Beniamino Gigli
Also Known As: Benjamino Gigli
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Recanati, Marken, Italy
Birthday: March 20, 1890
Deathday: November 30, 1957
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Do Not Forget About Me
Overview: This rare 1935 film (the title translated means "do not forget me") features Beniamino Gigli as, of course, an Italian singer who warbles his way through a touching love story. Features musical selections from "Il Trovatore" and "Rigoletto" as well as a lullaby and some Neapolitan songs, including the title tune. Distributed by New York's Bel Canto Society (an organization of hard-core opera buffs).
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Mother Song
Overview: A romance between two temperamental singing stars. Highlights include a lengthy selection from Faust, with Gigli making a most impressive Mephistopheles. The plot takes a melodramatic turn towards the climax, with the lives of the characters mirrored in their on-stage behavior. Director Carmine Gallone was something of an expert in the field of filmed opera, as witness his Tosca, Rigoletto and Il Trovatore.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-12-21
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Forget Me Not
Overview: A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Taxi di notte
Overview: A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-09
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I pagliacci
Overview: Movie adaptation of the Leoncavalo's famous opera. A troupe of traveling actors is being welcomed by villagers in Calabria in the summer of 1866.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-01-23
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Traummusik
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-10-25
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Mamma
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-12-16
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Broken Love
Overview: The well off daughter of a tenor breaks up a romance with a helpful youth from a misunderstanding. But she continues to cover him with his gambling debts despite her delicate health.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-03-10
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Silenzio, si gira!
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-10-02
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Der singende Tor
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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Du bist mein Glück
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-10-06
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Lache Bajazzo
Overview: A dramatization of the melodramatic story that inspired the popular opera, Pagliacci.German language version of a film simultaneously shot in an Italian version.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-05-28
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The Voice of the Heart
Overview: A princess visiting in the hotel where a famous singer is staying,helps him out on the piano when he has dismissed his accompanist. he uses her again later,but when her betrothed,a prince,suspects her of being in the singer,s bedroom she runs away to another city to work incognito.But the singer turns up there as well and reconciles the lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-03-27
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Vergiß mein nicht
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-10-23
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The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
Overview: The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
Genres: Music Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-08-01
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Marionette
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-01-26
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Ave Maria
Overview: Ave Maria was the second film-starring vehicle for legendary operatic tenor Beniamino Gigli. Mourning the loss of the only woman he ever loved, concert singer Tino Dossi (Gigli) is temporarily shaken from his doldrums by vivacious Montmartre entertainer Claudette (Kaethe Von Nagy). Dossi doesn't realize that Claudette is merely using him to advance her own singing career. Ultimately won over by Dossi's sincerity and courtesy, Claudette falls in love with him for real, only to suffer the pangs of conscience as a result. About to kill herself, she decides instead to return to Dossi's arms, vowing never to confess her original mercenary intentions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-01-04
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The Art of Singing: Golden Voices of the Century
Overview: Imagine a window into the past. Imagine finally connecting singers' bodies to the voices you have always treasured on record, watching footage of performances from another era. All of singers featured here have something in common (with one exception, Sutherland): they sang and performed on stage before the advent of filmed opera. . And it shows, for the first time, a few tantalizing minutes of recently recovered footage from Callas' legendary Lisbon Traviata, featuring Addio dal Passato and Parigi oh cara with Alfredo Kraus. This DVD will leave you asking for more.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-25
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Gigli: Ridi Pagliaccio
Overview: Released from prison after 20 years, Canio finds his daughter adopted by a wealthy family and about to marry. When he meets Leoncavallo, the composer is moved to create one of history's greatest operas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Dir gehört mein Herz
Overview: 1938 German-Italian film.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-11-22
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Ritorno
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-10-10
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Soho Conspiracy
Overview: The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is saved by local co-operation.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-01
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Voglio bene soltanto a te!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-11-12
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Solo per te
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Marion Talley and Beniamino Gigli
Overview: Marion Talley (soprano) and Beniamino Gigli (tenor) of the Metropoitan Opera Company sing "Verranno a te sull'aura" (Borne on the Signing Breeze) from Act I of Lucia di Lammermoor in Vitaphone #499.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-29
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