''Ragazzi del Juke-Box'' (a.k.a. ''Juke-Box Kids'') is a 1959 Italian "

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" film directed (and co-written) by

Lucio Fulci Lucio Fulci (; 17 June 1927 – 13 March 1996) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. Although he worked in a wide array of genres through a career spanning nearly five decades, including comedies and Spaghetti Westerns, he garn ...

and starring Mario Carotenuto,

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and Anthony Steffen. Lucio Fulci has a cameo in the film as a festival organizer. More than for the subject and the script, it deserves to be considered for the cast comprising some of the greatest characters of Italian pop music at the time of the screamers. The film sees the first film success of Adriano Celentano (who the previous year had made a first appearance in I frenetici) and includes for example the version of the band I Campioni of the song considered the first Italian rock'n roll, Ciao ti dirò del 1958 with text by Giorgio Calabrese and music by Gian Franco Reverberi already interpreted by Giorgio Gaber and then by Ricky Gianco.

Plot

Sir Cesari (Mario Carotenuto) runs a record company that promotes the classical music he loves. But when he goes to prison, his attractive young daughter Giulia (Elke Sommer) takes over the company and uses it to promote rock n' roll singers instead.

Cast

* Mario Carotenuto: Commander Cesari *

: Giulia Cesari * Anthony Steffen: Paolo Macelloni *

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: Gennarino * Yvette Masson: Maria Davanzale *

Fred Buscaglione Ferdinando "Fred" Buscaglione (; 23 November 1921 – 3 February 1960) was an Italian singer and actor who became very popular in the late 1950s. His public persona – the character he played both in his songs and his movies – was of a humoro ...

and his Asternovas: Fred and his band *

Adriano Celentano Adriano Celentano (; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian musician, singer, composer, actor, and filmmaker. He is dubbed "''il Molleggiato''" (the springy one) because of his dancing. Celentano's many albums frequently enjoyed both commercial and ...

and the Modern Jazz Gang: Adriano and his band *

Betty Curtis Roberta Corti, better known by her stage name Betty Curtis (21 March 1936 – 15 June 2006), was an Italian singer active from 1957 to 2004. Curtis grew up in the Zone 8 of Milan's borough Cagnola. She started singing in night clubs at an early ...

: Betty Dorys * Gianni Meccia: Jimmy *

Tony Dallara Antonio Lardera (born 30 June 1936), better known by his stage name Tony Dallara, is an Italian former singer, actor and television personality. Biography Dallara was born in Campobasso in southern Italy, but grew up in Milan. After working as ba ...

: Tony Bellaria * Mario Ambrosino: il contino *

Giuliano Mancini People with the Italian given name or surname Giuliano () have included: In arts and entertainment Surname * Geoffrey Giuliano, American author * Maurizio Giuliano, writer and Guinness-record-holding traveler Given name * Giuliano Gemma, actor * ...

: Jimmy * Karin Well: Girl at club * Umberto D'Orsi * Enzo Garinei *

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: Festival organizerHowarth, Troy (2015). Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and his Films. Midnight Marquee Press. page 70.

References

External links

* 1959 films 1950s Italian-language films Films directed by Lucio Fulci 1959 musical comedy films Musicarelli 1950s Italian films {{musical-comedy-film-stub