Tecla Scarano
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 20, 1894
Place of Birth: Naples, Italy
Known For
Beautiful
Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.
Marriage Italian Style
During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.
The Children Are Watching Us
In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.
The Gold of Naples
A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.
Frisky
The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
An American in Rome
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.
Il medico dei pazzi
Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.
The Wedding March
Satirical film in four episodes about family and marriage.
A Matter of Honor
Efisio Mulas is a meek laborer who lives with occasional work, especially in Don Leandro Sanna's salon, and rounds up the slim balance by betting with colleagues in strength with the game "head against head". In the village the Sanna and Porcu families' conflict has lasted over a century.
Filmography
as Zia Rosa Cimmaruta
as Bice, prozia di Olga
as Mutter von Efisio
as La suocera
as His Mother (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 1")
as Suocera di Maurizio (Segment "Quel porco di Maurizio")
as Rosalia
as Verace's Sister
as donna Pina
as Donna Tecla
as Zia Ada Barbalunga
as Donna Nunziata
as Assunta, la governante
as Spectator on TV
as Teresinella
as Don Peppino's friend (segment Pizza on a Credit)
as La moglie di Felice
as donna Concetta
as Stella Piccola
as Tilde Spernanzoni
as Sig.ra Resta
as Madre di Fiammetta