''Sleeping Beauty'' (Italian: ''La bella addormentata'') is a 1942 Italian
drama film
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directed by
Luigi Chiarini
Luigi Chiarini (20 June 1900 – 12 November 1975) was an Italian film theorist, essayist, screenwriter and film director.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Chiarini wrote extensively about film theory and in 1935 he founded the drama school Centr ...
and starring
Luisa Ferida
Luisa Ferida, real surname Manfrini, (18 March 1914 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian stage and film actress. She was one of divas in Italian cinema during decade 1935-1945 and she was the highest paid movie star of that period. The actress w ...
,
Amedeo Nazzari
Amedeo Nazzari (10 December 1907 in Cagliari – 5 November 1979 in Rome) was an Italian actor. Nazzari was one of the leading figures of Italian classic cinema, often considered a local variant of the Australian–American star Errol Flynn. Al ...
and
Osvaldo Valenti
Osvaldo Valenti (17 February 1906 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1928 and 1945. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey to a Sicilian carpet trader and a wealthy Lebanese woman of Greek descen ...
.
[Moliterno p.80] The film was screened at the 1942
Venice Film Festival
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. It is based on a 1919 play by Pier Maria Rosso di San
Secondo. It belongs to the movies of the
calligrafismo
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style.
Cast
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Luisa Ferida
Luisa Ferida, real surname Manfrini, (18 March 1914 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian stage and film actress. She was one of divas in Italian cinema during decade 1935-1945 and she was the highest paid movie star of that period. The actress w ...
as Carmela
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Amedeo Nazzari
Amedeo Nazzari (10 December 1907 in Cagliari – 5 November 1979 in Rome) was an Italian actor. Nazzari was one of the leading figures of Italian classic cinema, often considered a local variant of the Australian–American star Errol Flynn. Al ...
as Salvatore detto 'Il Nero della solfara'
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Osvaldo Valenti
Osvaldo Valenti (17 February 1906 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1928 and 1945. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey to a Sicilian carpet trader and a wealthy Lebanese woman of Greek descen ...
as Don Vincenzo Caramandola
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Teresa Franchini
Teresa Franchini (19 September 1877 – 11 August 1972) was an Italian stage and film actress. She was a leading lady of the theatre in her youth, appearing in the first Italian staging of Oscar Wilde's '' Lady Windermere's Fan'' in 1905. Beginni ...
as Zia Agata
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Pina Piovani
Pina Piovani (20 March 1897 – 2 January 1955) was an Italian stage and film actress
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as Nunziata
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Margherita Bossi
Margherita is an Italian feminine given name. It also is a surname. As a word, in Italian it means " daisy".
Given name
As a name, it may refer to:
*Margherita Aldobrandini (1588–1646), Duchess consort of Parma
*Margherita de' Medici (1612 ...
as Donna Concetta, la barista
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Giovanni Dolfini
Giovanni Dolfini (1885-1968) was an Italian stage and film actor.Gambetti p.101 He also directed the 1920 silent film ''Dopo''.
Selected filmography
* '' Agrippina'' (1911)
* '' The Last Adventure'' (1932)
* ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1942)
* ''A Yank ...
as Isidoro
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Guido Celano
Guido Celano (19 April 1904 – 7 March 1988) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film director. He appeared in 120 films between 1931 and 1988. He also directed two Spaghetti Westerns: '' Cold Killer'' and '' Gun Shy Piluk''. He was born ...
as Lo solfataro
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Angelo Dessy
Angelo Dessy (10 July 1907 - 17 January 1983) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films from 1940 to 1974.
Filmography
References
External links
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1907 births
1983 deaths
Italian male film actors
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as Un altro solfataro
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Fiorella Betti
Fiorella Betti (1927–2001) was an Italian actress.Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi. ''I film: Tutti i film italiani dal 1930 al 1944''. Gremese Editore, 2005. p.56. She was also a voice actress, dubbing a number of actresses in postwar Italian film ...
as Erminia detta "Pepespezie"
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Gildo Bocci
Gildo Bocci (1 September 1886 – 22 July 1964) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1913 and 1959. He was born and died in Rome, Italy.
Partial filmography
* ''Messalina'' (1924) - Apollonio
* ''Quo Vadis'' (1924) - ...
as Un mercante
References
Bibliography
* Brunetta, Gian Piero. ''The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century''. Princeton University Press, 2009.
* Moliterno, Gino. ''The A to Z of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
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1942 films
Italian drama films
1942 drama films
1940s Italian-language films
Films directed by Luigi Chiarini
Italian films based on plays
Italian black-and-white films
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