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Zoe Incrocci
Zoe Incrocci (21 September 1917 – 6 November 2003) was an Italian actress and voice actress. Biography Born in Brescia, Italy, Incrocci was the older sister of the screenwriter Agenore Incrocci. She made her film debut at young age in a supporting role in the 1934 comedy film directed by Amleto Palermi. She worked intensively in theater, radio, television and films. She was also a very active voice actress. In 1991 Incrocci received a David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress and a Nastro d'Argento in the same category thanks to her performance in Francesca Archibugi's '' Towards Evening''. As a voice actress, Incrocci voiced Grandmother Willow in the Italian-language dub of ''Pocahontas''. She reprised this role in the sequel. Personal life Incrocci was married to the radio director Nino Meloni until his death in 1960. Through their son Francesco Meloni, Incrocci is the grandmother of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Death On 6 November 2003 Incrocci died at her ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brescia
Brescia (, ; ; or ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the region of Lombardy, in Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Lake Garda, Garda and Lake Iseo, Iseo. With a population of 199,949, it is the second largest city in Lombardy and the fourth largest in northwest Italy. The urban area of Brescia extends beyond the administrative city limits and has a population of 672,822, while over 1.5 million people live in its metropolitan area. The city is the administrative capital of the Province of Brescia, one of the largest in Italy, with over 1.2 million inhabitants. Founded over 3,200 years ago, Brescia (in antiquity Brixia) has been an important regional centre since pre-Roman times. Its old town contains the best-preserved Ancient Rome, Roman public buildings in northern Italy and numerous monuments, among these the medieval castle, the Old Cathedral, Brescia, Old and New Cathedral, Brescia, New cathedral, the Renaissance ''Piazza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
But It's Nothing Serious
''But It's Nothing Serious'' () is a 1936 Italian " white-telephones" romantic comedy film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Vittorio De Sica, Elisa Cegani and Assia Noris.Cardullo p.268 It is based on a play by Luigi Pirandello. Two years later Camerini remade it as a German film '' The Man Who Couldn't Say No''. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. It was shot at the studios of Caesar Film in Rome. Cast * Vittorio De Sica as Memmo Speranza * Elisa Cegani as Gasperina * Umberto Melnati as Vico Lamanna * Assia Noris as Loletta Festa * Elsa De Giorgi as Elsa * Ugo Ceseri as Barranco * Vivi Gioi as Matilde * Giuseppe Pierozzi as Un pensionnaire * Maria Arcione * Celeste Calza * Jole Capodaglio * Antonio Centa * Mario Ferrari * Giuliana Gianni * Zoe Incrocci * Carola Lotti * Dina Romano * Lia Rosa * Nietta Zocchi See also *''But It Isn't Serious ''But It Isn't Serious'' () is a 1921 Italian silent film directed by Augusto Camerini and st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rascel-Fifì
''Rascel-Fifì'' is a 1957 Italy, Italian comedy film, crime-comedy film directed by . It is a parody of Jules Dassin's ''Rififi''. The film was a success at the Italian box office. Plot Renato and Gideone team up in business and open a Night in one of the worst and infamous neighborhoods in New York, provoking the ire of Gionata a gangster owner of a nightclub right in front of Renato's, the boss will open a series of actions to close the competitors' business, first by sending a dancer, Barbara, who, performing in a risqué show, tries to get the police to intervene, then with the kidnapping of Renatino, son of Renato, to blackmail his father. Renatino proves to be smarter than he seems, challenges Gionata to the dice and beats him, making him lose all the money and also the club. Michaela, daughter of the bandit, has in the meantime fallen in love with Renato and helps him find her son, everything will end in a marriage and Gionata will pass, with her accomplices, in Renato' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noi Siamo Le Colonne
''Noi siamo le colonne'' (i.e. "We are the columns") is a 1956 Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico and starring Vittorio De Sica, Franco Fabrizi and Antonio Cifariello. Plot Cast *Vittorio De Sica as Alfredo Celimontani *Franco Fabrizi as Aldo Perego *Antonio Cifariello as Ugo Stefani * Mireille Granelli as Lea * Vanna Vivaldi as Elettra *Aroldo Tieri as Archimede *Lauro Gazzolo as Mr. Bonci *Zoe Incrocci as Archimede's Sister * Ottavio Alessi as Bartolozzi * Elisa Montés as Sofia *Pina Gallini as Giulia *Laura Betti as The Singer *Franco Migliacci *Liana Del Balzo *Nando Tamberlani Nando Tamberlani (1896–1967) was an Italian actor. A character actor in Italian cinema of the postwar era, he was the brother of actor Carlo Tamberlani. Another brother Ermete Tamberlani was also an actor. He appeared in a number of peplum epi ... References External links * Italian comedy-drama films 1956 comedy-drama films Films dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allow Me, Daddy!
''Allow Me, Daddy!'' () is a 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Bonnard. Plot Rodolfo, a young man with the ambitions of an opera singer in the bass register, does not work, gets up at midday and lives on the shoulders of his butchers in-laws, who keep his singing studies with a profiteer teacher. Finally, he is cornered by his father-in-law, who expects him to work, as a singer or with any other occupation. The teacher, for fear of losing the profit, arranges for Rodolfo to be hired for just one evening in the small part of Doctor Grenvil in La traviata. Rodolfo, after having created problems in the rehearsals, executes, in general disapproval, the phrase "Consumption does not grant her but a few hours" lowering it by an octave, reaching low C, and furthermore, advancing to the proscenium while the curtain falls. He closes behind him, sings the phrase: «It's off!», not foreseen since, although present in the score, it is traditionally omitted. Everything happens: the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destinazione Piovarolo
''Destination Piovarolo'' () is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Domenico Paolella. Plot summary In 1922, during Fascism, Antonio La Quaglia accepts the assignment to the station master in a remote town called Piovarolo, because that's where it always rains. Antonio soon realizes that life in the small village is sad, because the inhabitants are all old, deluded, dying, without hope. Antonio so hopefully he will be moved to a larger city; but the years pass and Antonio holds the same job. One day he sees off the train a beautiful lady, who does the primary school teacher. Soon the two get married and start a family, but always Antonio wants to get away from Piovarolo, but politics and the ministry do not care at all about him. Cast *Totò: Antonio La Quaglia *Marisa Merlini: Sara * Irene Cefaro: Mariuccia La Quaglia *Tina Pica: Beppa * Ernesto Almirante: Ernesto * Arnoldo Foà: the Podestà *Enrico Viarisio: De Fassi * Paolo Stoppa: Marcello Gorini *Nando Bruno: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bravissimo (film)
''Bravissimo'' is a 1955 Italian film, starring Alberto Sordi and directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico. Plot Ubaldo Impallato is a precarious elementary music teacher, for years in vain in search of a steady job, who to make ends meet with after school. Among the children entrusted to him there is also Gigetto, who unlike the other companions has a singular characteristic: at the age of six he can sing with a wonderful baritone voice. The teacher, who in the meantime has become his tutor in spite of himself since his father ended up in prison, accidentally realizes this extraordinary gift of the little one hearing him interpret The barber of Seville (Ubaldo at first thinks he hears a singer on the radio) and decides to seize the opportunity. Thanks to an excellent performance in a television program for young talents, Gigetto is an immediate success and promises to become a real gold mine. With the help of a theatrical impresario, he is even offered Verdi's Rigoletto, in the role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Of Life And Love
''Of Life and Love'' () is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Aldo Fabrizi, Giorgio Pastina, Mario Soldati and Luigi Zampa. Plot The film tells four episodes from stories written by Luigi Pirandello (from the work: ''Novelle per un anno''). The jar A landowner ignorant and arrogant he is afraid that his big jar is broken because of a storm that is coming and he entrusts it to one of its employees silly that the rocks. The owner angrily dismisses the man and called Zi 'Dima, the master repairman to fix the jar, but they get stuck in there. Ventaglino A woman spends all his possessions for a fan and starts to play the role of a prostitute. The license Rosario chiarchiaro she won the enmity of his countrymen because he wants to settle the "license Evil Eye" so that his family can live in more favorable conditions. To do this, disguises herself as a true bearer of bad luck (think that Toto had a great fear for jettatori) finally getting his job Tight Formal Wear The portly p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passionate Song
''Passionate Song'' () is a 1953 Italian musical melodrama film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring Nilla Pizzi, Gérard Landry and Vira Silenti.Parish p.100 Plot Lucia Spinelli, orphaned by both parents, is taken as a housekeeper in the house of Mrs. Carla Parodi, when she reaches the age of majority, the young woman is almost forced to marry Mrs. Carla's brother. After the marriage and the birth of the first child, Parodi's intrusions on the life of the two spouses continue. At the age of five, the little girl is sent to a college at Carla's suggestion, leaving Lucia in solitude, filled by the presence of Alberto, a shady individual who, after becoming her lover, pushes her to work as a singer in a nightclub. After leaving her husband, Lucia continues her work in the show that will take her around the world, but when she returns, after a few years, she will see her daughter again and will have the sad news about Alberto's attempts to take advantage of the young woman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perdonami!
''Perdonami!'' (i. e. "Forgive me!") is a 1953 Italian melodrama film written and directed by Mario Costa and starring Raf Vallone and Antonella Lualdi.Arturo Lanocita. "Pietà per chi cade" (review). ''Corriere della Sera''. 30 March 1954. Plot Cast *Raf Vallone as Marco Gerace *Antonella Lualdi as Anna Boetto *Tamara Lees as Vera *Aldo Bufi Landi as Nicola Boetto * Patrizia Remiddi as Carletta * Augusto Pennella as Luigino *Dante Maggio as Michele *Emma Baron as Maria Boetto * Celeste Almieri as Miss Parodi *Zoe Incrocci as Adele * Carlo D'Angelo as Commissioner *Attilio Dottesio as Brigadiere *Alessandro Fersen as Raul * Rino Genovese as Ernesto References External links *''Perdonami''at Variety Distribution Variety Distribution is an Italian-based film distribution company. It distributes Italian films worldwide, produced from the 1930s onward. History Variety Distribution (formerly Variety Film and Variety Communications) has been in the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Steamship Owner
''The Steamship Owner'' (Italian: ''Il padrone del vapore'') is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Walter Chiari, Delia Scala and Carlo Campanini.Aprà p.101 The film's sets were designed by the art director Alberto Boccianti. Plot A rich American arrives in a little village in the mountains because he wants to advertise a drink he produces. In the village there are also two men from Rome who are at logger-heads with the locals. The coming of the American complicates matters. Cast * Walter Chiari as Himself * Delia Scala as Herself * Carlo Campanini as Mr. Carlo Peonio * Giovanna Pala as Trude * Mario Riva as Mario * Riccardo Billi as Riccardo * Bice Valori as Marga * Aldo Giuffrè as Nicola * Carlo Giuffrè as Finanziere * Raffaele Pisu as Pino * Gianrico Tedeschi as Pianista * Gisella Sofio as Coreografa * Alberto Sorrentino as Disegnatore * Aldo Bufi Landi as Finanziere napoletano * Anna Maestri as Cameriera dell'albergo * E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strano Appuntamento
''Strano appuntamento'' is a 1951 Italian film directed by Dezsö Ákos Hamza. Cast *Umberto Spadaro ... Rossi *Leda Gloria ... Signora Rossi *Rossana Podestà ... Their daughter * Enzo Staiola ... Older son (as Enzo Stajola) * Stefano Guarnieri ... Younger son * Marina Bonfigli *Clelia Matania *Olga Solbelli *Gianni Musy (as Gianni Glori) *Enrico Glori *Carlo Romano * Gianna Pacetti * Clara Auteri Pepe *Zoe Incrocci *Oscar Andriani Oscar Andriani (28 December 1905 – 17 July 1987) was an Italian actor and playwright. He appeared in more than fifty films from 1937 to 1969. Life and career Born in Brescia, Andriani made his stage debut at 17 years old in the theatrical com ... External links * 1951 films 1950s Italian-language films Italian comedy films 1951 comedy films Italian black-and-white films 1950s Italian films Films directed by Dezsõ Ákos Hamza {{1950s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
