Sarah Millicent Hermione Touchet-Jesson, Baroness Audley, néeSpencer-Churchill, was an English actress and dancer and a daughter of Winston Churchill.
Rome, Open City, also released as Open City, is a 1945 Italian neorealist war drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini and co-written by Sergio Amidei, Celeste Negarville and Federico Fellini. Set in Rome in 1944, the film follows a diverse group of characters coping under the Nazi occupation, and centers on a Resistance fighter trying to escape the city with the help of a Catholic priest. The title refers to the status of Rome as an open city following its declaration as such on 14 August 1943. The film is the first in Rosselini's "Neorealist Trilogy", followed by Paisan (1946) and Germany, Year Zero (1948).
Bellis Marina Hedman, also known as Marina Frajese, Marina Lotar and Marina Lothar is a retired Swedish pornographic and mainstream actress.
Elena Maureen Bertolino, known professionally as Marina Berti, was an Italian film actress. She was born in London from an Italian father and an English mother.
Robert Douglass Montgomery was an American film actor.
Giovanna Ralli,, is an Italian stage, film and television actress.
Marina Giordana is an Italian actress.
At the Edge of the City is a 1953 Italian crime film drama directed by Carlo Lizzani. The film stars Massimo Girotti, Marina Berti and Giulietta Masina. In Rome a young man is falsely accused of killing his girlfriend. It was shot at the Palatino Studios in Rome and on location in the city. The film used neorealist style and was based on a real-life case.
Vera Carmi was an Italian film actress. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1940 and 1956.
Toto the Third Man is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò.
Pina Gallini was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 82 films between 1935 and 1963.
Days of Love is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Giuseppe De Santis.
The Queen of Sheba is a 1952 Italian adventure film directed by Pietro Francisci.
He Found a Star is a 1941 British musical film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Vic Oliver, Sarah Churchill and Evelyn Dall. It concerns a frustrated stage manager who quits his job and, with his secretary's help, sets up a theatrical agency. Its songs include Waitin' and Salome. Its sets were designed by Alfred Junge.
Victor Rietti was an Italian-born actor and director who became known through his work in television, especially through the many live television productions of the Italian play To Live in Peace during the 1950s. He was knighted by the Italian government.
Sicilian Uprising or Sicilian Vespers is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and Roldano Lupi. The film is set in 1282, showing the events leading up to the War of the Sicilian Vespers. It is based on the libretto of the Verdi opera I vespri siciliani, which was itself based on an earlier play written by Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrier.
Giuseppa Iolanda Menichelli, known professionally as Pina Menichelli, was an Italian actress. After a career in theatre and a series of small film roles, Menichelli was launched as a film star when Giovanni Pastrone gave her the lead role in The Fire (1916). Over the next nine years, Menichelli made a series of films, often trading on her image as a diva and on her passionate, decadent eroticism. Menichelli became a global star, and one of the most appreciated actresses in Italian cinema, before her retirement in 1924, aged 34.
Andrea Giordana is an Italian actor. He has appeared in more than 14 films, 29 television and 35 theater shows since the mostly late 1950s.
Pina Piovani was an Italian stage and film actress. She was married to the actor Giulio Battiferri.
Antonio Berti was an Italian sculptor and medalist. He taught at the Accademia di San Luca and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.
