Johnny Dorelli
Johnny Dorelli( real name Giorgio Guidi; born 20 February 1937, in Meda) is an Italian actor, singer and Television host.
Dorelli was born in Italy.
In 1946 he moved to New York with his family, where his father, Nino D'Aurelio( born Aurelio Guidi), found work as opera singer.
Dorelli studied double bass and piano at the High School of Music and Art in New York.
He returned in Italy in 1955.
He debuted as singer in the late 1950s for CGD label.
In 1958 he won the Sanremo Festival in duo with Domenico Modugno, with the songs" Nel blu dipinto di blu"( also known as" Volare") and" Piove( Ciao ciao bambina) L'immensità" earned Dorelli a ninth place at the 1967 edition of the Sanremo Song Festival.
His greatest success was the musical" Aggiungi un posto a tavola", which was also performed at the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End in an English version entitled" Beyond the Rainbow" in 1978.
After a period of absence, he returned to success in the 1980s.
In 1983, he played St. Philip Neri in Luigi Magni's TV film" State buoni se potete".
Dorelli's latest feature film role is in Pupi Avati's" Ma quando arrivano le ragazze"( 2004).
His Most Famous Songs are: Calypso Melody( 1957), Julia( 1958), Boccuccia Di Rosa( Pink Lips)( 1958), Love In Portofino( 1959), Lettera A Pinocchio( 1959), Montecarlo( 1961), Speedy Gonzales( 1962), Era Settembre( 1964), Probabilmente( 1965), Al Buio Sto Sognando( 1966), Solo Più Che Mai( Strangers In The Night)( 1966), L'Immensità( 1967), Arriva La Bomba( 1967), E Penso A Te( 1971), Aggiungi Un Posto A Tavola( 1975).
As a( popular and jazz) crooner, he sang numerous songs live on television shows( mainly in the 60's), in Italian and in English.
In 2007 he returned after 38 years to the stage of Sanremo as a participant with the song" Meglio così", written by big names as Gianni Ferrio and Giorgio Calabrese, and accompanied by jazz pianist Stefano Bollani and the orchestra conducted by Ferrio.
For his typical singing style, Dorelli has often been imitated by musical comedians and impersonators.
After marriages to actresses Lauretta Masiero and Catherine Spaak( 1972 – 1978), in 1981 he married Gloria Guida, a former model and actress in Italian comedy movies of the 1970s.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
The Seventh Company Outdoors
The Seventh Company Outdoors is a 1977 French comedy film directed by Robert Lamoureux.
It is a sequel to Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to ?.
Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein- Cohen( born March 3, 1981) is the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.
Domenico Modugno
Domenico Modugno (9 January 1928 – 6 August 1994) was an Italian singer, songwriter, actor, guitarist, and later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament.
He is known for his 1958 international hit song "Nel blu dipinto di blu", for which he received Grammy Awards for Record and Song of the Year.
He is considered the first Italian cantautore.
Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to?
Now Where Did the 7th Company Get To? is a 1973 French- Italian comedy war film directed by Robert Lamoureux.
The film portrays the adventures of a French Army squad lost somewhere on the front in May 1940 during the Battle of France.
Piero Tellini
Piero Tellini (16 January 1917 – 22 June 1985) was an Italian screenwriter and film director.
Born in Florence, the son of the soprano Ines Alfani(the Soprano Opera singer for 10 years with Arturo Toscanini), Tellini graduated at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and in 1938 he entered the cinema industry as an assistant director.
He later dedicated to the activity of screenwriter, contributing to the success of the Italian neorealism and notably collaborating with Luigi Zampa, Alberto Lattuada, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alessandro Blasetti and Eduardo De Filippo.
In 1947 Tellini won the Nastro d'Argento for the script of Zampa's "To Live in Peace", while in 1952 he was awarded the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival for Mario Monicelli's and Steno's "Cops and Robbers".
Starting from 1954 he was also active as a film director.
He was first married to actress Liliana Tellini.
From his first wife his children, Massimo, Marco, Donina, Elizabeth, reside in Italy.
From his second wife, Joan Tellini, his one daughter Chiara Tellini resides in California.
He and cousin Franco Zeffirelli, both began their career under the tutelage of his mother Inez in the Opera.
Italian screenwriter Piero Tellini is best known for having penned two highly regarded Italian neorealist films, Alberto Lattuada's The Bandit (1946) and Luigi Zampa's Vivere en Pace (1946).
He also penned the Palme D'Or-winning script for Guardie e Ladri (1951).
Tellini is a graduate of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.
One of the projects most dear to Piero, Was American Youth (Giovani In America), a documentary about everything that made America "America", which was produced by RAI TV and shown in 5 European countries.
Unfortunately it never aired in the United States.
Nel blu dipinto di blu (film)
Nel blu dipinto di blu , also known as "Nel blu dipinto di blu – Volare", is a 1959 Italian comedy film written and directed by Piero Tellini and starring Domenico Modugno, Giovanna Ralli and Vittorio De Sica.
Willy Alberti
Willy Alberti( 14 October 1926 – 18 February 1985), born Carel Verbrugge, was a Dutch singer, who sang in Dutch and Italian.
He was also an actor and a radio and TV personality.
Alberti was born in Amsterdam as the third of eight children to Jacobus Wilhelm Verbrugge and Sophia Jacoba van Musscher.
He sang with family members at a very young age.
He began recording professionally in the early 1940s.
In 1944 he married Ria Kuiper and his daughter Willeke Alberti, later to become a successful Dutch vocalist herself, was born in 1945.
After the war Alberti established himself in the Netherlands with Italian songs; he became increasingly popular in the 1950s, when he had a string of hits beginning with" Nel blu dipinto di blu" in 1958.
In the 1960s he began to act alongside his daughter Willeke; as a duo, they also scored hits on the Dutch charts.
From 1965 father and daughter presented a popular monthly television show for the AVRO.
Alberti won two Edison Awards in the 1960s.
In the 1970s Alberti's fame began to decline, though he did score a few hits.
In 1984 Alberti was diagnosed with liver cancer, and died in Amsterdam on 18 February the following year.
He was cremated at the Westgaarde Crematorium in Amsterdam.
In 1998, a Willy Alberti museum was established; it quickly closed due to lack of interest.
Peter Levin
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Question: Where did the director of film Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Film) study?
Answer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia