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Cerasella
''Cerasella'' is a 1959 Italy, Italian teen film, teen comedy film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. It is loosely inspired by the lyrics of the song "Cerasella (song), Cerasella". Cast *Claudia Mori: Cerasella *Terence Hill, Mario Girotti: Bruno *Luigi De Filippo: Alfredo *Alessandra Panaro: Nora *Carlo Croccolo: Giuseppe Marzano *Piera Farfarella: Nannina *Fausto Cigliano: The Singer *Mario Carotenuto: Father of Bruno *Lia Zoppelli: Mother of Nora *Luigi Pavese: General Bruno Coscia References External links * 1959 films 1959 comedy films Italian comedy films Films directed by Raffaello Matarazzo Films with screenplays by Ugo Pirro Films set in Naples 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerasella (song)
"Cerasella" is a 1959 Canzone Napoletana song composed by Enzo Bonagura, Danpa (Dante Pinzauti) and Eros Sciorilli. The song, with a double performance by Gloria Christian and Wilma De Angelis, was presented at the seventh edition of the Festival di Napoli and then got an immediate commercial success, peaking at sixth place on the Italian hit parade. The song, a portrait of a naively mischievous teenager, was described as "fresh and light-hearted".Enzo Giannelli. "Christian, Gloria". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. p.375. It was later covered by numerous artists, including Claudio Villa, Giacomo Rondinella, Gino Latilla & Carla Boni, Aurelio Fierro, Fausto Cigliano, Shani Wallis, Renzo Arbore. The song also inspired a Cerasella, comedy film with the same name, directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Claudia Mori and Terence Hill. Track listing ; 7" single – Vi MQN. 36472 # "Cerasella" (Enzo Bonagura, Danpa, Eros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Mori
Claudia Moroni (born 12 February 1944), known as Claudia Mori, is an Italian producer, retired actress and singer. Biography 1960s She began her career in show business as an actress playing in musicals, then in major films such as ''Rocco and His Brothers'' by Luchino Visconti and ''Sodom and Gomorrah'' by Robert Aldrich. In 1963, she met Adriano Celentano on the film set of ''Uno strano tipo''. Celentano left his girlfriend Milena Cantù, and in 1964 he secretly married Claudia at the church of San Francesco in Grosseto. She bore three children: Rosita (1965), Giacomo (1966) and Rosalinda (1968). In 1964, she acted in ''Super rapina a Milano'', the first film directed by Celentano. Thereafter, her acting career was on hiatus, in favor of that as singer, in 1964, in fact, with ''Non guardarmi'', she recorded her first album. The flip side of the vinyl record includes a cover of Little Eva's "The Loco-Motion". She achieved a big success while singing with her husband, in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi De Filippo
Luigi De Filippo (10 August 1930 – 31 March 2018) was an Italian actor, stage director and playwright. Born in Naples, the son of actors Peppino De Filippo and Adele Carloni, he studied literature at the university, leaving the studies on the threshold of graduation to pursue a career in journalism. Shorty later De Filippo debuted on stage next to his father, and from then he started a very long acting career, notably running for years a Neapolitan dialect company. He celebrated the fortieth anniversary of his stage activities with the reception of a special Premio Personalità Europea prize in Capitol Hill. De Filippo appeared in many film roles, even if mainly in character roles. He was also active on television, mainly in television adaptations of his stage works. Since 2011 he has been the artistic director of the Parioli Theatre in Rome. De Filippo died in Rome on 31 March 2018 at the age of 87. Partial filmography * ''Filumena Marturano'' (1951) - Umberto * '' Non è ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Hill
Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with his Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, long-time film partner and friend Bud Spencer. During the height of his popularity, Hill was among Italy's highest-paid actors. His most widely seen films include comic and standard spaghetti Westerns, some based on popular novels by German author Karl May about the American frontier, Wild West. Of these, the most famous are ''Lo chiamavano Trinità'' (''They Call Me Trinity'', 1970); ...''continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità'' (''Trinity Is Still My Name'', 1971), the highest grossing Italian film at that time; and ''Il mio nome è Nessuno'' (''My Name Is Nobody'', 1973), co-starring Henry Fonda. Hill also went on to a successful television career in Italy, most notably playing the title character in the long- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ugo Pirro
Ugo Pirro (April 20, 1920 – January 18, 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and novelist. Biography Born Ugo Mattone in Battipaglia, near Salerno, he debuted as screenwriter for director Carlo Lizzani ('' Attention! Bandits!'', 1951, and '' The Hunchback of Rome'', 1960). His screenplays of the 1970s include films ''Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion'' and '' The Garden of the Finzi-Continis'', which both won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, with Pirro being nominated for Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay respectively as a part of separate writing duos. Pirro was also a literature author, his most notable works being '' The Camp Followers'' (1956), set in the Italian occupation of Greece during World War II, and '' Celluloide'', adapted for cinema by Lizzani in 1996. Pirro died in Rome in 2008. Works Films *'' Attention! Bandits!'' (1951) *'' Empty Eyes'' (1953) * '' Songs of Italy'' (1955) *'' The Wolves'' (1956) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Pavese
Luigi Pavese (25 October 1897 – 13 December 1969) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Asti, Pavese started his career in 1916 working as a silent film actor at 19 years of age. He then began his theatrical debut in 1921 and eventually worked his way up to becoming a film actor by the 1930s. He appeared in more than 170 films between 1916 and 1969. By the time World War II ended, Pavese's popularity as an actor increased. He often portrayed characters with certain professions such as clerks, lawyers, soldiers, officers and notaries in comedy films and made frequent collaborations with other actors such as Totò, Aldo Fabrizi, Walter Chiari, Alberto Sordi, including his younger brother Nino Pavese. As a voice actor, Pavese dubbed the voices of characters into the Italian language. He was the official voice actor of Fernando Sancho, Robert Strauss (actor), Robert Strauss and many more. He even provided the Italian voices of animated characters belonging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lia Zoppelli
Lia Zoppelli (16 November 1920 – 2 January 1988) was an Italian stage, television and film actress. Life and career Born in Milan, Zoppelli made her stage debut in 1939, shortly after her high school graduation, with the company Maltagliati- Cimara- Ninchi. Mainly active on stage, in the subsequent seasons she worked with Ruggero Ruggeri (1940–41) and Memo Benassi (1942–43), then, after the war, she notably worked with Luchino Visconti and with Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro. In cinema, Zoppelli became a popular character actress starting from the late 1950s, usually in comedic roles; she was also active on television, where she gained a large popularity thanks to her appearances with Enrico Viarisio in '' Carosello''. Partial filmography * ''Il sogno di tutti'' (1940) - La fanciulla sedotta * ''Processo delle zitelle'' (1945) - Sara * '' Uncle Was a Vampire'' (1959) - Letizia * ''La cambiale'' (1959) - La moglie di Alfredo * ''Cerasella'' (1959) * ''Genitori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Croccolo
Carlo Croccolo (9 April 1927 – 12 October 2019) was an Italian actor, voice artist, director and screenwriter. Biography Born in Naples, Croccolo began his acting career on the radio and appeared in more than 100 films since 1949. His debut came in the 1949 film ''The Firemen of Viggiù'' and he made his first television debut in 1956. He also had an intense career onstage, as he often starred in plays directed by Eduardo De Filippo and Giorgio Strehler. Croccolo was best known for his collaboration with Totò, Antonio "Totò" De Curtis, mainly throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In the early 1950s, he replaced Alberto Sordi performing the Italian voice of Oliver Hardy in the Dubbing, redubs of ''Laurel and Hardy'' made between 1951 and 1953, in which he was paired with Fiorenzo Fiorentini (who provided the Italian voice of Stan Laurel); he came back to dubbing Hardy in the 1968-1970 redubs, this time paired with Franco Latini. Since 1957, Croccolo also served as a dubbing artist f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandra Panaro
Alessandra Panaro (14 December 1939 – 1 May 2019) was an Italian film actress of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Panaro is best known for her films in the early 1960s, notably Luchino Visconti's crime drama ''Rocco and His Brothers'' in 1960. Life and career Born in Rome into a wealthy family, Panaro studied acting under Teresa Franchini. She made her film debut at 16 years old, and got a large success in 1956 thanks to the Dino Risi's comedy film ''Poor, But Handsome'', then specializing in romantic comedies. In 1957–8, together with her ''Poor, But Handsome'' co-star Lorella De Luca, she assisted Mario Riva in presenting the popular RAI game show '' Il Musichiere''. Personal life Panaro was first married to the Italian-Egyptian banker Jean-Pierre Sabet. Widowed, in 1992 she married the actor Giancarlo Sbragia. She died on 1 May 2019 in her home in Geneva at the age of 79. Partial filmography * '' The Boatman of Amalfi'' (1954) * '' Destination Piovarolo'' (1955) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaello Matarazzo
Raffaello Matarazzo (17 August 1909 – 17 May 1966) was an Italian filmmaker. Life Matarazzo started writing film reviews for the Roman newspaper ''Il Tevere'' before re-editing scripts for the Italian film company Cines. His first films were comedies until he shifted to making melodramas. With '' Chains'', produced by Titanus in 1949, he became the most successful director in Italy. Audience loved his melodramas. Critics, however, have tended to disparage his work, saying that Matarazzo films were ''Neorealismo d'appendice'' (neorealism wannabe). Since the 1970s, some film critics have tried to restore Matarazzo's reputation. French magazine '' Positif'' loved his erotic-historical peplum '' Ship of Lost Women''. Filmography * '' The Telephone Operator'' (1932) * '' Littoria'' (1933) * '' Fanny'' (1933) * '' Tourist Train'' (1933) * '' Unripe Fruit'' (1934) * '' Kiki'' (1934) * '' The Serpent's Fang'' (''Il serpente a sonagli'') (1935) * '' Joe the Red'' (1936) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dino Verde
Dino Verde (13 July 1922 – 1 February 2004) was an Italian author, lyricist, playwright and screenwriter. Life and career Born Edoardo Verde in Naples, in 1943 he started working in the satirical magazine '' Marc'Aurelio''. Since the late 1940s Verde wrote revues and comedy plays for the most popular comedians of the time, including Macario, Nino Taranto, Aldo Fabrizi, Mario Riva and Riccardo Billi, Carlo Dapporto. In 1949 he started collaborating with EIAR, where he specialized in writing sketches and parody songs. Active on television since 1955, he was author of some of the most popular RAI variety shows, such as '' Canzonissima'', ''Doppia coppia'' and '' Studio Uno''. Verde was also a successful songwriter; he wrote lyrics for two Sanremo Music Festival winning songs, " Piove (Ciao, ciao bambina)" by Domenico Modugno/Johnny Dorelli and " Romantica" by Renato Rascel/ Tony Dallara. Other hits include Modugno's " Resta cu'mme", Kessler Twins' "Dadaumpa", Rita Pavone's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Serandrei
Mario Serandrei (23 May 1907 – 17 April 1966) was an Italian film editor and screenwriter. Born in Naples, he started in the film industry in 1931 as an assistant director. He edited over two hundred films during his career, and worked steadily until his death in 1966. As an editor, Serandrei's credits included Federico Fellini's '' Il bidone'' (1955), Pietro Francisci's ''Hercules'' (1958) and '' Hercules Unchained'' (1959), Valerio Zurlini's '' Violent Summer'' (1959), '' La ragazza con la valigia'' (1961) and '' Cronaca familiare'' (1962), and the Robert Aldrich/Sergio Leone film of ''Sodom and Gomorrah'' (1963). He enjoyed a long working relationship with director Luchino Visconti, editing '' Ossessione'' (1943), '' Bellissima'' (1951), '' Senso'' (1954), ''Rocco and His Brothers'' (1960) and '' The Leopard'' (1963). At the end of his career, he edited many films directed by Mario Bava, including '' Black Sunday'' (1960) (which he also co-wrote), ''Black Sabbath'' (1963 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
