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Lea Padovani
Lea Padovani (28 July 1920 – 23 June 1991) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 60 films between 1945 and 1990. She starred in the film '' Black Dossier'' which was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Partial filmography * '' The Innocent Casimiro'' (1945) - Marcella * ''The Sun Still Rises'' (1946) - Laura * ''The White Devil'' (1947) - Katiousha * '' Call of the Blood'' (1948) - Maddelena * '' Letter at Dawn'' (1948) - Anna * ''I cavalieri dalle maschere nere'' (1948) - Violante * ''Che tempi!'' (1948) - Anna Pastorino * '' Give Us This Day'' (also known as ''Christ in Concrete'') (1949) - Annuziata * '' Night Taxi'' (1950) - (scenes deleted) * '' The Accusation'' (1950) - Irene * '' Three Steps North'' (1951) - Elena Ravezza * '' La grande rinuncia'' (1951) - Elisabetta / Suor Teresa * '' Honeymoon Deferred'' (1951) - Rosina Maggini * '' I due derelitti'' (1951) - Elena * '' Fiamme sulla laguna'' (1951) - Anna * '' Rome 11:00'' (1952) - Caterina * '' I figli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi (15 June 1920 – 24 February 2003) was an Italian actor, comedian, voice dubber, director, singer, composer and screenwriter. Sordi is considered one of the most important actors in the history of Italian cinema and one of the best in commedia all'italiana. Together with Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi he formed a quartet that starred in the most popular movies of this genre. His trio with Aldo Fabrizi and Anna Magnani was one of the most prominent in the Rome, Roman cinema. Sordi established himself as an icon from a career that spanned seven decades of Italian cinema with his skills in comedy and light drama. He started as a voice actor and a theater actor, but eventually grew to fame as a comedian. In the 1960s, he started interpreting complex dramatic characters, as well as directing his own films: his credits as a director include 19 movies. Sordi won five Nastro d'argento, ten David di Donatello, a Golden Globe, a Golden Lion for Lifetime A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guai Ai Vinti
''Guai ai vinti'' (''Woe to the Vanquished Ones'') is a 1954 Italian melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. It is based on the novel ''Vae Victis'' by Annie Vivanti. Plot During the First World War the Italian front at Caporetto is overwhelmed by an attack of adverse troops. Luisa and her sister Clara remain in their villa, prisoners of the Austrians. They are forced to undergo all sorts of violence, so that Mirella, the little daughter of Luisa, lost the use of the word following the trauma. Cast * Lea Padovani: Luisa * Anna Maria Ferrero: Clara * Pierre Cressoy: Franco * Clelia Matania: Teresa * Camillo Pilotto: Bonechi * Gualtiero Tumiati: Don Marzi * Rolf Tasna: Claudio * Paola Quattrini: Mirella * Giulio Ottavi: Giovanni * Emilio Cigoli: Pietro * Mario Del Monaco: Mario Abbate * Marcella Rovena: Countess Amelia * Isa Querio: Miss Bonechi * Bianca Doria: Contadina nel granaio * Teresa Franchini: Contadina nel granaio * Anita Durante: Popolana * Irene Cefaro: F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Contessa's Secret
''The Contessa's Secret'' (, ) is a 1954 French-Italian film starring Yvonne De Carlo as Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione. Plot Cast * Yvonne De Carlo as Virginia Oldoini * Georges Marchal as Lucio Falengo * Paul Meurisse as Napoleon III * Rossano Brazzi as Count Cavour * Lucienne Legrand as Eugénie de Montijo, Empress Eugénie * Lea Padovani as Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, Princess Mathilde Bonaparte * Georges Lannes as Mocquart * Michel Etcheverry as Pietri * Tamara Lees as Pauline von Metternich, Princess of Metternich * Claude Boissol as Nigra * Lisette Lebon as Luisa * Alberto Bonucci as Castiglione * Roldano Lupi as Orsini * Pierre Flourens (actor), Pierre Flourens as M. de Nieuwerkerke * Charles Bouillaud as Un indicateur Production De Carlo signed on for the film in late December 1953. The film was to be shot entirely in French with no English version, which no Hollywood star had done before. It was originally called ''Castigl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Slice Of Life (1954 Film)
''A Slice of Life'' (, , also known as ''The Anatomy of Love'') is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and Paul Paviot. Plot Mara From a story by Vasco Pratolini, written by the author. Vasco and Mara get to know in a restaurant, go to the cinema, and spent the evening intimately, fall in love. She tells him that, being short of money, will try to work the next morning in a brothel, but he convinces her to desist from this connection, to begin to live with him, who has a job as a teacher, even if their economic situation may be difficult. The baby Written by Alberto Moravia. Young couple the suburbs of Rome are in financial trouble. She would like to work, but must take care of the child who has recently given birth. The two then set out, reluctantly, to leave the baby in a church, but the mother can not decide on the right place and finally the father has second thoughts. Outdoor scene From a story of Marino Moretti, written by Ennio Flaiano. A man a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mid-Century Loves
''Mid-Century Loves'' () is a 1954 Italian Anthology film, anthology historical melodrama film consisting of five segments directed by Glauco Pellegrini, Pietro Germi, Mario Chiari, Roberto Rossellini and Antonio Pietrangeli. Plot Episode # 01: "Romantic love", directed by: Glauco Pellegrini In 1900 Elena, a young man from a rich bourgeois family, falls in love with the musician Mario. Her father and her aunt Matilde, however, would like the girl to marry a rich count. When Mario leaves for his tour, Matilde promises both young people to foster their feelings, while she actually destroys the letters they send each other, and persuades Elena that Mario has forgotten her. Elena ends up marrying the count. Episode # 02: "War 1915-18", directed by: Pietro Germi During the First World War, in a small Abruzzo village the very young lovers Antonio and Carmela get married and are expecting a child. Antonio is called to the front between the draft of 1900: Carmela and all friends a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angels Of Darkness (1954 Film)
An angel is a spiritual (without a physical body), heavenly, or supernatural being, usually humanoid with bird-like wings, often depicted as a messenger or intermediary between God (the transcendent) and humanity (the profane) in various traditions like the Abrahamic religions. Other roles include protectors and guides for humans, such as guardian angels and servants of God. In Western belief-systems the term is often used to distinguish benevolent from malevolent intermediary beings. Emphasizing the distance between God and mankind, revelation-based belief-systems require angels to bridge the gap between the earthly and the transcendent realm. Angels play a lesser role in monistic belief-systems, since the gap is non-existent. However, angelic beings might be conceived as aid to achieve a proper relationship with the divine. Abrahamic religions describe angelic hierarchies, which vary by religion and sect. Some angels have specific names (such as Gabriel or Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Of Those
''One of Those'' (, also known as ''Totò, Peppino e... una di quelle'') is a 1953 Italian comedy-drama film produced, written, directed and starred by Aldo Fabrizi. Plot Maria is a widow with a dependent child, in debt with her landlord, and she tries to get by on small tailoring jobs. One day she receives a visit from a neighbor, a prostitute. Praising the beauty of Maria, and understanding her economic difficulties, the prostitute suggests her to attempt the same profession, in her view the only way for a single woman to find the money to live. Desperate by the personal and economic situation, Maria reluctantly accepts the advice and the next day she went to a nightclub, where she encounter two wealthy country men, the brothers Martino and Rocco. Cast *Lea Padovani as Maria Rossetti *Peppino De Filippo as Martino Bardelli *Totò as Rocco Bardelli *Aldo Fabrizi as Dr. Ubaldo Mancini *Mara Landi as L'entraineuse *Giulio Calì as Guardamacchine *Nando Bruno as Il tass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papà Ti Ricordo
''Papà ti ricordo'' (''Dad, I remember you'') is a 1952 Italian melodrama film directed by Mario Volpe. Cast *Paolo Carlini as Andrea * Lea Padovani as Maria * Ludmilla Dudarova as Daria *Irene Genna as Marcellina *Luigi Tosi *Aldo Silvani *Umberto Spadaro *Nino Pavese *Erno Crisa *Pina Piovani Pina Piovani (20 March 1897 – 2 January 1955) was an Italian stage and film actress.Bìspuri p.126 She was married to the actor Giulio Battiferri. Partial filmography * ''Napule... e niente cchiù'' (1928) - Paquita - stella del varietá * ... * Doris Duranti External links * 1952 films 1950s Italian-language films Films directed by Mario Volpe 1952 drama films Italian drama films 1950s melodrama films Italian black-and-white films 1950s Italian films Italian-language drama films {{1950s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto And The Women
''Toto and the Women'' () is a 1952 Italy, Italian film directed by Mario Monicelli and Stefano Vanzina, Steno. Plot The cloth retailer Philip (Totò) is no longer able to stand his possessive and tyrannical wife (Ave Ninchi) who claims a higher lifestyle. In fact, for years now after the wedding, Philip was totally deprived of his freedom as a husband. The only freedom left is to hole up in the attic reading police novels and venerating an altar dedicated to the infamous serial killer Henri Désiré Landru, Landru. The balance family collapses as the younger daughter of Philip became engaged to a young doctor (Peppino De Filippo): to prove to everyone her talent in giving injections, she decides, along with her mother, to use the poor Philip as a guinea pig. When enough is enough, Philip decides live the high life together with his young lover. However Philip soon realizes that the girl is too young for him and, avoiding ridiculousness, breaks off the relationship. At home, thing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Lorenzo (film)
''Don Lorenzo'' is a 1952 Italian musical melodrama film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Luciano Tajoli, Rossana Podestà and Andrea Checchi.Accardo p.478 It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alberto Boccianti Alberto Boccianti was an Italian art directorBayman p.192 who designed the sets for more than a hundred films during his career. Selected filmography * '' Two Hearts Among the Beasts'' (1943) * '' Special Correspondents'' (1943) * '' Come Back to .... Cast References Bibliography * Accardo, Alessio. ''Age & Scarpelli: la storia si fa commedia''. A.N.C.C.I., 2001. External links * 1952 films 1950s Italian-language films 1950s musical drama films Films directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia Italian musical drama films 1952 drama films Italian black-and-white films 1950s Italian films Films shot at Cinecittà Studios Italian-language musical drama films {{musical-drama-film- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Figli Non Si Vendono
''I figli non si vendono'' (literally, ''Children must not be sold'') is a 1952 Italian melodrama film by Mario Bonnard. Plot Cast * Lea Padovani as Anna * Jacques Sernas as Carlo Dazzeni / Roberto Dazzeni * Maria Grazia Francia as Luisa * Paola Barbara as Signora Elena Dazzeni * Antonella Lualdi as Daniela * Dario Michaelis as Gianni * Checco Durante as Paolo Dazzeni * Galeazzo Benti * Dina Sassoli * Dina Perbellini Dina Perbellini (14 January 1901 – 2 April 1983) was an Italian actress. She appeared in over sixty films and television series between 1934 and 1969 and was also a leading voice actress, dubbing foreign films for release in Italy.Reich, Jacqu ... References External links * 1952 films 1950s Italian-language films Films directed by Mario Bonnard Italian drama films Italian black-and-white films 1952 drama films 1950s melodrama films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
