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The Hotel Of The Absent
''The Hotel of the Absent'' () is a 1939 Italian mystery thriller film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Paola Barbara, Carla Candiani , and Camillo Pilotto.Curti p.30 The film was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. Its sets were designed by art director Piero Filippone. The film is also known by the alternative title ''The Property of the Absent''. Cast * Paola Barbara as Renata * Carla Candiani as Muriel Winnfield * Camillo Pilotto as Laplace, il capo dei malviventi * Maurizio D'Ancora as Il giovanetto galante * Carlo Tamberlani as Marisol, l'ubriaco * Dria Paola as La giovane innamorata * Elio Steiner as Il giovane innamorato * Franco Coop as Il commissario * Guglielmo Barnabò as Il vice-commissario * Pina Gallini as La prigioniera con gli occhiali * Enzo Gainotti as Il capo cuoco * Renato Chiantoni as Il signore distinto con il monoclo * Dina Romano as Una cliente del "L'allegro forzato" * Eugenio Duse as Gervasio, il prigioniero folle * Alfredo Martinelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola Barbara
Paola Barbara (22 July 1912 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1935 and 1978. She was sometimes credited as Pauline Baards. Life and career Born in Rome as Paola Proto, after her film debut in a small role in ''Campo di Maggio'' (1935), in 1936 she produced and had the leading role in '' White Amazons'' by Gennaro Righelli; the film had a huge commercial success and launched her career. Barbara was one of the most requested and popular divas in the 1930s Italian cinema industry; in 1941 she met the director Primo Zeglio who later became her husband. In 1943, with the worsening of World War II, Barbara moved in Spain where she starred on several films. After the war she moved back in Italy where she failed to recover her popularity, even keeping on appearing in dozens of films, sometimes directed by her husband, usually in supporting roles. Selected filmography * '' The Ancestor'' (1936) * '' White Amazons'' (1936) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piero Filippone
Piero Filippone (1911–1998) was an Italian art director who designed the sets for around two hundred films. He created the sets for Roberto Rossellini's 1954 film ''Journey to Italy''.Brunette p.416 Selected filmography * '' Three Cornered Hat'' (1935) * ''The Lady in White'' (1938) * '' For Men Only'' (1938) * ''We Were Seven Widows'' (1939) * '' Defendant, Stand Up!'' (1939) * '' The Hotel of the Absent'' (1939) * '' The Pirate's Dream'' (1940) * '' Then We'll Get a Divorce'' (1940) * '' Big Shoes'' (1940) * '' Marco Visconti'' (1941) * ''Bluebeard'' (1941) * ''Seven Years of Good Luck'' (1942) * '' Violets in Their Hair'' (1942) * '' I Live as I Please'' (1942) * '' Sealed Lips'' (1942) * '' Nothing New Tonight'' (1942) * ''Happy Days'' (1942) * ''Seven Years of Happiness'' (1943) * '' Anything for a Song'' (1943) * '' Lively Teresa'' (1943) * '' Apparition'' (1943) * '' Two Suffer Better Than One'' (1943) * '' Assunta Spina'' (1948) * '' The Elusive Twelve'' (1950) * ''The M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Mystery Films
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1939 Films
The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten films nominated for Best Picture at the 12th Academy Awards (which honored the best in film for 1939)—''Dark Victory'', '' Gone with the Wind'', '' Goodbye, Mr. Chips'', '' Love Affair'', '' Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'', '' Ninotchka'', ''Of Mice and Men'', ''Stagecoach'', '' The Wizard of Oz'', and '' Wuthering Heights''—range in genre and are considered classics. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1939 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events Film historians often rate 1939 as "the greatest year in the history of Hollywood". Hollywood studios were at the height of their Golden Age, producing a number of exceptional motion pictures, many of which became honored as all-time classic films. * February 15 – John Ford's Western film ''Stagecoach'' starring John Wayne premieres in New York City and Los Angeles. * March 31 – Release of the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriano Aprà
Adriano Aprà (18 November 1940 – 15 April 2024) was an Italian film critic, film historian, screenwriter, director, festival curator, academic and occasional actor. Life and career Born in Rome, Aprà graduated in law at Sapienza University, and made his debut as a film critic in 1960, collaborating with Edoardo Bruno's journal ''Filmcritica''.Dottorini, Daniele (2003).Aprà, Adriano. '' Enciclopedia del Cinema''. Treccani. Retrieved 19 April 2023. In 1966, he founded the magazine ''Cinema & film'' which he directed until 1970. He served as director of the Salso Film & TV Festival between 1977 and 1989 and of the Pesaro International Film Festival between 1990 and 1998, and was president of the Cineteca Nazionale between 1998 and 2002. He also collaborated with the Venice Film Festival, curating the 1981 retrospective dedicated to Howard Hawks. In 1970, Aprà founded the Filmstudio film society and directed his first film, ''Olimpia agli amici'', which entered the Locar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Martinelli
Alfredo Martinelli (7 March 1899 – 11 November 1968) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 103 films between 1916 and 1967. He was born and died in Siena, Tuscany. Selected filmography * ''I Topi Grigi'' (1918) * '' Tortured Soul'' (1919) * ''Il teschio d'oro'' (1920) * '' The Second Wife'' (1922) * '' The White Sister'' (1923) * ''La dama de Chez Maxim's'' (1923) * '' Romola'' (1924) * '' The Faces of Love'' (1924) * '' The Fiery Cavalcade'' (1925) * ''The Last Days of Pompeii'' (1926) * '' Floretta and Patapon'' (1927) * '' The Storyteller of Venice'' (1929) * '' Assunta Spina'' (1930) * '' The Charmer'' (1931) * ''Resurrection'' (1931) * '' Before the Jury'' (1931) * '' Figaro and His Great Day'' (1931) * '' The Devil's Lantern'' (1931) * ''The Private Secretary'' (1931) * '' The Opera Singer'' (1932) * ''Paradise'' (1932) * ''Seconda B'' (1934) * '' Everybody's Woman'' (1934) * '' A Woman Between Two Worlds'' (1936) * '' Adam's Tree'' (1936) * '' Hands Off Me!'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenio Duse
Eugenio Duse (1889–1969) Early Life and Family Background Born on 24 January 1889, in Senigallia, Marche, Italy, Eugenio Duse was the son of Luigi Duse and Cecilia Bellotti. He hailed from the esteemed Duse family, renowned for their theatrical legacy. Eugenio's life, however, took a path that intertwined both personal ambition and familial complexities. Personal Life and Relationships In the early 1900s, Eugenio married Annina Pieracci, with whom he had two children: Fedora and Edgardo Duse. Fedora, who later went on to marry Vittorio Tonato, named her son Edgardo, in honor of her late brother who tragically died during the war against American forces. Eugenio's marriage to Annina Pieracci came to an end, and he eventually moved to Bologna with his new wife, leaving behind his first family. This decision marked a significant shift in his personal life, creating an emotional and physical distance from his children and first wife. Career in Theatre and Film Eugenio Duse's c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina Romano
Dina Romano (born Geltrude Ricci; 16 February 1876 – 7 November 1957) was an Italian stage and film actress. She appeared in more than fifty films during her career including ''The Materassi Sisters'' (1944).Landy p.285 Selected filmography * ''Aldebaran'' (1935) * '' The Ancestor'' (1936) * '' God's Will Be Done'' (1936) * ''Adam's Tree'' (1936) * '' But It's Nothing Serious'' (1936) * '' The Three Wishes'' (1937) * '' The Two Mothers'' (1938) * '' A Thousand Lire a Month'' (1939) * ''Marionette'' (1939) * '' The Hotel of the Absent'' (1939) * '' Saint John, the Beheaded'' (1940) * '' First Love'' (1941) * ''The Adventuress from the Floor Above'' (1941) * '' The Brambilla Family Go on Holiday'' (1941) * ''A Garibaldian in the Convent'' (1942) * ''Fedora'' (1942) * ''The Materassi Sisters'' (1944) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1947) * '' The Flame That Will Not Die'' (1949) * '' Love and Blood'' (1951) * ''Shadows Over Naples ''Shadows Over Naples'' () is a 1951 German-Italian crim ... [...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] |
Pina Gallini
Pina Gallini (19 March 1888 – 31 January 1974) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 82 films between 1935 and 1963. Selected filmography * ''The Countess of Parma'' (1936) * '' The Ferocious Saladin'' (1937) * '' The Former Mattia Pascal'' (1937) * '' Unjustified Absence'' (1939) * '' The Document'' (1939) * '' Mad Animals'' (1939) * '' The Hotel of the Absent'' (1939) * '' The Document'' (1939) * '' The Boarders at Saint-Cyr'' (1939) * '' Guest for One Night'' (1939) * '' Heartbeat'' (1939) * '' The Hussar Captain'' (1940) * '' The Hero of Venice'' (1941) * ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1942) * '' Four Steps in the Clouds'' (1942) * '' Before the Postman'' (1942) * '' Violets in Their Hair'' (1942) * '' Music on the Run'' (1943) * '' Fatal Symphony'' (1947) * '' The Emperor of Capri'' (1949) * '' How I Discovered America'' (1949) * '' The Elusive Twelve'' (1950) * ''Rapture'' (1950) * '' The Beggar's Daughter'' (1950) * '' Toto the Third Man'' (1951) * '' Toto and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guglielmo Barnabò
Guglielmo Barnabò (11 May 1888 – 31 May 1954) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1926 and 1954. Life and career Born in Ancona, Barnabò made his stage debut in 1921 at the Greek Theatre of Syracuse, with the Annibale Ninchi's company. Since then he was enrolled by some of the most important stage companies of his time, working among others with Marta Abba, Alda Borelli, Maria Melato, Gino Cervi, Paolo Stoppa. In 1927 Barnabò made his screen debut in the silent film '' Beauty of the World'', but his film career took off with the sound cinema, when he became one of the most active character actors of the 1930s and the 1940s. Specialized in good-natured and bourgeois character roles, he is best known as the villain capitalist in Vittorio De Sica's '' Miracle in Milan''. Barnabò was married to actress , with whom he often worked in films and on stage. Selected filmography * '' Beauty of the World'' (1927) * '' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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) * '' Mother Earth'' (1931) * '' Five to Nil'' (1932) * '' Everybody's Secretary'' (1933) *'' Nini Falpala'' (1933) * '' My Little One'' (1933) * '' Everybody's Woman'' (1934) * '' The Last of the Bergeracs'' (1934) * '' Lady of Paradise'' (1934) * '' Aldebaran'' (1935) * '' Those Two'' (1935) * '' Sette giorni all'altro mondo'' (1936) * '' Lohengrin'' (1936) * '' The Amnesiac'' (1936) * '' I'll Give a Million'' (1936) * '' The Last Days of Pompeo'' (1937) * '' Hands Off Me!'' (1937) * '' The Three Wishes'' (1937) * '' The Carnival Is Here Again'' (1937) * '' The Count of Brechard'' (1938) * '' The Hotel of the Absent'' (1939) * '' Saint John, the Beheaded'' (1940) * '' Captain Fracasse'' (1940) * '' Don Pasquale'' (1940) * '' The King's Jester'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |