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Captain Fracasse (1940 Film)
''Captain Fracasse'' () is a 1940 Italian historical adventure film directed by Duilio Coletti and starring Elsa De Giorgi, Giorgio Costantini and Osvaldo Valenti. It was made at the Cinecittà studios in Rome. The film is based on the 1863 novel of the same name by Théophile Gautier.Goble p.270 Another adaptation '' Captain Fracasse'' was made three years later as a co-production between France and Italy. Cast * Elsa De Giorgi as Isabella * Giorgio Costantini as Il barone di Sigognac / Capitan Fracassa * Osvaldo Valenti as Il duca Ruggero di Vallombrosa * Nerio Bernardi as Il principe * Clara Calamai as Iolanda De Foix * Olga Vittoria Gentilli as Leonarda, la madre nobile * Egisto Olivieri as Il tiranno & il capocomico * Renato Chiantoni as Scapino * Ernesto Gentili as Leandro * Pia De Doses as Zerbina * Mario Siletti as Giacomo Lampourde * Fiorella Betti as Chiquita * Guido Morisi as Vidalino * Dina Perbellini as La marchesa Di Bruye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duilio Coletti
Duilio Coletti (28 December 1906 – 22 May 1999) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 29 films between 1934 and 1977. Career Born in Penne, Abruzzo, he took a degree in medicine and surgery and practiced the profession for a short time. He entered the film industry as a screenwriter and assistant director in early 1930s, then made his directorial debut in 1935 with ''Pierpin''. Coletti specialized in films of great spectacular impact and was particularly appreciated in the direction of action movies. His film ''Submarine Attack'' was entered into the 4th Berlin International Film Festival. He was a member of the jury at the 8th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''The Fornaretto of Venice'' (1939) * ''Captain Fracasse (1940 film), Captain Fracasse'' (1940) * ''The Mask of Cesare Borgia'' (1941) * ''The Adulteress (1946 film), The Adulteress'' (1946) * ''Bullet for Stefano'' (1947) * ''Heart (1948 film), Heart'' (Cuore) (1948) * ''I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinecittà
Cinecittà Studios (; Italian for Cinema City) is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were constructed during the Fascist era as part of a plan to revive the Italian film industry and to compete with Hollywood. Filmmakers such as Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Mel Gibson and Luca Guadagnino have worked at Cinecittà. More than 3,000 movies have been filmed there, of which 90 received an Academy Award nomination and 47 of these won it. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made there led to Rome being dubbed " Hollywood on the Tiber." History The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini, his son Vittorio, and his head of cinema Luigi Freddi under the slogan "''Il cinema è l'arma più forte''" ("Cinema is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiorella Betti
Fiorella Betti (1927–2001) was an Italian actress. She was also a voice actress, dubbing a number of actresses in postwar Italian films. Born Delia Betti in Rome, she debuted at a very young age, and is best known for the lead role in Camillo Mastrocinque's '' Lost in the Dark''. In the 1950s she focused her career on dubbing, lending her voice to Hollywood stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Natalie Wood and Jean Simmons. Biography He graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1942. She died on November 2, 2001, at the age of 74, and was buried in Rome's Cimitero Flaminio. Selected filmography * '' Captain Fracasse'' (1940) * ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1942) * '' The Champion'' (1943) * '' Lost in the Dark'' (1947) * ''Eleven Men and a Ball'' (1948) * ''Tragic Spell'' (1951) * ''VIP my Brother Superman ''VIP my Brother Superman'' (), often known in English as ''The SuperVips'', is a 1968 Italian animated film, animated Superhero film, superhero Musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Siletti
Mario Giovanni Siletti (22 July 1903 – 19 April 1964) was an Italian actor. He was born in Turin. He performed in more than 160 films from 1932 to 1964. He began appearing in American films no later than 1946. From 1962 to 1964, he also portrayed a recurring character, Charlie Carlotti, on the American television series, '' Hazel''. In April 1964, he was killed in a Los Angeles Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ... automobile collision caused by a drunk driver. Siletti's pregnant wife was also critically injured in the crash. The driver of the other vehicle was arrested for felony manslaughter. Selected filmography References External links * Italian male film actors 1903 births 1964 deaths 20th-century Italian male actors Italian emigrants to the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto Gentili
Ernesto, form of the name Ernest in several Romance languages, may refer to: * ''Ernesto'' (novel) (1953), an unfinished autobiographical novel by Umberto Saba, published posthumously in 1975 ** ''Ernesto'' (film), a 1979 Italian drama loosely based on the novel * Hurricane Ernesto (other), several hurricanes or * Ernesto (footballer) (born 1979), Ernesto da Conceição Soares, Cape Verdean footballer People * Ernesto Abella, Filipino businessman, politician, and writer *Ernesto Agard (born 1937), Panamanian basketball player * Ernesto Aguero (born 1969), Cuban weightlifter *Ernesto Alonso (1917–2007), Mexican actor, director, cinematographer, and producer *Ernesto Amantegui Phumipha (born 1990), Thai footballer * Ernesto Basile (1857–1932), Italian architect *Ernesto Cesàro (1859–1906), Italian mathematician *Ernesto De Curtis (1875–1937), Italian composer *Ernesto Farías (born 1980), Argentine footballer * Ernesto Figueiredo (born 1937), also known as "Ernest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renato Chiantoni
Renato Chiantoni (19 April 1906 – 24 December 1979) was an Italian actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1937 and 1978. Born in Brescia, the son of the stage actor Amedeo, Chiantoni debuted on stage entering several drama and revue companies. He was later active as an actor of radio dramas. Very active in films as a character actor since the 1930s, after World War II Chiantoni also worked as a director of production and as a documentary director. Selected filmography * '' Lowered Sails'' (1931) * (1937) - (The Chancellor) * '' Tonight at Eleven'' (1938) - (Informer at the "Luna Bar") * (1938) - (Brigadier Sarcot) * (1938) - Spilunga * '' Ettore Fieramosca'' (1938) - (The messenger of Graiano) * (1938) * (1938) - (uncredited) * (1939) - (The third brother) * (1939) * (1939) - Andrea Lori * '' Guest for One Night'' (1939) - Truchet * (1939) * '' The Fornaretto of Venice'' (1939) - (The Tailor, witness at the trial) * (1939) - (Tanaka the policeman) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egisto Olivieri
Egisto Olivieri (1880–1962) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than forty films during his career including '' The Little School Mistress'' (1934).Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. p.344. His final film appearance was in Vittorio De Sica's ''Miracle in Milan'' (1951) Selected filmography * '' The Haller Case'' (1933) * '' Everybody's Woman'' (1934) * '' The Little School Mistress'' (1934) * ''Aldebaran'' (1935) * ''Luciano Serra, Pilot'' (1938) * '' The Silent Partner'' (1939) * '' Captain Fracasse'' (1940) *'' The King of England Will Not Pay'' (1941) * '' The Mask of Cesare Borgia'' (1941) * '' Carmela'' (1942) * '' Love Story'' (1942) * ''Short Circuit'' (1943) * '' I'll Always Love You'' (1943) * '' Two Suffer Better Than One'' (1943) * ''Resurrection'' (1944) * '' The Sun Still Rises'' (1946) * '' Departure at Seven'' (1946) * '' Hand of Death'' (1949) * '' Mistress of the Mountains'' (1950) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Vittoria Gentilli
Olga Vittoria Gentilli (19 July 1888 – 29 May 1957) was an Italian stage and film actress. She appeared in around forty films during the Fascist era and immediate post-war years. She generally played supporting roles in films such as '' Naples of Olden Times'' (1938).Landy p.126-27 Selected filmography * '' Together in the Dark'' (1933) * '' Adam's Tree'' (1936) * '' To Live'' (1937) * '' The Two Misanthropists'' (1937) * '' Naples of Olden Times'' (1938) * '' Captain Fracasse'' (1940) * '' Eternal Melodies'' (1940) * '' Teresa Venerdì'' (1941) * ''Tosca'' (1941) * ''Honeymoon'' (1941) * ''The Adventuress from the Floor Above'' (1941) * ''A Garibaldian in the Convent'' (1942) * ''The Peddler and the Lady ''The Peddler and the Lady'' (Italian title: ''Campo de' fiori'') is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Aldo Fabrizi, Caterina Boratto and Anna Magnani.Reich & Garofalo p.101 Much of the film is set on the Campo d ...'' (1943) * '' Two Hear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Calamai
Clara Calamai (7 September 1909 – 21 September 1998) was an Italian actress. Career Calamai was born in Prato, Tuscany, on 7 September 1909. Calamai's first acting role was in the 1938 war film ''Pietro Micca'', directed by Aldo Vergano. In Alessandro Blasetti's '' The Jester's Supper'' (1942), Calamai briefly appeared topless in a scene. The scene is commonly credited with being the first time that an actress had appeared topless in an Italian sound film, although Vittoria Carpi showed a bare breast for a moment in the 1941 film '' La corona di ferro'' (''The Iron Crown''), which was also directed by Blasetti. Calamai stated in a later interview that the original script did not have the character revealing herself this way and did not want to do the scene, but felt compelled by the director to do it and gave in when she was promised a closed set. Her most remembered role was in the film Luchino Visconti's '' Ossessione'' (1943), in which she played Giovanna, the ill-fated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nerio Bernardi
Nerino "Nerio" Bernardi (23 July 1899 – 12 January 1971) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in nearly 200 films between 1918 and 1970. Life and career Born in Bologna, Bernardi started his acting career in 1918 with a local film company, Felsina Film. Specialized in young lover roles, he soon became very popular and in high demand by other companies, being even signed by Fox Film for two Violet Mersereau vehicles, ''Nero'' and '' The Shepherd King''. In 1923, Bernardi left silent cinema to focus on theater, where he worked with Alda Borelli, Maria Melato, Max Reinhardt, and Renato Simoni, among others. He made his film comeback in 1934, being since then mainly cast in character roles. In 1943, to escape World War II, he moved to Spain, where he started a dog grooming business. Returned in Italy in 1947, he reprised his career, notably working on stage with Ermete Zacconi, Luchino Visconti, Ruggero Ruggeri, and Vittorio Gassman. Between 1952 and 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Co-production (film)
A co-production is a joint venture between two or more different production companies for the purpose of film production, television production, video game development, and so on. In the case of an international co-production, production companies from different countries (typically two to three) are working together. Co-production also refers to the way services are produced by their users, in some parts or entirely. History and benefits The journalist Mark Lawson identifies the first use of the term, in the context of radio production, in 1941, although the programme to which he refers, '' Children Calling Home'', "Presented in collaboration between the CBC of Canada, NBC of the U.S.A., and the BBC, and broadcast simultaneously in all three countries", was first broadcast in December 1940. Following the Second World War, US film companies were forbidden by the Marshall Plan to take their film profits in the form of foreign exchange out of European countries. As a result, se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
