Maria Gambarelli

Maria Gambarelli was an Italian/American dancer and actress. She was one of the greatest dancers to have been trained by the Metropolitan Opera ballet school. Enrolled in the school in 1908 at the age seven, she first appeared in a professional production in the Met's 1914 "Aida" playing a slave girl.

Hooray for Love (1935)

A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the naïve boy would make the perfect investor for his daughter's new show. Comedy with music.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Walter Lang
CAST:  Ann Sothern  •  Gene Raymond  •  Thurston Hall  •  Pert Kelton

A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the naïve boy would make the perfect investor for his daughter's new show. Comedy with music.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Walter Lang
CAST:  Ann Sothern  •  Gene Raymond  •  Thurston Hall  •  Pert Kelton

Here's to Romance (1935)

Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred E. Green
CAST:  Nino Martini  •  Genevieve Tobin  •  Anita Louise  •  Maria Gambarelli

Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred E. Green
CAST:  Nino Martini  •  Genevieve Tobin  •  Anita Louise  •  Maria Gambarelli

Le Amiche (1955)

Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into their friendships.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michelangelo Antonioni
CAST:  Eleonora Rossi Drago  •  Gabriele Ferzetti  •  Franco Fabrizi  •  Valentina Cortese

Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into their friendships.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michelangelo Antonioni
CAST:  Eleonora Rossi Drago  •  Gabriele Ferzetti  •  Franco Fabrizi  •  Valentina Cortese

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DIRECTION:  Enrico Guazzoni
CAST:  Ennio Cerlesi  •  Maria Gambarelli  •  Lamberto Picasso  •  Tina Zucchi