''Red Tavern'' (Italian: ''Taverna rossa'') is a 1940 Italian "
white-telephones"
comedy film
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directed by
Max Neufeld
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and starring
Alida Valli
Alida Maria Laura, '' Freiin'' Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), better known by her stage name Alida Valli (or simply Valli), was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films in a 70-year career, ...
,
André Mattoni, and
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 bec ...
. It was made at
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 ...
in
Rome
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, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
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. A young woman eventually marries a
count
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after a series of misunderstandings.
[Gundle p.226]
Cast
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Alida Valli
Alida Maria Laura, '' Freiin'' Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), better known by her stage name Alida Valli (or simply Valli), was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films in a 70-year career, ...
as Susanna Sormani
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André Mattoni as Il conte Carlo Torresi
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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 bec ...
as Il marchese Domenico Torresi, suo zio
*
Oreste Bilancia
Oreste Bilancia (24 September 1881 – 31 October 1945) was an Italian film actor.
Born in Catania, Sicily he was a star of Italian films in the silent era. He worked during the 1920s in Weimar Germany which had the largest European film indus ...
as Il signor Sormanni
*
Lilia Dale
Lilia Dale (born 18 July 1919) is an Italian retired film actress.Cardullo p.100
Selected filmography
* ''Il signor Max'' (1937)
* '' Nonna Felicità'' (1938)
* '' Mad Animals'' (1939)
* '' Who Are You?'' (1939)
* ''Red Tavern
''Red Tavern'' ( ...
as Ninon
*
Umberto Sacripante
Umberto Sacripante (2 October 1904 – 14 January 1975) was an Italian film and stage actor.
Life and career
Born Umberto Sacripanti in Rome, Sacripante debuted on stage in 1921, and in 1926 he became first actor in the theatrical company Teat ...
as Il ladruncolo
*
Aristide Garbini
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Selected filmography
* '' The Crusaders'' (1918)
* ''Messalina'' (1924)
* '' Miryam'' (1929)
* ''Five to Nil'' (1932)
* '' Ragazzo'' (1934)
* '' The Old Guard'' (1934)
* ''Ald ...
as Cesarone, il maggiordomo
*
Luigi Erminio D'Olivo
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as Il tenore Farelli
*
Anna Doré
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 12 ...
as Floriana
*
Livia Minelli
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Livia was the ...
as La commesa del negozio di dischi
*
Alfredo Martinelli
Alfredo Martinelli (7 March 1899 – 11 November 1968) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 103 films between 1916 and 1967. He was born and died in Siena, Tuscany.
Selected filmography
* ''I Topi Grigi'' (1918)
* ''Tortured Soul'' (1 ...
as Un cliente del negozio di dischi
*
Rita Durnova
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People
* Rita (given name)
* Rita (Indian singer) (born 1984)
* Rita (Israeli singer) (born 1962)
* Rita (Japanese singer)
* Eliza Humphreys (1850–1938), wrote under the pseudonym Rita
Places
* Djarrit, also known as Rita ...
as Lisetta
*
Paola Doria
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People In arts and entertainment
*Paola Del Medico (born 1950), Swiss singer
* Paola e Chiara, pop music duo consisting of two sisters born ...
as Francesca
*
Ernesto Torrini Ernesto, form of the name Ernest in several Romance languages, may refer to:
* ''Ernesto'' (novel) (1953), an unfinished autobiographical novel by Umberto Saba, published posthumously in 1975
** ''Ernesto'' (film), a 1979 Italian drama loosely ba ...
as Il cameriere del locale
*
Armida Bonocore
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In Tasso's epic ''Jerusalem Delivered'' ( it, Gerusalemme liberata, link=no), Rinaldo is a fierce and determ ...
as Maria
References
Bibliography
* Gundle, Stephen. ''Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy''. Berghahn Books, 2013.
External links
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1940 films
Italian comedy films
Italian black-and-white films
1940 comedy films
1940s Italian-language films
Films directed by Max Neufeld
Films shot at Cinecittà Studios
1940s Italian films
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