Adriana Benetti (12 December 1919 – 24 February 2016) was an Italian
actress
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...
.
Biography
Born in Quacchio, a town east of
Ferrara
Ferrara (; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, capital of the province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main ...
, Benetti graduated from the Istituto Magistrale and then landed in Rome, where she was accepted at the
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
The (; CSC), also referred to as the (), is an Italian national film school headquartered in Rome, with satellite educational hubs in five other Italian regions.
It was established in 1935 and aims to promote the art and technique of cinemat ...
. While there, she was discovered by
Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica ( , ; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
Widely considered one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, four of the fil ...
and subsequently made her debut at age 22 in his 1941 film ''
Teresa Venerdì
''Teresa Venerdì'' is a 1941 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It is a remake of the 1938 Hungarian film ''Rézi Friday'' he name of the character, Venerdi, meaning Friday in Italian
Cast
* Vittorio De Sica ...
'' as the title character.
In 1942, she appeared in director
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 ...
's celebrated ''
Four Steps in the Clouds
''Four Steps in the Clouds'' () is a 1942 Italian comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Alessandro Blasetti, starring Gino Cervi and Adriana Benetti. It tells the story of a married man who agrees to act as the husband of a young pregnant ...
'', where she supported
Gino Cervi
Luigi Cervi (3 May 1901 – 3 January 1974), better known as Gino Cervi (), was an Italian actor. He was best known for portraying Peppone in a series of comedies based on the character ''Don Camillo'' (1952–1965), and police detective Jul ...
in
Luigi Zampa
Luigi Zampa (2 January 1905 – 16 August 1991) was an Italian film director.
Biography
Son of a worker, Zampa studied filmmaking from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school in Rome.
He directed several Italian neorealism films in the 1940 ...
Andrea Checchi
Andrea Checchi (21 October 1916 – 29 March 1974) was a prolific Italian film actor.
Biography
Born in Florence, Checchi appeared in over 150 films in his lengthy career, which spanned from 1934 to his death in 1974. The son of a painter, he s ...
and
Aldo Fabrizi
Aldo Fabrizi (; born Aldo Fabbrizi; 1 November 1905 – 2 April 1990) was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and comedian, best known for the role of the heroic priest in Roberto Rossellini's ''Rome, Open City'' and as partner of Totò in ...
. In 1943, she played in
Mario Soldati
Mario Soldati (17 November 1906 – 19 June 1999) was an Italian writer and film director. In 1954, he won the Strega Prize for ''Lettere da Capri.'' He directed several works adapted from novels, and worked with leading Italian actresses, s ...
Massimo Serato
Massimo Serato (born Giuseppe Segato; 31 May 1917 – 22 December 1989) was an Italian film actor with a career spanning over 40 years.
Biography
Serato was born in Oderzo, Veneto, Italy and started appearing in films in 1938. He played leading ...
and
Vittorio Sanipoli
Vittorio Sanipoli (27 October 1915 – 25 July 1992) was an Italian stage, film and television actor. He appeared in around a hundred films and television series between 1942 and 1980.
Life and career
Born Luciano Sanipoli in Genoa, he made his ...
and in
Marc Allégret
Marc Allégret (22 December 1900 – 3 November 1973) was a French screenwriter, photographer and film director.
Biography
Born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, he was the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer in ...
's ''
Les Petites du quai aux fleurs
''Les Petites du quai aux fleurs'' is a French film.
Plot
A bookshop owner has four daughters who have romantic troubles.
References
External linksat louisjourdan.net''Les Petites du quai aux fleurs''at IMDb
IMDb, historically known as th ...
'' with
Bernard Blier
Bernard Blier (; 11 January 1916 – 29 March 1989) was a French character actor.
Life and career
Blier was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father, a researcher at the Pasteur Institute, was posted at the time.
His rotund featu ...
and
Gérard Philipe
Gérard Philipe () (born Gérard Albert Philip, 4 December 1922 – 25 November 1959) was a prominent French actor who appeared in 32 films between 1944 and 1959. He came to prominence during the later period of the poetic realism movement o ...
.
In 1945, she appeared in two musicals, '' Torna a Sorrento'' with
Gino Bechi
Gino Bechi (16 October 1913 – 2 February 1993) was an Italian operatic baritone, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, especially in Verdi roles.
Life and career
Bechi studied in his native Florence with Raul Frazzi and di Giorg ...
and ''
O sole mio
"" () is a well-known Neapolitan song written in 1898. Its Neapolitan-language lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro and the music was composed by Eduardo di Capua (1865–1917) and Alfredo Mazzucchi (1878–1972).. The title translates ...
'' with opera singer
Tito Gobbi
Tito Gobbi (24 October 19135 March 1984) was an Italian operatic baritone with an international reputation.
He made his operatic debut in Gubbio in 1935 as Count Rodolfo in Bellini's '' La sonnambula'' and quickly appeared in Italy's major oper ...
. In 1946, she appeared with
Fosco Giachetti
Fosco Giachetti (28 March 1900, in Sesto Fiorentino – 22 December 1974, in Rome) was an Italian actor.
Fosco Giachetti was the protagonist of ''Lo squadrone bianco'' (1936), directed by Augusto Genina. He became the leading man in Fascist ...
Eduardo
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Association football
* Dudu (footballer, born 1992) (Eduardo Pereira Rodrigues), Brazilian footballer
* Eduardo (footballer, born 1 ...
and
Titina De Filippo
Titina De Filippo (born Annunziata De Filippo; 27 March 1898 – 26 December 1963) was an Italian actress and playwright.Uno tra la folla''.
In 1947, she appeared in
Goffredo Alessandrini
Goffredo Alessandrini (20 November 1904 – 16 May 1978) was an Italian scriptwriter and film director. He also acted, edited, and produced some films.
He practiced athletics (sport), athletics in his youth, and won a title of Italian Athletics ...
Rossano Brazzi
Rossano Brazzi (18 September 1916 – 24 December 1994) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He was known for playing roles that typified the suave, romantic leading man archetype, both in his native country and in Hollywood.
...
, in
Giorgio Ferroni
Giorgio Ferroni (12 April 1908 – 17 August 1981) was an Italian film director.
Life and career
Giorgio Ferroni was born in Perugia on 12 April 1908. Ferroni began his career in film with short documentaries during World War II. He directed his ...
André Cayatte
André Cayatte (; 3 February 1909 – 6 February 1989) was a French filmmaker, writer and lawyer, who became known for his films centering on themes of crime, justice, and moral responsibility.
Biography
Cayatte began his directoral career at ...
. That same year, she scandalized Italy by posing in a
bikini
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for the weekly newspaper '' Tempo illustrato''. In 1950, she acted with
Totò
Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi De Curtis di Bisanzio (15 February 1898 – 15 April 1967), best known by his stage name Totò (), or simply as Antonio de Curtis, and nicknamed ''il principe della risat ...
in ''
47 morto che parla
''47 morto che parla'' is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia. The film stars Totò and Silvana Pampanini. The plot tells about Antonio Peletti (Totò), a widower and very frugal baron who falls in love with a girl, Ro ...
''.
She specialised in ingénue roles and was known as "''fidanzatina d'Italia''" (Italy's little fiancée), a term coined for her by
Assia Noris
Anastasia Nikolaevna von Gerzfeld (, sometimes transliterated as Anastassia von Hertzfeld; 16 February 1912 – 27 January 1998), known professionally as Assia Noris, was a Russian-Italian film actress.
Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Noris ...
. Because of this, as she aged, her film appearances became less frequent. She played a teacher in 1955's ''
Eighteen Year Olds
''Eighteen Year Olds'' () is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Marisa Allasio.
Cast
* Marisa Allasio as Anna Campolmi
* Virna Lisi as Maria Rovani
* Anthony Steffen as the physics teacher (as Antonio De Teffè)
...
'' (a remake of ''
Schoolgirl Diary
''Schoolgirl Diary'' () is a 1941 Italian "Telefoni Bianchi, white-telephones" drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli.
Cast
* Alida Valli as Anna Campolmi
* Irasema Dilián as Maria Rovani (as Irasema Dilian)
* Andrea Che ...
Teresa Venerdì
''Teresa Venerdì'' is a 1941 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It is a remake of the 1938 Hungarian film ''Rézi Friday'' he name of the character, Venerdi, meaning Friday in Italian
Cast
* Vittorio De Sica ...
'', directed by
Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica ( , ; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
Widely considered one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, four of the fil ...
Luigi Zampa
Luigi Zampa (2 January 1905 – 16 August 1991) was an Italian film director.
Biography
Son of a worker, Zampa studied filmmaking from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school in Rome.
He directed several Italian neorealism films in the 1940 ...
(1942)
* ''
Before the Postman
Mario Bonnard (24 December 1889 – 22 March 1965) was an Italian actor and film director.
Career
Bonnard was born and died in Rome. He began his cinematic career as an actor becoming a popular romantic lead in numerous silent films made befo ...
'', directed by
Mario Bonnard
Mario Bonnard (24 December 1889 – 22 March 1965) was an Italian actor and film director.
Career
Bonnard was born and died in Rome. He began his cinematic career as an actor becoming a popular romantic lead in numerous silent films made befo ...
(1942)
*''
Four Steps in the Clouds
''Four Steps in the Clouds'' () is a 1942 Italian comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Alessandro Blasetti, starring Gino Cervi and Adriana Benetti. It tells the story of a married man who agrees to act as the husband of a young pregnant ...
'', 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 ...
(1942)
*''
Gente dell'aria
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*''Gente y la actualidad'', an Argentine ma ...
Mario Soldati
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Luigi Capuano
Luigi Capuano (13 July 1904 – 20 October 1979) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Naples, he directed 43 films between 1947 and 1971. He sometimes used the pseudonym Lewis King.
Biography
Luigi Capuano was born on July 1 ...
(1943)
*''
Tempesta sul golfo
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*''La tempesta'', ''The Tempest'' (Giorgione), a famous Renaissance painting by Italian master Giorgione dated between 1506 and 1508
*''La tempesta'', ''Tempest'' (1958 film)
* ''La tempesta'' (opera), an Italian-language ...
'', directed by
Gennaro Righelli
Gennaro Righelli (12 December 1886 – 6 January 1949) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and acting, actor. He directed more than 110 films in Italy and Germany between 1910 and 1947. In 1930, he directed the first Italian sound fil ...
(1943)
*''
O sole mio
"" () is a well-known Neapolitan song written in 1898. Its Neapolitan-language lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro and the music was composed by Eduardo di Capua (1865–1917) and Alfredo Mazzucchi (1878–1972).. The title translates ...
'', directed by
Giacomo Gentilomo
Giacomo Gentilomo (5 April 1909 – 16 April 2001) was an Italian film director and Painting, painter.
Early life
He was born in Trieste. Gentilomo moved to Rome at a young age.
Career
At 21 years old he entered the cinema industry, working ...
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (8 July 1894 – 4 January 1998) was an Italian film director whose career spanned from the 1930s to the mid-1960s. He mainly directed adventure pictures and popular comedies, including some starring Totò. His 1942 f ...
Goffredo Alessandrini
Goffredo Alessandrini (20 November 1904 – 16 May 1978) was an Italian scriptwriter and film director. He also acted, edited, and produced some films.
He practiced athletics (sport), athletics in his youth, and won a title of Italian Athletics ...
Giorgio Ferroni
Giorgio Ferroni (12 April 1908 – 17 August 1981) was an Italian film director.
Life and career
Giorgio Ferroni was born in Perugia on 12 April 1908. Ferroni began his career in film with short documentaries during World War II. He directed his ...
Night Arrival
''Night Arrival'' (Spanish: ''Llegada de noche'') is a 1949 Spanish crime film
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may ov ...
'', directed by
José Antonio Nieves Conde
José Antonio Nieves Conde (22 December 1911http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/45978/jose-antonio-nieves-conde José Antonio Nieves Conde. Diccionario biográfico español. Real Academia de la Historia. Access 15 february 2020. in Segovia, Castilla y L ...
(1949)
* ''
Neutrality
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Chemistry and physics
* Neutralization (chemistry), a chemical reaction in ...
'', directed by
Eusebio Fernández Ardavín
Eusebio Fernández Ardavín (1898–1965) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director. He was the brother of the playwright Luis Fernández Ardavín. His nephew César Fernández Ardavín who also became a film director, began his career working ...
(1949)
*''
47 morto che parla
''47 morto che parla'' is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia. The film stars Totò and Silvana Pampanini. The plot tells about Antonio Peletti (Totò), a widower and very frugal baron who falls in love with a girl, Ro ...
'', directed by
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (8 July 1894 – 4 January 1998) was an Italian film director whose career spanned from the 1930s to the mid-1960s. He mainly directed adventure pictures and popular comedies, including some starring Totò. His 1942 f ...
Gonzalo Delgrás
Gonzalo Delgrás (1897–1984) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director.Mira p.123
Selected filmography
* ''The Complete Idiot (1939 film), The Complete Idiot'' (1939)
* ''The Hired Husband'' (1942)
* ''Cristina Guzmán (1943 film), Cristina G ...
(1950)
*''
The Last Days of Pompeii
''The Last Days of Pompeii'' is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting '' The Last Day of Pompeii'' by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan. It culminates in ...
'', directed by
Marcel L'Herbier
Marcel L'Herbier (; 23 April 1888 – 26 November 1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued unti ...
and
Paolo Moffa
Paolo Moffa (16 December 1915 – 26 February 2005) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed seven films between 1943 and 1982.
Born in Rome, Moffa started his career in the 1930s as a script supervisor. Mainly ...
(1950)
*''Donde comienzan los pantanos'', directed by
Antonio Ber Ciani
Antonio Ber Ciani (22 August 1907 in Santa Fe — 24 June 2001 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine actor and film director notable for his work during the classical era of Argentine cinema. He is known for films such as ''Don Bildigerno de Pago M ...
Hugo del Carril
Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana, otherwise known as Hugo del Carril (30 November 1912 – 13 August 1989), was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the Golden Age of Argentine cinema.
Early life
Born in Buenos Aires, del Ca ...
Giacomo Gentilomo
Giacomo Gentilomo (5 April 1909 – 16 April 2001) was an Italian film director and Painting, painter.
Early life
He was born in Trieste. Gentilomo moved to Rome at a young age.
Career
At 21 years old he entered the cinema industry, working ...
(1954)
*''
Eighteen Year Olds
''Eighteen Year Olds'' () is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Marisa Allasio.
Cast
* Marisa Allasio as Anna Campolmi
* Virna Lisi as Maria Rovani
* Anthony Steffen as the physics teacher (as Antonio De Teffè)
...
'', directed by
Mario Mattoli
Mario Mattoli (; 30 November 1898 – 26 February 1980) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 86 films between 1934 and 1966.
His 1939 film ''Defendant, Stand Up!'' was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comed ...
Vittorio Duse
Vittorio Duse (21 March 1916 – 2 June 2005) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.
Biography
One of Duse's first roles was in Luchino Visconti's debut feature '' Ossessione'' (1942). Outside Italy, Duse is known for his role ...