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Franca Tamantini

Franca Tamantini

Acting

Biography

Franca Tamantini (24 August 1931 – 11 August 2014) was an Italian film, television and stage actress. Born in Rome, since young age Tamantini studied piano, singing and classical dance at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. In 1948 she was chosen by Luchino Visconti to play Olimpia in the stage drama Rosalinda o come vi piace, and one year later she made her film debut in Fernando Cerchio's Cenerentola, a musical adaptation of the Charles Perrault's fairy tale Cinderella. During her career Tamantini was often cast in operettas and musical comedies, both in the theater and in television. In films, she was often cast in character roles, and she enjoyed a late success only at mature age, with the role of Miss Necchi in the Amici Miei film series. Source: Article "Franca Tamantini" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Known For

The Second Wife
5.6

In the early 1960's, a Sicilian single mother marries an older, crass widowed truck driver. When he is arrested trying to smuggle an antique, she ends up falling in love with her handsome stepson.

The Second Wife

1998
My Friends Act III
6.4

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.

My Friends Act III

1985
My Friends
8.1

Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.

My Friends

1975
La coscienza di Zeno
7.0

A RAI miniseries, based on the novel by Italo Svevo.

La coscienza di Zeno

1988
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8.0

L'avvocato delle donne is an Italian television series.

L'avvocato delle donne

1997
Lovers and Liars
4.3

An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.

Lovers and Liars

1979
My Friends Act II
7.6

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.

My Friends Act II

1982
I motorizzati
5.9

A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.

I motorizzati

1962
Deadly Circuit
6.1

A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.

Deadly Circuit

1983
The Queen of Sheba
5.5

The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.

The Queen of Sheba

1952
Tomorrow Is Another Day
4.5

A doctor rescues a young woman who is about to throw herself into the river and takes her to the hospital. The woman learns of three very sad stories revolving around suicide.

Tomorrow Is Another Day

1951
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7.5

A pirate tries to lead his followers in vengeance against a corrupt governor.

Revenge of the Pirates

1951
The Police Commissioner
7.4

Popular Italian comic Alberto Sordi does an excellent job of creating a bumbling yet effective police inspector by the unlikely name of Dante Lombardozzi, in this entertaining comedy-murder mystery by director Luigi Comencini.

The Police Commissioner

1962
Sunday Heroes
6.4

Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.

Sunday Heroes

1952
Rigoletto
6.0

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

Rigoletto

1955
Totò Looking for Wife
6.3

Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.

Totò Looking for Wife

1950
Help Me Dream
7.1

In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her. Francesca has a passion for everything that comes from America, like music and cinema. She even tells her daughters that her husband who died in the war would actually leave for the USA, where he would live.

Help Me Dream

1981
The Young Caruso
7.5

This music filled biopic follows the life of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso from childhood poverty in Naples to the beginning of his rise to fame.

The Young Caruso

1951
Pesci d'oro e bikini d'argento
5.0

People who take part in a telephone radio quiz get a golden fish as first prize and a silver bikini as second one.

Pesci d'oro e bikini d'argento

1961
Greetings and sons!
6.5

Three friends, a mechanic, a clockmaker, and a night warden are engaged to three sisters but are broke and cannot get married and pay the rent. They convince their future father-in-law to buy three little flats for them but the man buys them from a swindler and the friends run the risk of going to prison.

Greetings and sons!

1951