Mario Camerini

Mario Camerini
Born (1895-02-06)6 February 1895
Rome, Italy
Died 4 February 1981(1981-02-04) (aged 85)
Gardone Riviera, Italy
Occupation Film director
Screenwriter
Years active 1920–1972

Mario Camerini (6 February 1895 4 February 1981) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

The cousin of Augusto Genina, he made the most well-known films in Italy during the 1930s,most of them comedies starring Vittorio De Sica. He died in 1981 in Gardone Rivera, Italy, when he committed suicide by jumping from a fifth-floor balcony of the San Giovanni Hospital, where he was being treated for prostate cancer.[1]

Selected filmography

References

  1. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/movies/30monicelli.html
  2. Thompson, Howard, "Bride for a Night (1952) Italian Import, 'Wife for a Night,' Opens". The New York Times. June 12, 1958. Retrieved 2010-12-22.


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