Ezio Carabella (3 March 1891 in

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– 19 April 1964 in Rome) was an Italian

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, song and

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composer. He provided music for several films directed by

Mario Camerini Mario Camerini (6 February 1895 – 4 February 1981) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Camerini began his career in the film industry in 1920, working for his cousin the director Augusto Genina. Camerini went on to direct his own fi ...

, among others. Josef Kloppenburg: Handbuch der Musik im 20. Jahrhundert: 2000- Volume 11 - Page 171 "Ein Pionier der frühen italienischen Tonfilmmusik war der Operettenkomponist Ezio Carabella (1891-1964), der mit leichter Hand zahlreiche Partituren u.a. für die Filmkomödien von Mario Camerini (L'ultima avventura/Das letzte Abenteuer, .." He was the father of the actress

Flora Carabella Flora Carabella (15 February 1926 – 19 April 1999) was an Italian film, television and stage actress. Life and career Born in Rome, the daughter of the composer Ezio Carabella, Ezio, Carabella studied acting at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of ...

Selected filmography

* '' Lowered Sails'' (1931) * '' The Last Adventure'' (1932) * '' I'll Always Love You'' (1933) * '' Fanny'' (1933) * '' Like the Leaves'' (1935) * ''

The Phantom Gondola ''The Phantom Gondola'' () is a 1936 French-Italian drama film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Marcelle Chantal, Henri Rollan and Paul Bernard (actor), Paul Bernard. The film was a co-production (filmmaking), co-production between the two ...

'' (1936) * '' King of Diamonds'' (1936) * '' Mad Animals'' (1939) * '' It Always Ends That Way'' (1939) * '' Then We'll Get a Divorce'' (1940) * '' The Last Dance'' (1941) * '' Sealed Lips'' (1942) * ''

The Princess of Dreams ''The Princess of Dreams'' () is a 1942 Italian romance film directed by Maria Teresa Ricci and Roberto Savarese and starring Irasema Dilián, Antonio Centa and Maria Melato.Mancini p.170 It was shot at the Fert Studios in Turin. The film's se ...

'' (1942) * '' Two Hearts Among the Beasts'' (1943) * '' Two Suffer Better Than One'' (1943) * '' I'll Always Love You'' (1943) * ''

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'' (1943) * '' The Son of the Red Corsair'' (1943) * ''

Life Begins Anew ''Life Begins Anew'' () is a 1945 Italian melodrama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti and Eduardo De Filippo. It was the third most popular Italian film during 1945-46 after Roberto Rossellini's ''Rome, Open ...

'' (1945) * '' The Ten Commandments'' (1945) * ''

The Opium Den ''The Opium Den'' () is a 1947 Italian crime film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Emilio Ghione Jr., Mariella Lotti, and Emilio Cigoli. It was an unsuccessful attempt to revive the Za La Mort character, who had been a popular figure d ...

'' (1947) * ''

The White Devil ''The White Devil'' (full original title: ''The White Divel; or, The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano. With The Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona the famous Venetian Curtizan'') is a tragedy by English playwright John We ...

'' (1947) * '' Baron Carlo Mazza'' (1948) * '' The Man with the Grey Glove'' (1948) * '' Four Red Roses'' (1951) * '' Son of the Hunchback'' (1952) * '' Loving You Is My Sin'' (1953) * ''

The King's Prisoner ''The King's Prisoner'' () is a 1935 German historical comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Michael Bohnen, Paul Kemp, and Susi Lanner. It is based around the development of Meissen porcelain during the eighteenth century, particula ...

'' (1954) * '' The Mysteries of Paris'' (1957)

References

1891 births 1964 deaths Composers from Rome Italian film score composers Italian male film score composers Italian opera composers Italian male opera composers 20th-century Italian composers 20th-century male composers 20th-century Italian male musicians {{Italy-composer-stub