Marcella Rovena

Marcella Rovena

Born: January 21, 1908
Died: August 9, 1998
in Conegliano, Veneto, Italy

Movies for Marcella Rovena...

Made in Italy
Title: Made in Italy
Character: The Maid (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 2")
Released: December 22, 1965
Type: Movie
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
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Il morbidone
Title: Il morbidone
Released: September 30, 1965
Type: Movie
Study of a man whose basic sense of inferiority leads him from worse to worse.
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La Suora Giovane
Title: La Suora Giovane
Released: February 19, 1965
Type: Movie
The life of Antonio suddenly changes when she meets Serena, a young nun who took the veil to escape the hard life of the country and has chosen the provision of assistance to the sick to get out of the convent, which falls in love, moving from the role of seducer to that of seduced.
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The Visit
Title: The Visit
Character: Mayor's Wife (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1964
Type: Movie
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
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La calda vita
Title: La calda vita
Released: February 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Attractive teenager Sergia usually hangs out with her older sister and her circle of mature friends. For a change, she is convinced by two teenage male friends to go for a beach vacation. Their main motive is to try to win her affection and get to sleep with her. Tragedy soon follows when the love triangle unravels.
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The Empty Canvas
Title: The Empty Canvas
Character: Tenant
Released: December 4, 1963
Type: Movie
An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love with a beautiful model who wants an uncommitted relationship.
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The Leopard
Title: The Leopard
Character: Peasant Woman
Released: March 27, 1963
Type: Movie
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
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I motorizzati
Title: I motorizzati
Character: Maria Grazia
Released: November 30, 1962
Type: Movie
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.
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A Man for Burning
Title: A Man for Burning
Character: Madre di Francesca
Released: October 26, 1962
Type: Movie
Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The peasants refuse to help him, and Salvatore is marked by the Mafia as a troublemaker.
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La banda Casaroli
Title: La banda Casaroli
Character: Gabriele's mother
Released: September 8, 1962
Type: Movie
Based on the misdeeds of the criminal group headed by Paolo Casaroli, who was dedicated to robbing banks.
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Day by Day, Desperately
Title: Day by Day, Desperately
Character: cartomante
Released: November 23, 1961
Type: Movie
The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all its members.
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Totòtruffa '62
Title: Totòtruffa '62
Released: August 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.
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Little Girls and High Finance
Title: Little Girls and High Finance
Released: October 30, 1960
Type: Movie
A low level official and a prostitute both try to commit suicide and fail, afterwards he becomes a pimp and the prostitutes take over the country.
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The Passionate Thief
Title: The Passionate Thief
Released: October 12, 1960
Type: Movie
On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.
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Hell in the City
Title: Hell in the City
Character: Signora Luisa
Released: January 29, 1959
Type: Movie
A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
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Pia de' Tolomei
Title: Pia de' Tolomei
Released: December 29, 1958
Type: Movie
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Corporal of the day
Title: Corporal of the day
Released: August 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A young woman brings a baby to some military barracks. There is a note on the child - it says that the baby is hers and a soldier called Felice.
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Young Husbands
Title: Young Husbands
Character: Franco's mother
Released: March 13, 1958
Type: Movie
In a small Italian town, the local youngsters realize that their youth is coming to an end and marriage will soon follow. They gather together for one last time in an attempt to revive their younger days, but this comes to a dismal conclusion. Gradually it dawns on the group that childhood is over and the next stage in human growth must be faced.
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Le Notti Bianche
Title: Le Notti Bianche
Character: La Padrona della Pensione
Released: November 14, 1957
Type: Movie
A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.
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Moglie e buoi...
Title: Moglie e buoi...
Released: October 23, 1956
Type: Movie
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Bravissimo
Title: Bravissimo
Released: November 22, 1955
Type: Movie
The master Impallato takes care of the boys in a suburban after-school. Here he discovers a pupil with an extraordinary baritone voice.
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Disperato addio
Title: Disperato addio
Character: Francesca
Released: September 6, 1955
Type: Movie
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The Sign of Venus
Title: The Sign of Venus
Character: Elvira
Released: March 12, 1955
Type: Movie
Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
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Guai ai vinti
Title: Guai ai vinti
Released: September 15, 1954
Type: Movie
A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers. Later, in Verona, both woman discover they are pregnant. After a suicide attempt, one has an abortion the other keeps her child - and both faces struggles with friends and family as they return to their homes.
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High School
Title: High School
Character: Madre di Camilla
Released: April 1, 1954
Type: Movie
It's the last year of highschool of a group of teenagers, and now they have to face their final exam, and the loves, happy or not, that sprung during those years of school.
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The Boarder
Title: The Boarder
Character: Luigina, moglie di Roberto
Released: February 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A prostitute goes on vacation to a beach resort with her young daughter (who's being schooled by nuns). Everything is cheerful and pleasant at the seashore; the customers at the hotel think she's a poor widow - she always wears black - and treat her like a lady. But when one of her former clients arrives, her carefree days on the beach are numbered.
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The Ship of Condemned Women
Title: The Ship of Condemned Women
Character: Nora
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
After murdering her illegitimate baby, Isabella (Tania Weber) pins the blame on her innocent cousin Consuelo (May Britt). Despite the strenuous efforts of her attorney-lover DeSylva (Ettore Manni), Consuelo is found guilty and shipped to a penal colony along with several other female prisoners.
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Europe '51
Title: Europe '51
Character: Mrs. Puglisi
Released: December 4, 1952
Type: Movie
A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity.
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Three Forbidden Stories
Title: Three Forbidden Stories
Character: Gianna's mother
Released: October 29, 1952
Type: Movie
While recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe. Remata (Lia Amando) has spent her entire life trying to overcome a childhood rape. Annamaria (Antonella Lualdi) has recently come out of an unfortunate marriage to a wealthy but insensitive boor. And Gianna (Eleanore Rossi Drago), the daughter of a college professor, has ruined her life with narcotics.
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Red Love
Title: Red Love
Character: Fudera
Released: September 13, 1952
Type: Movie
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Poppy
Title: Poppy
Released: May 3, 1952
Type: Movie
A high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets.
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Abracadabra
Title: Abracadabra
Character: Cesira Caiazzo
Released: February 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Three crooks scheme to swindle a wealthy widow out of her fortune, but their plans are thwarted by the sudden return of her husband who is far from dead.
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Stasera sciopero
Title: Stasera sciopero
Released: December 14, 1951
Type: Movie
A scientist combines two brains during an operation to create one perfect mind.
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Position Wanted
Title: Position Wanted
Character: La contessa
Released: November 3, 1951
Type: Movie
Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...
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È arrivato il Cavaliere
Title: È arrivato il Cavaliere
Character: Signora Varelli
Released: December 6, 1950
Type: Movie
A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.
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Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Title: Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Character: Silvana
Released: November 10, 1950
Type: Movie
Young swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him--and chases him when he escapes.
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Totò cerca moglie
Title: Totò cerca moglie
Character: Anna
Released: March 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.
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Arrivederci, papà!
Title: Arrivederci, papà!
Character: Zia Gertrude
Released: September 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Two little angels, a boy and a girl, come down on earth to choose their parents prior to birth. They choose the daughter of a retired general as their future mother and an opera singer as their dad. But making the two chosen ones meet, fall in love and marry will prove to be anything but easy.
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Torna a Sorrento
Title: Torna a Sorrento
Released: November 7, 1945
Type: Movie
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Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi
Title: Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi
Character: Maria Luisa
Released: November 28, 1944
Type: Movie
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Destiny Unknown
Title: Destiny Unknown
Released: November 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigrants who are hired as railroad workers in turn-of-the-century South America. In addition to facing poverty, deprivation, and prejudice, the immigrants are also bedeviled by a raging fever epidemic. Finally achieving a measure of prosperity, the Italians are forced to confront tragedy once more when their grown children march off to WWI. Though Isa Miranda is top-billed, she has very little to do in comparison with male lead Filippo Scelso. Passaporto Rosso was released in the U.S. as Destiny Unknown.
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I'll Give a Million
Title: I'll Give a Million
Character: La donna del tiro a segno
Released: January 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.
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The operator
Title: The operator
Character: signora Bàttigo, moglie di Alfredo
Released: July 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Two different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet.