Silvana Pampanini

Acting

Silvana Pampanini

Born 1925-09-26 · Roma, Lazio, Italy

Pampanini became one of the most popular movie actresses in her country and was considered a sex symbol in the 1950s. In 1955 she visited New York, Denver and Hollywood but rejected job offers because she could not speak English properly and had some problems with the tax office.[citation needed] She was well-liked in France, where they nicknamed her Ninì Pampan, Spain, where she appeared in Tirma, South America, especially in Mexico, where she starred in Sed de Amor with Pedro Armendáriz, and Egypt. She worked with other internationally important actors and directors such as Buster Keaton, Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni,Alberto Sordi, Totò, Jean Gabin, Henri Vidal, Abel Gance, Vittorio De Sica. The film O.K. Nero, in which Pampanini starred, was banned in certain places because of scenes that were considered indecent.

Acting credits

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? poster
5.4

During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

1971

Experts on the Football Field poster
5.5

The everyday lives of some international football players before and after a big game.

Experts on the Football Field

1956

Roman Tales poster
6.2

Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?

Roman Tales

1955

Noi cannibali poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Noi cannibali

1953

The Cheerful Squadron poster
6.1

The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.

The Cheerful Squadron

1954

Tiburzi poster
7.0

An unconventional biopic about the legendary Tuscan bandit Tiburzi, who became a peasants' hero in the late nineteenth century

Tiburzi

1996

The Year Long Road poster
6.7

Set in an unspecified country and an unspecified time period, the film follows a communist intelectual who, after travelling the world for many decades, decides to return and settle down to the place he grew up in, a small coastal village seemingly forgotten by time itself. With him, he brings news of the dawn of a new world on the horizon, with which he wishes to connect with through constructing a modern highway. This news is welcomed in the village, however, the construction of the road begins to bring out violent conflicts, reveals forbidden romances and ends up regressing the community even further into the darkness from which it wanted to escape.

The Year Long Road

1958

Saranno uomini poster
5.0

After leaving the reformatory where they spent their childhood, three boys begin their journey in life. The protagonist ends up becoming a criminal, but is finally redeemed by another of his former classmates, who has become a priest.

Saranno uomini

1957

O.K. Nero poster
6.0

Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero.

O.K. Nero

1951

Koenigsmark poster
9.0

A young French, Vignerte, is hired in the court of Lautenberg, an imaginary land, as the young Prince's private teacher and as the Grand Duchess' reader.

Koenigsmark

1953

Guns of the Black Witch poster
7.0

In the 17th century, a village was the refuge of several French buccaneers. One day, the Spanish under the command of Guzmán, attacked the village and killed everybody, adults and children ...

Guns of the Black Witch

1961

A Day in Court poster
6.3

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.

A Day in Court

1954

Il barone Carlo Mazza poster
6.0

Rosa Pezza, a beautiful young girl, is forced into a thousand maneuvers and subterfuges to gain possession of a rich inheritance. She is ultimately forced to marry the penniless and bizarre baron Carlo Mazza but the baron, tired of his wife's escapades, decides to divorce her...

Il barone Carlo Mazza

1948

Miracolo a Viggiù poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Miracolo a Viggiù

1951

The Slave of Sin poster
4.8

A former prostitute and a little Polish girl are survivors of a train crash. The woman wishes to adopt the child, but her past makes that difficult.

The Slave of Sin

1954

Thirst for Love poster
6.3

Pedro Ortiz, a brave charro, arrives to a fishing village that is passing hard times. There's no fish in the waters. His manners and his love for Maria, a local attractive widow, will get him into trouble

Thirst for Love

1959

Orient Express poster
7.0

On December 24th the Orient Express gets snowbound near a little mountain village and its passengers are forced to spend some time there, mingling with the local people, upsetting their usually monotonous daily lives.

Orient Express

1954

Girls Marked Danger poster
5.7

In Genoa, amongst the underclass living on the fringes of the law, Machedi organises the trafficking of women, to be exploited and sent off to who knows where. One of these women is Alda, who has evaded the ring once, but when her boyfriend is arrested, finds herself back in Machedi's net.

Girls Marked Danger

1952

Tizio, Caio, Sempronio poster
8.0

A satirical story set during the early years of the Roman Empire.

Tizio, Caio, Sempronio

1951

A Husband for Anna poster
5.7

Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for Andrea to return from the navy she gets raped by her boss. Her life suddenly takes a downward spiral.

A Husband for Anna

1953

L'inafferrabile 12 poster
7.2

Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he closed one in an orphanage), the one goalkeeper of Juventus and the other employee at the state lottery.

L'inafferrabile 12

1950

Tower of Lust poster
5.1

France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.

Tower of Lust

1955

Mid-Century Loves poster
5.2

Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.

Mid-Century Loves

1954

No artwork available
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Napoleoncito

1964