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Dino De Laurentiis
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Agostino Dino De Laurentiis was an Italian film producer. Along with Carlo Ponti, he was one of the producers who brought Italian cinema to the scene at the end of World War II. He produced or co-produced more than 500 films, of which 38 were nominated for Academy Awards and he also had a brief acting career in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He was born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples and he started his studies at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome in the years 1937–1938 then interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War. Following his first movie, Lultimo Combattimento, Laurentiis produced nearly 150 films during the seven decades. In 1946 his company, the Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica, moved into production, in the early years, De Laurentiis produced Italian neorealist films such as Bitter Rice and the Fellini classics La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, often in collaboration with producer Carlo Ponti. In the 1960s, Laurentiis built his own studio facilities, although these financially collapsed during the 1970s, De Laurentiis relocated to the US in 1976, and became an American citizen in 1986. In the 1980s he had his own studio, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, based in Wilmington, the building of the studio made Wilmington a center of film and television production. De Laurentiis also made several adaptations of Stephen Kings works, including The Dead Zone, Cats Eye, Silver Bullet, De Laurentiiss company was involved with the horror sequels Halloween II, Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness. De Laurentiis also produced the first Hannibal Lecter film, Manhunter and he passed on adapting the novels sequel, The Silence of the Lambs, but produced the two follow-ups, Hannibal and Red Dragon, a re-adaptation of the novel. He also produced the prequel Hannibal Rising, which tells the story of how Hannibal becomes a serial killer, in the 1980s, de Laurentiis owned and operated DDL Foodshow, a specialty retailer with two gourmet Italian markets in New York City and Los Angeles. His brief first marriage in Italy was annulled, De Laurentiis and Mangano divorced in 1988, she died in 1989. In 1990, he married Martha Schumacher, who produced many of his films since 1985, one of his grandchildren is Giada De Laurentiis, host of Everyday Italian, Behind the Bash, Giada at Home, and Giadas Weekend Getaways on Food Network. He was the brother of Luigi De Laurentiis, who became a film producer after Dino did, and uncle of Aurelio De Laurentiis, also a producer. In 1958, he won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film for producing La Strada, in 2001, he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2012, he received the America Award of the Italy-USA Foundation, De Laurentiis died on 10 November 2010 at his residence in Beverly Hills at the age of 91. Dino De Laurentiis Company Official site Dino De Laurentiis at Find a Grave Dino De Laurentiis at the Internet Movie Database Who Was Dino De Laurentiis, – image slideshow by Life magazine
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Vittorio Gassman
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Vittorio Gassman, Knight Grand Cross, OMRI, popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian theatre and film actor, as well as director. He was born in Genoa to a German father, Heinrich Gassmann, while still very young he moved to Rome, where he studied at the Accademia Nazionale dArte Drammatica. Gassmans debut was in Milan, in 1942, with Alda Borelli in Niccodemis Nemica, in 1946, he made his film debut in Preludio damore, while only one year later he appeared in five films. In 1948 he played in Riso amaro and it was with Luchino Viscontis company that Gassman achieved his mature successes, together with Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli and Paola Borboni. He played Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams Un tram che si chiama desiderio, as well as in As You Like It and he joined the Teatro Nazionale with Tommaso Salvini, Massimo Girotti, Arnoldo Foà to create a successful Peer Gynt. In 1956 Gassman played the role in a production of Othello. He was so well received by his acting in the series entitled Il Mattatore that Il Mattatore became the nickname that accompanied him for the rest of his life. Gassmans debut in the commedia allitaliana genre was rather accidental, in Mario Monicellis I soliti ignoti, famous movies featuring Gassman include, Il sorpasso, La Grande Guerra, I mostri, LArmata Brancaleone, Profumo di donna and Ceravamo tanto amati. He directed Adelchi, a work by Alessandro Manzoni. Gassman brought this production to half a million spectators, crossing Italy with his Teatro Popolare Itinerante and his productions have included many of the famous authors and playwrights of the 20th century, with repeated returns to the classics of Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky and the Greek tragicians. He also founded a school in Florence, which educated many of the more talented actors of the current generation of Italian thespians. In cinema, he worked both in Italy and abroad. He met and fell in love with American actress Shelley Winters while she was touring Europe with fiancé Farley Granger, when Winters was forced to return to Hollywood to fulfill contractual obligations, he followed her there and married her. With his natural charisma and his fluency in English he scored a number of roles in Hollywood, including Rhapsody with Elizabeth Taylor and The Glass Wall before returning to Italy and the theatre. While rehearsing Hamlet, he began an affair with Anna Maria Ferrero, his 16-year-old Ophelia and he and Winters were forced to work together on Mambo just as their marriage was unraveling, providing fodder for tabloids all over the world. He later voiced Mufasa in the Italian version of The Lion King, Gassman married three actresses, Nora Ricci, Shelley Winters, and Diletta DAndrea, by whom he had a son, Jacopo. In addition, he had an affair with actress Juliette Mayniel and he rendered them with the same professional skill that made him famous while reciting Dantes Divine Comedy. On 29 June 2000, Gassman died of an attack at his home in Rome
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Nino Manfredi
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Saturnino Nino Manfredi was one of the most prominent Italian actors in the commedia allitaliana genre. He was also a film and stage director, a screenwriter, a playwright, a comedian, a singer, an author, a radio and television presenter and a voice actor. During his career he won awards, including six David di Donatello awards, six Nastro dArgento awards. Manfredi was born in Castro dei Volsci, Frosinone into a family of farmers. In October 1945 he graduated in law with a thesis in criminal law, without practicing the profession. Manfredi made his stage debut in 1947, working in plays directed by Luigi Squarzina. The same year, he entered the Maltagliati-Gassman stage company, mostly acting in dramatic roles, in 1948 he entered the company of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano under Giorgio Strehler, playing in tragedies such as Romeo and Juliet and The Storm. The same year he started working on radio as a comedian, in 1949 he made his film debut in the melodrama Monastero di Santa Chiara. In 1952 he worked with Eduardo De Filippo in Tre atti unici, along with Tino Buazzelli, Paolo Panelli, the same year he entered the revue company of the Nava sisters, and started working as a voice actor and a dubber. In 1955 he took part to his first high-profile films, The Bachelor by Antonio Pietrangeli, in 1958 Manfredi got his first film roles as main actor. The same year he formed a company with Delia Scala and Paolo Panelli. The success immediately got him a contract with Dino De Laurentiis which he dropped one year to be free to choose his favorite projects. In 1962 Manfredi enjoyed a larger success playing the title role in the stage musical Rugantino, with which he toured also in Canada, Usa. The same year he directed the critically apprecciated segment Lavventura di un soldato in the anthology film Of Wayward Love, in 1969, with Nellanno del Signore, he started a fruitful collaboration with the director Luigi Magni. In the same period he started collaborating, often uncredited, to the screenplays of his films, in 1972 he got a major television success playing Geppetto in the Luigi Comencinis adaptation The Adventures of Pinocchio. Following his last film as director and two hit films starred alongside Renato Pozzetto, in the 1980s Manfredi significantly slowed his cinema activities. In 1983 he debuted as author with the book Proverbi e altre cose romanesche, while in 1984 he signed his first work as playwright and stage director, in 1990 he received a David di Donatello career award. In 1992, after having first accepted to be a candidate at the elections with the Pannella List, in 1993, during the shooting of Un commissario a Roma, he suffered a hypoxia which compromised his memory functions
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Alberto Sordi
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Alberto Sordi, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian actor. He was also a director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films. Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician, Sordi enrolled in Milans dramatic arts academy but was kicked out because of his thick Roman accent, in the meantime he studied to be an opera singer, a bass. It was his accent and voice that would prove to be his trademark. In a career spanned seven decades, Sordi established himself as an icon of Italian cinema with his representative skills at both comedy and light drama. His movie career began in the late 1930s with bit parts, after the war he began working as a dubber for the Italian versions of Laurel and Hardy shorts, voicing Oliver Hardy. In 1959 he appeared in Monicellis The Great War, considered by many critics, the Hollywood Foreign Press recognized his abilities when he was awarded a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Il diavolo. Sordi acted alongside Britain’s David Niven in the World War II comedy The Best of Enemies and in 1965 he was in another highly regarded comedy, in 1969 he was a member of the jury at the 6th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1984, he directed and co-scripted Tutti dentro, in which he played a judge who has warrants for corruption served on ministers and businessmen. Alberto Sordi was really masterful in two roles, one being the one of the underdog, militating against injustices and prevarications. In 1985, he was a member of the jury at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival, Sordi died shortly before his eighty-third birthday following a heart attack. Sordi was also a big supporter of AS Roma football team, Sordi provided the voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian dubs of more than forty Laurel and Hardy films from 1939 to 1951. He also appeared as an actor in other Italian-language versions. 1938, Avventura a Vallechiara, directed by John G. by Marcello Marchesi, directed by Mario Mattòli 1944-1945, Un mondo di armonie, by Michele Galdieri 1945-1946, Soffia so. By Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini Soffia so,2, by Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini 1947-1948, E lui dice. In 1999, the city of Rome made him honorary mayor for a day to celebrate his eightieth birthday, at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor award for Detenuto in attesa di giudizio. At the 13th Moscow International Film Festival he won a Special Prize for I Know That You Know That I Know and he received honorary citizenship from Kansas City, Missouri, for his references to the city in the 1954 film Un americano a Roma. Alberto Sordi at the Internet Movie Database Geographical coordinates and pictures of his grave Alberto Sordi
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Gastone Moschin
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Gastone Moschin is an Italian stage, television and film actor. In the same period Moschin also began to appear in feature films, in his film career Moschin alternated character roles and, more rarely, leading roles, such as in Seven Times Seven and Caliber 9. His most famous role is that of Rambaldo Melandri in the Amici miei film series and he won two Nastro dArgento Awards for Best Supporting Actor, in 1967 for Pietro Germis The Birds, the Bees and the Italians and in 1986 for Nanni Loys Amici miei – Atto III. Moschin is also known for the role of Don Fanucci in Francis Ford Coppolas The Godfather Part II. Salvi Don Matteo as Vescovo Sei forte Maestro as Vittorio Ricci Don Matteo 2 as Vescovo Sei forte, Maestro 2 as Vittorio Ricci Gastone Moschin at the Internet Movie Database
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Enrico Montesano
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Enrico Montesano, is a popular actor for theater and cinema in Italy, as well as a showman. Montesano comes from an involved in theatre, and he made his debut in 1966 in a show named Humor nero. Later he became a popular actor both on theatre and on television, thanks to his burlesque and brilliant style, and so during seventies he took part in several Italian comedies. Montesano won a David di Donatello as best new director for the movie A me mi piace and his career continue from 1967 to 2010. Montesano is married to Teresa Trisorio and he is an avid fan of the football team S. S. Lazio
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Alighiero Noschese
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Alighiero Noschese was an Italian TV impersonator and actor. After an unsuccessful attempt to work as journalist, he debuted for Italian radio as imitator, Noschese became popular for his outstanding capability to imitate not only voice of characters, but also their physical features and attitudes. In an interview just before his death, Noschese listed a total of 1,156 voices he had imitated in his career, on 3 December 1979, at the top of his career, Noschese shot himself while under care for clinical depression in Rome. Doctor Antonio Obiettivo ragazze James Tont operazione U. N. O, rompo Boccaccio The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire The Funny Face of the Godfather Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia Alighiero Noschese at the Internet Movie Database
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Once Upon a Crime
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Once Upon a Crime is a 1992 ensemble black comedy mystery film starring Richard Lewis, John Candy, James Belushi, Cybill Shepherd, Sean Young and Ornella Muti. The film was directed by Eugene Levy and it is the remake of the Mario Camerinis comedy Crimen. The plot revolves around a series of couples in Monte Carlo, Julian Peters and Phoebe met each other in Rome and are attempting to return a dachshund to the wealthy Madam Van Dougan. Madam Van Dougan is found murdered and the interactions between Julian and Phoebe and the other begin to look increasingly suspicious, as Inspector Bonnard needs to unravel the clues. Over the course of the film, Augie returns to gambling, Elena has an affair and Julian sells and repurchases the dog. It currently holds a 0% rating on rotten tomatoes and was nominated for one Razzie Award, Worst Supporting Actress for Sean Young, in 2006, Abbas-Mustan known for directing thriller movies in Bollywood, adapted this movie as 36 China Town starring Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor. 36 China Town is a frame-by-frame, shot-to-shot imitation of Once Upon a Crime, Once Upon a Crime at the Internet Movie Database Once Upon a Crime at Rotten Tomatoes Once Upom a Crime at AllMovie Once Upon a Crime at Box Office Mojo
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Eugene Levy
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Eugene Levy, CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, director, musician and writer. He is the actor to have appeared in all eight of the American Pie films. He often plays nerdy, unconventional figures, with his humour often deriving from his excessive explanations of matters, Levy is a regular collaborator of actor-director Christopher Guest, appearing in and co-writing four of his films, commencing with Waiting for Guffman. Levy received the Governor Generals Performing Arts Award, Canadas highest honour in the performing arts and he was appointed to the Order of Canada on June 30,2011. Levy was born to a Jewish family in Hamilton, Ontario and his mother was a housewife and his father was a foreman at an automobile plant. He went to Westdale Secondary School, and attended McMaster University and he was vice-president of the McMaster Film Board, a student film group, where he met moviemaker Ivan Reitman. An alumnus of both the Second City, Toronto and the comedy series Second City Television, Levy often plays unusual supporting characters with nerdish streaks. Perhaps his best-known role on SCTV is the dimwitted Earl Camembert, a newsanchor for the SCTV News, lee Bailey, Ernest Borgnine, former Ontario chief coroner Dr. Morton Schulman, Norman Mailer, Neil Sedaka and Howard McNear as Floyd the Barber. Original Levy characterizations on SCTV are comic Bobby Bittman, scandal sheet entrepreneur Dr. Raoul Withers, report on business naïf Brian Johns, 3-D horror auteur Woody Tobias Jr. Though he has been the above the star in only two films, Armed and Dangerous and The Man, he has featured prominently in many films. In the 1980s and 1990s, he appeared in Splash, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Club Paradise, Stay Tuned, Multiplicity, Levy was the creator of Maniac Mansion, a television sitcom based on the LucasArts video game of the same name. He was also considered for the role of Toby Ziegler on The West Wing. Levy, along with his son Dan Levy, is co-creator of the popular CBC/PopTV sitcom and he also stars in the show alongside his son as head of the Rose family, Johnny Rose. Levys career received a tremendous boost in 1999, when he was cast as the clueless, reprising the role in three film sequels and starring in four straight-to-video sequels made him something of a cult hero. Levy has been quoted as saying the American Pie series was a turning point in his career. Since working on the first two American Pie movies, Levy has worked with Steve Martin and Queen Latifah in Bringing Down the House, Levy again appeared as his famous character, Noah Levenstein, in the fourth theatrical film in the American Pie series, American Reunion. He is the actor to appear in all eight American Pie films. Levy appeared in the corner of a poster hanging outside the theatre in Springfield in the See Homer Run episode of The Simpsons
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John Candy
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John Franklin Candy was a Canadian actor and comedian known mainly for his work in Hollywood films. One of his most renowned onscreen performances was as Del Griffith, while filming the Western parody Wagons East. Candy died of an infarction in Durango, Mexico, on March 4,1994. His final two films, Wagons East, and Canadian Bacon, are dedicated to his memory. Candy was born in 1950 in Newmarket, Ontario, the son of Sidney James Candy and Evangeline Candy, he was brought up in a working-class Roman Catholic family. Candys father was of English and Scottish descent, while his mother was of Polish, Candy studied at Neil McNeil Catholic High School, later enrolled in the Centennial Community College to study journalism, and went to McMaster University for higher education. His first film role was a small, uncredited appearance in the 1973 film Class of 44 and he appeared in several other low-budget films during the 1970s, including the bank-robbery thriller The Silent Partner with Christopher Plummer and Elliott Gould. In 1975, he played Richie, a killer, in episode Web of Guilt. In 1976, Candy played a role on Peter Gzowskis short-lived. NBC picked the show up in 1981 and it became a fan favourite. It had won Emmy Awards for the writing in 1981 and 1982. Williams, and Melonvilles corrupt Mayor Tommy Shanks, messenger, corrupt soap-opera doctor William Wainwright, smut merchant Harry, the Guy With the Snake on His Face, and Giorgy, everyones favourite Cossack. Mimicry was one of Candys talents, which he used often at SCTV, a year later, Candy played the lovable, mild-mannered Army recruit Dewey Oxberger in 1981s Stripes, one of the most successful films of the year. In 1983, Candy had a small but memorable appearance in Harold Ramiss National Lampoons Vacation. Candy was one of the celebrities who appeared chanting Ghostbusters in Ray Parker. In 1984, Candy played Tom Hankss womanizing brother in the hit romantic comedy Splash, throughout the latter half of the 1980s, Candy often took roles in substandard films. He also continued to provide memorable bit roles, including a disc jockey in the musical film Little Shop of Horrors. Candy also produced and starred in a Saturday-morning animated series on NBC titled Camp Candy in 1989
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Jim Belushi
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James Adam Jim Belushi is an Albanian-American actor, voice actor, comedian, singer and musician. He is the brother of late comic actor John Belushi and father of actor Robert Belushi. Belushi has also been a prominent figure in cinema, performing in such as Thief, Little Shop of Horrors, Trading Places, Salvador, Red Heat. K-9, Mr. Destiny, Last Action Hero, Jingle All the Way, Wag the Dog, Curly Sue, Return to Me, The Wild, Underdog, The Ghost Writer, Home Sweet Hell, and The Whole Truth. Belushi was born in Chicago to Adam Anastos Belushi and Agnes Demetri Samaras Belushi and he was raised in Wheaton, a Chicago suburb, along with his three siblings, older brother John, his older sister, Marian, and a younger brother, Billy. After graduating from Wheaton Central High School, Jim Belushi attended the College of DuPage and graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a degree in Speech, from 1977 to 1980, Belushi, like his older brother John Belushi, worked with the Chicago theater group The Second City. During this period, Belushi made his debut in 1978s Whos Watching the Kids. His first significant role was in Michael Manns Thief, after his elder brother Johns death, from 1983 to 1985 he appeared on Saturday Night Live, he portrayed characters such as Hank Rippy from Hello, Trudy. and That White Guy. Belushi also appeared in the film Trading Places as a man in a gorilla suit during a New Years Eve party. He made a guest appearance in Faerie Tale Theatres third-season episode Pinocchio, Belushi rose to greater prominence with his supporting roles in The Man with One Red Shoe, About Last Night. Salvador and Little Shop of Horrors, which opened up opportunities for lead roles and his voice work includes The Mighty Ducks, The Pebble and the Penguin, Babes in Toy land, Gargoyles and Hey Arnold. And the more recent Hoodwinked, Scooby-Doo. and the Goblin King and he also lent his vocal talents for 9, The Last Resort, in which he portrayed Salty, a coarse yet helpful character. In 1997, he portrayed the Masked Mutant in the Goosebumps PC video game, on January 4,2001, Belushi appeared on the ER episode Piece of Mind. The episode focused on both Dr. Mark Greenes life-or-death brain surgery in New York and Belushis character, who had been in a car accident with his son in Chicago. Belushis performance contributed to his re-emergence in the eye. His first animation voice-over was as a pimple on Krums head in Aaahh and that performance led him to be cast in the continuing role as Simon the Monster Hunter in that series, where he ad-libbed much of his own dialogue. In 2003, Belushi and Dan Aykroyd released the album Have Love, Will Travel and he also performs at various venues nationwide as Zee Blues in an updated version of The Blues Brothers. He released his first book, Real Men Dont Apologize, in May 2006, recently, Belushi was a narrator of an NFL offensive linemen commercial
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36 China Town
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36 China Town is a 2006 Bollywood comedy murder mystery film directed by Abbas-Mustan and produced by Subhash Ghai. It is an adaption of the 1992 American film Once Upon a Crime. The film follows the investigation of an officer trying to find the killer of a wealthy casino owner. The comedy scenes enacted in the movie by Paresh Rawal, Johny Lever, the film was declared hit at the Box office. The duo soon find a baby, who seems to be the lost infant son of Sonia Chang, Sonia is the owner of the titular casino in Goa. After her baby was kidnapped, the kidnapper & the baby both went missing, the distraught Sonia is contemplating changing her will, when the duo inform her of the development. Soon the duo come to Goa with her baby, only to find that Sonia has been murdered just some time before, horrified, they try to run, only to be caught by Inspector Karan and his assistant. The circumstances make the duo look like murderers, but something is not right, with a host of interesting characters who had a motive to kill Sonia, will the killer ever be caught. Multimillionaire Sonia Chang finds out her only 2 year son is kidnapped and she lives in her huge mansion named 36 China Town with a servant couple Mr. Lobo and Mrs. Lobo in Goa. Sonia is consoled by Rocky, a local flirt, Sonia declares 25 lakh reward if anyone returns the child to her. The story then focusses upon Raj, a struggling actor & Priya and they both meet each other after both of their dreams have been shattered. They find a child who is dumped in Mumbai and they take pity on him, but after seeing a missing persons ad, they realise that the child is the only son of Sonia Chang. The ad says that they will get a lot of money if they return the son back and they both need the money so they decide to return the baby to her. Before leaving for Goa, they call Sonia Chang and tell that they have her child and she was discussing the change in her will with her lawyer Mr Dixit, when the duo inform her about her baby. Meanwhile, Raj falls in love with Priya, but she is irritated by his presence. Sonia is overjoyed & calls them to Goa, during midnight, her casino is hosting some interesting people. One of them is Mr. Natwar, a gambler who has come along with his wife Gracy. Natwar has pawned his four hotels to Sonia & has only one left in his possession
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Silvana Mangano
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Silvana Mangano was an Italian actress. Raised in poverty during World War II, Mangano trained as a dancer and this led to work in films, she achieved a notable success in Bitter Rice and continued working in films for almost four more decades. Born in Rome to an Italian father and an English mother, trained for seven years as a dancer, she was supporting herself as a model. In 1946, at age 16, Mangano won the Miss Rome beauty pageant and through this, one year later, she became a contestant in the Miss Italia contest. Manganos earliest connection with filmmaking occurred through her relationship with actor Marcello Mastroianni. This led her to a contract, though it would take some time for Mangano to ascend to international stardom with her performance in Bitter Rice. Thereafter, she signed a contract with Lux Film, in 1949, and later married Dino De Laurentiis, married to film producer Dino De Laurentiis from 1949, the couple had four children, Veronica, Raffaella, Francesca, and Federico. Veronicas daughter Giada De Laurentiis is host of Everyday Italian and Giada at Home on the Food Network, Raffaella coproduced with her father on Manganos penultimate film, Dune. Federico died in a crash in 1981 in Alaska. De Laurentiis and Mangano separated in 1983, and Mangano began divorce proceedings in 1988, following surgery on 4 December 1989 that left her in a coma, Mangano died of lung cancer in Madrid, Spain on 16 December 1989. A clip of the opening of this performance is featured in the film Cinema Paradiso, Silvana Mangano at the Internet Movie Database Silvana Mangano at AllMovie Silvana Mangano at Find a Grave Front Cover of Life Magazine,11 April 1960
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Dorian Gray (actress)
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Maria Luisa Mangini, better known as Dorian Gray, was an Italian actress. Gray made her debut in 1950, and quickly became a known. However, after five years she left the world of the theater and devoted herself to cinema. The role she played most often in films was that of a sex kitten, most famously, she played the titular bad girl in Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina. However, she also had a chance to demonstrate her talents in Michelangelo Antonionis Il grido. In 1957, at the peak of her popularity, she took part in The Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini. Her career ended by choice soon thereafter, in 1965, awaiting the birth of her son, she retired from acting and never made another public appearance. On February 15,2011, Gray committed suicide by gunshot at her home in Torcegno and she was 83 years old, some media, however, reported her age as 75, since she herself claimed to have been born in 1936. Dorian Gray at the Internet Movie Database
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Franca Valeri
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Franca Valeri is an Italian actress. Her father and brother were able to flee to Switzerland, Franca Norsa adopted her surname Valeri in the 1950s as an homage to the French critic and poet, Paul Valéry. Valeri started her career on the radio, where she created the character of Signorina Cesira and Signora Cecioni and she co-starred important films hits, such as The Sign of Venus or Il vedovo, although most of her characters are supporting role. In the 1960s Valeri also frequently worked for Italian TV, directed by Antonello Falqui, she starred in Studio Uno, Le divine and Sabato Sera. In the 1980s and early 1990s she starred in a series of commercials for Pandoro Melegatti. Despite old age, shes still active on the Italian theatrical stage. Across the season 2005-2006 she performed her own monologue La Vedova di Socrate and Les Bonnes, in January 2008, she played the role of Solange in Jean Genets Le bonnes at Milans Piccolo Teatro. Emanuela Martini, Franca Valeri, una signora molto snob, Lindau,2000, ISBN 887180290X Franca Valeri at the Internet Movie Database
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Bernard Blier
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Bernard Blier was a French character actor. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father and his rotund features and premature baldness allowed him to often play cuckolded husbands in his early career. He is notable for being one of Frances most versatile and sought-after character actors, performing interchangeably in comedies and his complete filmography includes 138 titles. He often appeared in Italian films too, particularly in the last decade of his life and he was awarded an Honorary César in 1989,24 days before he died. He is the father of director Bertrand Blier, he has appeared in a number of his sons films, bernard Blier at the Internet Movie Database
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Sylva Koscina
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Sylva Koscina was an Italian actress. She was born Silvija Košćina to a Greek father, who had a hotel in the West Coast section of Split, Dalmatia, and she may be best-remembered for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules in Hercules and Hercules Unchained. She also played Paul Newmans romantic interest in The Secret War of Harry Frigg, as a teenager, she moved to Italy to live with her sister, who had married an Italian citizen. Koscina had a film career there. She also played Danica in the Yugoslavian movie The Battle of Neretva and she played a German doctor, Bianca, in Hornets Nest with Rock Hudson. Koscina had studied physics at the University of Naples and was Miss Di Tappa at the Tour of Italy bicycle race in 1954 and she made a fleeting appearance in the part of an aspiring actress in Siamo uomini o caporali. Before making a catch at her great opportunity, she portrayed Giulia, daughter of the train engineer Andrea. Koscina immediately confirmed her talent in Guendalina, where she had no difficulty playing the part of a young mother. A lead player in comedies, such as Nonna Sabella, Ladro lui, ladra lei. She represented women in search of upward mobility, the image of an Italy that had left its worst problems behind. Koscina was suited to sophisticated comedies like Mogli pericolose, where she made a direct challenge to poor Giorgia Moll. She played Hercules fiancée in Le fatiche di Ercole, a prototype of this kind of film, in Italy, a police officer let her go without issuing a traffic ticket. Later, as a guest on a program, she thanked the policeman. The incident and its aftermath inspired the movie Il vigile, in which she played herself, in the first half of the 1960s, she married her lover, Raimondo Castelli, a small producer connected with Minerva Films. She managed to keep well afloat with roles in Damiano Damianis Il sicario, in La lepre e la tartaruga, an episode in Le quattro verita, the director Blasetti constructed a duel between Koscina and Monica Vitti. In 1965, Koscina appeared in Giulietta degli spiriti and she was also a television personality and often made special guest appearances on variety shows. From the early 1960s, she invested most of her earnings in a luxurious villa, in the well-to-do district of Marino, Rome, complete with 16th-century furniture. That lasted until her spending overcame her dwindling income, and she had to face a tax evasion inquest, living with Raimondo Castelli since 1960, they did not marry due to then Italian law and because his wife Marinella refused him an annulment
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Tino Scotti
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Tino Scotti was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 65 films between 1940 and 1984 and he was born in Milan, Italy, and died in Tarquinia, Italy. The Pirates Dream La valle del diavolo Pazzo damore Labbra serrate The Last Wagon Anything for a Song La vispa Teresa Partenza ore 7 Before Him All Rome Trembled È arrivato il cavaliere. La famiglia Passaguai Milano miliardaria Il mago per forza Il tallone di Achille I morti non pagano tasse If You Won a Hundred Million La sceriffa Gastone. And Suddenly Its Murder. The Spiders Stratagem The Howl Paolo il freddo City Under Siege Todo modo Tino Scotti at the Internet Movie Database Tino Scotti at AllMovie
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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The Betrothed (1941 film)
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The Betrothed is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Gino Cervi, Dina Sassoli and Ruggero Ruggeri. It is an adaptation of the 1827 novel The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni, the films producers organised a competition to select the lead actress which was modelled on the hunt for Scarlett OHara by the American producer David O. Selznick for Gone With the Wind. The novel was turned into a film again in 1964 and a miniseries in 1989. In a small town on Lake Como, the peasants Renzo and Lucia love each other, but are hampered by the squire Don Rodrigo, by intimidation, he prevents the parish priest Don Abbondio from celebrating the wedding. The good Friar Cristoforo visits Don Rodrigo, but is unable to dissuade him, since Don Rodrigos in love with Lucia, he subsequently tries to kidnap her, but Friar Cristoforo helps Renzo and Lucia to escape across a lake. Lucia goes to Monza, to a convent, while Renzo heads to Milan and he narrowly escapes the authorities by giving a false name, after unwittingly revealing it. Lucia is kidnapped by a man, a friend of Don Rodrigo. Lucia is brought to the castle of the Innominato, a friend of Don Rodrigo, in fact, the next day the Innominato visits Cardinal Federigo Borromeo and repents in his presence. He decides to set Lucia free, accompanied by the parish priest Don Abbondio, meanwhile, a plague breaks out in Lombardy, and both Renzo and Lucia are involved in the scourge. Renzo finds Friar Cristoforo in a hospital at Milan, who preaches forgiveness, the young man also sees Don Rodrigo, who was also hit by the plague, dying, and decides to forgive him. When Renzo finally finds and embraces Lucia, the two can at last get married, because they are no longer oppressed, Friar Cristoforo is on hand to resolve the theological issues relating to the vow. As he prays, rain begins to fall, mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War. The Betrothed at the Internet Movie Database
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Wife for a Night
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Wife For a Night is a 1952 Italian film starring Gina Lollobrigida. It was based on the play The Dazzling Hour by Anna Bonacci, hoping to seduce her, he attempts to find out who she is. In fact she is Geraldine, a practiced courtesan, however, the local mayor tells the Count that she is Ottavia, the wife of his nephew, Enrico, a struggling young musician. Enrico is hoping to stage his newly completed opera, with the Counts support he will get the backing he needs. His uncle hopes to help Enrico by employing Geraldine to impersonate Ottavia, before she submits, Geraldine will extract a promise from the Count to stage her husbands opera. Geraldine, Ottavia and Enrico agree to go along with the plot, however, as Enrico introduces Geraldine to the eager Count he becomes increasingly jealous as the Count moves in. Eventually he forces the Count to leave after becoming angered by his advances, charmed by his protectiveness, Geraldine asks him to pretend she is really his wife for one night, so that she can live her dream of having a normal life with a devoted husband. Meanwhile, the real Ottavia has been staying at Geraldines home and she is coached in skills of flirtation by Geraldines maid. Pretending to be Geraldine, she entertains two buffoonish suitors, sexually frustrated, the Count learns about the courtesan Geraldine and visits her home. When she learns that her husband threw the Count out to be alone with Geraldine, the maid persuades her to force the Count to agree to put the opera on, she will get her revenge by making her husband both jealous and indebted to her. Ottavia pretends to offer herself to the Count, but keeps delaying, playing music from the opera on the piano and she refuses to go to bed with him until he agrees to get it performed. As he tries to kiss her, looking forward to a night of passion, the Count is forced to sit up with her for the rest of the night while she recovers. Some months later the opera is performed to great acclaim, the principal characters meet once again in their true identities. Moglie per una notte at the Internet Movie Database
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Ulysses (1954 film)
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Ulysses is a 1954 fantasy-adventure film based on Homers epic poem Odyssey. The movie was made by director Mario Camerini, who co-wrote the screenplay with writer Franco Brusati, the original choice for director was Georg Wilhelm Pabst who quit at the last minute. The cinematographer Mario Bava co-directed it, in the film Silvana Mangano plays two roles, as Penelope, the faithful wife of Ulysses and the sorceress, Circe. American star Kirk Douglas plays the Greek hero, Ulysses, the tremendous success of this film led to the making of Hercules, which was credited with igniting the Italian peplum craze of the 1960s. The story is about Ulysses efforts to return to his home after the end of the Trojan war, the movie begins with Eurycleia saying to some women in Ulysses home that Penelope is in charge of the household. Eurycleia tells the women not to consort with the suitors
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The Miller's Beautiful Wife
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The Millers Beautiful Wife is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Camerini. Luca is a man who runs a mill and he is married to Carmela, but his wifes beauty catches the eye of Don Teofilo the Governor, who sets about to have Carmela. He has Luca arrested on trumped up charges, and then tries seduce Carmella and she resists, so he tells her he can free Luca, but there are strings attached
