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Lina Gennari

Actress / Stage Actress | * 03/22/1911 († 86, 10/11/1997) | Bologna, Emilia-Romagna (Italy)
Lina Gennari (22 March 1911 – 11 October 1997) was an Italian actress and operetta singer. Born Carolina Gennari in Bologna, she made her debut in the early 1920s in the Schwarz stage company, and she had her first role as prima donna in the operetta Al cavallino bianco. She achieved a large success in 1939 with the revue Se un'idea mi porta fortuna and then in 1940 with Nuto Navarrini's Vicino alle stelle. She appeared in several films between 1933 and 1955, notably playing the greedy landlady in Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D.. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Comedies | Drama | Romance / Love

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When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month o ...

Umberto D.

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1952 | 3.9/5 | 1h 31min
Drama
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In Romagna, an Italian district, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the owners of an estate are the professor Edoardo, always lost in reveries, and his wife Maria. They have a son, Robertino, ...

Il padrone sono me

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1955 | 1h 35min
Drama
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Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her. ...

The Sign of Venus

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1955 | 3.5/5 | 1h 41min
Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama
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Movies with Lina Gennari as Actress(5)

1955 Il padrone sono me
as Signora Pina1955 The Sign of Venus
as Antonia, la padrona di case1952 Umberto D.
as Fiammetta1937 I Was to Blame
as Lina1933 Middle-Class Train

Full Name: Lina Gennari
Citizenship: Italy
Born: Wednesday, 03/22 1911 (March) in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna (Italy)
Died: Saturday, 10/11 1997 (October) in Rome (aged: 86)
Zodiac sign: Aries (Chinese zodiac sign: Pig)
Languages: Italian (IT)
Other names for Lina Gennari (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Лина Дженнари"
Lina Gennari frequently works together with these people:
Raffaello Matarazzo (6x, Crew)
Vittorio De Sica (3x, Actor)
Giuseppe Amato (3x, Crew)
Franca Valeri (3x, Actress)
Gastone Bossio (3x, Crew)
Luisa Alessandri (3x, Crew)
Leopoldo Trieste (2x, Actor)
Dino Risi (2x, Crew)
Angelo Rizzoli (2x, Crew)
Giorgio Melchiori (2x, Crew)
Nino Misiano (2x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:360689, Added: 08/15/2018, Last updated: 04/25/2024