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We Were Seven Sisters
''We Were Seven Sisters'' ( it, Eravamo sette sorelle) is a 1939 Italian " white-telephones" romantic comedy film directed by Nunzio Malasomma and starring Antonio Gandusio. Cast * Antonio Gandusio as Il conte Leone Varani * Nino Besozzi as Leonardo Varani * Sergio Tofano as Antonio, il maggiordomo * Pina Renzi as Amalia, la madre per finzione * Paola Barbara as Lisa * Niní Gordini Cervi as Olga * Lotte Menas as Eleonora * Anna Maria Dossena as Marcella * Olivia Fried as Norina * Elena Altieri as Tina * Guglielmo Sinaz Guglielmo Sinaz (20 November 1885 – 5 February 1947) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1935 and 1947. He was born and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''I Love You Only'' (1935) * ''The Great ... as Fachinetti, il impresario * Guglielmo Barnabò as Il barone Franzetti References External links * 1939 films 1939 romantic comedy films 1930s Italian-language films Italian black-and-white films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nunzio Malasomma
Nunzio Malasomma (4 February 1894 – 12 January 1974) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 41 films between 1923 and 1968. Selected filmography * '' Mister Radio'' (1924) * ''Orient'' (1924) * '' The Doll Queen'' (1925) * ''One Minute to Twelve'' (1925) * '' The King and the Girl'' (1925) * '' Hunted People'' (1926) * ''Struggle for the Matterhorn'' (1928) * '' The Call of the North'' (1929) * ''The Son of the White Mountain'' (1930) * '' The Man with the Claw'' (1931) * '' The Opera Singer'' (1932) * '' The Telephone Operator'' (1932) * '' The Blind Woman of Sorrento'' (1934) * ''Territorial Militia'' (1935) * '' I Don't Know You Anymore'' (1936) * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1936) * ''Red Orchids'' (1938) * '' The Night of Decision'' (1938) *''The Secret Lie'' (1938) * '' Woman Without a Past'' (1939) * ''Then We'll Get a Divorce'' (1940) * ''Scampolo'' (1941) * '' Torrents of Spring'' (1942) * ''The White Devil ''The White Devil'' (full original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niní Gordini Cervi
Niní Gordini Cervi (1907–1988) was an Italian actress.Goble p.112 She was married to the actor Gino Cervi. She worked in films, radio and on the stage. Selected filmography * ''Five to Nil'' (1932) * '' The Two Misanthropists'' (1937) * ''We Were Seven Sisters ''We Were Seven Sisters'' ( it, Eravamo sette sorelle) is a 1939 Italian " white-telephones" romantic comedy film directed by Nunzio Malasomma and starring Antonio Gandusio. Cast * Antonio Gandusio as Il conte Leone Varani * Nino Besozzi as Le ...'' (1939) * '' A Thousand Lire a Month'' (1939) * '' The First Woman Who Passes'' (1940) * '' The White Angel'' (1943) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1907 births 1988 deaths People from Lugo, Emilia-Romagna Italian film actresses Burials at the Cimitero Flaminio {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Nunzio Malasomma
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Italian Black-and-white Films
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1930s Italian-language Films
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1939 Romantic Comedy Films
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1939 Films
The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten Best Picture-nominated films that year include classics in multiple genres. 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 films produced in Southern California were at the height of their Golden Age (in spite of many cheaply made or undistinguished films also being produced, something to be expected with any year in commercial cinema), and during 1939 there are the premieres of an outstandingly large number of exceptional motion pictures, many of which become honored as all-time classic films. ** June 10 – MGM's first successful animated character, Barney Bear, made his debut in '' The Bear That Couldn't Sleep''. ** August 15 – ''The Wizard of Oz'' premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. ** October ... [...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) * '' The L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guglielmo Sinaz
Guglielmo Sinaz (20 November 1885 – 5 February 1947) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1935 and 1947. He was born and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''I Love You Only'' (1935) * ''The Great Appeal'' (1936) * ''It Was I!'' (1937) * ''Hands Off Me!'' (1937) * '' The Last Enemy'' (1938) * ''Luciano Serra, Pilot'' (1938) * '' Naples of Olden Times'' (1938) * '' Star of the Sea'' (1938) * ''All of Life in One Night'' (1938) * ''The Cuckoo Clock'' (1938) * '' Princess Tarakanova'' (1938) * ''We Were Seven Sisters'' (1939) * ''Diamonds'' (1939) * '' The Silent Partner'' (1939) * ''Non me lo dire!'' (1940) * ''Then We'll Get a Divorce'' (1940) * ''The Prisoner of Santa Cruz'' (1941) * ''Light in the Darkness'' (1941) * ''A Husband for the Month of April'' (1941) * ''Bengasi'' (1942) * '' Two Hearts'' (1943) * ''Harlem'' (1943) * '' Without a Woman'' (1943) * ''Before Him All Rome Trembled'' (1946) * ''The Great Dawn ''The Great Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Altieri
Elena Altieri (born Elena Capucci; 27 July 1916 – 1 May 1997) was an Italian film and stage actress. She appeared in 27 films between 1937 and 1955. She was born in Stresa, the daughter of an Italian father and an English mother. She was mainly cast, both on stage and in films, in roles of haughty and aristocratic women. Partial filmography * ''Queen of the Scala'' (1937) * ''Luciano Serra, Pilot'' (1938) - (uncredited) * ''We Were Seven Sisters'' (1939) - Tina * ''At Your Orders, Madame'' (1939) - Ginette * ''Piccolo hotel'' (1939) * ''In the Country Fell a Star'' (1939) - La cognata di Margaret * ''L'amore si fa così'' (1939) - Una indossatrice * ''Vento di milioni'' (1940) * ''Big Shoes'' (1940) - Marta * ''Idyll in Budapest'' (1941) * ''Il pozzo dei miracoli'' (1941) - Anna * ''Vertigine'' (1942) - Marcella * ''Oro nero'' (1942) - La collega di Marta * ''Guardia del corpo'' (1942) * ''Colpi di timone'' (1942) - Jole Precordi, sua moglie * ''Quarta pagina'' (1942) - Sua mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Maria Dossena
Anna Maria Dossena (1912–1990) was an Italian stage and film actress.Walman p.162 Selected filmography * ''Television'' (1931) * ''The Old Lady'' (1932) *''Music in the Square'' (1936) * ''We Were Seven Sisters'' (1939) * ''We Were Seven Widows'' (1939) * '' Empty Eyes'' (1953) * ''Il bambino e il poliziotto ''Il bambino e il poliziotto'' () is a 1989 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Verdone. Plot summary The police officer Carlo Vinciguerra is investigating a drug trafficking cartel. In order to infiltrate it, he pretends to be the drug addicte ...'' (1989) References Bibliography * Waldman, Harry. ''Missing Reels: Lost Films of American and European Cinema''. McFarland, 2000. External links * 1912 births 1990 deaths Italian stage actresses Italian film actresses {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...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] |
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