Tecla Scarano
Also Known As: Текла Скарано
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Naples, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: August 20, 1894
Age: 130 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 22, 1978
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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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The Gold of Naples
Overview: A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-03
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Bellissima
Overview: Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-01-04
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Marriage Italian Style
Overview: During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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Il medico dei pazzi
Overview: Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-19
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A Matter of Honor
Overview: Efisio Mulas is a meek laborer who lives with occasional work, especially in Don Leandro Sanna's salon, and rounds up the slim balance by betting with colleagues in strength with the game "head against head". In the village the Sanna and Porcu families' conflict has lasted over a century.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-24
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The Last Days of Pompeo
Overview: The title refers to a character named Pompeo Quarantini; an attorney tries to prevent marriage between an heiress and a musician, but without success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Il tallone di Achille
Overview: Tino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-08-18
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La trovatella di Pompei
Overview: Maria, is a girl raised by the loving care of a poor couple but without knowing anything about her real parents. She is in love with Giorgio, a boy from a good family, who however has also aroused the interest of the intriguing Edvige who frequents bad company including jealous Roberto.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-07-25
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Our Husbands
Overview: Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-21
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Overview: Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-12-21
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Scapricciatiello
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-28
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Te stò aspettanno
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-04-02
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Te lo leggo negli occhi
Overview: A girl from a country village goes to town and falls in love with a songwriter struggling for success. Soon however their life-paths go different ways and they split. Only for a short time naturally : a song he writes will help them to reunite.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-03-01
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Naples Sings
Overview: Giorgio with some friends rehearses a show of Neapolitan songs financed thanks to an elderly artist. Having come to quarrel with the landlady, Giorgio rented a room with a good woman who lives with her beautiful daughter Maria. Love soon arises between the two.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-28
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Wrong Beds
Overview: Four episodes: a traveler is enticed by train per bet; a professional wants to be alone with a woman he likes; a lawyer becomes the lover of an adversary; a man discovers his wife's infidelity after ten years.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-04-08
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The Wedding March
Overview: Satirical film in four episodes about family and marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-17
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Made in Italy
Overview: A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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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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Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
Overview: Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito, sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the police, only to involve himself in a complicated situation.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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An American in Rome
Overview: Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-10
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Perfide.... ma belle
Overview: Michele, a young mechanic, is in love with Angela Antonia, beautiful but capricious: the girl's father, once he learns of the relationship, has him fired from the place where he works and is forced to move to Naples. He asks for hospitality from his aunt Carmela, concierge in a building, but she has no vacancies and arranges him as Donna Tecla, the owner of a pension who, having three young daughters eager to get married, hopes to arrange at least one. But the three girls are not the best of beauty and Michele, gifted with a beautiful voice, agrees to sing in a club on behalf of an impresario who becomes his friend.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-12-12
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Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Overview: The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards Spillone finds her with her husband who he believes to be her lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-23
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Frisky
Overview: The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-06
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Soli per le strade
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Solitudine
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-04-01
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