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Mario Monicelli

Born May 15, 1915 (1915-05-15) (age 93)
Viareggio, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
Occupation screenwriter, director, actor
Years active 1935 - present

Mario Monicelli (born May 15, 1915) is an Italian director and screenwriter, one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana (Comedy Italian style). Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Viareggio (which means "way of the kings" is a city located in northern Tuscany, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Lucca is a city in Tuscany, northern central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plain near (but not on the Ligurian Sea Tuscany (Toscana is a region in Italy. It has an area of 22990 km² and a population of about 3 Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Commedia all'italiana or Italian-style comedy is an Italian Film genre.

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Biography

Monicelli was born in Viareggio (Tuscany), the youngest son of the Mantuan journalist Tommaso Monicelli. Viareggio (which means "way of the kings" is a city located in northern Tuscany, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Tuscany (Toscana is a region in Italy. It has an area of 22990 km² and a population of about 3 Mantua (Màntova in the local dialect of Lombard language Mantua is a city in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province of the His older brother Giorgio worked as writer and translator.

He attended studies in the local lyceum, and entered in the film world through his friendship with Giacomo Forzano, son of the playwright Giovacchino Forzano, who had been charged by Mussolini of the founding of cinema studios in Tirrenia. Monicelli lived a carefree youth, and many of the jokes he later shot in Amici Miei were taken from his experience.

His first short is from 1934, made together with his friend Alberto Mondadori. Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This was followed by the silent film I ragazzi della Via Paal ("Paal Street's Boys"), which was an award-winner in the Venice Film Festival. The Venice Film Festival is the oldest Film festival in the world His first feature length work is from 1937 (Pioggia d'Estate, "Summer Rain"). Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In the years 1939-1942 Monicelli produced also numerous screenplays (up to 40), and worked as an assistant director. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Monicelli made his official debut as director in 1949, with Totò cerca casa, along with Steno. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Steno, the artistic name of Stefano Vanzina ( 19 January, 1915 - 13 March, 1988) was an Italian Film director and Cinematographer Since the very beginning his shooting style showed to be remarkably flowing. The duo produced eight successful movies in four years, including Guardie e ladri (1951) and Totò a colori (1952). The year 1951 in film involved some significant events Events Sweden - May Britt is scouted by Italian The year 1952 in film involved some significant events Events January 10 - Cecil B From 1953 onwards Monicelli worked alone, without leaving his role as a writer of screenplays. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Monicelli's career include some of the masterpieces of Italian cinema. In I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street) (1958), again featuring the ubiquitous comedian Totò, he discovered the comical talent of Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni and probably produced the first true commedia all'italiana. Big Deal on Madonna Street ( I soliti ignoti, also released as Persons Unknown in the UK) is a 1958 Italian criminal- Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Antonio Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno De Curtis Di Bisanzio Gagliardi, Imperial Highness Palatine Count Knight of the Holy Roman Empire Exarch of Ravenna Duke of Macedonia Vittorio Gassman ( September 1, 1922 – June 29, 2000) popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian Theatre Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September 28 1924 &ndash December 19 1996 was an Italian film actor While it is more well known in the English speaking world as Big Deal on Madonna Street, the actual translation from the Italian is "the usual unknown perpetrators" (which is similar to the famous line from Casablanca of "Round up the usual suspects")

La Grande Guerra (The Great War), released one year later, is generally regarded as his finest work. Casablanca ( is an American Romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and For this work Monicelli was awarded a Leone d'Oro in the Venice Film Festival, and had a nomination for the Academy Awards. The Venice Film Festival is the oldest Film festival in the world "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. The film, featuring Gassman and the other superstar of Italian comedy, Alberto Sordi, excelled in the absence of rethorical accents (the tragedy of World War I was still well in Italian's minds in these years) and for its sharp, tragicomical sense of history. Alberto Sordi, also known as Albertone, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( June 15 1920 - February 25 2003) was an Italian World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Monicelli received two more nominations to the Academy Awards with I compagni (The Organizer, 1963) and The Girl with the Pistol (1968). I Compagni or The Organizer is a 1963 Italian Drama film directed by Mario Monicelli. The year 1963 in film involved some significant events Events January 28 - Filming begins on Dr The Girl with the Pistol ( Italian: La ragazza con la pistola) is a 1968 Italian film directed by Mario Monicelli. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Brancaleone (For Love and Gold, 1966) is another masterpiece of Italian cinema. For the Italian comune see Brancaleone (RC. L'armata Brancaleone (known in English-speaking countries as For Love and Gold Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. The film tells the story of a Middle Age Italy's poor but pompous knight (played by Gassman) from a humorous point of view. Highlighted by Gasmann the bizarre Macaronic Latin-Italian dialogues devised by Age & Scarpelli, the most renowned writers of Italian comedies, it was followed by Brancaleone alle Crociate (Brancaleone at the Crusades) in 1970. Macaronic refers to text spoken or written using a mixture of Languages sometimes including Bilingual puns particularly when the languages are used in the same context Age & Scarpelli is the Stage name used by the pair of Italian Screenwriters Agenore Incrocci (1914 – 2005 and Furio Scarpelli The year 1970 in film involved some significant events Events February 11 - The film The Magic Christian

Amici miei (My Friends), featuring Ugo Tognazzi and Philippe Noiret, was one of the most successful films in Italy and confirmed Monicelli's skill in mixing humour, irony and bitter feelings. Ugo Tognazzi ( March 23, 1922 - October 27, 1990) was an Italian film TV and theatre actor director and screenwriter Philippe Noiret ( October 1, 1930 - November 23, 2006) was a French film Actor. The dramatic accents were predominant in the Un borghese piccolo piccolo (A Very Little Man, 1978), but left pace again to comicity and popularesque history with Il marchese del Grillo (1981). Un borghese piccolo piccolo is a 1977 Italian Drama film directed by Mario Monicelli. The year 1978 in film involved some significant events Top grossing films (U Il Marchese del Grillo is a 1981 comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Alberto Sordi as the titular character Events January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. Both films featured Alberto Sordi at his best.

Most recent works by Monicelli include Speriamo che sia femmina (1985), Parenti serpenti (1992) and Cari fottutissimi amici (1994), featuring Paolo Hendel. Events 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films The year 1992 in film involved many significant films (For more about films in foreign languages check sources in those languages The year 1994 in film involved some significant events Top grossing films (U

One of the trademarks of Monicelli's filmography is his knack for describing the tribulations of the everyday man getting infatuated with grandiose ideas (richness via theft, chivalrous idealism, military glory, fascism and so on) and then seeing him failing at every turn, losing his illusion piece by piece (most often in hiliarious ways), yet not all is desperate in his worldview, since the reedeming value he shows as capable of sweetening even the bitterest defeats is friendship, especially male partnership.

Monicelli worked also for television and theatre, occasionally as an actor, and is a noteworthy playwright of his own.

Monicelli collaborated and sometimes launched all the most important Italian actors of the 20th century: apart those above, we can cite here Monica Vitti, Anna Magnani, Giancarlo Giannini, Stefania Sandrelli, Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Enrico Montesano, Gian Maria Volonté, Paolo Villaggio, Nino Manfredi and Leonardo Pieraccioni. The twentieth century of the Common Era began on Monica Vitti (born 3 November 1931) is an Italian actress noted for her frosty expressiveness and starring roles in films by Michelangelo Antonioni Anna Magnani ( 7 March 1908 &ndash 26 September 1973) was an Academy Award -winning Italian Stage and Film Giancarlo Giannini (born August 1 1942 is an Oscar -nominated Italian actor and dubber Stefania Sandrelli (born June 5, 1946) is an Italian actress famous for her many roles in the Commedia all'Italiana, starting from 1960s Vittorio De Sica ( 7 July 1901 or 1902&ndash 13 November 1974) was a critically acclaimed Italian neorealist director Sophia Loren (born September 20 1934 is an Academy Award winning Italian film actress born Sofia Villani Scicolone Enrico Montesano, born in Rome, Italy on 7 June 1945 is a popular actor for theater and cinema in Italy as well as a showman Gian Maria Volontè ( April 9 1933 – December 6 1994) was an Italian actor Paolo Villaggio (born 31 December 1932, Genoa) is an Italian actor writer director and comedian especially famous for his grotesque irony and satire Nino Manfredi (true name Saturnino Manfredi; March 22, 1921 - June 4, 2004) was an Italian actor one of the most Leonardo Pieraccioni (born February 17, 1965) is an Italian film director actor and screenwriter

Upon receiving his Golden Lion for Career in the 1991 Venice Film Festival, Monicelli declared:

Cinema will never die, it was born and cannot die. The year 1991 in film involved some significant events Events April 28 - Bonnie The cinema hall will die perhaps, but I definitely don't care of this.

Filmography

Director

Screenplays

Actor

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Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Cavalleria rusticana ( Rustic Chivalry) is an Opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian Libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Big Deal on Madonna Street ( I soliti ignoti, also released as Persons Unknown in the UK) is a 1958 Italian criminal- Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Great War ( La grande guerra) is a 1959 Italian film directed by Mario Monicelli. The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A cavallo della tigre ( 1961) is an Italian Film written and directed by Luigi Comencini. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Boccaccio '70 is a 1962 Italian Portmanteau film directed by Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. I Compagni or The Organizer is a 1963 Italian Drama film directed by Mario Monicelli. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Casanova 70 is a 1965 Italian Comedy produced by Carlo Ponti, directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Marcello Mastroianni Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. For the Italian comune see Brancaleone (RC. L'armata Brancaleone (known in English-speaking countries as For Love and Gold Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. The Girl with the Pistol ( Italian: La ragazza con la pistola) is a 1968 Italian film directed by Mario Monicelli. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Un borghese piccolo piccolo is a 1977 Italian Drama film directed by Mario Monicelli. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Il Marchese del Grillo is a 1981 comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Alberto Sordi as the titular character Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. 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