Elsa Merlini

Acting

Elsa Merlini

Born 1903-07-26 · Trieste, Italy

Acting credits

L'ultimo ballo poster
9.0

A good lady, taken by the fear of getting old, gives herself to the frivolities of worldly life.

L'ultimo ballo

1941

No artwork available
NR

A young man wants to give an idealized image of himself and his family and so he introduces the girl he loves to two old actors who pretend to be his parents.

Appuntamento a Senlis

1972

It Happens in Roma poster
4.9

Airy comedy of a man a woman and the lengths they'll go to for a really great apartment! Located in the center of Rome with amazing views both want it and strike the compromise of marrying each other platonically to get it. The woman still hopes for true love and the man agrees to step aside should that special someone come along but he is secretly smitten with her and surreptitiously makes her various suitors look like fools. All goes well until he comes up against Rosanno Brazzi and finds him a tough challenge to overcome.

It Happens in Roma

1955

The Private Secretary poster
6.5

During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man.The director of the bank she works at flirts with her while not at first revealing his identity so she rejects him.

The Private Secretary

1931

Legs of Gold poster
5.7

Baron Luigi Fontana is a rich and stinging producer of fine wines, as well as president of the amateur football team of Cerignola who, to crown a triumphant championship, is about to be promoted to Serie C.

Legs of Gold

1958

I pappagalli poster
5.9

Sunday is the only day off that house maids use to date the young men who cross their paths: doormen, soldiers, sailors, timid virgins and lurid husbands, or even a doctor.

I pappagalli

1955

Lisetta poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lisetta

1933

30 Seconds of Love poster
10.0

A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.

30 Seconds of Love

1936

Position Wanted poster
8.3

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...

Position Wanted

1951

Das Blumenmädchen vom Grand-Hotel poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Blumenmädchen vom Grand-Hotel

1934

I Don't Know You Anymore poster
6.7

After an argument with her husband, an unsatisfied wife suffers from selective amnesia. She doesn't recognize the man she married and calls her doctor husband instead.

I Don't Know You Anymore

1936

Ai vostri ordini, signora... poster
9.0

The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the suffocating presence of so many suitors, evidently interested only in her assets. Pietro's job therefore consists in posing as her boyfriend. Then things change and the two fake boyfriends discover that they are really in love with each other.

Ai vostri ordini, signora...

1939

L'avaro poster
10.0

An adaptation of Molière's play.

L'avaro

1957

The Lady in White poster
7.2

The lawyer Giulio Gualandi plans yet another escapade in Viareggio while he is with his wife on holiday in Cervinia.

The Lady in White

1938

No artwork available
NR

Set on a quiet, windswept Scottish island, the aging and somewhat lazy Pastor Mac Niff requests a curate to help him manage his eccentric parishioners. A young assistant named Newt arrives surprisingly early and begins using hyper-modern, bizarre methods to "save souls." It is eventually revealed that Newt is actually a rebellious devil who has deserted Hell to save humans—not out of goodness, but purely to spite Satan.

Non si dorme a Kirkwall

1960

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I mariti

1974

Ginevra degli Almieri poster
8.0

Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they try to chase her away. She will only be welcomed by the penniless young painter who has always been in love with her.

Ginevra degli Almieri

1935

No artwork available
NR

Rockefeller is a tough and resilient man, who has spent his life as a cowboy in the Wild West, always without fear and without remorse. He is the head of a large family, which he leads with authority, sharp words and a passionate temperament. In the village, Rockefeller faces an alcoholic doctor, a wise wife, a generous-hearted girl and a sheriff who takes justice into his own hands.

Del vento tra i rami del Sassofrasso

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il segretario particolare

1968

Gioco pericoloso poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gioco pericoloso

1942

Paprika poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Paprika

1933

Villini a sorpresa poster
NR

A door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman finds himself caught up in a surreal misdeed, which takes place inside a cottage where the man has gone to introduce the product to a potential customer.

Villini a sorpresa

1958

L'albero di Adamo poster
10.0

Based on the comedy Il successo by Alfredo Testoni.

L'albero di Adamo

1936

Amicizia poster
10.0

After falling in love with his friend's wife, a young man prefers to move to another place on a long trip. After several years he returns and reunites with the woman he loved and this time she will confess her love for him. The woman's husband will begin to suspect something.

Amicizia

1938