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Verginità
''Verginità'' is a 1951 Italian melodrama film written and directed by Leonardo De Mitri. Plot A country girl who is a diligent devourer of picture stories, decides to participate in a beauty contest without the consent of her father. She dreams of a glamorous career in the big city. When she loses the contest, she is approached by two men who offer her a modeling job. However, they are in fact human traffickers who intend to lure her to Brazil. Cast *Irene Genna as Gina *Leonardo Cortese as Franco Rossi *Franca Marzi as Giulia *Otello Toso as Giancarlo *Eleonora Rossi Drago as Mara Sibilia *Arnoldo Foà as René *Tamara Lees as Lidia *Checco Durante as Mr. Corelli *Guglielmo Barnabò as Impresario *Mario Siletti *Mario Ferrari Mario Ferrari (September 3, 1894 – June 28, 1974) was an Italian film actor. After making his debut in 1920, Ferrari became a mainstay of Italian cinema during the Fascist era appearing in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He pla . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonardo De Mitri
Leonardo De Mitri (1914–1956) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.Goble p.270 Selected filmography * '' The Outlaws'' (1950) * '' Cats and Dogs'' (1952) * '' The Angel of Sin'' (1952) * '' Verginità'' (1952) * ''Martin Toccaferro'' (1953) * ''Altair'' (1956) * ''Wives and Obscurities ''Wives and Obscurities'' (Italian:''Moglie e buoi...'') is a 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Leonardo De Mitri and starring Gino Cervi, Walter Chiari Walter Annicchiarico (8 March 1924 – 20 December 1991), known as Walter Chiari , ...'' (1956) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1914 births 1956 deaths Italian male film actors 20th-century Italian screenwriters Italian film directors Italian male screenwriters 20th-century Italian male writers {{Italy-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otello Toso
Otello Toso (22 February 1914 – 15 March 1966) was an Italian film and stage actor. Born in Padua, Toso graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1939 and immediately later he started his film career. He was particularly prolific in the 1940s, in films in which he usually starred negative characters. After World War II Toso mostly starred in melodramas and genre films, except for Juan Antonio Bardem's '' Death of a Cyclist''. He died at 52 in a car accident in Pieve di Curtarolo, near Padua. Selected filmography * ''1860'' (1933) - Piemontese soldier * '' The Canal of the Angels'' (1934) * '' Giuseppe Verdi'' (1938) - Un ammiratore di Verdi al caffè * ''Jeanne Doré'' (1938) - Extra in ball scene * '' Ettore Fieramosca'' (1938) - Un compagno d'arme Gentilino * ''Inventiamo l'amore'' (1938) - Il primo giocatore di biliardo (uncredited) * ''Crispino e la comare'' (1938) * ''Io, suo padre'' (1939) * ''Le père Lebonnard'' (1939) - Gaetano (uncredited) * ''U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Ferrari
Mario Ferrari (September 3, 1894 – June 28, 1974) was an Italian film actor. After making his debut in 1920, Ferrari became a mainstay of Italian cinema during the Fascist era appearing in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He played the villainous Graiano d'Asti in the historical film '' Ettore Fieramosca'' (1938).Landy p.131-32 Ferrari continued to work regularly in the post-Second World War years. Selected filmography * ''Il milione'' (1920) * ''Il rosso e il nero'' (1920) * ''Castello dalle cinquantasette lampade'' (1920) * ''L'isola scomparsa'' (1921) * ''Palio'' (1932) - Bachicche * ''The Table of the Poor'' (1932) - Attorney Volterra * '' Your Money or Your Life'' (1932) * '' 1860'' (1933) - Colonel Carini * ''Villafranca'' (1934) * ''L'impiegata di papà'' (1934) - Capoufficio * ''La maestrina'' (1934) - Giacomo Macchia * ''Everybody's Woman'' (1934) - Il produttore cinamatografico * ''La città dell'amore'' (1934) * ''Red Passport'' (1935) - Don Pablo Ram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Genna
Irene Genna (4 January 1931 – 6 February 1986) was a Greek-born Italian film and television actress. Life and career Born in Athens by an Italian father and a Greek mother, Genna made her high school studies in Greece, then she moved to Italy with her family. In Rome she enrolled at the school of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and she followed the acting courses held by actress Teresa Franchini. Genna debuted at a very young age in Mario Mattoli's '' The Two Orphans''. She had her breakout in 1949, with Renato Castellani's neorealist post-war drama ''It's Forever Springtime'', in which she also had her first major role. In spite of the critical appreciation she received, Genna's career mainly continued in less ambitious productions, including several RAI TV-series. In 1957 Genna married Amedeo Nazzari with whom she had a daughter, Evelina, also an actress, and she retired from show business. Selected filmography * ''It's Forever Springtime'' (1950) * '' The Bread Peddler'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamara Lees
Tamara Lees (14 December 1924 – 22 December 1999), born as, Diana Helena Tamara Mapplebeck was an Austrian-born English film actress. She appeared in 48 films between 1947 and 1961. Selected filmography * ''While the Sun Shines'' (1947) * ''Bond Street'' (1948) * '' A Piece of Cake'' (1948) * ''Stop Press Girl'' (1949) * '' Marry Me'' (1949) * ''Trottie True'' (1949) * ''Her Favourite Husband'' (1950) * '' Romanticismo'' (1950) * ''Toto the Sheik'' (1950) * ''A Dog's Life'' (1950) * ''Filumena Marturano'' (1951) * '' Song of Spring'' (1951) * ''Four Ways Out'' (1951) * ''Frontier Wolf'' (1952) * '' The Phantom Musketeer'' (1952) * ''Beauties in Capri'' (1952) * ''The Piano Tuner Has Arrived'' (1952) * '' Verginità'' (1952) * '' Il tallone di Achille'' (1952) * '' Girls Marked Danger'' (1952) * ''Noi peccatori'' (1953) * ''Frine, Courtesan of Orient'' (1953) * ''Perdonami!'' (1953) * '' Queen of Babylon'' (1954) * ''The Contessa's Secret'' (1954) * ''Songs of Italy'' (1955 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleonora Rossi Drago
Eleonora Rossi Drago, born Palmira Omiccioli, (23 September 1925 – 2 December 2007) was an Italian film actress. She was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy, and had the leading role in ''Le amiche''. She appeared in ''Un maledetto imbroglio.'' In 1960, for her performance in ''Estate violenta'', she won the best actress prize of the Mar del Plata Film Festival and the Nastro d'argento. In 1964, she appeared in '' La Cittadella''. She died in Palermo, Italy. Selected filmography * ''The Pirates of Capri'' (1949) - Annette * '' Altura'' (1949) - Grazia * ''Due sorelle amano'' (1950) - Marilù, Maria Pia's sister * '' Behind Closed Shutters'' (1951) - Sandra * '' Verginità'' (1951) - Mara Sibilia * '' The Last Sentence'' (1951) - Marisa * ''Barefoot Savage'' (1952) - Franca Gabrie * '' Girls Marked Danger'' (1952) - Alda * '' The Flame'' (1952) - Monica * ''Three Forbidden Stories'' (1952) - Gianna Aragona (Third segment) * '' I sette dell'Orsa maggiore'' (1953) - Ma ... [...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] |
Franca Marzi
Franca Marzi (18 August 1926 – 6 March 1989) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 80 films between 1943 and 1977. Life and career Born in Rome as Francesca Marsi, after working in the revue, Marzi made her film debut in her early twenties, in '' The Lovers'' (1946) by Giacomo Gentilomo. She was usually cast in roles of provocative women and femme fatales in films of sentimental or comic genre. The only exception was the Federico Fellini's drama ''Nights of Cabiria'' (1957), in which she played the role of the prostitute Wanda, the best friend of Giulietta Masina, a role for which she was rewarded with the Silver Ribbon for Best Supporting Actress. Selected filmography * ''Harlen'' (1943) - Une spettatrice al teatro * '' The Lovers'' (1946) - Porzia * ''Tombolo'' (1947) - Lidia * '' The Two Orphans'' (1947) - Susanne de la Pleine * ''Mad About Opera'' (1948) - Carmen * ''L'isola di Montecristo'' (1948) - Lucy * ''Letter at Dawn'' (1948) - Lilly - l'amante di Carlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Films
The year 1951 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films United States The top ten 1951 released films by box office gross in the United States are as follows: International The highest-grossing 1951 films in countries outside of North America. Worldwide gross The following table lists known worldwide gross figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1951. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1951. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases. Events * February 15 – new management takes over at United Artists with Arthur B. Krim, Robert Benjamin and Matty Fox now in charge. * April – French magazine '' Cahiers du cinéma'' is first published. * July 26 – Walt Disney's '' Alice in Wonderland'' premieres; while a disappointment at first and hardly released in theaters, it would later become one of the biggest cult classics in the ani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Black-and-white Films
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Melodrama Films
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, te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Drama Films
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