Gabriele Maria "Gabriellino" D'Annunzio (10 April 1886 – 8 December 1945) was an Italian

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, screenwriter and film director. He was the son of the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio. He adapted the 1921 film '' The Ship'' from a novel by his father.Brunetta p.60 In 1924 he co-directed the epic ''

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, but the project was a commercial failure and he retired from filmmaking. He died on 8 December 1945 at 59 years old, due to a disease that afflicted him.

Selected filmography

* '' The Ship'' (1921) * ''

'' (1924)

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.

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* 1886 births 1945 deaths Italian male film actors Italian film directors 20th-century Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters Writers from Rome 20th-century Italian male actors 20th-century Italian male writers {{Italy-actor-stub