''Mid-Century Loves'' ( it, Amori di mezzo secolo) is a 1954 Italian
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melodrama
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film consisting of five segments directed by
Glauco Pellegrini
Glauco Pellegrini (1919–1991) was an Italian screenwriter and film director.Mitchell p.200
Selected filmography
* ''Il monello della strada'' (1951)
* ''Shadows on the Grand Canal'' (1951)
* ''What Scoundrels Men Are! (1953 film), What Scoundre ...
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Pietro Germi
Pietro Germi (; 14 September 1914 – 5 December 1974) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor, noted for his development of the neorealist and commedia all'Italiana genres.
His 1961 film ''Divorce Italian Style'' earned him a Be ...
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Mario Chiari
Mario Chiari (14 July 1909 – 8 April 1989) was an Italian production designer and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film ''Doctor Dolittle''.
Selected filmography
* '' Un gio ...
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Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement with films such ...
and
Antonio Pietrangeli
Antonio Pietrangeli (19 January 191912 July 1968) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was a major practitioner of the Commedia all'italiana genre.
Biography
Pietrangeli was born in Rome. He started in the film industry by writing ...
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Plot
Episode # 01: "Romantic love", directed by: Glauco Pellegrini
In 1900 Elena, a young man from a rich bourgeois family, falls in love with the musician Mario. Her father and her aunt Matilde, however, would like the girl to marry a rich count. When Mario leaves for his tour, Matilde promises both young people to foster their feelings, while she actually destroys the letters they send each other, and persuades Elena that Mario has forgotten her. Elena ends up marrying the count.
Episode # 02: "War 1915-18", directed by: Pietro Germi
During the First World War, in a small Abruzzo village the very young lovers Antonio and Carmela get married and are expecting a child. Antonio is called to the front between the draft of 1900: Carmela and all friends and acquaintances are very proud of him and confidently await the end of the war. In the end the victory is announced and the celebrations are unleashed in the town: still no one knows that Antonio was killed in his first assault with the Sicily Brigade.
Episode # 03: "Postwar 1920", directed by: Mario Chiari
Alberto, an exalted squadist, leaves his country greeting his relatives and his girlfriend Susanna to take part in the March on Rome. In reality, he is mainly interested in Rome's nightlife and beautiful women. Susanna joins him in disguise and discovers him in a tabarin in equivocal attitudes with an entrîneuse, to whom she does not fail to reveal her contempt for her peasant girlfriend. But Susanna is not far behind in terms of beauty and sensuality, so much so that she is hired for a provocative number in the part of Salome, and she takes the opportunity to take her revenge on Alberto.
Episode # 04: "Naples 1943", directed by: Roberto Rossellini
During the bombings of the Second World War, actors and extras engaged in rehearsals at the Teatro di San Carlo rush into the air-raid shelter, and there the extra Carla and the airman Renato fall in love, but will be divided by death.
Episode # 05: "Girandola 1910", directed by: Antonio Pietrangeli
We are in the belle époque. A doctor advises a patient to limit his sexual activity; this however asks the doctor to mediate with his mistress so that she is less demanding. The woman is also having another relationship, and she too begs the doctor to intervene discreetly with the second man; and so on until among the whirlwind of lovers the doctor recognizes his wife.
Cast
L'amore romantico
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Franco Interlenghi
Franco Interlenghi (29 October 1931 – 10 September 2015) was an Italian actor.
He made his acting debut at 15 in Vittorio De Sica's 1946 Neorealist film ''Sciuscià''. He has worked with great directors such as Alessandro Blasetti in '' Fab ...
: Mario
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Leonora Ruffo
Leonora Ruffo (13 January 1935 – 25 May 2007) was an Italian film actress.
Career
Born in Rome as Bruna Bovi, the daughter of Angelo Bovi, basketball coach of Ginnastica Roma, Italian Championship pluri-winner, Ruffo failed to obtain the main ...
: Elena
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Paola Borboni
Paola Borboni (1 January 1900 – 9 April 1995) was an Italian stage and film actress whose career spanned nine decades of cinema.
Early life
Borboni was born on 1 January 1900 in Parma, Italy.
Career
Borboni made her stage debut in 19 ...
: Matilde
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Carlo Ninchi
Carlo Ninchi (31 May 1896 – 27 April 1974) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1931 and 1963. He was born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, and died on 27 April 1974 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
Selected filmogra ...
: Elena's father
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Luigi Tosi
Luigi Tosi ( Verona 15 July 1915 – Roma 12 March 1989) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1944 to 1965.
Filmography
References
External links
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1915 births
1989 deaths
Italian male film actors
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: Count Edoardo Savelli
Girandola 1910
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Lea Padovani
Lea Padovani (28 July 1920 – 23 June 1991) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 60 films between 1945 and 1990. She starred in the film '' Black Dossier'' which was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.
Partial filmography
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: Isabella
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Andrea Checchi
Andrea Checchi (21 October 1916 – 29 March 1974) was a prolific Italian film actor.
Biography
Born in Florence, Checchi appeared in over 150 films in his lengthy career, which spanned from 1934 to his death in 1974. The son of a painter, ...
: Gabriele
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Umberto Melnati: Cocò, the policeman
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Carlo Campanini
Carlo Campanini (5 October 1906 – 20 November 1984), was an Italian actor, singer and comedian. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1939 and 1969.
Life and career
Born in Turin, Campanini attended a technical school and a course of ...
: Michelangelo, the doctor
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Franco Scandurra
Franco Scandurra (27 July 1911 – 15 April 2003) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films from 1941 to 1984.
Filmography
References
External links
*
1911 births
2003 deaths
Italian male film actors
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Guerra 1915-18
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Maria Pia Casilio
Maria-Pia Casilio (5 May 1935 – 10 April 2012) was an Italian film actress, best known for major roles in ''Umberto D.'' and ''Un americano a Roma''.
Born in San Pio delle Camere, L'Aquila, Casilio was quite active between 1952 and 1960, ...
: Carmela
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Albino Cocco
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: Antonio
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Lauro Gazzolo
Lauro Gazzolo (born Ilario Gazzolo; 15 October 1900 – 2 October 1970) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Nervi in Genoa, Gazzolo began his career on screen in 1938 starring in the comedy film ''The Document'' and beca ...
: the master
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Amedeo Trilli
Amedeo Trilli (9 July 1906 – 30 November 1971) was an Italian film and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Ronciglione, Viterbo, at very young age Trilli worked as a circus artist, then in 1922 he studied performance at the Accademia ...
Dopoguerra 1920
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Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi (15 June 1920 – 24 February 2003) was an Italian actor, voice actor, singer, comedian, director and screenwriter.
Early life
Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician and the last of five children, Sordi was named in hon ...
: Alberto
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Silvana Pampanini
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: Susanna
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Giuseppe Porelli
Giuseppe Porelli (24 November 1897 – 5 March 1982) was an Italian stage, film and television actor.
Life and career
Born Giuseppe Porcelli in Naples, he graduated from the Istituto Tecnico and became an employee of Ferrovie dello Stato. Wh ...
: Fosco D'Agata
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Alba Arnova
Alba Arnova (15 March 1930 – 11 March 2018) was an Italian-Argentine ballerina and film actress.
Life and career
Born in Buenos Aires as Alba Fossati, daughter of two Italian emigrants, Arnova studied piano at the Conservatory and enrolled ...
: Yvonne
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Arturo Bragaglia
Arturo Bragaglia (7 January 1893 – 21 January 1962) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1938 to 1961.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
1893 births
1962 deaths
Italian male f ...
: zio di Alberto
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Franco Migliacci
Francesco "Franco" Migliacci (born 28 October 1930 in Mantua) is a lyricist, producer, and actor.
Biography
He studied in Florence where his family had settled, here he entered in a competition for young players, in which he won a stay of ...
Napoli 1943
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Antonella Lualdi
Antonella Lualdi ( gr, Αντονέλλα Λουάλντι, born Antonietta de Pascale; 6 July 1931) is an Italian actress and singer. She appeared in many Italian and French films in the 1950s and 1960s, notably in Claude Autant-Lara's film '' ...
: Carla
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Franco Pastorino
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: Renato
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Ugo D'Alessio
Ugo D'Alessio (1909–1979) was an Italian film actor.Goble p.113
Selected filmography
* '' Malaspina'' (1947) - Nicola
* '' Madunnella'' (1948) - Il ragionere, padre di Maria
* '' Assunta Spina'' (1948) - Epanimonda Pesce
* '' Red Moon'' (1951 ...
References
External links
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1954 films
Italian drama films
Italian romance films
Italian historical films
1954 drama films
1950s romance films
1950s historical films
Films directed by Roberto Rossellini
Films directed by Pietro Germi
Films directed by Antonio Pietrangeli
Films directed by Glauco Pellegrini
Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli
Melodrama films
1950s Italian films
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