Clara Calamai

Clara Calamai was born on September 7, 1909 in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Adulteress (1946), Deep Red (1975) and Obsession (1943). She was married to Leonardo Bonzi. She died on September 21, 1998 in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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Deep Red (1975)

One night, musician Marcus Daly, looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, he just manages to miss the perpetrator... or so he thinks.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dario Argento
CAST:  David Hemmings  •  Daria Nicolodi  •  Gabriele Lavia  •  Macha Méril

One night, musician Marcus Daly, looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, he just manages to miss the perpetrator... or so he thinks.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dario Argento
CAST:  David Hemmings  •  Daria Nicolodi  •  Gabriele Lavia  •  Macha Méril

Le Notti Bianche (1957)

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luchino Visconti
CAST:  Marcello Mastroianni  •  Maria Schell  •  Jean Marais  •  Marcella Rovena

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luchino Visconti
CAST:  Marcello Mastroianni  •  Maria Schell  •  Jean Marais  •  Marcella Rovena

Ossessione (1944)

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luchino Visconti
CAST:  Clara Calamai  •  Massimo Girotti  •  Dhia Cristiani  •  Elio Marcuzzo

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luchino Visconti
CAST:  Clara Calamai  •  Massimo Girotti  •  Dhia Cristiani  •  Elio Marcuzzo

The Witches (1967)

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pier Paolo Pasolini  •  Vittorio De Sica  •  Luchino Visconti  •  Mauro Bolognini  •  Franco Rossi
CAST:  Silvana Mangano  •  Annie Girardot  •  Massimo Girotti  •  Elsa Albani

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pier Paolo Pasolini  •  Vittorio De Sica  •  Luchino Visconti  •  Mauro Bolognini  •  Franco Rossi
CAST:  Silvana Mangano  •  Annie Girardot  •  Massimo Girotti  •  Elsa Albani

Two Anonymous Letters (1945)

When her sweetheart Bruno joins the Italian army, Gina, bored by her lack of social life, weds Tullio. She comes to regret her decision when Tullio proves to be a Nazi collaborationist. Casting her lot with the Resistance movement, Gina is forced into a difficult ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mario Camerini
CAST:  Clara Calamai  •  Andrea Checchi  •  Otello Toso  •  Carlo Ninchi

When her sweetheart Bruno joins the Italian army, Gina, bored by her lack of social life, weds Tullio. She comes to regret her decision when Tullio proves to be a Nazi collaborationist. Casting her lot with the Resistance movement, Gina is forced into a difficult ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mario Camerini
CAST:  Clara Calamai  •  Andrea Checchi  •  Otello Toso  •  Carlo Ninchi

Sicilian Uprising (1949)

Sicilian Uprising or Sicilian Vespers is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and Roldano Lupi.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Giorgio Pàstina
CAST:  Marina Berti  •  Clara Calamai  •  Roldano Lupi  •  Steve Barclay

Sicilian Uprising or Sicilian Vespers is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and Roldano Lupi.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Giorgio Pàstina
CAST:  Marina Berti  •  Clara Calamai  •  Roldano Lupi  •  Steve Barclay

L'avventuriera del piano di sopra (1941)

A comedy in which a young lawyer, with a very jealous wife, ends up hosting a woman from his building for a night, with strange consequences  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raffaello Matarazzo
CAST:  Vittorio De Sica  •  Clara Calamai  •  Giuditta Rissone  •  Camillo Pilotto

A comedy in which a young lawyer, with a very jealous wife, ends up hosting a woman from his building for a night, with strange consequences  (more)

DIRECTION:  Raffaello Matarazzo
CAST:  Vittorio De Sica  •  Clara Calamai  •  Giuditta Rissone  •  Camillo Pilotto

Lovers Without Love (1948)

This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata named after the Beethoven piece. The story concerns marriage, divorce, love, carnal lust and jealousy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gianni Franciolini
CAST:  Clara Calamai  •  Roldano Lupi  •  Maria Melvin  •  Jean Servais

This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata named after the Beethoven piece. The story concerns marriage, divorce, love, carnal lust and jealousy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gianni Franciolini
CAST:  Clara Calamai  •  Roldano Lupi  •  Maria Melvin  •  Jean Servais

Il Tiranno di Padova (1946)

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DIRECTION:  Max Neufeld
CAST:  Elsa De Giorgi  •  Clara Calamai  •  Carlo Lombardi  •  Alfredo Varelli

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DIRECTION:  Max Neufeld
CAST:  Elsa De Giorgi  •  Clara Calamai  •  Carlo Lombardi  •  Alfredo Varelli

Romanticismo (1949)

Drama set in Milan in 1858. Dr. Antonio Ansperti from Como, implicated in the clandestine activities of the Young Italy revolutionary movement, is arrested by the Austrian authorities. After a trial he is sentenced to death and executed, in spite of efforts by his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Clemente Fracassi
CAST:  Clara Calamai  •  Nyta Dover  •  Harry Feist  •  Fulvia Franco

Drama set in Milan in 1858. Dr. Antonio Ansperti from Como, implicated in the clandestine activities of the Young Italy revolutionary movement, is arrested by the Austrian authorities. After a trial he is sentenced to death and executed, in spite of efforts by his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Clemente Fracassi
CAST:  Clara Calamai  •  Nyta Dover  •  Harry Feist  •  Fulvia Franco

Addio, giovinezza! (1940)

A university student falls in love with a seamstress. But one day he meets a beautiful woman and things become complicated.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
CAST:  Maria Denis  •  Adriano Rimoldi  •  Clara Calamai  •  Carlo Campanini

A university student falls in love with a seamstress. But one day he meets a beautiful woman and things become complicated.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
CAST:  Maria Denis  •  Adriano Rimoldi  •  Clara Calamai  •  Carlo Campanini

Pietro Micca (1938)

An 1938 Italian historical war film that portrays the life and death of Pietro Micca who was killed in 1706 at the Siege of Turin while fighting for the Duchy of Savoy against France in the War of the Spanish Succession.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aldo Vergano
CAST:  Guido Celano  •  Renato Cialente  •  Camillo Pilotto  •  Mino Doro

An 1938 Italian historical war film that portrays the life and death of Pietro Micca who was killed in 1706 at the Siege of Turin while fighting for the Duchy of Savoy against France in the War of the Spanish Succession.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aldo Vergano
CAST:  Guido Celano  •  Renato Cialente  •  Camillo Pilotto  •  Mino Doro

The Jester's Supper (1942)

In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alessandro Blasetti
CAST:  Amedeo Nazzari  •  Osvaldo Valenti  •  Clara Calamai  •  Valentina Cortese

In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alessandro Blasetti
CAST:  Amedeo Nazzari  •  Osvaldo Valenti  •  Clara Calamai  •  Valentina Cortese

Ettore Fieramosca (1938)

ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current patriotic ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alessandro Blasetti
CAST:  Gino Cervi  •  Elisa Cegani  •  Mario Ferrari  •  Osvaldo Valenti

ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current patriotic ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alessandro Blasetti
CAST:  Gino Cervi  •  Elisa Cegani  •  Mario Ferrari  •  Osvaldo Valenti

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marco Spagnoli
CAST:  Vinicio Marchioni  •  Martina Querini  •  Silvia Alù  •  Eliana De Marinis

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marco Spagnoli
CAST:  Vinicio Marchioni  •  Martina Querini  •  Silvia Alù  •  Eliana De Marinis

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DIRECTION:  Gennaro Righelli
CAST:  Vittorio De Sica  •  Caterina Boratto  •  Maria Denis  •  Evelina Paoli

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DIRECTION:  Duilio Coletti
CAST:  Roberto Villa  •  Elsa De Giorgi  •  Clara Calamai  •  Osvaldo Valenti

I mariti (1941)

In Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Camillo Mastrocinque
CAST:  Amedeo Nazzari  •  Mariella Lotti  •  Clara Calamai  •  Irma Gramatica

In Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Camillo Mastrocinque
CAST:  Amedeo Nazzari  •  Mariella Lotti  •  Clara Calamai  •  Irma Gramatica

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DIRECTION:  Enrico Guazzoni
CAST:  Massimo Girotti  •  Clara Calamai  •  Camillo Pilotto  •  Luigi Pavese

Le vie del cuore (1942)

1875. After completing her studies in boarding school, the young Duchess Anna Castellani, returns home and meets by chance a friend of her father, a count much older than herself.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Camillo Mastrocinque
CAST:  Miriam Di San Servolo  •  Carlo Tamberlani  •  Clara Calamai  •  Adriano Rimoldi

1875. After completing her studies in boarding school, the young Duchess Anna Castellani, returns home and meets by chance a friend of her father, a count much older than herself.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Camillo Mastrocinque
CAST:  Miriam Di San Servolo  •  Carlo Tamberlani  •  Clara Calamai  •  Adriano Rimoldi
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