Maria Denis
Acting
Biography
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Born: November 22, 1916
Known For
The Bohemian Life
Four young friends share the carefree, cheerfulness, laughter and dances of Bohemian life. Rodolphe the painter, Alexandre Chaunard the composer, Colline the philosopher, as well as Marcel and his friend Musette. Mimi, a romantic young girl, falls in love with Rodolphe.
What Scoundrels Men Are!
Bruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi driver’s daughter working as a perfumery’s shop assistant, and trying to impress her, pretending to be rich, uses his employer’s car to took her on a trip to the lakes, but things don’t work as planned and to conquer Mariuccia’s hearth won’t be so easy…
Tourist Train
The film portrays the comic adventures of a group of summertime travellers. Produced at the height of the fascist era, Treno popolare was nonetheless free of propaganda, and featured the first film score by the legendary composer Nino Rota.
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
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, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.
The Anatomy of Love
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
1860
The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.
Pazza di gioia
A modest accountant wins a utility vehicle in a contest and publishes an ad looking for a companion to share expenses on a vacation trip. An attractive young lady answers the ad, but at the meeting place, the girl mistakes the accountant for a millionaire, who of course, leaves with her...
La Danse de mort
A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past.
The Siege of the Alcazar
Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.
Nothing
When young Andrea arrives in Barcelona to begin her university studies, she stays at her aunt Angustias' house, where she lives with several relatives with whom she has constant arguments.
Filmography
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
as La signora
as Maria Valente
as Rita
as herself
as Mimi
as Anna Bortone
as Maria Bini, la maestrina
as Luisa
as Ada Mellario
as La figlia del direttore del giornale
as Liliana Casali
as Dorina
as Maria, sua sorella
as Conchita Alvarez
as Agatina
as L'amichetta dell'attore
as Ninetta
as Gina
as Betty
as Marietta Clavel
as Lola
as Anna
as Nella
as Clelia
as Ragazza Graziosa
as Ragazza del bar
as Maria
as telefonista