''Marcella'' is a 1937 Italian
drama film
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directed by
Guido Brignone
Guido Brignone (6 December 1886 – 6 March 1959) was an Italian film director and actor. He was the father of actress Lilla Brignone and younger brother of actress Mercedes Brignone.
Brignone was born in Milan, Italy. He was the first Italian ...
and starring
Emma Gramatica
Emma Gramatica (born Aida Laura Argia Gramatica; 25 October 1874 – 8 November 1965) was an Italian stage and film actress. She appeared in 29 films between 1919 and 1962. She was born in Borgo San Donnino, today Fidenza, Province of Parma ...
,
Caterina Boratto
Caterina Boratto (15 March 1915 – 14 September 2010) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1936 and 1993.
Life and career
Born in Turin, Boratto studied at the Musical Lyceum in her hometown with the purpose of bec ...
and
Antonio Centa. It is based on a play by
Victorien Sardou
Victorien Sardou ( , ; 5 September 18318 November 1908) was a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play. He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th-centur ...
.
[Goble p.858]
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Guido Fiorini
Guido Fiorini (1897–1966) was an Italian engineer, architect and art director.Poretti p.128 He was associated with the futurist movement.
Selected filmography
* ''Loyalty of Love'' (1934)
* '' Just Married'' (1934)
* ''Red Passport'' (1935)
* ' ...
.
Cast
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Emma Gramatica
Emma Gramatica (born Aida Laura Argia Gramatica; 25 October 1874 – 8 November 1965) was an Italian stage and film actress. She appeared in 29 films between 1919 and 1962. She was born in Borgo San Donnino, today Fidenza, Province of Parma ...
as La baronessa Contuni
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Caterina Boratto
Caterina Boratto (15 March 1915 – 14 September 2010) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1936 and 1993.
Life and career
Born in Turin, Boratto studied at the Musical Lyceum in her hometown with the purpose of bec ...
as Marcella
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Antonio Centa as Oliviero
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Mino Doro
Mino Doro (6 May 1903 – 13 April 1992) was an Italian actor who appeared in more than a hundred films between 1932 and 1970. Doro generally played supporting and character roles. He appeared as a blackshirt in the 1934 Fascist propaganda fi ...
as Renato
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Aristide Baghetti
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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 ...
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Paolo Stoppa
Paolo Stoppa Knight Grand Cross (6 June 1906 – 1 May 1988) was an Italian actor.
Biography
Born in Rome, he began as a stage actor in 1927 in the theater in Rome and began acting in films in 1932. As a stage actor, his most celebrated ...
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Guglielmo Barnabò
Guglielmo Barnabò (11 May 1888 – 31 May 1954) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1926 and 1954.
Life and career
Born in Ancona, Barnabò made his stage debut in 1921 at the Greek Theatre of ...
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Giuseppe Addobbati
Giuseppe Addobbati (31 December 1909 – 4 January 1986) was an Italian film actor known for his roles in Spaghetti Western and action films in the 1960s and 1970s. He was often billed as John MacDouglas for films released to an American audien ...
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Nada Fiorelli
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Gian Paolo Rosmino
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Rina Molé
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Luigi Pellegrini
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Laura Redi
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
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1937 films
Italian drama films
Italian black-and-white films
1937 drama films
1930s Italian-language films
Films directed by Guido Brignone
Italian films based on plays
Films based on works by Victorien Sardou
1930s Italian films
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