Acting

Dorian Gray

Born February 2, 1928 · Bolzano, Italy

Died February 15, 2011 · aged 83

Maria Luisa Mangini (2 February 1928 – 15 February 2011), better known as Dorian Gray, was an Italian actress. Gray made her stage debut in 1950. After five years she left the theater world and devoted herself to the cinema. The role she played most often in films was that of a seductive sex kitten. She played the titular "bad girl" in Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina. She also appeared in Michela…

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Nights of Cabiria

Nights of Cabiria · 1957

Nights of Cabiria

MovieDramaComedy

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.

Commando

Commando · 1962

A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.

...And Suddenly It's Murder!

...And Suddenly It's Murder! · 1960

...And Suddenly It's Murder!

Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.

Il Grido

Il Grido · 1957

A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.

Love and Larceny

Love and Larceny · 1960

Love and Larceny

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.

Guaglione

Guaglione · 1956

MovieMusicRomance

This is an Italian Romance starring Terence Hill

Love on the Riviera

Love on the Riviera · 1958

Love on the Riviera

MovieComedyRomance

It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.

Colossus and the Amazon Queen

Colossus and the Amazon Queen · 1960

Colossus and the Amazon Queen

MovieActionAdventure

Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.

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Nights of Cabiria

Nights of Cabiria · 1957

Nights of Cabiria

MovieDramaComedy

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.

Jessy

Commando

Commando · 1962

A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.

Nora

...And Suddenly It's Murder!

...And Suddenly It's Murder! · 1960

...And Suddenly It's Murder!

Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.

Eleonora Franzetti

Il Grido

Il Grido · 1957

A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.

Virginia

Love and Larceny

Love and Larceny · 1960

Love and Larceny

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.

Elena

Guaglione

Guaglione · 1956

MovieMusicRomance

This is an Italian Romance starring Terence Hill

Nadia Lanti

Love on the Riviera

Love on the Riviera · 1958

Love on the Riviera

MovieComedyRomance

It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.

Dorina

Colossus and the Amazon Queen

Colossus and the Amazon Queen · 1960

Colossus and the Amazon Queen

MovieActionAdventure

Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.

Antiope

The Criminals of the Metropolis

The Criminals of the Metropolis · 1967

The Criminals of the Metropolis

A group of drug dealers clashes with the police several times between December 28th and New Year's Eve.

Denise

Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy

Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy · 1956

Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy

MovieComedyRomance

Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl).

Marisa Florian

Totò Double or Nothing?

Totò Double or Nothing? · 1956

Totò Double or Nothing?

The penniless Duke decides to participate in "Lascia o raddoppia", a TV quiz show, in order to win five million lira. Then two gangsters bet between themselves on his success and, alas, the Duke is kidnapped.

Hélène

Vacations in Majorca

Vacations in Majorca · 1959

Vacations in Majorca

MovieComedyRomance

Ugly, persistent, and (initially) annoying admirer pursues a beautiful actress. At first he is laughed of, especially by his ultra handsome rival, but with his firm insistence, and gradually emerging charm, he seduces the lady, to the total shocked surprise of his rival.

Hélène

Thrilling

Thrilling · 1965

A black comedy anthology about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes: a teacher, obsessed with the idea that his wife is unfaithful, goes to a shrink; a wife has her husband dress himself with a comic character costume; and a man has to spend the night in a mysterious hotel after his car breaks down.

Veronique (segment "Sadik")

Appointment for Murder

Appointment for Murder · 1952

Appointment for Murder

MovieMysteryCrime

A woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's estranged husband does also.

Vandina

Il mago per forza

Il mago per forza · 1951

Il mago per forza

In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.

Peccati d'estate

Peccati d'estate · 1962

Peccati d'estate

Irene

The Queen of Sheba

The Queen of Sheba · 1952

The Queen of Sheba

The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.

Ati

Damn the Taxes!!

Damn the Taxes!! · 1951

Damn the Taxes!!

Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.

Margot

Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge

Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge · 1956

Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge

Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.

Valeria

Domenica è sempre domenica

Domenica è sempre domenica · 1958

Domenica è sempre domenica

A television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will know how to sing". The award mirage lured many person, with ambitions or financial problems, to enroll in the competition.

Luciana

The Surprises of Love

The Surprises of Love · 1959

The Surprises of Love

This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries) of confused, mismatched, or ambivalent lovers. The script includes witty dialogue and humorous situations; most of all on display is the ridiculousness of the human compulsion to pair up.

Didi

Destination Fury

Destination Fury · 1961

Destination Fury

MovieComedyAdventure

Lemmy Caution has been assigned by Interpol to work as a double agent. Little does he know how many spies are on to this deception and how dangerous his assignment has become.

Pupina Micacci

Dangerous Women

Dangerous Women · 1958

Dangerous Women

Federico, Bruno, Pirro and Benny are married. The first three have beautiful wifes, Benny instead is married to a ugly woman. Ornella is Bruno's wife, she is very jealous and maintains that all men are deceitful, granted the opportunity, while Claudine, Federico's wife, maintains the contrary point of view. So they bet that Tosca, a former dancer, will succeed in seducing Federico.

Ornella

The Orderly

The Orderly · 1961

Colonels, majors, lieutenants: all of them live in the same building. Some of them have a wife or children or none, but everyone has his orderly. Major Penna is harassed by Osvaldo's mother. Lt. Martucci gets involved in the love affair between Antonio, his orderly, and Lauretta.

Lauretta