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March's Child
''March's Child'' (Italian:''Nata di marzo'') is a 1958 Italian comedy film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti. Partial cast * Gabriele Ferzetti: Sandro * Jacqueline Sassard: Francesca * Mario Valdemarin: Carlo * Tina De Mola: Nella * Ester Carloni: Grandmom * Franca Mazzoni: Francesca's mother * Edda Ferronao: Venetian maid * Dario Fo Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. ... (cameo) References External links * 1958 films 1950s Italian-language films Films set in Milan Films directed by Antonio Pietrangeli Italian comedy films 1958 comedy films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Pietrangeli
Antonio Pietrangeli (19 January 191912 July 1968) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was a major practitioner of the Commedia all'italiana genre. Biography Pietrangeli was born in Rome. He started in the film industry by writing movie reviews for Italian cinema magazines such as ''Bianco e Nero'' and ''Cinema''. As a screenwriter, his works include '' Ossessione'' and '' La terra trema'' directed by Luchino Visconti, '' Fabiola'' directed by Alessandro Blasetti, and ''Europa '51'' directed by Roberto Rossellini. Pietrangeli's own directing debut was '' Il sole negli occhi'', a 1953 film starring Gabriele Ferzetti. This was followed by the Alberto Sordi comedies '' Lo scapolo'' (1956) and '' Souvenir d'Italie'' (1957). The director's career highlights include ''Adua e le compagne'' (1960), a drama with Marcello Mastroianni and Simone Signoret, the supernatural comedy ''Fantasmi a Roma'' (1961), again with Mastroianni, ''Il magnifico cornuto'' (1964), a comedy of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina De Mola
Ernesta De Mola, best known as Tina De Mola (28 October 1923 – 18 April 2012), was an Italian actress, singer and television personality. Life and career Born in Milan, De Mola was the daughter of a barber. After winning a contest for new voices in 1941, she started her career as singer-actress with several avanspettacolo companies. In 1942, she met Renato Rascel, and soon she became his wife and the primadonna in his revue company. That same year she made her film debut, in Giacomo Gentilomo's '' Pazzo d'amore''. In 1946, De Mola participated to the Miss Italia beauty contest, getting the title of "Miss Sorriso D'Italia". After working on stage with the companies led by Erminio Macario, Ugo Tognazzi and Mario Carotenuto, she successfully toured South America with a program of Italian music. From 1955 onwards, she also became a central figure in the early Italian television, as a hostess and soubrette in a number of variety shows. De Mola and Rascel obtained the Roman Rot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Comedy Films
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Films Directed By Antonio Pietrangeli
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Set In Milan
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s Italian-language 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 hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Films
The year 1958 in film in the US involved some significant events, including the hit musicals ''South Pacific'' and '' Gigi'', the latter of which won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1958 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 29 – '' Ascenseur pour l'échafaud'' is an early example of the French New Wave; it is also notable for the improvised soundtrack by Miles Davis. '' Le Beau Serge'' is credited as the first French New Wave feature. * February 16 – '' In the Money'' by William Beaudine is released. It will be the last installment of The Bowery Boys series which began in 1946. * February 27 – Harry Cohn, the remaining founder of Columbia Pictures and one of the last remaining Hollywood movie moguls, dies. * The second installment of Sergei Eisenstein's '' Ivan the Terrible'' is officially released, having previously been shelved for political reasons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dario Fo
Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. In his time he was "arguably the most widely performed contemporary playwright in world theatre".Mitchell 1999, p. xiii Much of his dramatic work depends on improvisation and comprises the recovery of "illegitimate" forms of theatre, such as those performed by ''giullari'' (medieval strolling players) and, more famously, the ancient Italian style of ''commedia dell'arte''. His plays have been translated into 30 languages and performed across the world, including in Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Iran, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States and Yugoslavia. His work of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s is peppered with criticisms of assassinations, corruptio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edda Ferronao
Edda Ferronao is an Italian former stage, film and television actress.Bayman p. 241 Selected filmography * ''March's Child'' (1957) * '' Toto, Peppino and the Fanatics'' (1958) * ''The Conqueror of the Orient'' (1960) * ''Fountain of Trevi'' (1960) * '' Vulcan, Son of Giove'' (1962) * ''Slaughter of the Vampires'' (1962) * ''Il Sorpasso'' (1962) * ''The Organizer'' (1963) * ''Desert Raiders'' (1964) * '' The Magnificent Cuckold'' (1964) * ''Let's Talk About Women'' (1964) * '' The Libertine'' (1968) * ''Madame Bovary'' (1969) * ''Brancaleone at the Crusades'' (1970) * ''Una cavalla tutta nuda ''Una cavalla tutta nuda'' (literally ''The all-naked horse'') is a 1972 commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Franco Rossetti. Plot The story is set in the Middle Ages. The youngsters Folcacchio and Guffardo must bring an embassy to the Bis ...'' (1972) * '' The Mattei Affair'' (1972) * '' The Devil Is a Woman'' (1974) References Bibliography * Bayman, Louis. ''Directory of W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Sassard
Jacqueline Sassard (13 March 1940 – 17 July 2021) was a French actress who appeared in Italian films such as '' Guendalina'' directed by Alberto Lattuada, a young woman with family and financial troubles in Luigi Zampa's '' Il Magistrato'' and Valerio Zurlini's ''Violent Summer'' (1959), in which her character was left by Jean-Louis Trintignant. In 1959 she also played in Italy the role of an English journalist on a business trip to the Kingdom of Naples in the comedy film Ferdinando I °, Re di Napoli (Ferdinand the 1st, King of Naples) starring the brothers Eduardo, Peppino and Titina De Filippo, Neapolitan leading figures of Italian theater. In the cast were also other glorious names of Italian comedy such as Aldo Fabrizi, Vittorio De Sica, Renato Rascel as well as a young Marcello Mastroianni. Her best remembered role was in Joseph Losey's ''Accident'', with a script by Harold Pinter (1967), where she played an Austrian princess. Her final screen appearance was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piero Piccioni
Piero Piccioni (; December 6, 1921 – July 23, 2004) was an Italian film score composer and lawyer. A pianist, organist, conductor, composer, he was also the prolific author of more than 300 film soundtracks. He played for the first time on radio in 1938 with his “013” Big Band, to return on air only after the liberation of Italy in 1944. “013” was the first Italian jazz band to be broadcast in Italy after the fall of Fascism. Early life Piero Piccioni was born in Turin, Piedmont. His mother's maiden name was Marengo, hence his pseudonym Piero Morgan, which he adopted until 1957. When he was growing up, his father Attilio Piccioni (a prominent member of the Italian Christian Democratic Party with the post-war Italian government), would frequently take him to hear concerts at the EIAR Radio Studios in Florence. Having listened to jazz throughout his childhood (he loved the music of Art Tatum and Charlie Parker) and attending studies at the Conservatorio Luigi Che ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mymovies
MYmovies.it is a website dedicated to Italian cinema. Established in 2000, the website contains a database on Italian films and television series and actors with films from 1895 to present. The website also features reviews of up and coming films, interviews with actors and directors and other notable figures in the Italian film industry and international news related to film. In 2010, it also launched a streaming platform, ''Mymovieslive!''. The website is particularly popular among Italian men aged 25 to 45 according to demographic surveys and is the 56th most popular website with Internet users from Italy. As of 2013, the website included over one million pages, over 200,000 reviews, and it collected over 3 million monthly unique visitor Website popularity is commonly determined using the number of unique users, and the metric is often quoted to potential advertisers or investors. A website's number of unique users is usually measured over a standard period of time, typical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
