Alba Arnova
Acting
Biography
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Born: March 16, 1930
Place of Birth: Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known For
Miracle in Milan
Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.
100 Years of Love
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
The Anatomy of Love
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
Gran varietà
A musical comedy divided into five segments: Mariantonia, Cuttica, Il Fine Dicitore, Fregoli and Il Censore.
Tototarzan
Roaming the vast jungles of Congo with his best friend, Bongo the gorilla, Antonio della Buffas, a mysterious man whom the natives call the "white monkey", is utterly unaware that he is the long-lost son of a wealthy explorer. Then, three opportunists manage to capture and bring the white savage to civilisation, bent on getting their hands on his immense fortune.
O.K. Nero
Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero.
European Nights
A tour of the nightlife in Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Vienna, Brussels and more. Episodes presenting famous artists and people performing.
The Mighty Crusaders
The Mighty Crusaders (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata) is a 1957 film about the First Crusade, based on the 16th-century Italian poem Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso. This film was directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia.
Times Gone By
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Mid-Century Loves
Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.
Filmography
as la seduttrice
as Self
as Harem Dancer
as Vera Baralli
as Venere (segment: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships)
as Herself
as Luisa
as Lucia , Massimo's Daughter (segment "Amore 1954")
as Yvonne
as Simona
as Olympe
as Primi ballerini
as Gioconda
as Cristina
as Lilian Duclos
as Matilde
as Dancer
as La statua che prende vita
as Sonia
as Francine
as Elena's Sister