''The Matchmaker'' (Italian: ''Paraninfo'') is a 1934 Italian
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Amleto Palermi
Amleto Palermi (11 July 1889 – 20 April 1941) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 70 films between 1914 and 1942. He directed '' The Old Lady'', which starred Vittorio De Sica in his first sound film.
Se ...
and starring
Angelo Musco
Angelo Musco (18 December 1872 – 6 October 1937) was an Italian actor in theater and film. He was known for his comic abilities as well as for his carefully drawn psychological portraits.
Life and career
Born in Catania, Catania, Sicily to ...
,
Rosina Anselmi
Rosina Anselmi ( 26 July 1880 – 23 May 1965) was an Italian stage, television and film actress. She was a prominent actress in the Sicilian language theater, especially in the province of Catania.
Life and career
Born in Caltagirone, Cata ...
and
Enrica Fantis Enrica is a feminine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Enrica Antonioni (born 1952), Italian film director and actress
*Enrica Bonaccorti (born 1949), Italian actress
*Enrica Calabresi (1891–1944), Italian zoologist
*Enri ...
.
[Goble p.70]
Cast
*
Angelo Musco
Angelo Musco (18 December 1872 – 6 October 1937) was an Italian actor in theater and film. He was known for his comic abilities as well as for his carefully drawn psychological portraits.
Life and career
Born in Catania, Catania, Sicily to ...
as Don Pasquale Minnedda
*
Rosina Anselmi
Rosina Anselmi ( 26 July 1880 – 23 May 1965) was an Italian stage, television and film actress. She was a prominent actress in the Sicilian language theater, especially in the province of Catania.
Life and career
Born in Caltagirone, Cata ...
*
Enrica Fantis Enrica is a feminine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Enrica Antonioni (born 1952), Italian film director and actress
*Enrica Bonaccorti (born 1949), Italian actress
*Enrica Calabresi (1891–1944), Italian zoologist
*Enri ...
as Signora Minnedda
*
Luisa Garella
Luisa Garella is an Italian former film actress who appeared in a number of films during the Fascist era.Goble p.179 Her birth year has been given as both 1913 and 1921.
Selected filmography
* ''The Matchmaker'' (1934)
* ''The Man Who Smiles'' ...
*
Carlo Petrangeli Carlo is a given name. It is an Italian form of Charles. It can refer to:
*Carlo (name)
*Monte Carlo
*Carlingford, New South Wales, a suburb in north-west Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
*A satirical song written by Dafydd Iwan about Prince Char ...
*
Camillo Pilotto
Camillo Pilotto (6 February 1888 Birth name: Camillo Raul Vittorio Pilotto. – 27 May 1963) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 101 films between 1916 and 1963. He was born and died in Rome, Italy.
Selected filmography
* ''The Song ...
as Il direttore della banda
*
Francesco Amodio
*
Alberto Angelini
Alberto Angelini (born 28 September 1974 in Savona) is a retired water polo player from Italy, who represented his native country at four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 (Atlanta, Georgia). He was a member of the Italy men's nation ...
*
Ada Cannavò
Ada may refer to:
Places
Africa
* Ada Foah, a town in Ghana
* Ada (Ghana parliament constituency)
* Ada, Osun, a town in Nigeria
Asia
* Ada, Urmia, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
* Ada, Karaman, a village in Karaman Province, Tur ...
*
Eugenio Colombo
Eugenio Colombo (born 10 December 1953 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian saxophonist and flautist most associated with avant-garde jazz. A founding member of the Italian Instabile Orchestra, Colombo has worked with such musicians as Mario Schiano, Gi ...
*
Vera Dani
Vera may refer to:
Names
*Vera (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
*Vera (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name)
**Vera (), archbishop of the archdiocese of Tarrag ...
*
María Denis
María Denis (22 November 1916 – 15 April 2004) was an Argentine-born actress in Italian made films. Denis moved to Italy in 1932 when she was 16, and appeared in her first film there the same year. Denis became a top Italian star between 1936 a ...
*
Mariù Gleck
*
Maria Jacobini
Maria Jacobini (17 February 1892 – 20 November 1944) was an Italian film actress. She was married to the film director Gennaro Righelli and appeared in many of his silent films for the Vesuvio Film Company.Moliterno p.266 She worked in the Germ ...
*
Amedeo Vecci Amedeo is an Italian given name meaning "lover of God", "loves God", or more correctly "for the love of God" and cognate to the Latin name Amadeus and the Spanish and Portuguese Amadeo.
People with this name include:
* A number of rulers and noble ...
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
*
1934 comedy films
Italian comedy films
1934 films
1930s Italian-language films
Films directed by Amleto Palermi
Italian black-and-white films
1930s Italian films
{{1930s-Italy-comedy-film-stub