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  Encyclopedia: Vittorio Gassmann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Vittorio Gassman (Il Mattatore) (September 1, 1922 - June 29, 2000) was an Italian theatre and film actor and director.
Born in Genoa to a wealthy family of German origins, Gassmann was considered one among the best Italian actors and is commonly recalled as an extremely professional, versatile, magnetic interpreter, whose long career includes both important productions as well as dozens of divertissements (which gave him a vast popularity).
It was with Luchino Visconti's company that Gassman achieved his mature successes, together with Stoppa, Rina Morelli and Paola Borboni.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Vittorio-Gassmann   (1029 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Cinema of Italy Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Another genre was at the same time obtaining a certain success: it included films that described a wealthy society, with a heavy dose of formal morality reflecting the culture of the age; the genre was called of Telefoni Bianchi (white telephones), by the constant characteristic presence of this object in the represented scenes.
On another field Vittorio Mussolini, son of the dictator, created a national producing company and organised the work of the best gifted authors, directors and actors (among which some political oppositors too), also creating a notably interesting communication among them, resulting in famous friendships and, beyond this, in a stimulating cultural interaction.
Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Alberto Sordi, Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti, Nino Manfredi, were among the stars of these movies, that described the years of the economical reprise and investigated the costumes of Italians, a sort of self-ethnological research.
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 Luchino Visconti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
After a short tour to the U.S, where he visited Hollywood, he was back in Italy to act as Renoir's assistant again for La Tosca (1939), a production that was interrupted and later completed by German director Karl Koch because of the war.
Together with Roberto Rossellini, Visconti joined the salotto of Vittorio Mussolini (the son of Benito, at the time the national arbitrator for cinema and other arts) and here presumably met also Federico Fellini.
During the years 1946-1960 he directed many performances of the Rina Morelli-Paolo Stoppa Company, with Vittorio Gassmann, and several operas, including a famous revival of Donizetti's Anna Bolena at La Scala in 1957 with Maria Callas.
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 Fpa.es - awarded Vittorio Gassmann
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 Coupon for Sharky's Machine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
It's a well done movie, with some good actors in it: Vittorio Gassmann and Henry Silva are great bad guys, while you have some really likeable supporting characters in Bernie Casey, Brian Keith and Richard Libertini.
Rachel Ward is effective as Dominoe, and Vittorio Gassman oozes his way through the role of crime kingpin Victor.
Vittorio Gassman plays cold threatening Victor and Henry Silva plays his Dilaudin/cocaine-wired shootist associate -- both deliver extremely strong performances.
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: Flo_Sandon's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Her stage name Sandon's came by chance - it was an oversight by the illustrator who prepared her first record cover.
Celebrity came in 1952 thanks to the movie Anna directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassmann and Raf Vallone.
Flo Sandon's did not appear in the movie itself, but she performed two songs of the movie sound track, T'ho voluto ben and El negro Zumbon.
www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Flo_Sandon's   (394 words)

  
 VENICE DAYS
This is just one scene of what should have been a film with Vittorio Gassmann.
It was to have been a film about him, in particular about the depression which began to take hold of his life when he was sixty.
In 1998 Vittorio was well and I found the courage to ask him if he felt up to dealing with his depression in a film.
www.venice-days.com /archivioedizioni/2004/filmsearcheng.asp?idfilm=14   (277 words)

  
 Watches-Sharky's Machine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
This adds another element of freshness to the story of a demoted Atlanta vice cop (Reynolds) who pursues a personal vendetta against a crime boss (Vittorio Gassman) after falling in love with a stunning beauty (Rachel Ward) from the mobster's stable of high-priced prostitutes.
The climactic shootout is violent and bloody in keeping with movies of the period (when jarring brutality was beginning to be commonplace in Hollywood films), but Reynolds doesn't go overboard.
The cast is the main reason to watch "Sharky's Machine." Libertini is a hoot as the scatterbrained Nosh, Durning plays Sharky's supervisor Friscoe with lung shattering intensity, Brian Keith is the always hungry Papa, and Bernie Casey plays the philosophical Arch.
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 EZGeography - Luchino Visconti
After a short tour to the U.S., where he visited Hollywood, he returned to Italy to be Renoir's assistant again, this time for La Tosca (1939), a production that was interrupted and later completed by German director Karl Koch because of the war.
With Gianni Puccini, Antonio Pietrangeli and Giuseppe De Santis he wrote the screenplay of his first film as a director: Ossessione (Obsession) (1943), the first neorealist movie.
During the years 1946-1960 he directed many performances of the Rina Morelli -Paolo Stoppa Company, with Vittorio Gassmann, and several operas, including a famous revival of Donizetti's Anna Bolena at La Scala in 1957 with Maria Callas.
www.ezgeography.com /encyclopedia/Luchino_Visconti   (316 words)

  
 Starlight s.r.l. - Worldwide film and documentary distribution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Vittorio Gassmann showcases his comic talents in this farce by director Dino Risi about the growing success of a con artist.
Gerardo (Gassmann) starts out as a vaudeville performer and noting that acting abilities can be used for less legit purposes, he creatively assumes different guises in order to con people out of anything from a pair of shoes to ultimately mucho lira.
In one of his escapades he passes himself off as Greta Garbo, donning an appropriate disguise, and has all manner of paparazzi ready to take the bait.
www.starlight.it /pages/ing/mattatore-ING.htm   (176 words)

  
 DVD Times - A Wedding
Lillian Gish keeps her dignity, despite being required to be a corpse for most of the film, and Howard Duff, as an alcoholic doctor, has some nice off-hand moments as he slugs down whisky while feeling up every young woman in the house.
I should also mention Vittorio Gassmann’s touching performance as the Italian waiter turned society host and Mia Farrow, who only says two words in the whole film but manages to make her fragile beauty strangely threatening.
A major flaw which can’t be overlooked is the technical side of the film.
www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=58149   (1357 words)

  
 Cinema of Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Even now, many films are entirely shot in Cinecittà.
On another field Vittorio Mussolini, son of the dictator, created a national producing company and organised the work of the best gifted authors, directors and actors (among which some political opponents too), also creating a notably interesting communication among them, resulting in famous friendships and, beyond this, in a stimulating cultural interaction.
Italian Comedy is generally considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's I soliti Ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street) and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's Divorzio all'Italiana (Divorce Italian Style - 1961) and for long time this definition was used with a derogatory intention.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Cinema-of-Italy.htm   (1435 words)

  
 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Import -- Nov. 06, 1950
The other (Vittorio Gassmann) spends his time chasing Silvana and plotting to steal the rice harvest.
Along the way is a good deal of earthy violence: Silvana gets birched on a roadside ; Doris is nearly mobbed as a scab by her fellow workers; Gassmann is impaled on a meat hook during a fight in a butcher shop.
Director Giuseppe de Santis gets a sweaty authenticity into his scenes in the barracks and fields, and devotes a lot of deserved footage to Silvana's Grecian profile and womanly body.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,813741,00.html   (393 words)

  
 Vittorio Gassman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Vittorio Gassman studied theatre in his youth and was quite a good basketball...
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 MovieMaker Magazine | Issue #39 | Rekindling our Love of Italian Cinema: MoMA's Second Act Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
"It's another way of looking at the world and at relationships both personal and political." The inaugural film for this year's edition was Dino Risi's Scent of a Woman, (whose remake won Al Pacino the Academy Award) starring Italian icon Vittorio Gassman, who introduced the film at the sold-out opening screening.
This year's program featured 15 Italian films made over the past four decades that couldn't be more diverse in content, style and genre, ranging from Visconti's lush The Wanton Countess to Italian horror-meister Dario Argento's cult classic debut, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.
Vittorio Gassmann and Alessandro Momo in Scent of a
www.moviemaker.com /issues/39/italian-cinema.html   (1232 words)

  
 MTV.com - Movies - II Giudizio Universale
An episodic, funny, though uneven spoof of human manners and foibles, this comedy by Vittorio de Sica begins in Naples when a disembodied voice announces to the city's residents "The Last Judgment will begin at 6:00 p.m." Naturally, not all are immediately willing to accept this statement -- but not for long.
As comic vignettes unfold, the good citizens soon become even better as they try to undo past and present sins, just in case.
There is a long list of top actors that show up briefly in the story, everyone from Alberto Sordi to Jimmy Durante, Melina Mercouri, Anouk Aimée, Vittorio Gassmann, and many, many others.
www.mtv.com /movies/movie/182351/plot.jhtml   (170 words)

  
 | Berlinale | Archive | Annual Archives | 1960 | Yearbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Even the witty Berlinale observer Karena Niehoff couldn’t pin down what was happening: Was it finally getting serious or was it the beginning of the end?
Vittorio Gassmann is being prepared for a radio interview.
The tabloid press sulked, because a lot of the sex appeal – which it was believed only female stars could supply – was missing due to the many male figures on the guest list – Richard Widmark, Gene Kelly, Richard Attenborough, Jean Gabin and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
berlinale.de /en/archiv/jahresarchive/1960/01_jahresblatt_1960/01_Jahresblatt_1960.html   (614 words)

  
 Italian Movies quiz
What kind of prize were Jew prisoners supposed to win in the game that the father made up for his son in Benigni's "La Vita è Bella" ("Life is Beautiful")?
In which town was the action in Vittorio De Sica's Academy Award winner "Il giardino dei Finzi Contini" located?
What American film star owes to Italian film industry the beginning of his amazing career?
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz/quiz96977b1c700.html   (168 words)

  
 Club de Coleccionistas de Cine
Dirigida por Dino Risi, con Vittorio Gassmann, Jean Louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak.
Directed by Mario Monicelli, with Vittorio Gassman, italian with english subtitles.
"IL GENERAL DELLA ROVERE", Italy 1959, Directed by Roberto Rossellini, with Vittorio De Sica.
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