Mario Soldati (Turin, November 11, 1906 - Tellaro, June 19, 1999) was an Italian journalist, film director, also novel writer. Torino redirects here. ... November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 50 days remaining. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Tellaro is a village on the east coast of the Gulf of the Poets in Liguria, Italy, near the Cinque Terre. ... June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 195 days remaining. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Biografphy

Soldati studied Letters in Turin, and History of Art in Rome. He started publishing novels in 1925 althought his fame came with America primo amore, published in 1935, a diary about the time he spent teaching in the Columbia University. He won literallly awards. Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ...

His most famous films are Piccolo mondo antico and Malombra with Isa Miranda, based on Antonio Fogazzaro's novel, these two films belongs to calligrafismo film movement in the beggining of the 40's into Italian cinema. Isa Miranda as she appeared in Le Mensonge de Nina Petrovna (1937) Ines Isabella Sampietro, known as Isa Miranda, (born July 05, 1909 in Milan, Italy - died 8 July 1982 in Rome) was an Italian actress with an international film career. ... Antonio Fogazzaro (March 25, 1842 - March 7, 1911) was an Italian novelist born in Vicenza from a rich family. ... The history of Italian cinema began a just few months after the Lumière brothers had discovered it, and it was precisely with a few seconds of film in which Pope Leo XIII was blessing the camera. ...

Other popular films were Eugenie Grandet, based on Balzac's novel, with Alida Valli; two adventures films Yolanda, Il sogno di Zorro; or The River Girl (starring Sophia Loren) and La provinciale (starring Gina Lollobrigida). Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850), was a French novelist. ... Alida Valli (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress. ... Sophia Loren (born September 20, 1934) is a motion picture and stage, Academy Award-winning actress, widely considered to be the most popular Italian performer. ... Gina Lollobrigida. ...

He wrote in Italian newspapers such as Il Mondo , Il Corriere della Sera, La Stampa, Il Giorno. Corriere della Sera is an Italian newspaper printed in Milan. ... La Stampa is one of the best-known and most widely sold Italian daily newspapers, published in Turin and distributed in Italy and in other nations in Europe. ...

Filmografphy

• La principessa Tarakanova (1938)
• La signora di Montecarlo (1938)
• Due milioni per un sorriso (1939)
• Dora Nelson (1939)
• Tutto per la donna (1940)
• Piccolo mondo antico (1941)
• Tragica notte (1942)
• Malombra (1942)
• Chi è Dio (1945)
• Quartieri alti (1945)
• Le miserie del signor Travet (1946)
• Eugenie Grandet Eugenia Grandet (1947)
• Daniele Cortis (1947)
• Fuga in Francia (1948)
• The Taming of Dorothy (Quel bandito sono io) (1950)
• Botta e risposta (1950)
• The King's Guerrillas (Donne e briganti) (1951)
• È l'amor che mi rovina (1951)
• O.K. Nero (O.K. Nerone) (1951)
• Il sogno di Zorro (1952)
• The Adventures of Manderin (Le avventure di Mandrin) (1952)
• I tre corsari (1952)
• Yolanda (1952 film) (Jolanda, la figlia del Corsaro Nero) (1952)
• The Wayward Wife (La provinciale) (1953)
• Il ventaglino (1954)
• La mano dello straniero (1954)
• The River Girl (La donna del fiume) (1955)
• Era di venerdì 17 (1957)
• Italia piccola (1957)
• Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura (1959)
• Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura (1959)

External links

• Mario Soldati at the Internet Movie Database

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