''Cavalcade of Song'' ( it, Canzoni, canzoni, canzoni) is a 1953 Italian
musical film
Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as breaks ...
directed by
Domenico Paolella and starring
Alberto Sordi,
Silvana Pampanini and
Antonella Lualdi.
[Fava p. 62]
It was shot in
Ferraniacolor at the
Cinecittà
Cinecittà Studios (; Italian for Cinema City Studios), is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios we ...
studios in Rome.
Cast
*
Alberto Sordi as Alberto
*
Silvana Pampanini as La dattilografa
*
Antonella Lualdi as La dirimpettaia del quinto piano
*
Franco Interlenghi as Il notaio
*
Marina Vlady
Marina Vlady (born 10 May 1938) is a French actress.
Biography
Vlady was born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine to White Russian immigrant parents. Her father was an opera singer and her mother was a dancer. Her sisters, now all deceased, were the act ...
as La fanciulla amata
*
Flora Mariel
*
Erno Crisa as Il guappo
*
Galeazzo Benti as Il soldatino
*
Enrico Viarisio
Enrico Viarisio (3 December 1897 – 1 November 1967) was an Italian theatre and cinema actor.
Biography
Equipped of a fine and elegant humour, Viarisio was discovered by actress Paola Pezzaglia
Paolina Pezzaglia Greco (13 September 1886 &ndas ...
*
Franco Coop
Franco Coop (27 September 1891 – 27 March 1962), was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 65 films between 1931 and 1960. He was born in Naples, Italy and died in Rome, Italy.
Selected filmography
* '' Before the Jury'' (1931)
* '' Moth ...
*
Renato Malavasi
*
Cosetta Greco
Cosetta Greco (8 October 1930 – 14 July 2002) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in more than 30 films between 1943 and 1971.
Selected filmography
* '' Farewell Love!'' (1943) - La cameriera di casa Dias
* ''Caccia all'uomo'' (194 ...
as Ex-amante del guappo
*
Cristina Fantoni
Cristina is a female given name, and it is also a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
*Cristina (daughter of Edward the Exile), 11th-century English princess
*Cristina (singer), Cristina Monet-Palaci (1956–2020), American s ...
*
Patrizia Lari
*
Rosy Mazzacurati
Rosy Mazzacurati (born in 1938) is an Italian former film and stage actress.
Life and career
Born in Ferrara, Mazzacurati was the daughter of the sculptor and painter Renato Marino Mazzacurati. Eager to embark on an acting career, at young age ...
*
Delia Scala
Delia Scala (born Odette Bedogni; 25 September 1929 – 15 January 2004) was an Italian ballerina, actress and singer who played a leading role in the nascent ''commedia musicale''.
Career
Scala was born as Odette Bedogni in Bracciano, Lazi ...
as Titina
*
Aroldo Tieri as L'innamorato della dattilografa
*
Luisella Boni
Luisella Boni (born 24 July 1935) is an Italian actress.
Born in Como, Lombardy as Luisa Angela Bozzo, Boni debuted in 1952 in Bernard Vorhaus' film ''Finishing School''.
One of the most active actresses in Italian cinema between the early fifti ...
*
Nino Manfredi
Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi (22 March 1921 – 4 June 2004) was an Italian actor, voice actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, radio personality and television presenter.
He was one of the most prominent Italian a ...
*
Lilli Scaringi Lilli may refer to:
Films
*Lilli (1919 film), ''Lilli'' (1919 film), a German film
*Lilli (2018 film), ''Lilli'' (2018 film), an Indian film
Places
*Lilli, Harju County, a village in Anija Parish, Harju County, Estonia
*Lilli, Viljandi County, a v ...
*
Mariolina Bovo
*
Renata Campanati
*
Giulio Chiandotto
*
Anna Di Lorenzo
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 1221) ...
*
Fiorella Ferrero Fiorella is an Italian female given name. Notable people with the given name include:
*Fiorella Aíta (born 1977), Peruvian volleyball player
*Fiorella Betti (1927-2001), Italian actress
*Fiorella Bonicelli (born 1951), Uruguayan tennis player
* Fi ...
*
Cristina Grado
Maria Cristina Grado (February 2, 1939 - January 3, 2016) was an Italian actress and voice actress. She also worked as a voice actress, dubbing foreign films for release in the Italian market.Hayward p.242
Selected filmography
* ''Naples Sings'' ...
*
Lily Granado
''Lilium'' () is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants growing from bulbs, all with large prominent flowers. They are the true lilies. Lilies are a group of flowering plants which are important in culture and literature in much of the world. ...
*
Vittorio Mangano
Vittorio Mangano (18 August 1940 – 23 July 2000) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra. He was well known as the stable keeper at the villa of Silvio Berlusconi in Arcore in the 1970s and as such Mangano is known as ''"lo stalli ...
*
Marcella Mariani
Marcella Mariani (Rome, Italy, 8 February 1936 – Monte Terminillo, Italy, 13 February 1955) was an Italian actress and Miss Italy contest winner. Though she appeared in several popular movies and was garnering acclaim as an actress, her career ...
*
Anna Maria Mazzarini
*
Sandro Pistolini
Sandro is an Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swiss, Georgian and Croatian given name, often a diminutive of Alessandro or Alexander. It is also a surname.
Sandro may refer to:
Given name or nickname
Sports
* Sandro (footballer, born 1973), Brazi ...
as Bambino
*
Teresa Pollio
*
Marisa Valenti
References
Bibliography
*
External links
*
1953 films
1953 musical films
Italian musical films
1950s Italian-language films
Films directed by Domenico Paolella
Films shot at Cinecittà Studios
Minerva Film films
1950s Italian films
{{musical-film-stub