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Irene Genna is a Actor Italienne born on 4 january 1931 at Athens (Grece)

Irene Genna

Irene Genna
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Nationality Italie
Birth 4 january 1931 at Athens (Grece)
Death 6 february 1986 (at 55 years) at Rome (Italie)

Irene Genna (4 January 1931 – 6 February 1986) was a Greek-born Italian film and television actress.

Biography

Irene Genna naît à Athènes en 1931 d'un père italien et d'une mère grecque. Elle grandit en Grèce ou elle fait ses études secondaires, avant de suivre sa famille en Italie. Elle fréquente le Teatro dell'Opera di Roma et suit des cours d'arts dramatiques auprès de l'actrice italienne Teresa Franchini.

Elle fait ses débuts dans la comédie I due orfanelli de Mario Mattoli en 1947. En 1949, elle obtient un rôle de premier plan dans le drame È primavera... de Renato Castellani, deuxième opus de la trilogie du réalisateur consacrée aux gens de condition modeste dans l'Italie d'après-guerre. Elle joue ensuite le rôle de la femme de Carlo Ninchi dans le film La Porteuse de pain (La portatrice di pane) de Maurice Cloche. En 1952, elle interprête le premier rôle du mélodrame Virginité (Verginità), le premier film de Leonardo De Mitri.

En 1953, elle tourne dans le biopic de Raffaello Matarazzo consacré au compositeur italien Giuseppe Verdi. En 1955, elle joue le rôle de Rosine, la comtesse Almaviva dans le drame Figaro, il barbiere di Siviglia de Camillo Mastrocinque inspiré par la pièce Le Barbier de Séville de Beaumarchais et par l'opéra Il barbiere di Siviglia de Gioachino Rossini et Cesare Sterbini.

En 1957, elle se marie à l'acteur italien Amedeo Nazzari avec qui elle a une fille, l'actrice Evelina Nazzari , qui naît en 1958. Irene Genna met alors fin à sa carrière. Elle décède à Rome en 1986 à l'âge de 55 ans.

Usually with

Silvio Amadio
Silvio Amadio
(2 films)
Laura Gore
Laura Gore
(3 films)
Franca Marzi
Franca Marzi
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Irene Genna (11 films)

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Actress

The Slave of Sin, 1h40
Directed by Silvio Amadio
Genres Drama
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Olinto Cristina, Camillo Pilotto, Irene Genna, Franco Fabrizi, Paul Müller
Roles Dina
Rating64% 3.225743.225743.225743.225743.22574
Des décombres d'une terrible catastrophe ferroviaire émergent seulement deux survivantes : une petite polonaise qui a perdu ses parents dans l'accident, et la prostituée qui l'a sauvée, Mara Gualtieri. Désormais seule au monde, la fillette va s'attacher à Mara, qui pour sa part voudrait bien l'adopter, d'autant qu'elle lui rappelle sa propre fille morte en bas-âge. Hélas ! Son activité le lui interdit. Les autorités placent donc la fillette dans un orphelinat. Résolue à la reprendre, Mara décide de s'amender et de tourner le dos à cette vie de débauche. Elle quitte ses « quartiers » et parvient à trouver un humble mais honnête travail dans une manufacture de briques.
Verdi, the King of Melody
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Pierre Cressoy, Anna Maria Ferrero, Sandro Ruffini, Gaby Andreu, Irene Genna, Laura Gore
Roles Violetta
Rating64% 3.2309353.2309353.2309353.2309353.230935
Un grand compositeur d'opéra italien se remémore sa vie bien remplie sur son lit de mort.
Verginità
Verginità (1951)

Directed by Leonardo De Mitri
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Franca Marzi, Irene Genna, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Leonardo Cortese, Arnoldo Foà, Tamara Lees
Roles Gina Corelli
Rating55% 2.7594852.7594852.7594852.7594852.759485
A country girl who is a diligent devourer of picture stories, decides to participate in a beauty contest without the consent of her father. She dreams of a glamorous career in the big city. When she loses the contest, she is approached by two men who offer her a modeling job. However, they are in fact white slavers who intend to lure her to Brazil.
It's Forever Springtime
Directed by Renato Castellani
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Elena Varzi, Renato Baldini, Irene Genna
Roles Lucia
Rating63% 3.179283.179283.179283.179283.17928
Beppe, sicilien, est amoureux de deux femmes. Il se marie avec toutes les deux; c'est là que les ennuis commencent...
Born of Unknown Father, 1h15
Directed by Maurice Cloche, Maurice Delbez
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Gaby Morlay, Irasema Dilián, Gabrielle Dorziat, Sandro Ruffini, Irene Genna, Gilbert Gil
Roles Antoinette

C'est en défendant Raymond Denis accusé d'avoir tué sa maîtresse, alors qu'elle s'est suicidée parce qu'il ne voulait pas reconnaître leur enfant, que l'avocat Claude Nogent apprend qu'il est, lui aussi, "né de père inconnu". Stimulé par la révélation, Claude sauve Denis qui répare ses torts et retrouve sa chère Jacqueline qu'un père autoritaire voulait marier contre son gré.
Fifa e arena, 1h20
Directed by Mario Mattoli
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Actors Totò, Isa Barzizza, Mario Castellani, Galeazzo Benti, Franca Marzi, Alda Mangini
Roles Juanita
Rating64% 3.206513.206513.206513.206513.20651
Nicolino is a kitchen boy who works in a small pharmacy in the country, run by a woman unbearably rude. So Nicolino really wants to leave his job, when he discovers that you are looking for a murderess with the same face to his. Nicolino so disguises himself as a woman and flees with the first plane is: leave for Sevilla. In Spain Nicolino is always found involved in misunderstandings and terrible mess because it is always considered a murderess until he runs into some people who mistake him for a famous bullfighter ready for his next battle against the bull to be held in bullfight in a few rounds. Nicolino in spite of being trained and prepared for the race and also falls in love with the beautiful Patricia, who encourages him to fight. Nicolino is wittily nicknamed "Nicolete" and is faced with the bull but it breaks down. In the hospital Nicolete prove their identity and will marry Patricia.
The Two Orphans, 1h30
Directed by Mario Mattoli
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about children
Actors Totò, Carlo Campanini, Irene Genna, Isa Barzizza, Nerio Bernardi, Annette Poivre
Roles une membre du club
Rating60% 3.0408053.0408053.0408053.0408053.040805
The story is set in Paris in the middle of the 19th century. Caspar (Totò) and the Baptist (Campanini) are two poor homeless staying in an orphanage, not knowing where to stay. One day the two orphans are called by the director to solve a very special case: Susanne, a girl from the orphanage would like to marry a rich young but her father is against it because he does not know anything about the origins of his girlfriend. So Gasparre has the bright idea to cut a lock of hair to swap it with that of Susanne and so the father of the rich man discovers that the owner of the hair is of noble origins and thus a relative. Caspar along with the Baptist enters the new family but the nobles Parisians have in mind to delete the new emperor Napoleon III of France and the two tramps are involved against their bungling. Being in the real room of the emperor, Napoleon immediately catches them and makes them stop, so Caspar and Baptist are sentenced to the guillotine. But just as the ax is about to fall on their heads, the two orphans wake up with a start: it was all a dream.