Adriana Benetti
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Biography
Born in Quacchio, an east-area of FerraraFerrara
Ferrara is a city and comune in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara. It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north...
, Adriana graduated at Istituto Magistrale (Masterly Institute) of her city, to landfall then in Rome, where she was accepted at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
The Centro sperimentale di cinematografia was established in 1935 in Italy and aims to promote the art and technique of cinematography and film....
(Experimental film centre or Italian National film school). During the frequentation of her course she was found by Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio de Sica
Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....
, making her debut at 22 years old in his film Teresa Venerdì
Teresa Venerdì
Teresa Venerdì is a 1941 Italian comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica.-Plot summary:The film is a comedy of errors in which the sweetly incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali has been run deep into debt by his girlfriend, Loletta Prima...
(1941), as the main character.
She appeared in director Alessandro Blasetti
Alessandro Blasetti
Alessandro Blasetti was an Italian film director who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole...
's celebrated Quattro passi fra le nuvole
Four Steps in the Clouds
Quattro passi fra le nuvole is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti. Close to Italian neorealism.It was nominated for BAFTA as Best Film from any Source.-Remakes:...
(1942), where she supported Gino Cervi
Gino Cervi
Gino Cervi was an Italian actor of international fame.Cervi was born in Bologna. His father was the theatre critic Antonio Cervi.In 1928, he married Nini Gordini and they had a son, Tonino Cervi...
for the first time, and Luigi Zampa
Luigi Zampa
Luigi Zampa was an Italian film-maker.- Biography :Son of a worker, Zampa studied film making from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome....
's C'è sempre un ma!
C'è sempre un ma!
C'è sempre un ma! is a 1942 drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Carla Del Poggio.-Cast:* Carla Del Poggio - Carla* Adriana Benetti - Giulia* Rubi D'Alma - Laura * Jone Morino - Isabella* Aroldo Tieri - Carletto...
(also 1942). She acted with Andrea Checchi
Andrea Checchi
Andrea Checchi was a prolific Italian film actor.Born in Florence, Checchi appeared in over 150 films in his lengthy career, which spanned from 1934 to his death in 1974...
and Aldo Fabrizi
Aldo Fabrizi
Aldo Fabrizi was an Italian actor and cinema and theatre director.-Actor Filmography:* Avanti, c'è posto... by Mario Bonnard...
in 1942 Avanti c'è posto..., and with Massimo Serato
Massimo Serato
Massimo Serato, born Giuseppe Segato, was an Italian film actor with a career spanning over 40 years.Serato was born in Oderzo, Veneto, Italy and started appearing in films in 1938. He played leading roles in several historical dramas and sword and sandal epics, mainly Italian, as well as roles in...
and Vittorio Sanipoli in 1943 Mario Soldati
Mario Soldati
Mario Soldati was an Italian writer and film director.-Biography:Soldati studied Humanities in his native city, Turin, and History of Art in Rome. He started publishing novels in 1929 although his fame came with America primo amore, published in 1935, a diary about the time he spent teaching at...
's Quartieri alti.
After Second World War, in 1945 she took part in two musicals, first as partner of Gino Bechi
Gino Bechi
Gino Bechi was an Italian operatic baritone, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, especially in Verdi roles.-Life and career:...
in Torna a Sorrento, then of opera singer Tito Gobbi
Tito Gobbi
Tito Gobbi was an Italian operatic baritone with an international reputation.-Biography:Tito Gobbi was born in Bassano del Grappa and studied law at the University of Padua before he trained as a singer. Giulio Crimi, a well-known Italian tenor of a previous generation, was Gobbi's teacher in Rome...
in O sole mio. Later, she acted with Fosco Giachetti
Fosco Giachetti
Fosco Giachetti was an Italian actor.He was the brother of the actor Gianfranco Giachetti.Fosco Giachetti was the protagonist of Lo squadrone bianco , directed by Augusto Genina...
in 1946 Il sole di Montecassino, and with Eduardo
Eduardo De Filippo
Eduardo De Filippo was an Italian actor, playwright, screenwriter, author and poet, best known for his Neapolitan works Filumena Marturano and Napoli Milionaria.-Biography:...
and Titina De Filippo
Titina De Filippo
Titina De Filippo, born Annunziata De Filippo was an Italian actress and playwrightShe was born in via Dell'Ascensione a Chiaia, Naples, the oldest of three children born from the extramarital relationship between Luisa De Filippo and Eduardo Scarpetta, a well-respected playwright in Naples...
in 1946 Uno tra la folla.
She was also directed by Goffredo Alessandrini
Goffredo Alessandrini
Goffredo Alessandrini was an Italian script writer and film director. He also acted, edited, and produced some films.-Biography:...
in 1947 Furia, where she acted with Rossano Brazzi
Rossano Brazzi
-Biography:Brazzi was born in Bologna to Adelmo and Maria Brazzi. He attended San Marco University in Florence, Italy, where he was raised from the age of four...
and Cervi again; then she met again Fabrizi in Giorgio Ferroni's Tombolo, paradiso nero of the same year.
In 1950 she acted with Totò
Totò
Prince Antonio Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno De Curtis di Bisanzio Gagliardi, best known by his stage name Totò and nicknamed il principe della risata was an Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer and songwriter...
in 47 morto che parla
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.-Cast:* Totò as Il barone Antonio Peletti* Silvana Pampanini as Madame Bonbon, la canzonettista...
.
In 1943 she also played in Marc Allégret
Marc Allégret
Marc Allégret was a French screenwriter and film director.Born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, he was the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer. Allégret became André Gide's lover when he was fifteen and Gide was forty-seven...
's Les Petites du quai aux fleurs, with Bernard Blier
Bernard Blier
Bernard Blier was a French character actor. His rotund features and premature baldness allowed him to often play cuckolded husbands in his early career. He proved to be one of France's most versatile and sought-after character actors, performing interchangeably in comedies and dramas...
and Gérard Philipe
Gérard Philipe
Gérard Philipe was a prominent French actor, who had appeared in 34 films between 1944 and 1959.-Career:...
, in 1947 Lucio De Caro's (Manù il contrabbandiere), with André Cayatte
André Cayatte
André Cayatte was a French New Wave filmmaker and lawyer, who became known for his films centering on themes of crime, justice, and moral responsibility, themes which Cayatte persisted in affirming regardless of changing contemporary attitudes.Some of Cayatte's earlier films that covered these...
, and in other Spanish and argentinian films.
She was specialised in the ingénue roles (she became the "fidanzatina d'Italia" (Italy's little fiancée), a term coined for her by Assia Noris
Assia Noris
Assia Noris was a Russian-Italian film actress.She appeared in over 35 films between 1932 and 1965.She starred in films such as the Mario Mattoli 1936 film L' Uomo che sorride and Il signor Max...
, who was labelled "fiancée"). In 1950s her cinematographic appearances progressively made less frequent, because of the weakening of the characteristics that distinguished her, playing also the teacher in 1955 Eighteen Year Olds
Eighteen Year Olds
Eighteen Year Olds is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Marisa Allasio.-Cast:* Marisa Allasio - Anna Campolmi* Virna Lisi - Maria Rovani* Anthony Steffen - Il professore * Luisella Boni - Luisa...
(a remake of Schoolgirl Diary
Schoolgirl Diary
Schoolgirl Diary is a 1941 drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli.-Cast:* Alida Valli - Anna Campolmi* Irasema Dilián - Maria Rovani * Andrea Checchi - Il professore Marini...
) and later the mature fiancée in A vent'anni è sempre festa (1957), after which she retired from cinema.
Because of that specific eternal ingénue aura which distinguished her, in 1947 she scandalized Italy posing in a bikini
Bikini
The bikini is typically a women's two-piece swimsuit. One part of the attire covers the breasts and the other part covers the crotch and part of or the entire buttocks, leaving an uncovered area between the two. Merriam–Webster describes the bikini as "a woman's scanty two-piece bathing suit" or "a...
for the weekly newspaper Tempo illustrato.
Filmography
- Teresa VenerdìTeresa VenerdìTeresa Venerdì is a 1941 Italian comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica.-Plot summary:The film is a comedy of errors in which the sweetly incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali has been run deep into debt by his girlfriend, Loletta Prima...
, directed by Vittorio De SicaVittorio de SicaVittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....
(1941) - C'è sempre un ma!C'è sempre un ma!C'è sempre un ma! is a 1942 drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Carla Del Poggio.-Cast:* Carla Del Poggio - Carla* Adriana Benetti - Giulia* Rubi D'Alma - Laura * Jone Morino - Isabella* Aroldo Tieri - Carletto...
, directed by Luigi ZampaLuigi ZampaLuigi Zampa was an Italian film-maker.- Biography :Son of a worker, Zampa studied film making from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome....
(1942) - Avanti c'è posto..., directed by Mario Bonnard (1942)
- Quattro passi fra le nuvole, directed by Alessandro BlasettiAlessandro BlasettiAlessandro Blasetti was an Italian film director who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole...
(1942) - Gente dell'aria, directed by Esodo Pratelli (1942)
- I quattro di Bir El Gobi, directed by Giuseppe OrioliGiuseppe OrioliGiuseppe "Pino" Orioli was a Florentine bookseller best known for privately publishing the unexpurgated first edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover and for his long association with Norman Douglas....
(1942) - Quartieri alti, directed by Mario SoldatiMario SoldatiMario Soldati was an Italian writer and film director.-Biography:Soldati studied Humanities in his native city, Turin, and History of Art in Rome. He started publishing novels in 1929 although his fame came with America primo amore, published in 1935, a diary about the time he spent teaching at...
(1943) - Rondini in volo, directed by Luigi CapuanoLuigi CapuanoLuigi Capuano was an Italian film director and screenwriter.Born at Naples, directed 43 films between 1947 and 1971.-Selected filmography:* Vertigine d'amore * Gli amanti di Ravello * The Adventurer of Tortuga...
(1943) - Tempesta sul golfo, directed by Gennaro RighelliGennaro RighelliGennaro Righelli was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 110 films in Italy and Germany between 1910 and 1947. In 1930, he directed the first Italian sound film, La canzone dell'amore....
(1943) - O sole mio, directed by Giacomo GentilomoGiacomo GentilomoGiacomo Gentilomo was an Italian film director and painter.-Filmography:* Maciste e la regina di Samar * Le verdi bandiere di Allah * Brenno il nemico di Roma * I lancieri neri...
(1945) - Il sole di Montecassino, directed by Giuseppe Maria Scotese (1945)
- Torna a Sorrento, directed by Carlo Ludovico BragagliaCarlo Ludovico BragagliaCarlo Ludovico Bragaglia 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...
(1945) - Inqueitudine, directed by Vittorio Carpignano and Emilio Cordero (1946)
- Uno tra la folla, directed by Ennio Cerlesi (1946)
- Furia, directed by Goffredo AlessandriniGoffredo AlessandriniGoffredo Alessandrini was an Italian script writer and film director. He also acted, edited, and produced some films.-Biography:...
(1947) - Tombolo, paradiso nero, directed by Giorgio Ferroni (1947)
- Manù il contrabbandiere, directed by Lucio De Caro (1947)
- Llegada de noche, directed by J.A. Niever Condé (1949)
- Neutralidad, directed by Eusebio Fernández Ardavín (1949)
- 47 morto che parla47 morto che parla47 morto che parla is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia. The film stars Totò and Silvana Pampanini.-Cast:* Totò as Il barone Antonio Peletti* Silvana Pampanini as Madame Bonbon, la canzonettista...
, directed by Carlo Ludovico BragagliaCarlo Ludovico BragagliaCarlo Ludovico Bragaglia 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...
(1950) - La mujer de nadie, directed by Gonzalo Delgrás (1950)
- Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei, directed by Marcel L'HerbierMarcel L'HerbierMarcel L'Herbier, Légion d'honneur, was a French film-maker, 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 until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total...
and Paolo MoffaPaolo MoffaPaolo Moffa was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed seven films between 1943 and 1982.-Selected filmography:* The Last Days of Pompeii * The Island Princess...
(1950) - Donde comienzan los pantanosDonde comienzan los pantanosDonde comienzan los pantanos is a 1952 Argentine film....
, directed by Antonio Ber Ciani (1952) - Las aguas bajan turbiasLas Aguas Bajan TurbiasDark River is a 1952 Argentine drama film directed by Hugo del Carril and written by Eduardo Borrás. The film was based on a novel by Alfredo Varela. The film starred Hugo del Carril who simultaneously directed the film, Adriana Benetti and Raúl del Valle...
(I desperados della jungla verde), directed by Hugo del CarrilHugo del CarrilPierre Bruno Hugo Fontana otherwise known as Hugo del Carril was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era.-Early life:...
(1952) - Le due orfanelle, directed by Giacomo GentilomoGiacomo GentilomoGiacomo Gentilomo was an Italian film director and painter.-Filmography:* Maciste e la regina di Samar * Le verdi bandiere di Allah * Brenno il nemico di Roma * I lancieri neri...
(1954) - Le diciottenniEighteen Year OldsEighteen Year Olds is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Marisa Allasio.-Cast:* Marisa Allasio - Anna Campolmi* Virna Lisi - Maria Rovani* Anthony Steffen - Il professore * Luisella Boni - Luisa...
, directed by Mario MattoliMario MattoliMario Mattoli was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 86 films between 1934 and 1966....
(1955) - A vent'anni è sempre festa, directed by Vittorio DuseVittorio DuseVittorio Duse was an Italian actor born on March 21, 1916 in Marche, Italy. He died on June 2, 2005 in Rome, Italy....
(1957)