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The Cheerful Squadron
''The Cheerful Squadron'' ( it, Allegro squadrone, french: Les gaietés de l'escadron) is a 1954 Italian-French historical war comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and starring Vittorio De Sica, Daniel Gélin, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. It is the third adaptation of a story by Georges Courteline about life in the French military in the late nineteenth century. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gianni Polidori. Cast *Vittorio De Sica as the General *Daniel Gélin as Frédéric d'Héricourt *Paolo Stoppa as Maresciallo Flik *Alberto Sordi as Vergisson *Silvana Pampanini as Albertina *Charles Vanel as Hurluret *Luigi Pavese as Capitano medico *Riccardo Fellini as Bonaparte *Memmo Carotenuto as Sergente maggiore * Peter Trent as Lt. Moussent * Giacomo Furia as Caporale * Jean Richard as Laperrine *Oreste Lionello See also *''The Gaieties of the Squadron'' (1913) *''Fun in the Barracks ''Fun in the Barracks'' (French: ''Les Gaîtés de l'escadron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Moffa
Paolo Moffa (16 December 1915 – 2004) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed seven films between 1943 and 1982. Born in Rome, Moffa started his career in the 1930s as a script supervisor. Mainly active as an executive producer, he was also second unit director for numerous films until 1958. He was the founder of the film company Società Ambrosiana Cinematografica. He was also a film editor and a documentarist. Selected filmography * ''The Last Days of Pompeii'' (a.k.a. ''Sins of Pompeii'') (1950 - director) * '' Husband and Wife'' (1952, producer) * ''The Cheerful Squadron'' (1954 - director) * ''The Island Princess'' (1954 - director) * '' Hercules, Prisoner of Evil'' (1964 - producer) * ''Five for Hell'' (1969 - producer) * ''Sartana the Gravedigger ''I am Sartana, Your Angel of Death'' ( it, Sono Sartana, il vostro becchino) is a 1969 Italian Western (genre), Western film directed by Giuliano Carnimeo and starring Gianni Garko as Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Polidori
Gianni Polidori (1923–1992) was an Italian art director. He designed the sets for several films by Michelangelo Antonioni.Chatman p.266-67 Selected filmography * '' Bellissima'' (1951) * '' Honeymoon Deferred'' (1951) * ''The Overcoat'' (1952) * ''The Tired Outlaw'' (1952) * ''At Sword's Edge'' (1952) * '' The Lady Without Camelias'' (1953) * '' Love in the City'' (1953) * '' I vinti'' (1953) * ''We, the Women'' (1953) * ''The Cheerful Squadron'' (1954) * ''Marriage'' (1954) * ''Le Amiche'' (1955) * ''Rascel-Fifì'' (1957) * '' Kean: Genius or Scoundrel'' (1957) * ''Goliath and the Vampires ''Goliath and the Vampires'' ( it, Maciste contro il vampiro) is a 1961 Italian ''peplum'' film directed by Sergio Corbucci and Giacomo Gentilomo. Plot Set in the ancient world, this film follows a powerful muscular man out to battle a vampire a ...'' (1961) References Bibliography * Seymour Chatman. ''Antonioni, Or, The Surface of the World''. University of California Press, 1985. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s War Comedy Films
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establish his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 Films
Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – 1954 Blons avalanches, Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau rebellion, Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fun In The Barracks
''Fun in the Barracks'' (French: ''Les Gaîtés de l'escadron '' or ''Les Gaietés de l'escadron'') is a 1932 French comedy film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Raimu, Jean Gabin and Fernandel. It was based on a play by Georges Courteline and Edouard Nores. Tourneur was remaking the story, having previously filmed a silent version in 1913. The film was one of the most expensive made by Tourneur and was a popular commercial hit.Waldman p.146 Synopsis The film is set in 1885. It focuses on a group of troops, a mix of regulars and reservists, and their different responses to the daily military routines. A crisis emerges when a General pays a visit while two deserters are still absent. Cast * Raimu as Le capitaine Hurluret * Jean Gabin as Fricot * Fernandel as Vanderague * René Donnio as Laplote * Charles Camus as Adjudant Flick * Pierre Labry as Potiron * Frédéric Munié as Lieutenant Mousseret * Lucien Nat as Maréchal des Logis chef Barnot * Pierre Fer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gaieties Of The Squadron
''The Gaieties of the Squadron'' (French: ''Les gaîtés de l'escadron'') is a 1913 French silent comedy film directed by Joseph Faivre and Maurice Tourneur and starring Edmond Duquesne, Henry Roussel and Henri Gouget.Waldman p.7 It is a military-based farce adapted from the popular play by Georges Courteline. Tourneur later remade it as a sound film ''Fun in the Barracks'' (1932). Plot The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines. Cast * Edmond Duquesne as Capitaine Hurtulet * Henry Roussel as Le général * Henri Gouget as L'adjudant Flick * Pierre Delmonde * Maurice de Féraudy Maurice de Féraudy (born in Joinville-le-Pont on December 3, 1859 - died in Paris May 12, 1932) was a French songwriter, stage and film director, and actor at the Comédie-Française. He was the father of actor Jacques de Féraudy Jacques de F� ... * Charles Krauss * Fernande Petit * Polaire References Bibliography * Waldman, Harry. ''Maurice Tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oreste Lionello
Oreste Lionello (18 April 1927 – 19 February 2009) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Lionello was born in Rhodes (which was then a possession of Italy), to Calabrian parents, and grew up in Reggio Calabria. He began his career as a theatre actor, and was considered amongst the founders of Italian cabaret. In 1953 he entered the Musical Theatrical Company of RAI (Italian state TV) and the following year he debuted in television with ''Marziano Filippo'', a boys' show. In the 1960s, he was one of the founders of the Bagaglino comic theatre and TV company and he had found success as an entertainer on Italian TV in the 1970s and 1980s. As an actor, Lionello acted in over 56 feature films and several television shows. He appeared in five episodes of ''Le avventure di Laura Storm'' and he made his debut film appearance in ''The Cheerful Squadron''. As a voice actor, Lionello was the official Italian voice of Woody Allen. Other actors he dubbed included Charlie Chaplin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Richard (actor)
Jean Richard (18 April 1921 – 12 December 2001) was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur. He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's ''Maigret Jules Maigret (), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a '' commissaire'' ("commissioner") of the Paris ''Brigade Criminelle'' ('' Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres''), created b ...'' in the eponymous French television series, which he played for more than twenty years, and for his circus activities. Richard was born in Bessines, Deux-Sevres. In the 1970s–1980s, he owned and managed three major circuses, two theme parks near Paris, La Mer de Sable and La Vallée des Peaux-Rouges, and a private zoo in his property of Ermenonville, Oise. He died on 12 December 2001 in Senlis, aged 80. Filmography *1947: ''Six heures à perdre'' (directed by Alex Joffé Jean Lévitte) – Le sergent de ville *1949: ''Mission à Tanger'' (directed by André ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Furia
Giacomo Matteo Furia (2 January 1925 – 5 June 2015) was an Italian film, television and stage actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1948 and 1998. Life and career Born in Arienzo, near Caserta, Furia started his acting career thanks to Eduardo De Filippo, he had met through an after-school summer job; he made his professional debut on stage in 1945, in De Filippo's "Napoli milionaria". He made his film debut three years later, in Mario Mattoli's '' Assunta Spina''; mainly cast in character roles, he was often a sidekick of Totò, notably landing a major role in ''The Band of Honest Men''. His credits include films directed by Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini and Francesco Rosi. In 1997 Furia released an autobiography written in collaboration with Michele Avitabile, ''Le maggiorate, il principe e l'ultimo degli onesti''. He died on 5 June 2015, aged 90. Selected filmography * '' Assunta Spina'' (1948) - Tittariello * ''The Bride Can't Wai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Trent
Peter Francis Trent, (born 5 January 1946) is an English-born Canadian businessman and politician. He was mayor of Westmount, Quebec until his retirement in April 2017. He was first elected as councillor in 1983. He served as mayor from 1992 to 2001; he left politics at that time due to the forced merger with the City of Montreal. He again became Mayor of Westmount by acclamation during the 1 November 2009 municipal election. Born in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, Trent and his family immigrated to Toronto when he was 10. In 1968, at the age of 22 he left McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario to work for a chemical company in Montreal. In 1972, he started his own company (with Raymond Charlebois), PBI/Plastibeton Inc. which he would later sell in 1989 to Shell Oil and Lone Star Industries. From 1982 to 1983, he taught Marketing at Concordia University's Faculty of Commerce and Administration. In 1992, he received a medal marking the 125th anniversary of Canada. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memmo Carotenuto
Memmo Carotenuto (23 August 1908 – 23 December 1980) was an Italian actor. He appeared in 125 films between 1941 and 1980. Selected filmography *''The Wedding Trip'' (1969) * ''Assassination in Rome'' (1965) * ''Male Companion'' (1964) * '' Cocagne'' (1961) * ''Ten Ready Rifles'' (1959) * ''Ferdinando I, re di Napoli'' (1959) * ''Everyone's in Love'' (1959) * ''My Wife's Enemy'' (1959) * '' Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!'' (1958) * ''The Italians They Are Crazy'' (1958) * ''Legs of Gold'' (1958) * ''Big Deal on Madonna Street'' (1958) * ''The Most Wonderful Moment'' (1957) * '' Fathers and Sons'' (1957) * ''Poveri ma belli'' (1957) * '' The Bigamist'' (1956) * ''Lucky to Be a Woman'' (1956) * ''The Band of Honest Men'' (1956) * ''Bread, Love and Jealousy'' (1954) * '' A Slice of Life'' (1954) * ''Too Bad She's Bad'' (1954) * ''Disowned'' (1954) * ''The Three Thieves'' (1954) * ''House of Ricordi'' (1954) * ''Via Padova 46'' (1953) * ''Pane, Amore e Fantasia ''Bread, Love and D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riccardo Fellini
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Riccardo Fellini ( 21 February 1921 - 26 March 1991) was an Italian film actor.Mitchell p.200 He also worked as a director on documentaries for RAI. He was the brother of the director Federico Fellini and starred in his 1953 film ''I Vitelloni''. His younger sister was the actress Maddalena Fellini. Filmography References Bibliography * Mitchell, Charles P. ''The Great Composers Portrayed on Film, 1913 through 2002''. McFarland, 2004. External links * 1921 births 1991 deaths Italian television directors Italian male film actors People from Rimini Riccardo Riccardo is a male given name, Italian version of Ricardo or Richard. It also may be a surname. It means "Powerful Leader". It may refer to: People A–L *Riccardo Antoniazzi (1853–1912), Italian violin maker *Riccardo Bacchelli (1891–1985 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
