Bellissima (1952)
1h 55m
Running Time
January 4, 1952Release Date
Plot.
Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.
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Cast & Crew.
Anna Magnani
Maddalena Cecconi
Walter Chiari
Alberto Annovazzi
Tina Apicella
Maria Cecconi
Gastone Renzelli
Spartaco Cecconi
Tecla Scarano
Tilde Spernanzoni
Lola Braccini
Photographer's Wife
Arturo Bragaglia
Photographer
Nora Ricci
Laundry Worker
Vittorina Benvenuti
Linda Sini
Mimmetta
Teresa Battaggi
Snob Mother
Gisella Monaldi
Door-keeper
Liliana Mancini
Iris
Alessandro Blasetti
Self
Vittorio Musy Glori
Self / Production Manager
Mario Chiari
Self
Luigi Filippo D'Amico
Self
George Tapparelli
Self
Luciano Caruso
(uncredited)
Michele Di Giulio
(uncredited)
Mario Donatone
(uncredited)
Franco Ferrara
Il Direttore d'Orchestra della R.A.I. (uncredited) / Conductor
Iolanda Fortini
Mother at Cinecittà (uncredited)
Pietro Fumelli
(uncredited)
Corrado
Announcer (uncredited)
Lilly Marchi
(uncredited)
Guido Martufi
Young Boy at Hair-Dresser's Shop (uncredited)
Anna Nighel
(uncredited)
Lina Rossoni
(uncredited)
Sonia Scotti
Young Girl (uncredited)
Luchino Visconti
Director / Screenplay
Oberdan Troiani
Camera Operator
Spartaco Conversi
Production Secretary
Gaetano Donizetti
Music
Idelmo Simonelli
Camera Operator
Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Screenplay
Francesco Rosi
Screenplay / Assistant Director
Paolo Moffa
Production Manager
Alberto De Rossi
Makeup Artist
Paul Ronald
Still Photographer / Director of Photography
Rinaldo Ricci
Continuity
Franco Zeffirelli
Assistant Director
Franco Mannino
Music Supervisor / Original Music Composer
Orlando Orsini
Production Supervisor
Salvo D'Angelo
Producer
Mario Serandrei
Editor
Cesare Zavattini
Story
Piero Portalupi
Director of Photography
Piero Tosi
Costume Design
Ovidio Del Grande
Sound
Gianni Polidori
Production Design
Giuseppina Arena
Luciana Ricci
Amalia Pellegrini
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
rome italy
satire
working class
single mother
audition
Wiki.
Bellissima is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari and Tecla Scarano. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."
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