The Italian (1915 film)
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The Italian is a 1915 American silent film feature which tells the story of an Italian gondolier who comes to the United States to make his fortune but instead winds up working as a shoeshiner and exp
Contemporary pamphlet for the film
George Beban in The Italian
Screenwriter C. Gardner Sullivan (pictured) wrote the story with Thomas H. Ince.
Clara Williams as Beppo's wife, Annette, with "Little Tony"
George Beban
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George Beban was an American actor, director, writer and producer. Beban began as a child performer in San Francisco, California, and became a well-known vaudevillian and stage actor in the 1890s and
The Italian (1915 film)
…Side. The film was produced by Thomas H. Ince, directed by Reginald Barker, and co-written by C. Gardner Sullivan and Ince. The film stars stage actor George Beban in the title role as the Italian immigrant, Pietro "Beppo" Donnetti. In 1991, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant…
George Beban (The Theatre Magazine; 1915)
Beban as depicted in a 1910 newspaper article
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