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I'll Give A Million (1936 Film)
''I'll Give a Million'' ( it, Darò un milione) is a 1935 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Vittorio De Sica. It is based on the first screenplay by Cesare Zavattini which tells the story of a disillusioned millionaire who, tired of the attempts of greedy friends and relatives to sponge off of him, becomes a bum in order to find a decent human being. It had an American remake in 1938, again titled '' I'll Give a Million'' and starring Warner Baxter as the millionaire. It was shot at the Cines Studios in Rome. Plot A millionaire is about to commit suicide by leaping off of his yacht into the sea. He is just about to go when he spies a bum attempting suicide himself. The rich man saves the bum and tells him of his frustration with his friends and relatives who are always seeking a handout. He then claims that he will give a million francs to the first person to treat him kindly without thinking about his wealth. The next day, the tram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Camerini
Mario Camerini (6 February 1895 – 4 February 1981) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. The cousin of Augusto Genina, he made the most well-known films in Italy during the 1930s, most of them comedies starring Vittorio De Sica. He directed about 50 films till 1972, including ''Ulysses'' with American stars Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn, one of the first Europe/U.S.A. film coproductions. He died in 1981 in Gardone Rivera, Italy. Selected filmography * '' Wally'' (1923) *'' Jolly clown da circo'' (1923) * ''The House of Pulcini'' (1924) * '' Voglio tradire mio marito'' (1925) * '' Saetta, principe per un giorno'' (1925) * ''Maciste against the Sheik'' (1925) * '' Kif Tebbi'' (1928) * '' Rails'' (1929) * ''Figaro and His Great Day'' (1931) * '' The Last Adventure'' (1932) * '' What Scoundrels Men Are!'' (1932) * ''Giallo'' (1933) * '' T'amerò sempre'' (1933) *'' The Three-Cornered Hat'' (1935) * '' Like the Leaves'' (1935) *'' The Great Appeal'' (1936) *'' I'l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Baxter
Warner Leroy Baxter (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was an American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Baxter is known for his role as the Cisco Kid in the 1928 film ''In Old Arizona'', for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 2nd Academy Awards. He frequently played womanizing, charismatic Latin bandit types in Westerns, and played the Cisco Kid or a similar character throughout the 1930s, but had a range of other roles throughout his career. Baxter began his movie career in silent films with his most notable roles being in ''The Great Gatsby'' (1926) and ''The Awful Truth'' (1925). Baxter's most notable talkies are In Old Arizona (1929), '' 42nd Street'' (1933), ''Slave Ship'' (1937) with Wallace Beery, '' Kidnapped'' (1938) with Freddie Bartholomew, and the 1931 ensemble short film, ''The Stolen Jools''. In the 1940s, he was well known for his recurring role as Dr. Robert Ordway in the '' Crime Doctor'' series of 10 films. For his contributions to the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Mario Camerini
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Italian Comedy Films
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Italian Black-and-white Films
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1930s Italian-language Films
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1935 Comedy Films
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1935 Films
The following is an overview of 1935 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. The cinema releases of 1935 were highly representative of the early Golden Age period of Hollywood. This period was punctuated by performances from Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and the first teaming of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. A significant number of productions also originated in the UK film industry. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1935 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * February 22 – '' The Little Colonel'' premieres starring Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore and Bill Robinson, featuring famous stair dance with Hollywood's first interracial dance couple * February 23 – Gene Autry stars as himself as the Singing Cowboy in the serial ''The Phantom Empire''. He would later be voted the number one Western star from 1937 to 1942. * February 27 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesare Zoppetti
Cesare Zoppetti (January 1, 1876 – March 15, 1940) was an Italian stage and film actor. Zoppetti was a prolific film actor of the 1930s, appearing in nearly fifty productions between 1930 and his death in 1940 including the comedy '' What Scoundrels Men Are!'' (1932).Landy p.85-86 Selected filmography * ''The Private Secretary'' (1931) * ''Television'' (1931) * '' What Scoundrels Men Are!'' (1932). * ''The Table of the Poor'' (1932) * '' Your Money or Your Life'' (1932) * ''The Blue Fleet'' (1932) * '' The Gift of the Morning'' (1932) * '' The Last Adventure'' (1932) * ''Tourist Train'' (1933) * ''Seconda B'' (1934) * '' The Old Guard'' (1934) * ''1860'' (1934) * '' Mr. Desire'' (1934) * '' The Wedding March'' (1934) * '' Three Cornered Hat'' (1935) * '' The Wedding March'' (1936) * '' I'll Give a Million'' (1936) * ''Bayonet'' (1936) * ''Joe the Red'' (1936) * ''The Dance of Time'' (1936) * '' The Ambassador'' (1936) * ''The Former Mattia Pascal'' (1937) * '' Departure'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gemma Bolognesi
Gemma Bolognesi (4 November 1894 – 26 March 1983) was an Italian actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1916 to 1954. Biography Bolognesi began acting at an early age and made her debut with the ensemble of the Teatro Manzoni in Milan under Marco Praga. In 1919 she became the ensemble's first actress alongside and the following year led her own ensemble with . Further seasons of her stage career were alongside Enzo Biliotti (1921) and from 1922 to 1926 the ''Teatro del Popolo'' (as its first actress from 1924), again in Milan. The following season saw her in the theater company around Luigi Zoncada and later, in 1932, next to Carlo Tamberlani. Bolognesi had made her film debut in 1916 in ''Cura di baci'' by Emilio Graziani-Walter, but found little satisfaction with it, so she concentrated on her theater work. It was not until the mid-1930s, when the time of the big stage roles was over, that she developed into a sought-after character actress playing cultured w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Coop
Franco Coop (27 September 1891 – 27 March 1962), was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 65 films between 1931 and 1960. He was born in Naples, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * '' Before the Jury'' (1931) * '' Mother Earth'' (1931) * '' Five to Nil'' (1932) * '' La segretaria per tutti'' (1933) *''Nini Falpala'' (1933) * '' My Little One'' (1933) * '' Everybody's Woman'' (1934) * ''The Last of the Bergeracs'' (1934) * '' Lady of Paradise'' (1934) * ''Aldebaran'' (1935) * ''Those Two'' (1935) * ''Sette giorni all'altro mondo ''Sette giorni all'altro mondo'' is a 1936 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli. Cast *Camillo Pilotto * Vanna Vanni * Franco Coop *Nietta Zocchi *Emilio Petacci *Virgilio Riento *Guglielmo Barnabò Guglielmo Ba ...'' (1936) * ''The Amnesiac'' (1936) * ''I'll Give a Million (1936 film), I'll Give a Million'' (1936) * ''The Last Days of Pompeo'' (1937) * ''Hands Off Me!'' (1937) * ''The Three W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Gallina
Mario Gallina (23 March 1889 – 26 September 1950) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Gallina was born in Trieste, which was then a possession of Austria-Hungary (now Italy). He was the son of theatre actors Enrico Gallina and Elena Fabbri and the nephew of playwright Giacinto Gallina. He began his career in 1911 working as a theatre actor, starring in many plays and working alongside other stage icons such as Enrico Viarisio, Marga Cella and Alfredo Sainati. Gallina was mainly active on stage and screen. He appeared in over 28 films between 1916 and 1950. In 1933, Gallina sought a career as a screen actor and later, a voice dubber. He had already starred in two silent films between 1916 and 1917. Among his most popular filmography includes the 1943 film '' The Children Are Watching Us'' directed by Vittorio De Sica. He also provided the Italian voice of Honest John in the 1940 animated film ''Pinocchio'' as well as the Ringmaster in ''Dumbo''. Death Gallina died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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