Ada Dondini

Ada Dondini

Born: March 18, 1883
Died: January 3, 1958
in Cosenza, Calabria, Italy

Movies for Ada Dondini...

Of Life and Love
Title: Of Life and Love
Character: Gina Migri
Released: February 3, 1954
Type: Movie
A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
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Lo scocciatore
Title: Lo scocciatore
Character: Suocere di Arduino
Released: November 18, 1953
Type: Movie
A bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young lady. When she doesn't answer the door, then is later found murdered he panics!
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Sunday Heroes
Title: Sunday Heroes
Character: Aunt Carolina
Released: December 30, 1952
Type: Movie
Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.
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Il microfono è vostro
Title: Il microfono è vostro
Character: Zia Camilla
Released: December 9, 1951
Type: Movie
Bored with her bourgeois life, the young Maria Variani, daughter of a professor, meets Bruno, who is part of an amateur jazz group, and allows herself to be persuaded to join the band that plays during the radio program "The microphone is yours".
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Toto the Third Man
Title: Toto the Third Man
Character: La signora Dupont
Released: September 23, 1951
Type: Movie
In a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women.
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Honeymoon Deferred
Title: Honeymoon Deferred
Character: Mama Pia
Released: September 6, 1951
Type: Movie
After World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where the husband fought. The town, however, holds some secrets.
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Toto the Sheik
Title: Toto the Sheik
Character: La marchesa
Released: November 30, 1950
Type: Movie
Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion.
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The King's Guerrillas
Title: The King's Guerrillas
Character: Mother Superior
Released: November 3, 1950
Type: Movie
Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child.
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If I Were A Member Of Parliament
Title: If I Were A Member Of Parliament
Character: zia Elettra
Released: October 27, 1949
Type: Movie
A young dare-devil goes to Rome in search of fortune, with the blessings and money of his loving aunts. While in the city, he is a victim of a series of mishaps. His aunts hear about a man of the same name who is a candidate for Parliament; they think that he is their nephew and organize a series of celebrations. So, the youngster gets the idea of trying to replace the real candidate, but gets found out. The aunts forgive him.
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Signorinella
Title: Signorinella
Character: Cesira, la governante
Released: August 6, 1949
Type: Movie
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The Za-Bum Circus
Title: The Za-Bum Circus
Character: (segment "Galop finale al circo")
Released: March 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Anthology comedy/romance film
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Fifa e arena
Title: Fifa e arena
Character: La zia Adele
Released: November 23, 1948
Type: Movie
In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry the rich Patricia Cotten and then kill her. So Nicolino play the bull fighter and heads to the arena....
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I due orfanelli
Title: I due orfanelli
Character: La direttrice dell'orfanotrofio
Released: November 26, 1947
Type: Movie
In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.
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Le vie del peccato
Title: Le vie del peccato
Character: Eufemia Pinna
Released: October 19, 1946
Type: Movie
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L'innocente Casimiro
Title: L'innocente Casimiro
Character: Zia Tecla
Released: October 7, 1945
Type: Movie
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Chi l'ha visto?
Title: Chi l'ha visto?
Character: Luisella's aunt
Released: September 1, 1945
Type: Movie
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No One Comes Back
Title: No One Comes Back
Character: Miss Lorenza
Released: January 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.
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Zazà
Title: Zazà
Character: Anaide
Released: March 8, 1944
Type: Movie
A glamorous female singer Zazà (Isa Miranda) has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne (Antonio Centa). But when Zazà impatiently comes to him in Paris she finds out that he is married and even has a daughter. He wants to escape from his relatives with Zazà, but, disillusioned and exhausted, she rejects his proposition and insists on his coming back to his family.
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In cerca di felicità
Title: In cerca di felicità
Character: La cliente dell'albergo 'Martedì'
Released: February 18, 1944
Type: Movie
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Tutta la vita in ventiquattr'ore
Title: Tutta la vita in ventiquattr'ore
Character: Sora Maddalena
Released: November 27, 1943
Type: Movie
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C'è sempre un ma!
Title: C'è sempre un ma!
Released: May 26, 1943
Type: Movie
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Il treno crociato
Title: Il treno crociato
Released: April 8, 1943
Type: Movie
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La valle del diavolo
Title: La valle del diavolo
Character: Zia Frida
Released: April 6, 1943
Type: Movie
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Malombra
Title: Malombra
Character: Fosca Salvador
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor.
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Violette nei capelli
Title: Violette nei capelli
Character: Amalia
Released: June 6, 1942
Type: Movie
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Se non son matti non li vogliamo
Title: Se non son matti non li vogliamo
Character: La domestica di Tamberlan
Released: December 18, 1941
Type: Movie
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Schoolgirl Diary
Title: Schoolgirl Diary
Character: Signorina Mattei
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
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Piccolo mondo antico
Title: Piccolo mondo antico
Character: la marchesa Orsola Maironi
Released: April 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Franco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmother's will.
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L'eredità in corsa
Title: L'eredità in corsa
Character: Carlina
Released: December 2, 1939
Type: Movie
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Joe il Rosso
Title: Joe il Rosso
Character: Duchess Sofia of Sandelle-Lafitte
Released: December 7, 1936
Type: Movie
A precious painting suddenly disappears from the house of a noble Italian family. A relative from America investigates the mystery.
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Amo te sola
Title: Amo te sola
Character: Donna Giuditta
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Florence in 1848. There is a strong political tension in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Giovanni, a young Neapolitan composer who has just arrived in the city, accidentally comes into contact with some liberals and is convinced to compose the hymn of the Volunteers.
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Oggi sposi
Title: Oggi sposi
Released: February 27, 1934
Type: Movie
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Heartbreaker
Title: Heartbreaker
Character: Giovanni's mother
Released: April 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A banker gets involved in the theft of a precious jewel.