Marcello Albani (1905–1980) was an American-born Italian

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

, producer and

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

. He is particularly noted for his 1943 film '' Redemption'' which glorified the rise to power of the

Fascist Party The National Fascist Party (, PNF) was a political party in Italy, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of Italian fascism and as a reorganisation of the previous Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, Italian Fasces of Combat. Th ...

in the 1920s, but was disliked by the Fascist film chief

Luigi Freddi Luigi Freddi (12 June 1895, Milan – 17 March 1977, Sabaudia) was an Italian journalist and politician, principally notable for being the first vice seсretary of the ''Fasci italiani all'estero'', and later one of those most responsible for Itali ...

who thought it was too overtly propagandistic.Gundle p.32

Selected filmography

Director

* ''

Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio ( , ; ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was s ...

'' (1940) * '' Redemption'' (1943)

Screenwriter

* ''

White Amazons ''White Amazons'' () is a 1936 Italian white telephone comedy film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Paola Barbara, Luisa Ferida Luisa Ferida, real surname Manfrini (18 March 1914 – 30 April 1945), was an Italian stage and film ac ...

'' (1936)

References

Bibliography

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

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* 1905 births 1980 deaths 20th-century Italian screenwriters Italian film producers Italian film directors Italian Fascist propagandists Italian propaganda film directors Screenwriters from New York City Italian male screenwriters 20th-century Italian male writers American emigrants to Italy {{Italy-film-bio-stub