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Aldo De Benedetti
Aldo De Benedetti (13 August 1892 – 19 January 1970) was an Italian screenwriter. He wrote for more than 110 films between 1920 and 1958. He was born and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Marco Visconti (1925 film), Marco Visconti'' (1925) * ''What Scoundrels Men Are!'' (1932) * ''Mr. Desire'' (1934) * ''Just Married (1934 film), Just Married'' (1934) * ''The Countess of Parma'' (1936) *''Music in the Square'' (1936) * ''Thirty Seconds of Love'' (1936) * ''Sette giorni all'altro mondo'' (1936) * ''Lohengrin (film), Lohengrin'' (1936) * ''The Last Days of Pompeo'' (1937) * ''The Carnival Is Here Again'' (1937) * ''Mother Song'' (1937) * ''These Children'' (1937) * ''Triumph of Love (1938 film), Triumph of Love'' (1938) * ''Nonna Felicità'' (1938) * ''They've Kidnapped a Man'' (1938) *''The House of Shame (1938 film), The House of Shame'' (1938) * ''The Lady in White'' (1938) * ''The Faceless Voice (1939 film), The Faceless Voice'' (1939) * ''We Were Seven Siste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2,746,984 residents in , Rome is the list of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, third most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. The Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, with a population of 4,223,885 residents, is the most populous metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in Italy. Rome metropolitan area, Its metropolitan area is the third-most populous within Italy. Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber Valley. Vatican City (the smallest country in the world and headquarters of the worldwide Catholic Church under the governance of the Holy See) is an independent country inside the city boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House Of Shame (1938 Film)
''The House of Shame'' () is a 1938 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Assia Noris and Alida Valli.Nowell-Smith p.119 It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. The film was the first time Nazzari and Valli co-starred together, as they would later go on to do a number of films. Synopsis A wife, concerned that her husband does not love her, pretends to have another suitor in order to make him jealous. Getting wise to this, he in turn pretends to have a new girlfriend. Cast * Amedeo Nazzari as Giulio * Assia Noris as Renata * Umberto Melnati as Massimo * Alida Valli as La ragazza * Giulio Stival as Un amico di Giulio * Giuseppe Porelli as Il maggiordomo * Aristide Baghetti * Giuseppe Bordonaro * Vasco Creti * Corrado De Cenzo * Jone Morino * Tatiana Pavoni * Teodoro Pescara Pateras * Giuseppe Pierozzi Giuseppe Pierozzi (11 October 1883 – 22 Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nothing New Tonight
''Nothing New Tonight'' () is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli, Carlo Ninchi and Antonio Gandusio.Reich p.173 It was shot at the Safa Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Piero Filippone and Mario Rappini. Plot Cesare, a journalist, recognises among some prostitutes arrested by the police, the young woman that saved his life some time earlier, without his having learned her identity. He tries to help the woman, Maria, and convince her to change her life, but without success. Later on, Maria asks Cesare for his help. She is dying in a hospital, but cannot tell her parents, because, some time earlier, she had told them that she was married. So, in the last hours of her life, Cesare marries Maria, and then calls for her family to be with her. Cast * Alida Valli as Maria * Carlo Ninchi as Cesare Manti * Antonio Gandusio as Il dottore Moriesi * Giuditta Rissone as Clelia, la padrona di casa * N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four Steps In The Clouds
''Four Steps in the Clouds'' () is a 1942 Italian comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Alessandro Blasetti, starring Gino Cervi and Adriana Benetti. It tells the story of a married man who agrees to act as the husband of a young pregnant woman who has been abandoned by her boyfriend. Aesthetically, it is close to Italian neorealism. It was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by Virgilio Marchi. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." It was nominated for BAFTA as Best Film from any Source. It was also responsible for popularizing English-language dubbing in Europe thanks to the dubbed version overseen by Gisella Matthews. The movie was remade several times, including ''The Virtuous Bigamist'' in 1956 and as ''A Walk in the Clouds'' in 1995. Plot The story deals with Paolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sealed Lips (1942 Film)
''Sealed Lips'' () is a 1942 Italian mystery thriller film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Fosco Giachetti, Annette Bach, Andrea Checchi and Vera Carmi.Curti p.42 It was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Piero Filippone and Mario Rappini. Synopsis A young man from a respectable background loses his head over a woman with a past. His friend, a lawyer, attempts to split the couple up and soon afterwards her murdered body is discovered. Cast * Fosco Giachetti as Ruggero D'Anzi * Annette Bach as La contessa Lydia Lamsky * Andrea Checchi as Carlo Massani * Vera Carmi as Anna Massani * Giulio Donadio as Il giudice Massani * Carlo Campanini as Camillo Pardini * Tino Scotti as Francesco Ugoletti * Armida Bonocore as Laura Croci / Antonietta Marradi * Nino Pavese as Il direttore del carcere * Armando Migliari as Il commissario * Gina Cinquini as Rosina * Nino Eller as Il presidente del tribunale * Amalia Pellegrini as La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Invisible Chains (film)
''Invisible Chains'' () is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli, Carlo Ninchi and Giuditta Rissone.Gundle p.236 It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ottavio Scotti and Mario Rappini. Plot Following the death of her industrialist father, a young socialite inherits his business empire. Discovering that she has an illegitimate half-brother, she tries to assist him by finding him employment in the factory, but his criminal behaviour lets her down. Finally, she finds love and companionship in the engineer who runs the factory on her behalf. Cast * Alida Valli as Elena Silvagni * Carlo Ninchi as Carlo Danieli * Giuditta Rissone as La signora Matilde Silvagni * Andrea Checchi as Enrico Leni, il fratellastro * Jone Morino as La madre di Enrico * Carlo Campanini as Cesare Tani * Luigi Almirante as Un amico dei Silvagni * Ada Dondini as La fioraia * Armando Migliari as Il commissario * Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two On A Vacation
''Two on a Vacation'' (Italian: ''Pazza di gioia'') is a 1940 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Vittorio De Sica, María Denis, and Umberto Melnati.Monaco p.208 It was a remake of the 1932 German film '' Two in a Car''. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by Gastone Medin. Cast * Vittorio De Sica as Il conte Corrado Valli * María Denis as Liliana Casali * Umberto Melnati as Aroldo Bianchi * Paolo Stoppa as Alvaro Monteiro, il capo reparto della ditta Do-re-mi * Enzo Biliotti as Peppino, il maggiordome del conte * Rosetta Tofano as Rosetta, la moglie di Peppino * Giuseppe Pierozzi as Il principale della ditta Do-re-mi * Marcella Melnati as Rosalia * Luigi Erminio D'Olivo as Il direttore d'orchestra * Olga von Kollar as Giulia * Aristide Garbini as Il proprietario della trattoria * Renato Malavasi as Un barbiere * Alfredo Martinelli Alfredo Martinelli (7 March 1899 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Tavern
''Red Tavern'' (Italian: ''Taverna rossa'') is a 1940 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Alida Valli, André Mattoni, and Lauro Gazzolo. It was made at Cinecittà in Rome. A young woman eventually marries a count after a series of misunderstandings.Gundle p.226 Cast * Alida Valli as Susanna Sormani * André Mattoni as Il conte Carlo Torresi * Lauro Gazzolo as Il marchese Domenico Torresi, suo zio * Oreste Bilancia as Il signor Sormanni * Lilia Dale as Ninon * Umberto Sacripante as Il ladruncolo * Aristide Garbini as Cesarone, il maggiordomo * Luigi Erminio D'Olivo as Il tenore Farelli * Anna Doré as Floriana * Livia Minelli as La commesa del negozio di dischi * Alfredo Martinelli as Un cliente del negozio di dischi * Rita Durnova Rita may refer to: People * Rita (given name) * Rita (Indian singer) (born 1984) * Rita (Israeli singer) (born 1962) * Rita (Japanese singer) * Eliza Humphreys (1850–1938), wrote un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Roses (1940 Film)
''Red Roses'' () is a 1940 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica and Giuseppe Amato and starring De Sica, Renée Saint-Cyr, and Vivi Gioi. It was De Sica's first film as a director. De Sica had previously appeared in a 1936 production of the stage play by Aldo De Benedetti on which it was based.Cardullo p.117 It was shot at the Cinecitta Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. Plot When Renée Saint-Cyr as Maria Verani, gets a delivery of a bunch of scarlet roses, it starts a series of events between the adulterers but the focus is on the spouses themselves. The husband Vittorio De Sica as Alberto Verani, test to see if she will betray him, but repents of his actions and goes back to her. Cast * Vittorio De Sica as Alberto Verani * Renée Saint-Cyr as Maria Verani * Umberto Melnati as Tommaso Savelli * Vivi Gioi as Clara * Luisella Beghi as Rosina, the waitress * Rubi Dalma as the Countess * Carlo Ranier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mille Chilometri Al Minuto
''Mille chilometri al minuto!'' (or ''1000 km al minuto!'') is a 1939 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Nino Besozzi. Cast * Nino Besozzi as Guido Renzi * Antonio Gandusio as L'avvocato * Mario Ersanilli as Lo scienziato * Vivi Gioi as Figlia del scienziato * Romolo Costa as Un altro scienziato * Franca Volpini as Una cameriera (as Flora Volpini) * Amelia Chellini Amelia Chellini (16 June 1880 – 31 May 1944), was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 38 films between 1912 and 1944. Selected filmography * '' Everybody's Secretary'' (1933) * '' Bad Subject'' (1933) * '' Full Speed'' (1934) * '' L ... as La moglie dell' avvocato External links * 1939 films Italian comedy films 1930s Italian-language films 1939 comedy films Italian black-and-white films Films directed by Mario Mattoli 1930s Italian films Italian-language comedy films {{1930s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unjustified Absence
''Unjustified Absence'' (Italian: ''Assenza ingiustificata'') is a 1939 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Alida Valli, Amedeo Nazzari and Lilia Silvi. A girl leaves school to marry a doctor, but becomes annoyed by his constant absences and decides to secretly resume her studies.Gundle p.226 It was shot at Cinecittà Studios with sets designed by the art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ... Gastone Medin. Cast References Bibliography *Gundle, Stephen. ''Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy''. Berghahn Books, 2013. External links * 1939 films Italian comedy films Italian black-and-white films 1939 comedy films 1930s Italian-language films Films directed by Max Neufeld Films s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Were Seven Widows
''We Were Seven Widows'' () is a 1939 Italian "Telefoni Bianchi, white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Antonio Gandusio. Cast * Antonio Gandusio - L'avvocato Ruggero Mauri * Nino Taranto - Orlando, il cameriere di bordo * Laura Nucci - Vera * Silvana Jachino - Barbara * Laura Solari - Anna Calcini * Greta Gonda - Maria * Anna Maria Dossena - Ada * Maria Dominiani - Liliana * Amelia Chellini - Gioconda Zappi Torriani * Oscar Andriani - Il marito di Liliana * Gino Bianchi - Francesco, il marito di Anna * Adolfo Geri - Il marito di Ada * Mario Siletti - Popi, il marito geloso di Vera * Carlo Micheluzzi - Matteo * Ori Monteverdi - L'infermiera * Armando Migliari - Il medico External links * 1939 films 1939 comedy films Italian comedy films 1930s Italian-language films Italian black-and-white films Films directed by Mario Mattoli 1930s Italian films Italian-language comedy films {{1930s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
