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Turi Pandolfini
Turi Pandolfini (1 November 1883 – 6 March 1962) was an Italian stage and film character actor. He appeared in 46 films between 1917 and 1961. Life and career Born in Catania, Sicily as Salvatore Pandolfini, the nephew of the actor Angelo Musco, he started his career at young age in small local companies before joining the company of his famous uncle in which he created a large number of successful macchiette ( (i.e. comical monologues caricaturing stock characters). Pandolfini was also very active in films starting from the advent of sound, and reached the peak of his popularity in the fifties. He was one of the founders of the Teatro Stabile di Catania. Partial filmography * ''La stella del cinema'' (1931) * ''La vecchia signora'' (1932) * ''La voce lontana'' (1933) * ''1860'' (1933) - Another Sicilian citizen * ''L'albergo della felicità'' (1933) - Ignazio Privitero * ''The Marquis of Ruvolito'' (1939) - Neddu Grisi * ''Sempre più difficile'' (1943) - Don Ignazio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Happened At The Police Station
''It Happened at the Police Station'' (Italian: ''Accadde al commissariato'') is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring Nino Taranto, Alberto Sordi and Walter Chiari.Lanzoni p.18 Cast * Nino Taranto as Police Commissioner * Alberto Sordi as Alberto Tadini * Walter Chiari as Luigi Giovetti * Lucia Bosè as Stefania Rocca, wife of Luigi * Riccardo Billi as Riccardo, 1st tram driver * Mario Riva as 2nd tram driver * Carlo Dapporto as Antonio Badimenti * Lauretta Masiero as Silvana Moretti * Mara Berni as Arnalda Bazzini * Turi Pandolfini as Cannizzaro, the old man * Mario Abbate as Lucio Davila, the singer * Bruna Corrà as Street walker * Natale Cirino as Marshal (Italy), Marshal Cannavò * Andreina Paul as The maid * Carlo Romano as Thief's victim * Anna Campori as The woman protesting against the strike * Alberto Sorrentino as Comic actor * Ignazio Balsamo as Taxi driver * Teresa Werlen as Enrichetta Biagioli * Pie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Tales (film)
''Roman Tales'' ( it, Racconti romani) is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Gianni Franciolini. It is based on several short stories collected in ''Racconti romani'' by Alberto Moravia. The film won two David di Donatello Awards, for best director and best producer. Plot In Rome, during the Fifties, three boys attempt to commit a robbery. They're Mario, Alvaro and Otello, aided by a trickster, Professor Semprini, who claims to be a great intellectual. In reality the man is just the garbage boy of the upright lawyer Mazzoni Baralla, who goes on the trail of the three boys as soon as they attempt the shot. Indeed, Alvaro, Mario and Otello are arrested, after being deceived by Semprini, who demands from them a payment for the design of the plan. In fact the three first attempt to pass off counterfeit notes, then pretend to be guards from the vice squad in Villa Borghese. After the arrest and acquittal, the three decide to return to their old and simple jobs. Cast * Totò: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bravissimo (film)
''Bravissimo'' is a 1955 Italian film, starring Alberto Sordi and directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico. Plot Ubaldo Impallato is a precarious elementary music teacher, for years in vain in search of a steady job, who to make ends meet with after school. Among the children entrusted to him there is also Gigetto, who unlike the other companions has a singular characteristic: at the age of six he can sing with a wonderful baritone voice. The teacher, who in the meantime has become his tutor in spite of himself since his father ended up in prison, accidentally realizes this extraordinary gift of the little one hearing him interpret The barber of Seville (Ubaldo at first thinks he hears a singer on the radio) and decides to seize the opportunity. Thanks to an excellent performance in a television program for young talents, Gigetto is an immediate success and promises to become a real gold mine. With the help of a theatrical impresario, he is even offered Verdi's Rigoletto, in the role o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Moon (1955 Film)
''New Moon'' ( it, Luna nova) is a 1955 Italian musical crime melodrama film directed by Luigi Capuano. Plot summary Cast * Achille Togliani as Giovanni Randi * Virna Lisi as Lucia * Eduardo Ciannelli as Don Giuseppe * Barbara Shelley as Amira * Beniamino Maggio as Beniamino * Turi Pandolfini as Domenico * Leda Gloria as Mother of Giovanni * Marc Lawrence as Pierre * Carlo Tamberlani Carlo Tamberlani (11 March 1899 – 5 August 1980) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 127 films between 1931 and 1976. He was born in Salice Salentino, Italy and died in Subiaco, Italy. His brother Nando Tamberlani was also an actor. ... as Lawyer References External links * 1955 films 1955 crime drama films Italian crime drama films Films directed by Luigi Capuano Films scored by Mario Nascimbene Melodrama films Italian black-and-white films 1950s Italian films {{crime-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buonanotte
Diego Mario Buonanotte Rende (; born 19 April 1988) is an Argentine naturalized Chilean footballer who plays for Peruvian club Sporting Cristal as an attacking midfielder and winger. He began his career with River Plate, where he won the Apertura in 2008, and later played in Spain with Málaga and Granada. Buonanotte was part of the Argentine squad that won the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics. Club career River Plate Born in Teodelina, Santa Fe, Buonanotte made his professional debut as a 17-year-old on 9 April 2006, in the 3–1 win against Instituto. On 7 October 2007, only one week after his first game, he scored his first goal at senior level. Buonanotte was picked by coach Daniel Passarella to start in the derby against Boca Juniors. River Plate won 2–0, with Buonanotte playing a key role in the victory. He was named by ''World Soccer'' magazine as one of the '50 most exciting teenagers in the world game'. Buonanotte was part of the 2008 Apertura winning team. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Art Of Getting Along
''The Art of Getting Along'' ( it, L'arte di arrangiarsi) is a 1954 in film, 1954 comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Alberto Sordi. Following ''Difficult Years'' and ''Easy Years'', it is the third and final chapter in the trilogy about Italian politics under the continuing shadow of fascism conceived by Vitaliano Brancati. In the person of an unprincipled Sicilian rogue, it delivers a satirical portrait of Italian society from 1913 to 1953. In 2008 the film was selected to enter the list of the 100 film italiani da salvare, 100 Italian films to be saved. Plot Sasà Scimoni, nephew and unpaid assistant of the mayor of Catania, adapts himself to any man who may be able to help him advance and to any woman he may be able to take advantage of. Falling for the wife of an honest socialist politician, he becomes an activist and through his machinations the husband gets five years in jail. By then the First World War, which Sasà avoids after feigning madness, has come and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Signorine Dello 04
''Le signorine dello 04'' (''The ladies of the 04'') is a 1955 Italian romantic comedy-drama film directed by Gianni Franciolini. Cast *Antonella Lualdi: Maria Teresa Landolfi * Antonio Cifariello: Amleto *Giovanna Ralli: Bruna *Roberto Risso: Carlo Conti * Sergio Raimondi: Fernando *Franca Valeri: Carla, capoturno *Peppino De Filippo: Dellisanti * Marisa Merlini: Vera Colasanti * Giulia Rubini: Gabriella * Aldo Giuffrè: Guido Colasanti *Turi Pandolfini: Cavaliere *Tina Pica: Zia Vittoria *Ferruccio Amendola: fratello di Bruna *Enzo Garinei: corteggiatore di Bruna *Miranda Campa: madre di Carlo Conti *Maria Zanoli: Clementina *Nando Bruno Nando Bruno (6 October 1895 – 10 April 1963) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 84 films between 1938 and 1961. He was born in Rome, Italy and he died there. Selected filmography * ''A Lady Did It'' (1938) - Un collego di Pasquale ...: l'utente irascibile References External links * 1955 films 1955 romantic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three Thieves
''The Three Thieves'' (Italian: ''I tre ladri'') is a 1954 Italian-French comedy film directed by Lionello De Felice and starring Totò, Jean-Claude Pascal and Simone Simon Simone Thérèse Fernande Simon (23 April 1910 or 1911 – 22 February 2005) was a French film actress who began her film career in 1931. Early life Born in Marseille, France, she was the daughter of Henri Louis Firmin Clair Simon, a French J ....Bìspuri p.143 Cast References Bibliography * Ennio Bìspuri. ''Totò: principe clown : tutti i film di Totò''. Guida Editori, 1997. External links * 1954 films 1954 comedy films French comedy films Italian comedy films 1950s Italian-language films Films directed by Lionello De Felice French black-and-white films Italian black-and-white films 1950s French films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schiava Del Peccato
''Schiava del peccato'' (''Slave to Sin'') is a 1954 Italian melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. Cast * Silvana Pampanini as Mara Gualtieri * Marcello Mastroianni as Giulio * Irene Genna as Dina * Franco Fabrizi as Carlo * Renato Vicario as Husband of Dina * Camillo Pilotto as Inspector * Liliana Gerace as Elena * Olinto Cristina as Director * Paul Muller as Voyager * Dina Perbellini as Miss Cesira * Maria Materzanini as Maria Grazia Sandri * Maria Grazia Francia * Irène Galter * Laura Gore * Turi Pandolfini * Loris Gizzi * Miranda Campa * Giorgio Capecchi * Adriana Danieli * Mirella Di Lauri * Franca Dominici * Checco Durante * Lia Lena * Maria Grazia Monaci * Aldo Pini * Isarco Ravaioli Isacco Ravaioli, best known as Isarco Ravaioli (3 March 1933 – 15 February 2004), was an Italian film actor. Life and career Born in Ravenna, Ravaioli obtained a diploma of teaching in his hometown, and he started working as a primary school ... * Andreina Zani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High School (1954 Film)
''High School'' ( it, Terza liceo) is a 1954 Italian coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Luciano Emmer. Plot Last year of school for the III C of the Gobetti high school in Rome: the events of the boys and girls who have to face the final exams are intertwined with more or less happy loves, shy disputes and small dramas. Lucia, scion of a rich family, but with a generous and rebellious soul, shares with Andrea, who instead comes from a family of modest conditions, the project for a school newspaper. The contents of the file put them in collision with the principal, but they unite the two youngsters, who eventually fall in love. Their relationship, however, is opposed by Lucia's family, who want her to be paired with the stolid but rich Pupo. Cast *Giulia Rubini: Camilla * Ilaria Occhini: Isabella * Anna Maria Sandri: Teresa *Ugo Amaldi: Franco * Ferdinando Cappabianca: Andrea * Franco Santori: Bruno *Paola Borboni: Mother of Bruno * Bartolomeo Rossetti: Valenti * A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Slice Of Life (1954 Film)
''A Slice of Life'' ( it, Tempi nostri, link=no, french: Quelques pas dans la vie, link=no, also known as ''The Anatomy of Love'') is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and Paul Paviot. Plot Mara From a story by Vasco Pratolini, written by the author. Vasco and Mara get to know in a restaurant, go to the cinema, and spent the evening intimately, fall in love. She tells him that, being short of money, will try to work the next morning in a brothel, but he convinces her to desist from this connection, to begin to live with him, who has a job as a teacher, even if their economic situation may be difficult. The baby Written by Alberto Moravia. Young couple the suburbs of Rome are in financial trouble. She would like to work, but must take care of the child who has recently given birth. The two then set out, reluctantly, to leave the baby in a church, but the mother can not decide on the right place and finally the father has second thoughts. Outdoor scene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |