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Maldacea nel suo repertorio

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Italian postcard. Maldacea nel suo repertorio. Alterocca, Terni, No. 2377. Il miope "c'è Caputo?..." [The nearsighted: "Do you understand?"]

Nicola Maldacea (Naples, October 29, 1870 - Rome, March 5, 1945) was an Italian actor, comedian and songwriter, who before the First World War was one of the most popular vaudeville and café chant performers of Naples, beloved for his various types or 'macchiette'. Between 1935 and 1945 he acted as character actor in over 60 Italian sound films.

The son of an elementary school teacher originally from Cosenza, he embarked on a theatrical career in his hometown, debuting at a very young age on the boards of variety and café-chantant stages. Gifted with a robust voice, he made his debut as singer performing in the clubs of Naples, until he was written for the theater companies of Eduardo Scarpetta and Gennaro Pantalena, with whom he was able to make a name for himself and land at the Salone Margherita, the most distinguished café-chantant of Naples.
The acting style adopted during the performance of the pieces caused Maldacea to provide a satirical interpretation suited to the caricature of the characters treated: thus were born the macchiette, which Maldacea himself described thus: "Like a draughtsman, I promised myself to give the audience an immediate impression by sketching the type, marking it quickly, rendering its salient features. Hence the origin of the word macchietta, which is peculiar to figurative art: a hasty sketch, rendering with a few brushstrokes a place or a person in such a way as to give an effective impression with the utmost spontaneity of caricature." In the period leading up to World War I he raged in Neapolitan theaters, becoming one of the city's most famous actors. Among the most famous types he played were "Il Conte Flick," "'O jettatore," "il Superuomo," "'O Rusecatore," and "l'Elegante". Set to music by Vincenzo Valente and Salvatore Gambardella, the macchiettas had among their authors such names as Salvatore Di Giacomo, Trilussa, Rocco Galdieri and others, who wrote, often without signing, specifically for Maldacea.

From 1935, Maldacea also acted in cinema, almost always in character parts, and in over 60 films. Memorable parts he had in e.g. È tornato carnevale (Raffaele Matarazzo, 1937) with Armando Falconi, Ho perduto il mio marito (Enrico Guazzoni, 1937) with Paola Borboni, Il feroce Saladino (Mario Bonnard, 1937) with Angelo Musco, I due misantropi (Amleto Palermi, 1937), Le père Lebonnard (Jean de Limur, 1939), Kean (Guido Brignone, 1940), Miseria e nobiltà (Corrado D'Errico, 1940) with Scarpetta, and Villa da vendere (Ferruccio Cerio, 1941) with Amedeo Nazzari, often playing domestics. Instead, he was the servile court painter in Tosca (Jean Renoir, Carl Koch, 1940-41) and the priest in Nessuna torna indietro (Alessandro Blasetti, 1943-45). Nicola Maldacea died in Rome on March 5, 1945. The city of Naples carried out the translation of his remains from Rome to Poggioreale Cemetery.

Sources: Italian Wikipedia, IMDb.

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Francesca da Rimini (1903)

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Italian postcard by Alterocca, Terni, no. 4286. Compagnia drammatica di E. Berti. Stage play by Gabriele D'Annunzio, based on a tale from Dante's Inferno (Paolo & Francesca). The play 'Francesca da Rimini' (1903) was first performed in 1901 with Eleonora Duse in the lead. This card refers to the second version by the stage company of Ettore Berti and Giuseppe Masi, with Emilia Varini as Francesca and Berti as Paolo. The play was performed e.g. at the prestigious Teatro Carignano in Turin from 7 March 1903. Act III, scene 1. Francesca reads the ladies the story of Lancelot du Lac.

Plot: Guido da Polenta was at war with the Malatesta family. When peace was made, Guido wanted to solidify it by marrying his daughter to the Malatesta heir, Giovanni Malatesta (Gianciotto), son of Malatesta da Verucchio, lord of Rimini. Giovanni was a brave man, but invalided and disfigured. Guido knew that Francesca would refuse to marry Giovanni, and so he had arranged the wedding so that Francesca thought she was marrying Giovanni's handsome brother Paolo. Francesca fell in love with Paolo and only realised that she had married his brother the morning after the wedding. Francesca and Paolo were then seduced again by reading the story of knight Lancelot and Queen Guinevere and became lovers. They were caught by Giovanni and killed by him. Act

Francesca da Rimini was filmed various times, in particular in Italy: in 1908 by Mario Morais for Comerio (actress unknown), in 1910 by Ugo Falena for Film d'Arte Italiana with Francesca Bertini in the lead; in 1922 by Carlo Dalbani and Mario Volpe with Mary Bayma-Riva in the lead; while in 1921, it was an episode of the Dante biopic La mirabile visione by Caramba. After WWII, Raffaele Matarazzo did a sound version, Paolo e Francesca (1950), with Odile Versois in the lead. Non-Italian adaptations were in 1908 by Stuart Blackton (Francesca di Rimini; or, The Two Brothers) with Florence Turner as Francesca; and in 1913 by Arthur Maude with Constance Crawley. Many TV movies followed from the 1950s onward.

Source: Dutch Wikipedia, IMDb.

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Francesca da Rimini (1903)

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Italian postcard. Alterocca, Terni, No. 4294. Compagnia drammatica di E. Berti. Stage play by Gabriele D'Annunzio, based on a tale from Dante's Inferno (Paolo & Francesca). The play was first performed in 1901 with Eleonora Duse in the lead. This card refers to the second version by the stage company of Ettore Berti and Giuseppe Masi, with Emilia Varini as Francesca and Berti as Paolo. Alessandro Marchetti played Giancotto, Dante Cappelli Malatestino, Giuseppe Masi Ostasio. The play was performed e.g. at the prestigious Teatro Carignano in Turin from 7 March 1903. Act V, scene 5. Caption: Giancotto kills the two lovers.

Plot: Guido da Polenta was at war with the Malatesta family. When peace was made, Guido wanted to solidify it by marrying his daughter to the Malatesta heir, Giovanni Malatesta (Gianciotto), son of Malatesta da Verucchio, lord of Rimini. Giovanni was a brave man, but invalided and disfigured. Guido knew that Francesca would refuse to marry Giovanni, and so he had arranged the wedding so that Francesca thought she was marrying Giovanni's handsome brother Paolo. Francesca fell in love with Paolo and only realised that she had married his brother the morning after the wedding. Francesca and Paolo were then seduced again by reading the story of knight Lancelot and Queen Guinevere and became lovers. They were caught by Giovanni and killed by him.

Francesca da Rimini was filmed various times, in particular in Italy: in 1908 by Mario Morais for Comerio (actress unknown), in 1910 by Ugo Falena for Film d'Arte Italiana with Francesca Bertini in the lead; in 1922 by Carlo Dalbani and Mario Volpe with Mary Bayma-Riva in the lead; while in 1921, it was an episode of the Dante biopic La mirabile visione by Caramba. After WWII, Raffaele Matarazzo did a sound version, Paolo e Francesca (1950), with Odile Versois in the lead. Non-Italian adaptations were in 1908 by Stuart Blackton (Francesca di Rimini; or, The Two Brothers) with Florence Turner as Francesca; and in 1913 by Arthur Maude with Constance Crawley. Many TV movies followed from the 1950s onward.

Several opera after the tale of Paolo and Francesca exist too e.g. by Tchaikovsky and Zandonai, as well as many paintings by Cabanel a.o.

Source: Dutch Wikipedia, IMDb.

Francesca da Rimini (1903)

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Italian postcard. Alterocca, Terni, No. 4293. Compagnia drammatica di E. Berti. Stage play by Gabriele D'Annunzio, based on a tale from Dante's Inferno (Paolo & Francesca). The play was first performed in 1901 with Eleonora Duse in the lead. This card refers to the second version by the stage company of Ettore Berti and Giuseppe Masi, with Emilia Varini as Francesca and Berti as Paolo. The play was performed e.g. at the prestigious Teatro Carignano in Turin from 7 March 1903. Act V, scene 4. The night of love.

Plot: Guido da Polenta was at war with the Malatesta family. When peace was made, Guido wanted to solidify it by marrying his daughter to the Malatesta heir, Giovanni Malatesta (Gianciotto), son of Malatesta da Verucchio, lord of Rimini. Giovanni was a brave man, but invalided and disfigured. Guido knew that Francesca would refuse to marry Giovanni, and so he had arranged the wedding so that Francesca thought she was marrying Giovanni's handsome brother Paolo. Francesca fell in love with Paolo and only realised that she had married his brother the morning after the wedding. Francesca and Paolo were then seduced again by reading the story of knight Lancelot and Queen Guinevere and became lovers. They were caught by Giovanni and killed by him.

Francesca da Rimini was filmed various times, in particular in Italy: in 1908 by Mario Morais for Comerio (actress unknown), in 1910 by Ugo Falena for Film d'Arte Italiana with Francesca Bertini in the lead; in 1922 by Carlo Dalbani and Mario Volpe with Mary Bayma-Riva in the lead; while in 1921, it was an episode of the Dante biopic La mirabile visione by Caramba. After WWII, Raffaele Matarazzo did a sound version, Paolo e Francesca (1950), with Odile Versois in the lead. Non-Italian adaptations were in 1908 by Stuart Blackton (Francesca di Rimini; or, The Two Brothers) with Florence Turner as Francesca; and in 1913 by Arthur Maude with Constance Crawley. Many TV movies followed from the 1950s onward.

Source: Dutch Wikipedia, IMDb.

La figlia di Jorio

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Italian postcard. Alterocca, Terni, No. 4568. Photo by Comerio, Milano. Card for the play La figlia di Jorio (Gabriele D'Annunzio, 1904). Act I, SCene V. Caption: The complaints of the women. The three daughters of Lazzaro, Splendore (Giulia Cassini), Ornella (Giannina Chiantoni), and Favetta (Lyda Borelli), support their mother.

Lyda Borelli (1887-1959) was already an acclaimed stage actress before she became the first diva of the Italian silent cinema. The fascinating film star, who reigned 1913-1918, caused a craze among female fans called 'Borellismo'.

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