Dorian Gray
Also Known As: Maria Luisa Mangini, Дориан Грей
Biography: Maria Luisa Mangini (2 February 1928 – 15 February 2011), better known as Dorian Gray, was an Italian actress. Gray made her stage debut in 1950. After five years she left the theater world and devoted herself to the cinema. The role she played most often in films was that of a seductive sex kitten. She played the titular "bad girl" in Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina. She also appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni's Il grido. In 1957, she took part in The Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini. On February 15, 2011, Gray committed suicide by gunshot at her home in Torcegno. She was 83 years old; however, some media reported her age as 75, since she claimed to have been born in 1936.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bolzano, Italy
Birthday: February 02, 1928
Deathday: February 15, 2011
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Il Grido
Overview: A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-09-26
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Winter Holidays
Overview: Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, the prize of which is a free stay in a luxury hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-18
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Totò Double or Nothing?
Overview: The penniless Duke decides to participate in "Lascia o raddoppia", a TV quiz show, in order to win five million lira. Then two gangsters bet between themselves on his success and, alas, the Duke is kidnapped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-05-03
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Nights of Cabiria
Overview: Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-10-03
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Domenica è sempre domenica
Overview: A television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will know how to sing". The award mirage lured many person, with ambitions or financial problems, to enroll in the competition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-04-05
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Colossus and the Amazon Queen
Overview: Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-09-08
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Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
Overview: Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-21
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Vacations in Majorca
Overview: Ugly, persistent, and (initially) annoying admirer pursues a beautiful actress. At first he is laughed of, especially by his ultra handsome rival, but with his firm insistence, and gradually emerging charm, he seduces the lady, to the total shocked surprise of his rival.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-08-14
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...And Suddenly It's Murder!
Overview: Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-13
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Dangerous Women
Overview: Federico, Bruno, Pirro and Benny are married. The first three have beautiful wifes, Benny instead is married to a ugly woman. Ornella is Bruno's wife, she is very jealous and maintains that all men are deceitful, granted the opportunity, while Claudine, Federico's wife, maintains the contrary point of view. So they bet that Tosca, a former dancer, will succeed in seducing Federico.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-26
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The Queen of Sheba
Overview: The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-11-06
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Damn the Taxes!!
Overview: Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-09-13
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My Heart Sings
Overview: Two two-bit singers become thieves to make ends meet. One day during a theft in the house of a music impresario they hear Marco an electrician gifted with a beautiful voice and give him some money to help for his debut as a singer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-08
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Appointment for Murder
Overview: A woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's estranged husband does also.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-01-10
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Love on the Riviera
Overview: It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-27
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Io piaccio
Overview: Roberto Maldi, a young scientist, is trying to find a serum capable of giving courage but he unwittingly invents a serum which transforms any man in a womanizer. His boss scents a good business and wants to produce the serum on industrial basis, but Roberto does not agree.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-09
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The Orderly
Overview: Colonels, majors, lieutenants: all of them live in the same building. Some of them have a wife or children or none, but everyone has his orderly. Major Penna is harassed by Osvaldo's mother. Lt. Martucci gets involved in the love affair between Antonio, his orderly, and Lauretta.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-11-03
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Poppy
Overview: A high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-05-03
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Commando
Overview: A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.
Genres: War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-11-14
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Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
Overview: Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl).
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-08-23
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The Criminals of the Metropolis
Overview: A group of drug dealers clashes with the police several times between December 28th and New Year's Eve.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Guaglione
Overview: This is an Italian Romance starring Terence Hill
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-15
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Thrilling
Overview: An anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-21
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Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
Overview: Italy signed the armistice and in the general confusion a corporal decides to bring the tank back from the coast to the barracks.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-09-24
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Finden Sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-03-29
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Vendetta... sarda
Overview: A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death. He finds out he has to avenge his death instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-02-21
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Destination Fury
Overview: Lemmy Caution has been assigned by Interpol to work as a double agent. Little does he know how many spies are on to this deception and how dangerous his assignment has become.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-07-23
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Il mago per forza
Overview: In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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The Surprises of Love
Overview: This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries) of confused, mismatched, or ambivalent lovers. The script includes witty dialogue and humorous situations; most of all on display is the ridiculousness of the human compulsion to pair up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-12-02
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Love and Larceny
Overview: Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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Peccati d'estate
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-06-26
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Chiamatemi Divina - Dorian Gray, storia di un'attrice dimenticata
Overview: Documentary about italian actress Dorian Gray (Maria Luisa Mangini)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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