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Giuseppe Verdi (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Giuseppe Verdi' is a 1938 Italian biographical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Fosco Giachetti, Gaby Morlay and Germana Paolieri. The film portrays the life of the composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). The casting of Giachetti as Verdi was intended to emphasise the composer's patriotism, as he had recently played patriotic roles in films such as 'The White Squadron'.Landy p.141-142 The film was made at the Cinecitt Studios in Rome. The film is also known by the alternative title 'The Life of Giuseppe Verdi'.
Main cast
* Fosco Giachetti as Giuseppe Verdi
* Gaby Morlay as Giuseppina Strepponi
* Germana Paolieri as Margherita Barezzi
* Camillo Pilotto as Antonio Barezzi
* Cesco Baseggio as il padre di Verdi
* Maria Jacobini as Luigia Uttini, madre di Verdi
* Maria Cebotari as Teresa Stolz
* Febo Mari as Merelli, il direttore della Scala di Milano
* Carlo Duse as Temistocle Solera
* Eugenio Duse as L'impresario Massini
* Enrico Glori as Il maestro Mariani
* Clara Padoa as La contessa Maffei
* Achille Majeroni as Il maestro Basili
* Carlo Tamberlani as Demalde
* Augusto Di Giovanni as Antonio Ghislanzoni
* Gustavo Serena as Salvadore Cammarano
* Guido Celano as Francesco Maria Piave
* Henri Rollan as Victor Hugo
* Lamberto Picasso as Gaetano Donizetti
* Gabriel Gabrio as Honor de Balzac
* Pierre Brasseur as Alexandre Dumas 'fils'
References
Bibliography
* Landy, Marcia. 'The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930-1943'. SUNY Press, 1998.
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