Isa Pola
Also Known As: イザ・ポーラ
Biography: Isa Pola (19 December 1909 – 17 December 1984) was an Italian stage and film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films during her career. One of her earliest screen roles was the female lead in Steel (1933), a realist film set in the steelworking industry. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isa Pola, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: December 10, 1909
Age: 115 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 17, 1984
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I Was to Blame
Overview: A comedy about an unemployed fellow who goes to live with his brother and runs into trouble with his brother's overbearing wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-04-01
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Mother Earth
Overview: The Duke Marco visits to his country side estate after many years absence. His farmers wants him to stay and run the place while his lover wants him to sell it. All while a farmers daughter also enters his life.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1931-04-01
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Ninna nanna delle 12 mamme
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1930-01-01
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Ombre sul Canal Grande
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1951
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-01-12
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The Children Are Watching Us
Overview: In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-10-27
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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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Margaret of Cortona
Overview: A Tuscan peasant girl in the 13th century overcomes sexual harassment, and the skepticism of her fellow citizens, as she saves plague victims, works miracles, and eventually becomes a saint.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-02-22
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Ragazzo
Overview: The film follows Giovanni, a working-class orphan living in Rome, who realizes that his criminal lifestyle is wrong and becomes a devout fascist.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Il ponte di vetro
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-02-16
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Girl of the Golden West
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Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-02-09
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Steel
Overview: In the huge steel factories in Terni (Umbria, Italy), two friends: Mario and Pietro, fight for the love of the same girl, Gina. Pietro dies because of a work accident at the factory. The other workers think Mario is responsible for the death of his friend. Mario, who is innocent, is forced to quit, but his love for Gina and his dedication to his job help him out of his crisis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1933-03-31
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The Za-Bum Circus
Overview: Anthology comedy/romance film
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-03-11
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The Song of Love
Overview: A young woman takes care of the just-born child of her late mother. Sacrificing her engagement and studies along the way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1930-10-08
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La Wally
Overview: Old fashioned opera adaptation: A feisty and free spirited woman of the Tyrol withdraws to a mountain peak when she is separated from the man she loves. When he later attempts to rejoin her, disaster results.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1932-10-10
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Cavalleria rusticana
Overview: This film was not based on the famous one-act opera of Pietro Mascagni but rather on the original story by the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga. It's the story of Santuzza, her love Turiddu, and his passion for the married Lola that leads to his death in a duel when Lola's husband Alfio exacts satisfaction.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-23
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Love and Chatter
Overview: Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage destroyed during the war. Reconstruction would take the view of the Paseroni villa, big industrial and political traffic. Bonelli's lawyer, a great speaker, becomes a mayor for the death of his predecessor and is bought by Paseroni, while rejecting the love of Paul and Mary for social differences and why Paul should stay behind Doddy Paseroni. At this point, Paul and Mary flee to kill, just as Bonelli has to hold a talk on the radio for the inauguration of Paseroni's villa ...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-01-31
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Creature della notte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Furia
Overview: Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The young daughter of the household is later added to this mixture of passions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-02
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La figlia del forzato
Overview: After many years, a widowed Countess meets a former lover who lives with his daughter and her tutor.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-21
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Lucrezia Borgia
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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L'anonima Roylott
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-11-01
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The Movie Star
Overview: A young woman accidentally becomes a movie star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1931-06-19
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The operator
Overview: Two different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1932-07-31
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Three Forbidden Stories
Overview: While recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe. Remata (Lia Amando) has spent her entire life trying to overcome a childhood rape. Annamaria (Antonella Lualdi) has recently come out of an unfortunate marriage to a wealthy but insensitive boor. And Gianna (Eleanore Rossi Drago), the daughter of a college professor, has ruined her life with narcotics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-29
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Angel in the crowd
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-10-17
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Le scarpe al sole
Overview: Directed by Marco Elter.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-01-02
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Gli uomini non sono ingrati
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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La vedova
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-02-09
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Miryam
Overview: Miryam, the adopted daughter of the tribal chief Jamet, meets Marco Palmi, an Italian scientist in Libya for research, in the desert. Their first approach is not cordial and when Mario falls prisoner to the marauders she offers to guard him so she can humiliate him. However, over time she falls in love with the young Italian and becomes pregnant by him. Ibrahim, a bandit who desires the girl, arranges for Mario to be abandoned in the desert and tells Miryam that he died trying to escape. But Mario was saved by another tribe and is cared for by Ulema, a friend of Miryam. Ibrahim tries to harm the two lovers again, but Jamet intervenes and kills the bandit, submits to Italian power and allows the couple to leave for Italy together with their recently born son, called Italo.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-15
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