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Marcello Marchesi is a Director, Scriptwriter and First Assistant Director Italien born on 4 april 1912 at Milan (Italie)

Marcello Marchesi

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Nationality Italie
Birth 4 april 1912 at Milan (Italie)
Death 19 july 1978 (at 66 years) at Cabras, Sardinia (Italie)

Marcello Marchesi (4 April 1912 – 19 July 1978) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote 64 films between 1939 and 1977. He also directed six films between 1951 and 1952.

He was born in Rome, Italy and died in San Giovanni in Sinis, Italy.

Biography

Marcello Marchesi a écrit ou participé à l'écriture de 64 scénarios de films entre 1939 et 1977. Il a également réalisé 7 films entre 1951 et 1952.

Il était aussi journaliste, écrivain, auteur de chansons et chanteur, auteur de programmes de télévision et radiophoniques, publicitaire et découvreur de talents : il révéla un grand nombre d'artistes dont Sandra Mondaini, Gino Bramieri, Walter Chiari, Gianni Morandi et Paolo Villaggio.

Marcello Marchesi est mort lors d'un accident de natation sur la côte de Sardaigne.

Usually with

Vittorio Metz
Vittorio Metz
(43 films)
Mario Mattoli
Mario Mattoli
(21 films)
Carlo Campanini
Carlo Campanini
(18 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Marcello Marchesi (55 films)

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Director

It's Him!... Yes! Yes!, 1h35
Directed by Marino Girolami, Marcello Marchesi, Vittorio Metz
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Actors Walter Chiari, Isa Barzizza, Carlo Campanini, Enrico Viarisio, Nyta Dover, Fanfulla
Rating62% 3.1311253.1311253.1311253.1311253.131125
Propriétaire d’un grand magasin, le commendatore "Fernandone", est obsédé par un cauchemar où il rencontre un jeune homme qu’il ne connait pas mais qu’il déteste profondément. Un jour, un certain Walter Milani, docteur en sciences économiques, vient le trouver à la recherche d’un emploi ; il est timide et il a le malheur de ressembler exactement à celui que le commendatore voit dans ses cauchemars. Dès que ce dernier l’aperçoit, il entre en rage et, tout en criant : « C’est lui, c’est lui !!! », il lui ordonne de s’en aller. Son médecin traitant, qui est en même temps son meilleur ami, se trouve au même moment dans son bureau et il lui conseille de regarder la réalité en face : qu’il garde cet homme avec lui dans le grand magasin, qu’il lui donne un travail et son cauchemar disparaitra.
Sette ore di guai, 1h21
Directed by Marcello Marchesi, Vittorio Metz
Genres Comedy
Actors Totò, Carlo Campanini, Isa Barzizza, Giulietta Masina, Clelia Matania, Mario Castellani
Rating65% 3.2503253.2503253.2503253.2503253.250325
Toto De Pasquale (Toto) is the holder of a modest tailoring. The day of the baptism of his son, receives the visit of the Advocate Espinaci (Eduardo Passarelli), charge d'notice the seizure of his property because of a debt long overdue and unpaid. When the lawyer discovers that the wife of De Pasquale (Clelia Matania) is an old friend of his, he decides to postpone. Toto, to ingratiate himself further, he decides to do godfather, forgetting that he had already entrusted the task to brother Matthew (Nino Milano), incurable bully. A few minutes later Toto, the lawyer and Matthew discover that the nurse (Bice Valori) has lost the baby after a fight on the streets with her husband. Without saying anything to his wife, Toto goes to look for the child and, in order not to suspect anything to the new mother, the child does bring the Romolini, a family of distracted students living close to De Pasquale. Oblivious to the fact that the child is brought home by a friend of De Pasquale mercy, Toto, the lawyer and Matthew end up at the home of a prostitute (Isa Barzizza) and his crazy protector (Guido Celano). Later, they are led to believe that the child has been brought in the wrong country estate of Romolini. Once in the village on the estate, the three divide and Toto pulls what he believes to be his son (but it is actually the child of Romolini) to grandfather Arturo (Arturo Bragaglia), who called for help immediately denounced the kidnapping of the baby. A few minutes later, the entire town chasing the poor tailor, mistaken for a kidnapper. Toto may first lynching and then fall from the roof of a building. At the end of many vicissitudes, Toto joins lawyer and brother with the baby, but arrived at the church where the baptism was to take place, he discovers that his son was already baptized. The poor man must therefore suffer the insults of the lawyer (who threatens to sequestrargli the workshop on behalf of its customers) and the mother-in-law (who denies financial support), as well as Romolini. At the end of the film, Toto sits on the steps of the church, while everyone is running behind a tow truck on which was accidentally placed his son and the small Romolini.
Sette ore di guai
Directed by Marcello Marchesi, Vittorio Metz
Genres Comedy
Actors Totò, Isa Barzizza, Carlo Campanini, Eduardo Passarelli, Mario Castellani, Galeazzo Benti
Rating65% 3.2503253.2503253.2503253.2503253.250325
Toto De Pasquale (Toto) est un modeste tailleur. Le jour du baptême de son fils, il reçoit la visite de l'avocat Espinaci (Eduardo Passarelli), chargé de la saisie de ses biens en raison d'une dette. Lorsque l'avocat découvre que la femme de De Pasquale (Clelia Matania) est une ancienne amie, il décide de reporter la saisie.

Scriptwriter

La più bella coppia del mondo, 1h36
Directed by Camillo Mastrocinque
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Musicarello
Actors Walter Chiari, Aldo Giuffrè, Paola Quattrini, Gianni Agus, Francesco Mulé, Adriano Celentano
Rating60% 3.0386453.0386453.0386453.0386453.038645
Walter et Paola, respectivement présentateur et marraine du sixième Cantagiro (1967), sont coincés par un mensonge : pour écarter une admiratrice, Walter se dit marié à Paola, mais la nouvelle devient publique. Dans un premier temps, les deux personnages voudraient démentir le bruit, mais Paola s'en sert aussi pour écarter un admirateur encombrant, Turiddu Lo Cascio. D'autres péripéties interviennent autour de ce quiproquo.
Hercules in the Valley of Woe, 1h22
Directed by Mario Mattoli
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films based on mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Bice Valori, Raimondo Vianello, Mario Carotenuto, Ciccio Ingrassia, Liana Orfei, Carlo Croccolo
Roles Story
Rating52% 2.6483352.6483352.6483352.6483352.648335
In Milan, a major theater entrepreneur's going to put on a show period piece set in the era of mythological Greece. However, by a lucky accident, the company of actors and the entrepreneur himself are catapulted back in time just at the time of invincible warriors and heroes of Homer and Hesiod. Now we learn that the king Eurystheus need to drive to Hercules, the invincible hero, able to defeat his arch enemy Maciste, who wants to kidnap his girlfriend Deianira.
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor, 1h44
Directed by Camillo Mastrocinque
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Actors Totò, Vittorio De Sica, Abbe Lane, Titina De Filippo, Luigi Pavese, Germán Cobos
Roles Story
Rating57% 2.884382.884382.884382.884382.88438
Michele and Gennaro work as attendants in the investigation agency "Nulla sfugge" ("Nothing escapes"). When their boss is forced to be absent from the office to follow an important investigation, the two decide to take his place pretending to be skilled investigators. Two old sisters came to the agency to ask them to investigate the conduct of the wife of their only grandchild, an American doctor in Boston, and they accept the case, which will turn to be a mess.
Totò Double or Nothing?, 1h34
Directed by Camillo Mastrocinque
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about television
Actors Totò, Valeria Moriconi, Carlo Croccolo, Gabriele Tinti, Dorian Gray, Rosanna Schiaffino
Roles Story
Rating66% 3.30833.30833.30833.30833.3083
The Duke Gagliardo della Forcoletta decides to participate at the television quiz Lascia o raddoppia? in order to buy a bar to her daughter.
Il coraggio, 1h37
Directed by Domenico Paolella
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Actors Totò, Gino Cervi, Gianna Maria Canale, Irène Galter, Gabriele Tinti, Paola Barbara
Rating65% 3.267953.267953.267953.267953.26795
Commendatore Aristide Paoloni is a man all of a piece, strong and brave, who prides himself on saving lives. His specialty is to avoid drowning suicides that are thrown into the Tiber from the Milvian Bridge in Rome, and so one day Aristide saves the poor Gennaro. Gennaro, realizing the situation, pretends to Aristide Paoloni a job, but the man ignores him. So, Gennaro begins to disturb the quiet family life of the Commendatore, who soon begins to look for a way to kill the poor Gennaro.
Io piaccio
Io piaccio (1955)

Directed by Giorgio Bianchi
Genres Comedy
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Walter Chiari, Aldo Fabrizi, Peppino De Filippo, Dorian Gray, Bianca Maria Fusari, Tina Pica
Roles Writer
Rating59% 2.9702552.9702552.9702552.9702552.970255
Professor Maldi, a researcher on the company held by Commendatore Tassinetti (Aldo Fabrizi), experiments on various animals, and especially on the capon Gildo, its preparation which should give courage to the men. Pressed by Tassinetti Maldi decides to experiment on himself the latest version of its compound, without waiting to know the reaction of the capon.