
Acting
Dorian Gray
Born 1928-02-02 · Bolzano, Italy
Maria Luisa Mangini (2 February 1928 – 15 February 2011), better known as Dorian Gray, was an Italian actress. Gray made her stage debut in 1950. After five years she left the theater world and devoted herself to the cinema. The role she played most often in films was that of a seductive sex kitten. She played the titular "bad girl" in Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina. She also appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni's Il grido. In 1957, she took part in The Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini. On February 15, 2011, Gray committed suicide by gunshot at her home in Torcegno. She was 83 years old; however, some media reported her age as 75, since she claimed to have been born in 1936.
Acting credits
8.0Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
Nights of Cabiria
1957
6.2A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.
Commando
1962
6.5Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
1960
7.5A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
Il Grido
1957
7.2Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
Love and Larceny
1960
6.8This is an Italian Romance starring Terence Hill
Guaglione
1956
5.4It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.
Love on the Riviera
1958
4.8Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.
Colossus and the Amazon Queen
1960
4.3A group of drug dealers clashes with the police several times between December 28th and New Year's Eve.
The Criminals of the Metropolis
1967
9.0A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977
8.0Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl).
Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
1956
7.0The penniless Duke decides to participate in "Lascia o raddoppia", a TV quiz show, in order to win five million lira. Then two gangsters bet between themselves on his success and, alas, the Duke is kidnapped.
Totò Double or Nothing?
1956
5.9Ugly, persistent, and (initially) annoying admirer pursues a beautiful actress. At first he is laughed of, especially by his ultra handsome rival, but with his firm insistence, and gradually emerging charm, he seduces the lady, to the total shocked surprise of his rival.
Vacations in Majorca
1959
7.0A black comedy anthology about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes: a teacher, obsessed with the idea that his wife is unfaithful, goes to a shrink; a wife has her husband dress himself with a comic character costume; and a man has to spend the night in a mysterious hotel after his car breaks down.
Thrilling
1965
7.5A woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's estranged husband does also.
Appointment for Murder
1952
10.0In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.
Il mago per forza
1951
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Peccati d'estate
1962
5.5The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.
The Queen of Sheba
1952
7.0Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.
Damn the Taxes!!
1951
7.6Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
1956
6.7A television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will know how to sing". The award mirage lured many person, with ambitions or financial problems, to enroll in the competition.
Domenica è sempre domenica
1958
6.5This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries) of confused, mismatched, or ambivalent lovers. The script includes witty dialogue and humorous situations; most of all on display is the ridiculousness of the human compulsion to pair up.
The Surprises of Love
1959
7.0Lemmy Caution has been assigned by Interpol to work as a double agent. Little does he know how many spies are on to this deception and how dangerous his assignment has become.
Destination Fury
1961
5.2Federico, Bruno, Pirro and Benny are married. The first three have beautiful wifes, Benny instead is married to a ugly woman. Ornella is Bruno's wife, she is very jealous and maintains that all men are deceitful, granted the opportunity, while Claudine, Federico's wife, maintains the contrary point of view. So they bet that Tosca, a former dancer, will succeed in seducing Federico.
Dangerous Women
1958