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Ettore Maria Margadonna is a Actor and Scriptwriter Italien born on 30 november 1893

Ettore Maria Margadonna

Ettore Maria Margadonna
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Nationality Italie
Birth 30 november 1893
Death 28 october 1975 (at 81 years)

Ettore Maria Margadonna est un journaliste et un scénariste italien né le 30 novembre 1893 à Palena dans la région des Abruzzes (Italie) et mort le 28 octobre 1975 à Rome (Italie).

Biography

Diplômé en économie, Ettore Maria Margadonna commence sa carrière comme journaliste et critique de cinéma, collaborant à plusieurs revues, dont La Rivista della Cooperazione, Comoedia et L'Illustrazione Italiana. En 1932, il déménage brièvement à Berlin, où il s'intéresse notamment au théâtre allemand. En 1935, il retourne en Italie et à partir de 1937 se consacre totalement à l'écriture de scénarios pour le cinéma italien.

Après la guerre, il devient rédacteur en chef de Avanti!. En 1959, il est administrateur délégué de Cinecittà.

Best films

Scandal in Sorrento (1955)
(Story)
Frisky (1954)
(Histoire)
Bread, Love and Dreams (1953)
(Concepteur de dialogues)

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Filmography of Ettore Maria Margadonna (24 films)

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Actor

The White Sheik, 1h25
Directed by Federico Fellini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes La bande dessinée
Actors Alberto Sordi, Leopoldo Trieste, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bovo, Ernesto Almirante, Lilia Landi
Roles (extra) (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.598493.598493.598493.598493.59849
Two young newlyweds from a provincial town, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) and Ivan Cavalli (Leopoldo Trieste), arrive in Rome for their honeymoon. Wanda is obsessed with the "White Sheik" (Alberto Sordi), the hero of a soap opera photo strip and sneaks off to find him, leaving her conventional, petit bourgeois husband in hysterics as he tries to hide his wife's disappearance from his strait-laced relatives who are waiting to go with them to visit the Pope. The plotline was re-used by Woody Allen in his film To Rome with Love.

Scriptwriter

The Monk of Monza, 1h41
Directed by Sergio Corbucci, Ruggero Deodato, Mario Castellani
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Actors Totò, Adriano Celentano, Giacomo Furia, Nino Taranto, Erminio Macario, Lisa Gastoni
Rating64% 3.226263.226263.226263.226263.22626
Monza, 1630, a period of Spanish rule. Pasquale Cicciacalda, a humble shoemaker native of Casoria, widower of the midwife Provvidenza, can not maintain their 12 children (6 pairs of twins) and therefore devises a cunning ploy. Disguised himself and his children as monks, vague with them pretending to be poor monks, asking food and charity.
Gastone
Gastone (1960)
, 1h42
Directed by Mario Bonnard
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Actors Alberto Sordi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Franca Marzi, Linda Sini
Roles Story
Rating61% 3.0831953.0831953.0831953.0831953.083195
Rome, années 1920. Gastone, un danseur mondain, artiste médiocre, à la fois séducteur et escroc, rêve d'accéder à la gloire en montant sur la scène du prestigieux « Salon Margherita ». Après s'être délesté d'une fausse duchesse russe appelée Sonja, il croit avoir détecté le filon en la personne d'une belle employée de maison, Nannina. Mais il est bientôt arrêté par la police. De son côté, profitant de son absence, Nannina triomphe en solo dans un spectacle. Un imprésario célèbre la remarque et devient son protecteur, lui assurant désormais une belle carrière. Durement éprouvé, Gastone tente de refaire surface, mais en pure perte.
The Moralist, 1h38
Directed by Giorgio Bianchi
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Actors Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Maria Perschy, Franco Fabrizi, Franca Valeri, Christiane Nielsen
Roles Histoire
Rating65% 3.2827653.2827653.2827653.2827653.282765
Agostino, the general secretary of O. I. M. P. (i.e., "International Organization for the Public Morality"), appears to be an extreme moralist, but actually he has a double life.
Fast and Sexy, 1h45
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Gina Lollobrigida, Vittorio De Sica, Dale Robertson, Gino Buzzanca, Peppino De Filippo, Luigi De Filippo
Roles Histoire
Rating56% 2.8085452.8085452.8085452.8085452.808545
Anna vient de revenir des États-Unis dans le petit village des Abruzzes où elle est née et elle aimerait bien y trouver un mari. Tout de suite la nouvelle circule et trois prétendants se manifestent : Ciccone, un riche éleveur qui fut son premier amour d’enfance, un baron sans le sou en quête d’argent et le maire, Peppino, mais seulement parce que sa sœur, la pharmacienne Camillina l’y a poussé. En réalité, Anna sait déjà qui pourrait être le meilleur mari : Raffaele, le mécanicien ; mais celui-ci, cependant, ne semble pas céder tout de suite à ses avances
The Monte Carlo Story, 1h36
Directed by Sam Taylor, Samuel A. Taylor
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Marlene Dietrich, Vittorio De Sica, Arthur O'Connell, Natalie Trundy, Mischa Auer, Renato Rascel
Rating57% 2.8554252.8554252.8554252.8554252.855425
The story takes place against the backdrop of the glorious French Riviera. Marlene Dietrich plays a woman with a lot of class, but no money to satisfy her taste for the best things in life. She is dazzled by Count Della Fiabe, who is also trying to recuperate his debts at the gambling tables of the famous casino. To attract the woman, who he thinks is his meal ticket, the poor Italian noble man enlists the help of the same people to whom he owes money.
Scandal in Sorrento, 1h46
Directed by Dino Risi
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica, Lea Padovani, Tina Pica, Antonio Cifariello, Mario Carotenuto
Roles Story
Rating65% 3.260023.260023.260023.260023.26002
In this Italian romantic comedy set in the beautiful Bay of Naples, Marshal Antonio Carotenuto arrives back in his home town of Sorrento to take care of the local traffic police. Donna Sofia, an attractive fishmonger,has rented the home from a dashing marshal who now returns to become the town police chief and wants to reclaim his home. The woman refuses to leave and almost accepts marriage to Antonio almost as a joke to make Nicolino, a fisherman who she is genuinely in love with, jealous. She goes along with the marshals wooing and agrees to dump her fiancé and says she will marry him instead. When the marshal realizes what she is doing, he jilts her instead and decides to woo his own landlady instead.
The Belle of Rome
Directed by Luigi Comencini
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Silvana Pampanini, Alberto Sordi, Antonio Cifariello, Paolo Stoppa, Luisella Beghi, Sergio Tofano
Roles Histoire
Rating63% 3.170743.170743.170743.170743.17074
À Rome, Nannina est fiancée à Mario, un boxeur emprisonné après une bagarre avec un policier. Elle est alors embauchée comme caissière au bistrot d'Oreste, un veuf qui la courtise bientôt. Gracco, un voisin d'Oreste, lui fait également des avances, bien que marié à Ines...
Frisky
Frisky (1954)
, 1h35
Directed by Luigi Comencini
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Tina Pica, Roberto Risso, Marisa Merlini, Maria-Pia Casilio
Roles Histoire
Rating66% 3.3092653.3092653.3092653.3092653.309265
Antonio (V De Sica) was in love with the midwife Annarella (Marisa) knowing that she has a kid son. Both of them were in love to each other, at the time the father of the kid who also serves in military will appear and with the help of the priest Dom Emidio (Virgilio) will take both of them with him.
The Suitcase of Dreams, 1h24
Directed by Luigi Comencini
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Historical
Actors Maria-Pia Casilio, Umberto Melnati, Francesca Bertini, Roberto Risso, Gemma Bolognesi, Lyda Borelli
Roles Histoire
Rating69% 3.491793.491793.491793.491793.49179
Un ancien acteur du cinéma muet récupère un jour des vieux films, qu'il sauve ainsi de la destruction, puis se met à organiser des projections pour ses amis.
Bread, Love and Dreams, 1h28
Directed by Luigi Comencini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Marisa Merlini, Tina Pica, Roberto Risso, Virgilio Riento
Roles Concepteur de dialogues
Rating68% 3.449953.449953.449953.449953.44995
Vittorio De Sica plays the middle-aged marshal Antonio Carotenuto of the Carabinieri in a remote fictional Italian mountain village named Sagliena (actually the village of Castel San Pietro Romano, in Lazio). He's anxious to marry, and selects young Maria De Ritis (Gina Lollobrigida) as his bride; but she is already in love with De Sica's shy subordinate Pietro Stelluti (played by Roberto Risso). Mistaking her headstrong behavior as promiscuity, De Sica makes advances towards her, but she spurns him. Forsaking the girl to the arms of Risso, De Sica decides to settle for village midwife Annarella Mirziano (Marisa Merlini). Things become more complicated when Annarella, the midwife, starts demonstrating her love to Antonio. She is hiding a secret and the Marshal soon will be in a difficult situation.
Two Cents Worth of Hope, 1h50
Directed by Renato Castellani
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Maria Fiore, Vincenzo Musolino, Clara Bindi, Aldo Giuffrè
Roles Story
Rating69% 3.475553.475553.475553.475553.47555
The film is the third in director Castellani's "Young Love" trilogy (the first two were Sotto il sole di Roma (1948) and È primavera...(1950)). The story concerns the romance between Carmela (Fiore) and Antonio (Musolino). The ardor is one-sided at first, but Carmela is a determined young woman, willing to scale and conquer any obstacle in pursuing her heart's desire. Once he's "hooked," Antonio scurries from job to job to prove his financial viability. Faced with the hostility of their parents, Carmela and Antonio symbolically shed themselves of all responsibilities to others in a climactic act of stark-naked bravado.
Rivalry
Rivalry (1952)

Actors Franca Marzi, Giovanna Ralli, Pietro Tordi, Saro Urzì, Marco Vicario
Rating13% 0.658420.658420.658420.658420.65842
Un jeune docteur débute dans un village où tout est bien en place et où les personnes de tout rang, à commencer par le maire et le médecin implanté de vieille date font obstacle aux initiatives du jeune médecin.
The Count of Saint Elmo
Directed by Guido Brignone
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Massimo Serato, Anna Maria Ferrero, Tino Buazzelli, Nelly Corradi, Tina Lattanzi, Carlo Croccolo
Rating56% 2.8429152.8429152.8429152.8429152.842915
Pendant la dernière période de la domination des Bourbons, un groupe de carbonari, déguisés en bandits et dirigés par le comte de Sant'Elmo, arrête une diligence près d'Itri qui transporte Lucia fille d'un ministre. Les bandits prennent possession de documents importants, à partir desquels ils découvrent que le ministre de la Police, Cassano, est en possession d'un colis dont le contenu pourrait être fatal à leur organisation. De retour à Naples, le comte réussit à pénétrer la nuit dans la maison de Cassano et à prendre possession du paquet. Surpris par la police, il se réfugie dans la chambre de Lucia, fille du ministre, qui le sauve et tombe amoureux de lui. Il la reverra ensuite lors d'une fête chez le ministre. Entre-temps, les carbonari décident de prendre Lucia en otage afin d'obtenir la libération d'un camarade arrêté. Le ministre cède et libère la personne arrêtée, mais fait ensuite arrêter le comte dénoncé par un chanteur jaloux est condamné à mort, mais avec l'aide de Don Paolo et du chanteur, repenti de son geste, il peut s’enfuir et monter à bord d'une frégate pour retourner au Piémont, où Lucia l'attend.