Beniamino Gigli
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Beniamino Gigli.
Born: March 20, 1890
Place of Birth: Recanati, Marken, Italy
Known For
Mamma
The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
Vergiß mein nicht
Tenor Enzo Curti, a widower with a young child, falls in love with a secretary from New York. Liselotte has experienced disappointment in her first love, Helmut, an ocean liner officer. She marries Enzo Curti, but later, when she meets Helmut again, she experiences emotional stress as love struggles with a sense of duty in her heart.
Lache Bajazzo
A dramatization of the melodramatic story that inspired the popular opera, Pagliacci.German language version of a film simultaneously shot in an Italian version.
Marionette
Forget Me Not
A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared.
Taxi di notte
A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child.
Broken Love
The well off daughter of a tenor breaks up a romance with a helpful youth from a misunderstanding. But she continues to cover him with his gambling debts despite her delicate health.
Ave Maria
Ave Maria was the second film-starring vehicle for legendary operatic tenor Beniamino Gigli. Mourning the loss of the only woman he ever loved, concert singer Tino Dossi (Gigli) is temporarily shaken from his doldrums by vivacious Montmartre entertainer Claudette (Kaethe Von Nagy). Dossi doesn't realize that Claudette is merely using him to advance her own singing career. Ultimately won over by Dossi's sincerity and courtesy, Claudette falls in love with him for real, only to suffer the pangs of conscience as a result. About to kill herself, she decides instead to return to Dossi's arms, vowing never to confess her original mercenary intentions.
Ritorno
Filmography
as Beniamino Gigli
as Nello Spadoni
as Enzo Curti
as Il tenore Massimo Giuliani / Antonio, il sosia ladruncolo
as Morelli
as Il tenore Luciano Riccardi
as Mario Sarni
as er selbst
as Il cantante
as Carlo Franchetti
as Mario Rossi
as Il tenore Mirate
as Ettore Vanni
as Gino Mari
as Enzo Curti
as Mario Monti
as Tino Dossi
as Enzo Curti - tenor Scala of Milano
as Enzo Curtis, Tenor