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Il raccomandato di ferro (1959)
Character: N/A
An Italian clerk has been helped to his position by a fake kickback letter from a politician who, meanwhile has become a state secretary. His colleagues thus send him to Rome to settle an important matter with the powerful character. The poor fellow goes hoping the truth will not come out.
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Gli assi della risata (1943)
Character: N/A
An anthology film of several segments about everyday Italian life. This is the first episodic film in the history of Italian cinema during the sound era; it consists of six sketches titled: “The Lost Umbrella,” “The Triumph of Poppea,” “Enjoy Your Meal!,” "Dont call me Dodo!", “My Soccer Ball,” and “Time Off.”
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Quel tesoro di papà (1959)
Character: N/A
A young girl finds out that her father, an impoverished Baron, actually works as a stage actor.
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Rocco e le sorelle (1961)
Character: N/A
A Sicilian leaves for Milan, in search of fortune, with the four sisters he supervises fiercely.
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Lo Smemorato (1936)
Character: N/A
An amusing comedy taken from the repertoire of the great Sicilian comedian Angelo Musco and vaguely inspired by the case of the scatter – brain of Collegno: a man who has run away from his henpecking wife is welcomed by a rich woman who has mistaken him for her missing husband.
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Cantando sotto le stelle (1956)
Character: Signora Diotallevi
A man finds out that he won the lottery and travels to Rome to retrieve the other half of his winning ticket.
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Cento serenate (1954)
Character: Betty Spasiello
When his girlfriend falls for a rich entrepreneur, an aspiring singer plots with the man's girlfriend so that they can get back their respective partners.
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Vivendo, cantando, che male ti fò? (1957)
Character: Direttrice dell'Istituto
The voice of one of his former classmates studying singing causes an irresistible itch for a wealthy industrialist. The cause is an old aversion that the industrialist has for the singer: he can only heal by overcoming this aversion and transforming himself into a benefactor of the hated ex-partner.
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Cose da pazzi (1954)
Character: Mad canasta player
When young Dalia is mistakenly admitted to a mental institution, she is declared sane - but by a truly mad person pretending to be a doctor. The real doctor thinks she is insane - how can she escape this madness?
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Le avventure di Mandrin (1952)
Character: N/A
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.
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I grandi magazzini (1939)
Character: La commessa racchia
In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.
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I figli del leopardo (1965)
Character: N/A
Penniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons, and marries a rich woman. The mistress tries to have her rights established with the help of her sons.
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Le pillole di Ercole (1960)
Character: The raped lady
A doctor unwittingly drinks an aphrodisiac fluid and thus has relationships with an acquaintance's wife.
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La Pica sul Pacifico (1959)
Character: signora che inaugura la nave
Adelaide takes possession of an island in the Pacific inherited from her deceased husband. She is opposed by the chieftain and a convict. To get the island's citizenship she tries to marry the convict, but he prefers to turn himself in.
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Il sogno di Zorro (1952)
Character: Dona Hermosa Alcazan
An old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no trace of proud pride.
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Cani e gatti (1952)
Character: Nunzia
In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years before. To spite her rival, the innkeeper arranges to have her nephew set up a second pharmacy to take business away him. Unbeknownst to them a romance is developing between the younger generation of the families.
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Mariti in pericolo (1960)
Character: la madre di Elena
Two men, business partners, fall in love with the same girl. Their wives react accordingly, but one seems to take it more calmly. This makes her husband suspicious, and he begins to believe that she is also having an affair, with his business partner. An inevitable series of misunderstandings ensues.
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Il suo destino (1938)
Character: N/A
An engineer living in Brazil meets a variety dancer during a temporary stay in Italy. He falls in love with her and convinces her to follow him abroad. But the head of the fazenda, at which he is employed, falls in love with the girl and uses all his power to force her to his will.
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Il ratto delle sabine (1961)
Character: Ersilia, Titus' Wife
The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from Sabina where there are a lot of women. The Sabine men, of course, attack Rome to get their wives and daughters back.
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Il secondo tragico Fantozzi (1976)
Character: Countess Serbelloni Mazzanti Viendalmare
The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.
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Questi fantasmi (1967)
Character: N/A
Pasquale and Maria, husband and wife, live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard he thinks the ghosts are at work.
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Romeo and Juliet (1954)
Character: Lady Montague
In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
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Chéri-Bibi (1955)
Character: N/A
Chéri-Bibi is an ex-convict who undergoes plastic surgery in order to resemble his rival for the hand of Cecily. Once he emerges from the bandages, Cheri-Bibi is plunged into a series of melodramatic misadventures.
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Accidenti alle tasse!! (1951)
Character: Insegnante di francese
Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.
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La scuola dei timidi (1941)
Character: la segretaria di Roc
Alberto, who has a beautiful voice but is afraid to sing in public, and the shy Anna, daughter of a very rich shoe manufacturer, take "lessons of courage" in a school for the shy and end up falling in love. Their shyness doesn't seem to heal but due to a misunderstanding Alberto becomes terribly jealous, deciding to face the girl first and then the public who will give him an enthusiastic success.
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Piccola posta (1955)
Character: Moglie di Pipinuccio Gigliozzi
Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a Roman girl whose advice will create a series of tangled and comic situations.
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Il conte di Matera (1957)
Character: la governante di Greta
Rambaldo Tramontana, a count who went into battle backed by the French, returns to Matera to take revenge once he is victorious, but the city is deserted and he begins to commit abuses and violence.
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L'età dell'amore (1953)
Character: (uncredited)
In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.
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L'eterna catena (1952)
Character: N/A
As the Legion Etrangère puts in at Napoli, legionnaire Walter escapes from the ship to meet a woman he still loves ,in spite of his five years away from home.
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Casanova farebbe così! (1942)
Character: Donna Rosalia
A country braggart bets that he can spend a night with a local beauty. When he is surprised by her husband, he is not only forced to pay his friends money but also challenged to come up with a new identity other than Casanova or Don Juan.
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Veneri al sole (1964)
Character: Concettina's mother (segment "Una domenica a Fregene")
Three episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some precious designs in it; in the second a worker keen on helping his boss gets him into trouble instead and in the third one a shy boy who tries to impress women pretending he is tough ends up in hospital and falls in love with a nurse.
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Pane, amore e fantasia (1953)
Character: Una comare intrigante
When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
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Escravas de Cartago (1956)
Character: N/A
Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up involved in spite of themselves in a dangerous game of power.
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La rivale (1956)
Character: Nobildonna alla festa
The love triangle between a Countess, a soldier and a younger woman.
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I magnifici tre (1961)
Character: N/A
Pablo, Domingo and Jose, three idiots, gunmen exchanged for large liberate a village in the republic of "Nonduras" from the oppression of dictator Bonarios. Parody of The Magnificent Seven, five writers got together for an anemic script that exploits a repertoire mixture with the song "A man alive"by Gino Paoli.
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Cento anni d'amore (1954)
Character: Nunziata (segment "Garibaldina")
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
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Il figlio del corsaro rosso (1959)
Character: Isabella
Enrico di Ventimiglia, the Son of the Red Corsair, travels through the Spanish conquests of Central America in search of the stepsister he has never met.
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Mamma (1941)
Character: La cameriera dell'albergo a Venezia
Matilde Sarni lives in her villa near Rome. She has a son who has just married Donata and who is coming home after a series of recitals in the States. Mario, her son, is a famous opera singer and he is twenty years older than his wife. Besides Donata doesn't like country life. So when Mario leaves for a tour of recitals and Donata meets Giulio...
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Moglie per una notte (1952)
Character: Yvonne
A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
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Primo amore (1959)
Character: Teresa (uncredited)
Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her for several romantic places until the money ends. Ugo will try to get the girl engaged on a local TV station, but Renata falls in love with a manager.
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