Backstage (1939 Film)
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''Backstage'' () is a 1939 Italian
comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...
directed by
Alessandro Blasetti Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film ''Four Steps in the Clouds''. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the ...
and starring Filippo Romito,
Elisa Cegani Elisa Cegani (11 June 1911 – 23 February 1996) was an Italian actress. She appeared in 60 films between 1935 and 1983. Partial filmography * '' Aldebaran'' (1935) - Nora Bandi * ''Cavalry'' (1936) - Speranza di Frassineto * '' The Counte ...
and Camillo Pilotto.Gundle p.224 It is part of the tradition of White Telephone films, popular in Italy during the era. The film's sets were designed by the
art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...
Gastone Medin Gastone Medin (1905–1973) was a Dalmatian Italian art director.Anile p.132 He worked on more than a hundred and fifty films during his career. Selected filmography * '' Figaro and His Great Day'' (1931) * '' Lowered Sails'' (1931) * ''The Tab ...
. It was shot at
Cinecittà Cinecittà Studios (; Italian for Cinema City) is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were constru ...
in
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and on location in
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and
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.


Cast

* Filippo Romito as Il baritone Alberto De Sanni *
Elisa Cegani Elisa Cegani (11 June 1911 – 23 February 1996) was an Italian actress. She appeared in 60 films between 1935 and 1983. Partial filmography * '' Aldebaran'' (1935) - Nora Bandi * ''Cavalry'' (1936) - Speranza di Frassineto * '' The Counte ...
as Diana Martelli - la pianista * Camillo Pilotto as Parsifal Bernocchio * Lia Orlandini as Mirna Martelli - la zia di Diana *
Enzo Biliotti Enzo Biliotti (28 June 1887 – 19 November 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 80 films between 1916 and 1958. Life and career Born in Livorno, Biliotti started his career in 1918, in the stage company of and Olga Vittoria Gentil ...
as Silvio Dentice *
Ugo Ceseri Ugo Ceseri (30 June 1893 – 3 December 1940) was an Italian stage actor, stage and film actor. He appeared in forty two films between 1931 and his death in 1940. In 1934 he appeared in the play ''18 BL'', an attempt to create a mass theatre by t ...
as Terenzio * Giovanni Grasso as Il commissario * Fausto Guerzoni as Il vice commissario *
Ermanno Roveri Ermanno Roveri (5 October 1903 – 28 December 1968) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 39 films between 1912 and 1965. Selected filmography * ''The Private Secretary'' (1931) * '' Everybody's Secretary'' (1933) * '' Full Speed'' (19 ...
as Un giornalista * Romolo Costa as Sablonscky * Mario Pucci as Il portiere dell'albergo * Oretta Fiume as La fioraia a bordo *
Cesare Zoppetti Cesare Zoppetti (1 January 1876 – 15 March 1940) was an Italian stage and film actor. Zoppetti was a prolific film actor of the 1930s, appearing in nearly fifty productions between 1930 and his death in 1940 including the comedy '' What Sc ...
as Il portiere dell'uscita degli artisti * Federico Collino as Il portiere dell'entrata al palcoscenico * Achille Majeroni as Un signore a bordo * Sandro Dani as Il funzionario della stazione * Nino Eller as Il controllore alla stazione * Nino Crisman as Un cameriere a bordo


References


Bibliography

*Gundle, Stephen. ''Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy''. Berghahn Books, 2013.


External links

* 1939 films Italian comedy films 1939 comedy films 1930s Italian-language films Films directed by Alessandro Blasetti Films shot at Cinecittà Studios Italian black-and-white films Films scored by Alessandro Cicognini 1930s Italian films Italian-language comedy films {{1930s-Italy-film-stub