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Giovanni Barrella
Giovanni Barrella (30 November 1884 – 23 September 1967) was an Italian film actor, writer and painter. Biography Barrella was born in Milan to a father who was a major in the Napoleonic Army. Barrella studied Fine Arts. He worked for Teatro Argentina in Rome and for the Compagnia Lombarda of Alberto Colantuoni. In 1931, he founded his own theatrical company with Paolo Bonecchio. He also published poetry and theatre plays. He died in Erba, Italy, Erba in 1967. Filmography External links * References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malombra (1942 Film)
''Malombra'' is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Isa Miranda, Andrea Checchi and Irasema Dilián. It is based on the novel ''Malombra (novel), Malombra'' by Antonio Fogazzaro,Gundle p.139 which had previously been adapted into a 1917 silent Malombra (1917 film), film of the same title. It was made at Cinecittà with sets designed by Gino Brosio. It was produced by Riccardo Gualino's Lux Film. It belongs to the movies of the calligrafismo style. The film is a Gothic fiction, gothic melodrama, set in the castle on the edge of Lake Como during the Nineteenth century. Cast * Isa Miranda as Marina di Malombra * Andrea Checchi as Corrado Silla * Irasema Dilián as Edith Steinegge * Gualtiero Tumiati as Il conte Cesare d'Ormengo * Nino Crisman as Nepo Salvador * Enzo Biliotti as Il commendator Napoleone Vezza * Ada Dondini as Fosca Salvador * Giacinto Molteni as Andrea Steinegge * Corrado Racca as Padre Tosi * Luigi Pavese as Il professore Bin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Male Silent Film Actors
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1967 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of the Republic of Vietnam troops launch ''Operation Deckhouse Five'' in the Mekong Delta. * January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts, in an attempt to eliminate the Iron Triangle (Vietnam), Iron Triangle. * January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Étienne Eyadema. * January 15 – Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species ''Proconsul nyanzae, Kenyapithecus africanus''. * January 23 ** In Munich, the trial begins of Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison. ** Milton Keynes in England is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1884 Births
Events January * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London to promote gradualist social progress. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera '' Princess Ida'', a satire on feminism, premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 7 – German microbiologist Robert Koch isolates '' Vibrio cholerae'', the cholera bacillus, working in India. * January 18 – William Price attempts to cremate his dead baby son, Iesu Grist, in Wales. Later tried and acquitted on the grounds that cremation is not contrary to English law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the United Kingdom in modern times) on March 14, setting a legal precedent. * January – Arthur Conan Doyle's anonymous story " J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" appears in the ''Cornhill Magazine'' (London). Based on the disappearance of the crew of the '' Mary Celeste'' in 1872, many of the fictional elements introduced by Doyle come to replace the real event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tragic Spell
''Tragic Spell'' () is a 1951 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Mario Sequi and starring María Félix, Rossano Brazzi and Massimo Serato.Darby p.449 It was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Saverio D'Eugenio. Cast * María Félix as Oliva * Rossano Brazzi as Pietro * Massimo Serato as Berto * Charles Vanel as Bastiano * Irma Gramatica as Grandmother * Giulio Donnini as L'orafo Golia * Italia Marchesini as Adele * Fiorella Betti as Cleofe * Fausto Guerzoni as Girasole * Wanda Carpentieri as Berto's Girlfriend * 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) * '' Moth ... as Cavaliere * Maria Zanoli as Witch * Ada Dondini as Gesuina * Giovanni Barrella * Paola Quattrini as C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milano Miliardaria
''Milano miliardaria'' is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Marino Girolami, Marcello Marchesi and Vittorio Metz. Plot Cast * Tino Scotti: Cavalier Luigi Pizzigoni * Isa Barzizza: Vittoria Pizzigoni * Franca Marzi: Italia Furioni * Dante Maggio: Peppino Avallone * Mario Carotenuto: Avvocato Amleto Furioni * Aroldo Tieri: Marito geloso * Giovanni Barrella: Comm. Fantini * Alberto Sorrentino: Oscar, il fotografo * Galeazzo Benti: Walter * Marsha Gayle: Corinna * Gipsy Kiss: Giovannina * Vera Carmi: Paola * Giovanni D'Anzi: Se stesso * Sofia Loren: Commessa del bar * Carlo Giuffrè: Tifoso coi pomodori * Roberto Murolo: Himself * Giuseppe Meazza Giuseppe Meazza (; 23 August 1910 – 21 August 1979) was an Italian football manager and player. Throughout his career, he played mainly for Inter Milan in the 1930s, scoring 284 goals in 408 games for the club, and winning three Serie A title ...: Himself External links * 1951 films 1950s Italian-language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dog's Life (1950 Film)
''A Dog's Life'' () is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli and Steno. Plot Nino Martoni is the manager of a ramshackle show company. Her dancers include Lucy, the soubrette, capricious and obstinate, Franca, who left her beloved boyfriend Carlo with bitterness and suffering, because he was too poor for her ambitions, who aspires to a comfortable and luxurious life and Vera, in love reciprocated by Mario, the son of a rich and wealthy bourgeois. The troupe is joined by Margherita, who has fled from the village and is wanted by the police on behalf of her parents, who is welcomed by the manager moved by the frightened and melancholy girl. When Lucy, after yet another altercation with Nino, leaves the company, this replaces her with Margherita who reveals unsuspected skills as a dancer and singer. The success of the girl, renamed Rita Buton, in the Alambra in Rome is overwhelming and the highly satisfied impresario of the theater signs a contract with the com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniele Cortis
''Daniele Cortis'' (also known as ''Elena'') is a 1947 Italian drama film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Vittorio Gassman, Sarah Churchill and Gino Cervi. The film (set in nineteenth-century Italy) follows the impossible love affair between Elena, a noblewoman married to a man who doesn't understand her, and Daniele Cortis, her young cousin and Christian idealist. It is an adaptation of the 1885 novel of the same title by Antonio Fogazzaro. Cast * Vittorio Gassman as Daniele Cortis * Sarah Churchill as Elena * Gino Cervi as Il marito di Elena * Evi Maltagliati as Isa * Gualtiero Tumiati as Aldo * Rubi D'Alma as Noemi * Massimo Pianforini as Valentino * Marco Tulli as Diego Reception From a contemporary review, the ''Monthly Film Bulletin The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 until April 1991, when it merged with '' Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
