Silvana Pampanini
Also Known As: Sylvana Pampanini
Biography: Pampanini became one of the most popular movie actresses in her country and was considered a sex symbol in the 1950s. In 1955 she visited New York, Denver and Hollywood but rejected job offers because she could not speak English properly and had some problems with the tax office.[citation needed] She was well-liked in France, where they nicknamed her Ninì Pampan, Spain, where she appeared in Tirma, South America, especially in Mexico, where she starred in Sed de Amor with Pedro Armendáriz, and Egypt. She worked with other internationally important actors and directors such as Buster Keaton, Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni,Alberto Sordi, Totò, Jean Gabin, Henri Vidal, Abel Gance, Vittorio De Sica. The film O.K. Nero, in which Pampanini starred, was banned in certain places because of scenes that were considered indecent.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Roma, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: September 26, 1925
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 06, 2016
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It's Him!... Yes! Yes!
Overview: Fernando, owner of a large chain store, suffers from worrying dreams: he seems to successfully court saucy women, but just as he is about to win them over, a youngster comes on the scene and steals them from under his nose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-23
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A Day in Court
Overview: A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-28
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L'Incantevole nemica
Overview: The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his confidence and the youth falls in love with his daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-06-14
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Mademoiselle Gobete
Overview: A singer and operetta dancer works in a small french town where the authorities want to expel her because of her scandalous conduct and performance. When a puritan judge closes the show, the woman will take revenge involving the judge in an affair before the selfsame Justice minister. From that moment on, a series of diversions and misunderstandings will play out leading the main characters to the city of Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-04
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47 Talking Corpses
Overview: Greedy Baron Antonio Peletti refuses to give to his town the heredity left by his father, a box full of precious jewels, which he keeps for himself. The major and the rest of the townspeople therefore organize a trick at his expense: they'll make him believe he is dead, and, in a fake "afterlife", they'll try to convince him to finally show them where the money is hidden to save his soul.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-22
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Mid-Century Loves
Overview: Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-18
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Tower of Lust
Overview: France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-18
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Storms
Overview: A renowned surgeon becomes involved with an attractive circus trapeze artist with the relationship threatening his marriage and family life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-05-29
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Snow White and the Seven Thieves
Overview: A bizarre mechanic tells a traveler the story of a bank employee, Peppino Biancaneve, who with the help of a disc is trying to put together the words he would like to use to ask for the hand of the daughter of the jeweler Carlo Casertoni, but while he mulls over the sentences he should pronounce to his future father-in-law he comes across a strange individual who could be a bringer of bad luck: a jettatore.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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Il gaucho
Overview: An italian film producer travels to Argentina with part of the crew to a Film Festival contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-09-18
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The Knight is Here
Overview: A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-06
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La bella di Roma
Overview: Nannina is engaged to a sleazy, unruly boxer who ends up in jail after a fight with a traffic policeman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-10-04
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A Husband for Anna
Overview: Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for Andrea to return from the navy she gets raped by her boss. Her life suddenly takes a downward spiral.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-08-22
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Beauties on bicycles
Overview: Two chorus girls leave Milan to get to the famous Totò's theatre company. Unfortunately the bus they are on breaks down and they ask for a lift, but the driver gets too fresh with them and they decide to continue the journey with any means of transport, including bicycles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-02-27
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Crazy World... Crazy People!
Overview: italian comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-01-09
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Il tassinaro
Overview: Pietro Marchetti, a mature Roman taxi driver, has countless and interesting meetings while he is on duty with his car "Zara 87".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-12-21
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Don Juan's Night of Love
Overview: Mandrin, the French army deserter, becomes the leader of a gang of smugglers in Piedmont. He is loved by the beautiful innkeeper Rosetta but draws attention to the Marquise de Montbricourt, favorite of the king, who comes from Versailles just to see him. She will saved his life and allow him to marry Rosetta.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-08
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Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Overview: During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-02-25
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The Island Princess
Overview: 1470. The Canary Islands try to resist the Spanish invaders. Their inhabitants are divided, their chief and his daughter Guayarmina (for whom a Spanish officer has fallen in love) wanting the peace, while the priest and resistance leader are for war. After several battles the islanders are chased to Tirma mountain by the Spanish army.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-30
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Viva il cinema
Overview: Tonino, a young, shy salesman, engaged to his neighbor Pallina, is a cinema enthusiast. He has written a film script and dreams of seeing it made on the big screen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-02-05
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Tres mil kilómetros de amor
Overview: Romance, stolen jewels and sitcom humor on a bus-trip from Tijuana to Guadalajara.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-12-07
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La paura fa 90
Overview: A ghost who has spent 400 years in a trunk because of a jealous husband tries to take revenge on a descendant of the man but all in all he's a good bloke and when he gets the occasion he helps a youth wrongly accused of murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-23
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Orient Express
Overview: On December 24th the Orient Express gets snowbound near a little mountain village and its passengers are forced to spend some time there, mingling with the local people, upsetting their usually monotonous daily lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-08
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Vortice
Overview: Elena, after a date with his boyfriend Guido, comes home finding his father tried to kill himself with gas because he lost a lot of money due to some wrong investments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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Girls Marked Danger
Overview: A police officer meets a girl who is near to falling into the net of shady individuals. To prevent this, he invites her into the police station and tells her a story.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-25
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Marechiaro
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-10-05
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Il barone Carlo Mazza
Overview: Rosa Pezza, a beautiful young girl, is forced into a thousand maneuvers and subterfuges to gain possession of a rich inheritance. She is ultimately forced to marry the penniless and bizarre baron Carlo Mazza but the baron, tired of his wife's escapades, decides to divorce her...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-11-11
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The Year Long Road
Overview: Italian director Giuseppe DeSantis was the creative force behind this Yugoslavian "slice of life" drama. The title translates as The Year-Long Road and, accordingly, the plot concerns a voluntary joint effort to construct a highway. Naturally, this animosity wreaks havoc on the various Romeo-Juliet romances in the region.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-07-11
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Una bruna indiavolata!
Overview: Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan. Unfortunately, he is at his wedding at the church. When Carlo goes there he met his runaway bride...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-21
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Anthony of Padua
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Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-03-20
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Guns of the Black Witch
Overview: In the 17th century, a village was the refuge of several French buccaneers. One day, the Spanish under the command of Guzmán, attacked the village and killed everybody, adults and children ...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-24
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L'inafferrabile 12
Overview: Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he closed one in an orphanage), the one goalkeeper of Juventus and the other employee at the state lottery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-02
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O.K. Nero
Overview: Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-20
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The Slave of Sin
Overview: A former prostitute and a little Polish girl are survivors of a train crash. The woman wishes to adopt the child, but her past makes that difficult.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-05-08
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Il matrimonio
Overview: An Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton Chekhov.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-25
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Tiburzi
Overview: An unconventional biopic about the legendary Tuscan bandit Tiburzi, who became a peasants' hero in the late nineteenth century
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Cheerful Squadron
Overview: The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-05
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Io sono il capataz
Overview: The young Uguccione is mistaken for Rascelito Villa called "C6", a dangerous revolutionary, and then immediately sent to Parazuela where he leads the insurrectionist troops.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-02-28
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Law of the Streets
Overview: Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in Paris, an old-timer with whom he has a sincere friendship. The love of Zette, a young girl he has met, and the benevolent friendship of Father Blain, the bistro owner, give him the desire for regular work. "Jo le Grec", a pimp jealous of Dédé's friendship with Yves, seduces Wanda, a prostitute he loves, and shoots Dédé dead. Blain prevents him from doing the same to Yves, and shoots him in turn. Yves can live an honest life with Zette and the baby she's expecting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-04-25
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The City Stands Trial
Overview: Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-05
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Noi cannibali
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-25
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La bisarca
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-04
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Lo sparviero del Nilo
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Roman Tales
Overview: Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-21
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Thirst for Love
Overview: Rosaura, a devout religious woman, lives in a fishing village with her sister María who stopped believing in God since her jealous husband was murdered. Even though Rosaura is wanted by the fisherman José, she rejects him. Pedro, a horseman, arrives at her place and begins to harass María until he manages to possess her. The man is a criminal who usually cheats with fishermen and hurts those who dare to confront him with his ax. When the evildoer tries to abuse Rosaura, José, the fisherman, does what is necessary to avenge the insult. Furthermore, other men are already looking for Pedro.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-08-29
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Saranno uomini
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-03-23
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The Firemen of Viggiù
Overview: In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-04-16
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When Love Calls
Overview: Claudio and Anna Tancredi, opera singers, are husband and wife. Their married life, however, is often disturbed by small misunderstandings and Anna's burning jealousy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-11-28
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Arrivederci, papà!
Overview: Two little angels, a boy and a girl, come down on earth to choose their parents prior to birth. They choose the daughter of a retired general as their future mother and an opera singer as their dad. But making the two chosen ones meet, fall in love and marry will prove to be anything but easy.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-09-14
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Il richiamo nella tempesta
Overview: A paralyzed young woman falls in love with her cousin's boyfriend without ever seeing him, only through his relative's descriptions. After her death, the girl comes down to earth to spend an evening with her lover. The latter promises to follow her soon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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La forza del destino
Overview: Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-01-24
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Miracolo a Viggiù
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-08-31
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Tizio, Caio, Sempronio
Overview: A satirical story set during the early years of the Roman Empire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-15
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Ha fatto 13
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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The Woman Who Invented Love
Overview: The Woman Who Invented Love (Italian: La donna che inventò l'amore) is a 1952 Italian historical melodrama film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-08-02
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Half a Century of Song
Overview: Through a series of scenes inspired by famous songs, various episodes of Italian life in the last fifty years are recalled.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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La peccatrice dell'isola
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-12-27
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Koenigsmark
Overview: A young French, Vignerte, is hired in the court of Lautenberg, an imaginary land, as the young Prince's private teacher and as the Grand Duchess' reader.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-04
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Cavalcade of Song
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Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-09
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Experts on the Football Field
Overview: The everyday lives of some international football players before and after a big game.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1956-03-12
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Songs from all over Italy
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Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Mariti a congresso
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-11
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Napoleoncito
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-12-03
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SuperTotò
Overview: Directed by Brando Giordani and Emilio Ravel
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-04-18
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