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Vera Vergani
Vera Vergani (1894–1989) was an Italian stage actress. She also starred in a number of silent films.Goble p.155, p.275 & p.344 She was the mother of the film producer Leo Pescarolo. She played the title role in the 1927 Milan stage production of Salvatore Di Giacomo's ''Assunta Spina (play), Assunta Spina'' at the Teatro Manzoni. Selected filmography * ''The Fear of Love'' (1920) * ''Caterina (film), Caterina'' (1921) * ''The Dreamer (1965 film), The Dreamer'' (1965) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1894 births 1989 deaths Italian film actresses Italian stage actresses Actresses from Milan {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has 3.26 million inhabitants. Its continuously built-up urban area (whose outer suburbs extend well beyond the boundaries of the administrative metropolitan city and even stretch into the nearby country of Switzerland) is the fourth largest in the EU with 5.27 million inhabitants. According to national sources, the population within the wider Milan metropolitan area (also known as Greater Milan), is estimated between 8.2 million and 12.5 million making it by far the largest metropolitan area in Italy and one of the largest in the EU.* * * * Milan is considered a leading alpha global city, with strengths in the fields of art, chemicals, commerce, design, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvatore Di Giacomo
Salvatore Di Giacomo (12 March 1860 – 5 April 1934) was an Italian poet, songwriter, playwright and fascist, one of the signatories to the Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals. Di Giacomo is credited as being one of those responsible for renewing Neapolitan language poetry at the beginning of the 20th century. The language of Salvatore Di Giacomo is, however, not the everyday Neapolitan language of his contemporaries; it has a distinct 18th-century flavour to it, with archaisms that recall the golden age of Neapolitan culture. This was the period between 1750 and 1800, when Neapolitan was the language of the best-loved form of musical entertainment in Italy, the Neapolitan comic opera. Early career Di Giacomo was born in Naples. He studied medicine briefly, largely to satisfy his father's wishes, but gave it up for the life of a poet. He then founded a literary journal, ''Il Fantasio'', in 1880, and, like many young writers, had a varied apprenticeship, working in a print ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Film Actresses
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1989 Deaths
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing a large Exxon Valdez oil spill, oil spill; The Fall of the Berlin Wall begins the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and heralds German reunification; The United States United States invasion of Panama, invades Panama to depose Manuel Noriega; The Singing Revolution led to the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union; The stands of Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, Yorkshire, where the Hillsborough disaster occurred; 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Students demonstrate in Tiananmen Square, Beijing; many are killed by forces of the Chinese Communist Party., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1989 Loma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1894 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United States. * January 9 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard, in Lexington, Massachusetts Lexington is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is 10 miles (16 km) from Downtown Boston. The population was 34,454 as of the 2020 census. The area was originally inhabited by Native Americans, and was firs .... * February 12 ** French anarchist Émile Henry (anarchist), Émile Henry sets off a bomb in a Paris café, killing one person and wounding twenty. ** The barque ''Elisabeth Rickmers'' of Bremerhaven is wrecked at Haurvig, Denmark, but all crew and passengers are saved. * February 15 ** In Korea, peasant unrest erupts in the Donghak Peasant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dreamer (1965 Film)
''The Dreamer'' or ''Il morbidone'' is a 1965 Italian film directed by Massimo Franciosa. Cast * Paolo Ferrari as Giovanni *Anouk Aimée as Valeria * Sylva Koscina as Irene *Beba Lončar as Laura * Margaret Lee as Daniela *Guido Alberti as Uncle Marco * Ferruccio De Ceresa as Ettore *Loredana Nusciak as Donata *Gina Rovere as Nurse *Jacques Herlin as Marcello * Giuliana Lojodice as Paola *Tatyana Pavlova as Antonia *Vera Vergani as Giovanni Zenobi's Mother * Moa Tahi as Oriental girl *Renato Terra Renato Terra (26 July 1922 in Naples – 28 November 2010 in Rome) had a career working in film as an actor, and has appeared in over 80 movies. In 1977 he retired to become a poet. Young, he attended the Experimental Center of Cinematography in ... External links * 1965 films Italian drama films 1960s Italian-language films Films directed by Massimo Franciosa Films scored by Piero Umiliani 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caterina (film)
Caterina is a feminine given name which is an Italian form of the name '' Katherine''. Notable people with the name include: In music: * Caterina Assandra, Italian composer and Benedictine nun * Caterina Bueno, Italian singer and folk music historian * Caterina Caselli, Italian singer and music producer * Caterina Cavalieri, Austrian soprano * Caterina Jarboro, pioneering African American opera singer * Caterina Valente, French-born singer and dancer In education: * Caterina Mieras, teacher at the Teacher Training School of the Balearic Islands In acting: * Caterina Murino, Italian actress * Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress In sports: * Kateřina Baďurová, Czech pole vaulter * Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukrainian tennis player In other fields: * Caterina Appiani, lady of Piombino * Caterina Consani, Italian mathematician * Caterina dei Virgi, aristocratic Bolognese woman raised in the court of Bologna * Caterina Fake, American businesswoman and entrepreneur * Caterin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fear Of Love
''The Fear of Love'' (Italian: ''La paura di amare'') is a 1920 Italian silent film directed by Roberto Roberti and starring Gustavo Serena.Bernardini & Martinelli p.258 Cast * Alberto Albertini * Gustavo Serena * Guido Trento * Vera Vergani Vera Vergani (1894–1989) was an Italian stage actress. She also starred in a number of silent films.Goble p.155, p.275 & p.344 She was the mother of the film producer Leo Pescarolo. She played the title role in the 1927 Milan stage production ... References Bibliography * Aldo Bernardini & Vittorio Martinelli. ''Il cinema muto italiano: I film del dopoguerra, 1920''. Nuova ERI, 1995. External links * 1920 films 1920s Italian-language films Films directed by Roberto Roberti Italian silent feature films Italian black-and-white films {{Italy-silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teatro Manzoni
The Teatro Manzoni is a theatre in the northern Italian city of Milan, located on the Via Manzoni. Opened in 1870 it was originally called the ''Teatro sociale di Milano'', before being renamed after Alessandro Manzoni following his death in 1873. It was originally located on the Piazza San Fedele. A growing reputation led to celebrated actors such as Eleonora Duse and Sarah Bernhardt appearing there. In the twentieth century it remained a key venue until it was destroyed by Allied bombing in August 1943 during the Second World War. The theatre moved to its current location and was rebuilt to designs by the architect Alziro Bergonzo, opening in 1950. The first manager of the relaunched theatre was the impresario Remigio Paone. In 1978 ownership was acquired by Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest, with artistic control passing to Luigi Foscale. Selected performances * '' Henry IV'' (1922) by Luigi Pirandello * '' Assunta Spina'' (1927) by Salvatore Di Giacomo Salvatore Di Giacom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assunta Spina (play)
''Assunta Spina'' is a 1909 tragic play by the Italian writer Salvatore Di Giacomo, based on his earlier short story of the same name. It premiered at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples with Adelina Magnetti in the title role and a cast that also included Gennaro Pantalena and Francesca Bertini, who would subsequently play Assunta in the 1915 film. A 1927 revival at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan starred Vera Vergani. Synopsis The protagonist Assunta Spina is a young woman of Naples who has many male admirers, including Michele Boccadifuoco a butcher. One day in a fit of jealousy he attacks and scars her in the street. Despite her efforts to cover up for him, he is arrested and sentenced to two years imprisonment in Avellino. In the meantime she begins an affair with a court official, not knowing that he already has a family. When Michele is released from prison, she confessed everything to him. His pride wounded, he goes immediately and stabs her lover to death with a knife. However it i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Pescarolo
Leo Pescarolo (1935 – 24 May 2006) was an Italian film producer. The son of the actress Vera Vergani, Pescarolo entered the film industry at age 22, first as an assistant director of Gianni Franciolini and Mario Camerini, and later as a producer. He produced many films of Liliana Cavani, Giuliano Montaldo and almost all the works of Francesca Archibugi, as well as films by Federico Fellini, Francesco Rosi and Lars von Trier. In 1994 he won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Producer, for Archibugi's '' The Great Pumpkin'', and in 1997 he won the David di Donatello in the same category for ''The Truce''. Pescarolo was also a renowned gastronome, and he held a cooking column for a newspaper. Selected filmography * ''Galileo'' (1968) * ''What Have You Done to Solange?'' (1972) * ''Super Bitch'' (1973) * ''Giordano Bruno'' (1973) * ''Innocence and Desire'' (1974) * ''Autopsy'' (1975) * ''Tell Me You Do Everything for Me'' (1976) * ''Red Rings of Fear'' (1978) * '' Devil in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lombardy
Lombardy ( it, Lombardia, Lombard language, Lombard: ''Lombardia'' or ''Lumbardia' '') is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in the northern-central part of the country and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population. Over a fifth of the Italian gross domestic product (GDP) is produced in the region. The Lombardy region is located between the Alps mountain range and tributaries of the Po river, and includes Milan, the largest metropolitan area in the country, and among the largest in the European Union (EU). Of the fifty-eight UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy, eleven are in Lombardy. Virgil, Pliny the Elder, Ambrose, Gerolamo Cardano, Caravaggio, Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Stradivari, Cesare Beccaria, Alessandro Volta and Alessandro Manzoni; and popes Pope John XXIII, John XXIII and Pope Paul VI, Paul VI originated in the area of modern-day Lombardy region. Etymology The name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
