronicle of a Love'' (''Cronaca di un amore'') (1950), Michelangelo Antonioni's long film debut. The role that made him known was as Fausto in Federico Fellini's '' I vitelloni''; from then he was inextricably linked to the character of a full-time seducer, a young wastrel, a young not-so-young man who refuses to grow up, a character that he reprised, with different facets, in a great number of films. Past the 1950s, Fabrizi was mainly relegated to character roles in Italian, French and Spanish minor productions; he still appeared on several major works of Italian cinema, and one of his last great roles was in Luchino Visconti's ''Death in Venice''. In 1993 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Marchesini
Nino Marchesini (1895 – 13 January 1961) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1931 to 1961. Filmography References External links * 1895 births 1961 deaths Italian male film actors {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Livesi
Rita Livesi (born 1915) is an Italian stage and film actress. She is known for Amore amaro (1974), Il berretto a sonagli (1985) and La ragazza del vagone letto (1979). Selected filmography * ''Cavalry'' (1936) * ''Adam's Tree'' (1936) * ''The Former Mattia Pascal'' (1937) * '' The Man from Nowhere'' (1937) * ''The Lady in White ''The Lady in White'' (Italian: ''La dama bianca'') is a 1938 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Elsa Merlini, Nino Besozzi and Enrico Viarisio.Clarke & Doel p.37 The film's sets were designed by the a ...'' (1938) * '' Special Correspondents'' (1943) * '' The Children Are Watching Us'' (1944) * '' Torment'' (1950) * '' Nobody's Children'' (1951) * '' Who is Without Sin'' (1952) * '' Lieutenant Giorgio'' (1952) * '' La voce del sangue'' (1952) * '' Torna!'' (1953) * '' High School'' (1954) * '' Desperate Farewell'' (1955) References External links * Italian film actresses Italian stage actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olinto Cristina
Olinto Cristina (5 February 1888 – 17 June 1962) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Florence to actors Raffaello Cristina and Cesira Sabatini, Cristina began acting on stage as a child. His sisters Ines Cristina Zacconi, Jone Frigerio and Ada Cristina Almirante were also actresses. His sister Ines was the mother of actress Margherita Bagni and the grandmother of actress Nora Ricci, she married secondly Ermete Zacconi. On screen, he appeared in more than 75 films between 1932 and 1957. He also was a renowned dubber in Italian post-synchronized versions of foreign films, providing his voice for actors such as C. Aubrey Smith, Sig Ruman, Frank Morgan or Lionel Barrymore. As far as animated films are concerned, he dubbed Doc in '' Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', Friend Owl in ''Bambi'' and others. Selected filmography * '' Pergolesi'' (1932) * '' Creatures of the Night'' (1934) * ''The Joker King'' (1935) * '' A Woman Between Two Worlds'' (1936) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Franchini
Teresa Franchini (19 September 1877 – 11 August 1972) was an Italian stage and film actress. She was a leading lady of the theatre in her youth, appearing in the first Italian staging of Oscar Wilde's ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' in 1905. Beginning in 1935, she played supporting roles in around twenty films. Biography Teresa Franchini was born on 19 September 1877 in Torre Pedrera di Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1942), ''Tormento'' (1950), and ''Chains'' (1949). She was married to Mario Fumagalli (1904-1936). She died on 11 August 1972 in Sant'Arcangelo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna. Selected filmography * ''Lorenzino de' Medici'' (1935) * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1942) * ''Street of the Five Moons'' (1942) * ''Souls in Turmoil'' (1942) * ''Rita of Cascia'' (1943) * ''Chains'' (1949) * ''Torment'' (1950) * '' Nobody's Children'' (1951) * '' Who is Without Sin'' (1952) * ''Lieutenant Giorgio'' (1952) * ''Torna!'' (1953) * ''Sins of Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Cozzoli
Michele Cozzoli (3 May 1915 – 31 August 1961) was an Italian composer, conductor and arranger. Biography Born in Naples, Cozzoli studied piano and violin under the composer Raffaele Caravaglios. After the military service, he made his professional debut as a conductor, before focusing into composing and arranging music for films and revues.Riccardo Giagni. "Cozzoli, Michele". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. Cozzoli was also a songwriter, and some of his compositions participated to the Festival di Napoli and to the Sanremo Music Festival. Selected filmography * ''Falsehood (1952 film), Falsehood'' (1952) * ''Torna!'' (1953) * ''The White Angel (1955 film), The White Angel'' (1955) * ''Sunset in Naples'' (1955) * ''Sangue di zingara'' (1956) * ''Mermaid of Naples'' (1956) * ''Serenata a Maria'' (1957) * ''Oh! Sabella'' (1957) * ''Il Conte di Matera'' (1957) * ''Cavalier in Devil's Castle'' (1959) * ''World of Miracles'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvonne Sanson
Yvonne Sanson ( el, Υβόν Σανσόν; 29 August 1925 – 23 July 2003) was a Greek- Italian film actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1946 and 1972, mainly working in Italy. Born in Thessaloniki, Sanson was a naturalised Italian citizen and was maternally of Greek origin and paternally of French-Russian origin. Partial filmography * '' The Black Eagle'' (1946) - Una ragazza alla festa * '' The Great Dawn'' (1947) - Daisy * '' Flesh Will Surrender'' (1947) - Ginevra Canale * '' The Mysterious Rider'' (1948) - L'imperatrice Caterina II di Russia * '' Alarm Bells'' (1949) - Australia * '' The Emperor of Capri'' (1949) - Sonia Bulgarov * '' Torment'' (1950) - Anna Ferrari * Cintura di castità (1950) * ''Chains'' (1950) - Rosa Carrisi * '' The Elusive Twelve'' (1950) - Herself * '' Nobody's Children'' (1951) - Luisa Fanti / Sister Addolorata * ''The Overcoat'' (1952) - Caterina * '' Are We All Murderers?'' (1952) - Yvonne Le Guen (version italienne) * ''The Shameless ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amedeo Nazzari
Amedeo Nazzari (10 December 1907 in Cagliari – 5 November 1979 in Rome) was an Italian actor. Nazzari was one of the leading figures of Italian classic cinema, often considered a local variant of the Australian–American star Errol Flynn. Although he emerged as a star during the Fascist era, Nazzari's popularity continued well into the post-war years. Early career Amedeo Nazzari was born as Amedeo Carlo Leone Buffa in Cagliari, Sardinia, in 1907 and he later adopted as his professional name the name of his maternal grandfather, Amedeo Nazzari, a magistrate who had been the president of the Court of Appeal of Vicenza in Veneto and later took the same position in Cagliari. Although Amedeo eventually moved to Rome, he always retained a slight trace of his native Sardinian accent. While Nazzari was keen on gaining film contracts much of his early experience was in the theatre. He entered a contest organised by Twentieth Century Fox to find an Italian actor to fill the boots ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Language
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 million people (2022), Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland ( Ticino and the Grisons), San Marino, and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria (Croatia and Slovenia). Italian is also spoken by large immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia.Ethnologue report for language code:ita (Italy) – Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodrama Film
A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Melodramas typically concentrate on dialogue that is often bombastic or excessively sentimental, rather than action. Characters are often flat, and written to fulfill stereotypes. Melodramas are typically set in the private sphere of the home, focusing on morality and family issues, love, and marriage, often with challenges from an outside source, such as a "temptress", a scoundrel, or an aristocratic villain. A melodrama on stage, filmed, or on television is usually accompanied by dramatic and suggestive music that offers cues to the audience of the drama being presented. In scholarly and historical musical contexts, ''melodramas'' are Victorian dramas in which orchestral music or song was used to accompany the action. The term is now also applied to stage performances without incidental music, novels, films, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Serandrei
Mario Serandrei (23 May 1907 – 17 April 1966) was an Italian film editor and screenwriter. Born in Naples, he started in the film industry in 1931 as an assistant director. He edited over two hundred films during his career, and worked steadily until his death in 1966. As an editor, Serandrei's credits included Federico Fellini's '' Il bidone'' (1955), Pietro Francisci's ''Hercules'' (1958) and '' Hercules Unchained'' (1959), Valerio Zurlini's '' Estate violenta'' (1959), '' La ragazza con la valigia'' (1961) and ''Cronaca familiare'' (1962), and the Robert Aldrich/Sergio Leone film of ''Sodom and Gomorrah'' (1963). He enjoyed a long working relationship with director Luchino Visconti, editing '' Ossessione'' (1943), ''Bellissima'' (1951), '' Senso'' (1954), '' Rocco and His Brothers'' (1960) and ''The Leopard'' (1963). At the end of his career, he edited many films directed by Mario Bava, including '' Black Sunday'' (1960) (which he also co-wrote), ''Black Sabbath'' (1963), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
