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Renzo Cesana is a Actor and Scriptwriter Italien born on 30 october 1907 at Rome (Italie)
Renzo Cesana (30 October 1907, Rome – 8 November 1970, Hollywood, California) was an actor, writer, composer, and songwriter most famed for his title role on the American television show The Continental. He was also known as Renato Cesana.
Cesana was the grandson of Gian Cesana, publisher of one of Rome's largest daily newspapers. He emigrated to America as a screenwriter in 1929, to adapt Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "talkies" for Italian audiences. After a failed attempt at becoming a film star, he appeared on radio in San Francisco, then became the U.S. advertising director for a prominent Italian wine, eventually opening his own advertising agency. He returned to Italy to co-write and appear in childhood friend Roberto Rossellini's film Stromboli (1950), then returned to America in 1949 to begin a film and television acting career in Hollywood.
In an era when advertisers and advertising agencies played major roles in program creation and sponsorship, Cesana created The Continental as a radio program that he produced, wrote, and starred in for a Los Angeles station in 1951, where it directly followed The Lonesome Gal, in which a female disk jockey talked soothingly to male listeners. After a brief and unsuccessful run, Cesana convinced a local television station to broadcast a video version of The Continental, which was picked up by the CBS television network in 1952.
The program led to a recording contract with Capitol Records, in which the non-singer Cesana would recite the lyrics of romantic songs to a musical accompaniment.
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Nationality Italie
Birth 30 october 1907 at Rome (Italie)
Death 8 november 1970 (at 63 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Birth 30 october 1907 at Rome (Italie)
Death 8 november 1970 (at 63 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Cesana was the grandson of Gian Cesana, publisher of one of Rome's largest daily newspapers. He emigrated to America as a screenwriter in 1929, to adapt Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "talkies" for Italian audiences. After a failed attempt at becoming a film star, he appeared on radio in San Francisco, then became the U.S. advertising director for a prominent Italian wine, eventually opening his own advertising agency. He returned to Italy to co-write and appear in childhood friend Roberto Rossellini's film Stromboli (1950), then returned to America in 1949 to begin a film and television acting career in Hollywood.
In an era when advertisers and advertising agencies played major roles in program creation and sponsorship, Cesana created The Continental as a radio program that he produced, wrote, and starred in for a Los Angeles station in 1951, where it directly followed The Lonesome Gal, in which a female disk jockey talked soothingly to male listeners. After a brief and unsuccessful run, Cesana convinced a local television station to broadcast a video version of The Continental, which was picked up by the CBS television network in 1952.
The program led to a recording contract with Capitol Records, in which the non-singer Cesana would recite the lyrics of romantic songs to a musical accompaniment.
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Three on a Couch (1966)
, 1h49Directed by Jerry Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Janet Leigh, Jerry Lewis, James Best, Kathleen Freeman, Mary Ann Mobley, Leslie Parrish
Roles The Ambassador
Rating57%
Christopher Pride wants to marry his girlfriend, Dr. Elizabeth Acord. However, she is too involved with her patients and she doesn't think that she would be able to leave them to live in Paris for a year. Pride decides to solve her patients' problems after finding out that most of them are merely despondent after having relationships go bad. Therefore, he decides to "date" these women, without Acord's knowledge, and give them back their self-esteem so that they will be less dependent on their doctor.
The Art of Love (1965)
, 1h39Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, Angie Dickinson, Ethel Merman, Carl Reiner
Roles Pepe de Winter
Rating60%
Struggling and starving in Paris as an aspiring artist, Paul Sloane has had enough. He wants to return home to America to resume his relationship with his rich fiancee, Laurie.
The Art of Love (1965)
, 1h39Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, Angie Dickinson, Ethel Merman, Carl Reiner
Roles Pepe de Winter
Rating60%
Désespéré par son manque de succès, Casey Barnett, jeune peintre vivant à Paris, fait croire à son suicide. Curieusement, ses toiles s'arrachent…
For the First Time (1959)
, 1h32Directed by Rudolph Maté
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Johanna von Koczian, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kurt Kasznar, Hans Söhnker, Annie Rosar, Walter Rilla
Rating63%
Hannibal (1959)
Directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Edgar George Ulmer
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Peplum
Themes Political films
Actors Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rita Gam, Milly Vitale, Rik Battaglia, Franco Silva
Roles Minitius
Rating52%
The film begins with the Roman Senate hearing about Hannibal (Victor Mature) crossing the Alps with his men and many elephants. The crossing is difficult, with many men dying en route, but they manage to pass through, in part because Hannibal forms an allegiance with a local chieftain.
The Moralist (1959)
, 1h38Directed by Giorgio Bianchi
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Actors Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Maria Perschy, Franco Fabrizi, Franca Valeri, Christiane Nielsen
Rating65%
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.
The Naked Maja (1958)
, 1h51Directed by Paolo Cavara, Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Peinture
Actors Ava Gardner, Anthony Franciosa, Gino Buzzanca, Gino Cervi, Lea Padovani, Massimo Serato
Roles Bayeu
Rating55%
En Espagne, à la fin du XVIII siècle, le peintre Francisco de Goya fait la connaissance de la duchesse d'Albe. Elle devient son mécène, son modèle et sa maîtresse...
Fast and Sexy (1958)
, 1h45Directed 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 il barone Trevassi
Rating56%
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
, 1h49Directed by Camillo Mastrocinque
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Mamie Van Doren, Antonio Cifariello, Rossana Martini, Willy Birgel, Adrian Hoven, Raffaele Pisu
Rating65%
California Conquest (1952)
, 1h18Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Historical, Romance, Western
Actors Cornel Wilde, Teresa Wright, Alfonso Bedoya, John Dehner, Ivan Lebedeff, Renzo Cesana
Roles Fray Lindos
Rating52%
Don Arturo Bordega (Cornel Wilde) is part of the old Spanish nobility, and a vocal advocate for California'a annexation by the United States. On his way to a secret meeting in support of that goal, he is attacked by bandits led by José Martínez (Alfonso Bedoya), but narrowly escapes. The planned "guest of honor" at the secret meeting to which Bordega is en route, is none other than then-U.S. Army Captain John Charles Fremont. Martinez's thugs attempt to assassinate Fremont while he is traveling to the same meeting, but succeed only in lightly wounding him. It is subsequently revealed that the corrupt Brios brothers, Ernesto (Eugene Iglesias) and Fredo (John Dehner) have paid Martinez to violently oppose the movement advocating American annexation of California, as part of their unscrupulous plot to deliver California to the imperial domain of the Russian Czar (in exchange for a promise to appoint first Ernesto, and later Fredo, as the Russian colonial governor).
The Light Touch (1951)
, 1h33Directed by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films
Actors Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, George Sanders, Kurt Kasznar, Norman Lloyd, Joseph Calleia
Rating58%
Art thief Sam Conride (Stewart Granger) steals a Renaissance-era painting on loan to an Italian museum by a Catholic church. He has been financed by his partner, Felix Guignol (George Sanders). Felix has an obsessed client named Aramescue (Kurt Kasznar) who has agreed to pay $100,000 for the artwork. However, Conride stages a boating accident on the way to the rendezvous in Tunis and tells Felix the painting has been destroyed in a fire.
The Mark of the Renegade (1951)
, 1h21Directed by Hugo Fregonese
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors Ricardo Montalbán, Cyd Charisse, J. Carrol Naish, Gilbert Roland, Andrea King, George Tobias
Roles Father Juan
Rating58%
In 1825, after fleeing a pirate ship, Marcos Zappa is taken to meet Don Pedro Garcia, whose ambition is to be emperor of California for the Republic of Mexico. Able to blackmail Marcos because of an "R" mark hidden beneath his bandanna permanently identifying Marcos as a renegade and traitor, Garcia schemes to have Marcos seduce and marry Manuella, the daughter of his rival, Jose de Marquez, having been rejected as a suitor himself.
A Lady Without Passport (1950)
, 1h14Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig, George Macready, Bruce Cowling, Steven Hill
Roles Asa Sestina, Deported Mobster
Rating60%
After World War II, immigrants in Cuba who are refused visas for various reasons try to sneak into the U.S. illegally with the help of a human smuggling ring run by Palinov (George Macready), a Levantine café owner. Following the death of one immigrant, U.S. Immigration operative Pete Karczag (John Hodiak) is sent to Havana, where he poses as a Hungarian in need of Palinov's services. During his dangerous undercover investigation, Pete meets Marianne Lorress (Hedy Lamarr), a penniless Hungarian refugee of the Buchenwald concentration camp who is waiting to be smuggled into the United States by Palinov. He decides to use her to obtain the place and time of Palinov's next operation.
The Sound of Fury (1950)
, 1h25Directed by Cy Endfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Actors Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Gale Storm, Richard Carlson, Lloyd Bridges, Katherine Locke
Roles Dr. Vido Simone
Rating71%
Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy) is a family man, living in California, who can't seem to get by financially. He meets up with a small-time, but charismatic, hood Jerry Slocum (Lloyd Bridges). Soon, Slocum convinces Tyler into participating in gas station robberies to get by. Later, they kidnap a wealthy man in hopes of getting a huge ransom. Things go wrong when the man is murdered by Slocum then thrown in a lake. Tyler reaches his limit emotionally, and he begins drinking heavily. He meets a lonely woman and confesses the crime while drunk. The woman flees and goes to the police.
Stromboli (1950)
, 1h47Directed by Roberto Rossellini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Volcanisme
Actors Ingrid Bergman, Renzo Cesana
Roles The Priest
Rating71%
Bergman plays Karin, a displaced Lithuanian in Italy, who escapes the internment camp by marrying an Italian POW fisherman (Mario Vitale), whom she met in the camp on the other side of the barbed wire. He promises her a great life in his home island of Stromboli. She soon discovers that his home island is very harsh and barren, not at all what she expected, and the people, very traditional and conservative, show hostility and disdain towards this strange, foreign woman.