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Anna Demetrio

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Birth 8 november 1890
Death 8 november 1959 (at 68 years)

Anna Demetrio (1892–1959) was an Italian-born American film actress. Speaking English with a heavy accent, she often played stock foreign characters in a series of supporting roles. In 1950 she starred in the sitcom Mama Rosa in which she played the title character.

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Victor Young
Victor Young
(5 films)
Joseph Kane
Joseph Kane
(3 films)
Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis
(3 films)
Frank Puglia
Frank Puglia
(4 films)
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Filmography of Anna Demetrio (28 films)

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September Affair, 1h44
Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotten, Jessica Tandy, Jimmy Lydon, Robert Arthur, Françoise Rosay
Roles Rosita
Rating66% 3.3413053.3413053.3413053.3413053.341305
Marianne "Manina" Stuart (Joan Fontaine), a prominent concert pianist, meets David Lawrence (Joseph Cotten), a businessman, on a flight from Rome to New York. Their plane is diverted to Naples for engine repairs, and they decide to kill time by doing some sight-seeing.
The Bandit Queen, 1h10
Directed by William Berke
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Actors Barbara Britton, Barton MacLane, Phillip Reed, Willard Parker, Victor Kilian, Thurston Hall
Roles Maria
Rating58% 2.9075752.9075752.9075752.9075752.907575
As the lead actress, Britton was the protagonist child of an American father and Spanish mother, Dones Jose and Zara Montalvo, as portrayed by Victor Kilian and Cecil Weston who is credited as Cecile Weston. The Montalvo family possessed land rights or Spanish land grants to a hacienda with gold mines present. Abroad, the daughter came home to California and witnessed her parents being murdered by Hank (John Merton) and an unknown man, Sheriff Jim Harden, who was played by Barton MacLane. Montalvo initially approached Harden about the crimes but eventually recognized him as part of murderers' gang. She teamed up with Phillip Reed, in the role of Joaquin Murietta, to regain her rightful inheritance. Together they assumed false identities with Montalvo hidden behind the alias of a Zorro-like character named Lola Belmont with Murietta as Carlos del Rio.
Appointment with Murder, 1h7
Directed by Jack Bernhard
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors John Calvert, Lyle Talbot, Peter Brocco, Ben Welden, Michael Mark, Anna Demetrio
Roles Senora Rosa - Italian Woman (as Ann Demetrio)
Rating54% 2.7220052.7220052.7220052.7220052.722005
The Falcon travels to Milan to locate some stolen paintings for an insurance company. He follows the trail from a murdered Italian painter to an art gallery in Los Angeles.
A Bell for Adano, 1h43
Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Minor Watson, Glenn Langan, Richard Conte
Roles Rosa
Rating66% 3.3412453.3412453.3412453.3412453.341245
The story concerns Italian-American U.S. Army Major Joppolo, who is placed in charge of the town of Adano during the invasion of Sicily. The title refers to Major Joppolo's attempts to replace the 700-year-old bell that was taken from the town by the Fascists at the start of the war to be melted down for ammunition. Through his actions, Joppolo also wins the trust and love of the people.
Dragon Seed, 2h28
Directed by Jack Conway, Harold S. Bucquet, Andrew Marton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff, Turhan Bey, J. Carrol Naish
Roles Wu Sao
Rating59% 2.9525452.9525452.9525452.9525452.952545
Durant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, un paisible village chinois est occupé par l'armée japonaise. Si la plupart des habitants acceptent le joug nippon, Jade le refuse. La rebelle entrepend de résister à l'envahisseur, au grand dam de son père.
Submarine Base, 1h5
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors John Litel, Alan Baxter, Eric Blore, Rafael Storm, Fifi D'Orsay, Iris Adrian
Roles Angela Styx
Rating44% 2.2444852.2444852.2444852.2444852.244485
Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.
The Big Store, 1h23
Directed by Charles Reisner, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Actors Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Tony Martin, Virginia Grey, Margaret Dumont
Roles Maria
Rating64% 3.248273.248273.248273.248273.24827
The Phelps Department Store owner Hiram Phelps has died, leaving half-ownership in the business to his nephew, singer Tommy Rogers. The other half is owned by Hiram's sister, Martha Phelps (Margaret Dumont), Tommy's aunt. Rogers has no interest in running a department store, so he plans to sell his interest and use the money to build a music conservatory. Store manager Grover (Douglas Dumbrille) wants to kill Rogers before he can sell his share, marry the wealthy Martha, then kill her to become sole owner of the Phelps Department Store. Martha is highly suspicious, worried about Tommy's safety lest anyone suspect her of foul play to take over the store. Against Grover's wishes she hires Wolf J. Flywheel (Groucho) as a floorwalker and bodyguard. Between Tommy wooing his sweetheart Joan (Virginia Grey) and Flywheel romancing Miss Phelps, the brothers eventually expose and thwart the plot to kill Tommy.
It's a Date, 1h43
Directed by Joe Pasternak, William A. Seiter, Norman Krasna, Ralph J. Block, Frederick Kohner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Eugene Pallette, Henry Stephenson, S.Z. Sakall
Roles Gertie - the Cook (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.1965653.1965653.1965653.1965653.196565
The movie begins with Georgia Drake (Kay Francis) performing on the stage, singing "Gypsy Lullaby" while her daughter, Pamela (Deanna Durbin), watches with her boyfriend Freddie Miller (Lewis Howard). Georgia is an older Broadway actress who was once very famous. Her daughter, Pam, also has great acting skills and hopes to be a successful actress as well. At an after-party celebrating the closing of a play that Georgia was in, Pamela convinces director Sidney Simpson (Samuel S. Hinds) and writer Carl Ober (S.Z. Sakall) to attend one of the plays she is in. After the party ends, Pamela sings "Love is All" with the maid, Sara (Cecilia Loftus), playing piano and her mother listening.
Young Buffalo Bill, 59minutes
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Musical, Western
Actors Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Pauline Moore, Chief Thundercloud, Julian Rivero, Trevor Bardette
Roles Elena
Rating54% 2.74692.74692.74692.74692.7469
The film takes place in the New Mexico territory of the United States in the 1860s. Bill Cody and his friend Gabby Whitaker arrive in the New Mexico territory sometime in the 1860s, Gabby feels the land is worthless as it is filled with nothing but “Injins and rocks”. Bill begins discussing Buffalo until he notices a woman driving a seemingly out of control carriage. Bill and Gabby stop the horses, but the woman berates them saying she didn’t any help.
Idiot's Delight, 1h47
Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn, Joseph Schildkraut, Burgess Meredith
Roles Fat Italian Woman on Train
Rating64% 3.2466553.2466553.2466553.2466553.246655
Harry Van (Clark Gable), an American World War I veteran, tries to reenter show biz and ends up in a faltering mentalist show with an inept, aging alcoholic, Madame Zuleika (Laura Hope Crews, who also appeared in Gone with the Wind as Aunt Pittypat). While giving performances in Omaha, he is courted by Irene (Norma Shearer), a trapeze artist, who claims to come from Russia and hopes both to replace Harry's drunken partner in the show and be his lover. They have a romantic night, but he is suspicious of Irene's overstated flights of fancy. Harry, keeping Zuleika, and Irene's troupe board trains going in the opposite directions the next day.
Escape to Paradise, 1h
Directed by Erle C. Kenton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Bobby Breen, Kent Taylor, Joyce Compton, Pedro de Cordoba, Rosina Galli, Anna Demetrio
Roles Señora Ramos, Roberto's Mother
Rating48% 2.4385952.4385952.4385952.4385952.438595
Jaded playboy Richard Fleming travels to the South American nation of Rosarita. Through his motorcycle riding guide Roberto he discovers true love and a career as a Yerba mate exporter.
In Old Caliente, 57minutes
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Musical, Western
Actors Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Lynne Roberts, Katherine DeMille, Jack La Rue, Frank Puglia
Roles The Dueña [unconfirmed]
Rating56% 2.810242.810242.810242.810242.81024
Set after California's Statehood but before the War Between the States, Roy Rogers is working for a wealthy Spanish family. One of their men is secretly betraying the arrival of targets of opportunity to a group of Anglo American bandits but puts the blame on Roy.
The Llano Kid, 1h10
Directed by Russell Harlan
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Tito Guízar, Gale Sondergaard, Alan Mowbray, Jan Clayton, Emma Dunn, Minor Watson
Roles Fat Maria
Rating55% 2.754562.754562.754562.754562.75456
The Llano Kid is a romantic highwayman who robs stagecoaches along the Texas-Mexico border. In the film, John and Lora Travers are searching for Enrique Ibarra to inform him that he is the heir to a substantial fortune and ranch/hacienda south of the border. If they find him, they will receive a significant reward. During their search for Ibarra, their stage falls victim to the Llano Kid. Noticing that the Llano Kid bear an uncanny resemblance to Ibarra, the Travers conspire to persuade the Kid to pose as Ibarra so they can collect their reward.