Carla Del Poggio

Acting

Carla Del Poggio

Born 1925-12-02 · Napoli, Italy

Maria Luisa Attanasio (2 December 1925 – 14 October 2010), known by her stage name Carla Del Poggio, was an Italian cinema, theatre, and television actress. A native of Naples, she was the wife of Italian director Alberto Lattuada for 60 years, from 2 April 1945 until his death 3 July 2005. She died at the age of 84 from undisclosed causes.

Acting credits

Without Pity poster
5.9

A struggling woman and a black American soldier fall in love in post-World War II Italy.

Without Pity

1948

The Rebels of Lomanach poster
5.6

A young woman has a perilous affair with a General from the opposing side during the Revolutionary war.

The Rebels of Lomanach

1954

Variety Lights poster
6.9

In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.

Variety Lights

1950

The Bandit poster
6.4

Among others, Ernesto returns to Turin after the war from a German POW camp; his household destroyed and family deceased, he tries making an honest living.

The Bandit

1946

Lost Youth poster
6.2

In impoverished post-war Rome, a gang of young thieves is lead by Stefano, the son of an illustrious professor. The police suspects that the criminals are actually university students; inspector Mariani, a young World War II veteran, enrolls and tries to find out more. He falls for a pretty fellow student, Luisa, but she is the sister of the gang leader...

Lost Youth

1948

Rome 11:00 poster
7.7

The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic accident.

Rome 11:00

1952

Cavalcata d'eroi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cavalcata d'eroi

1950

Crazy Things poster
7.3

When young Dalia is mistakenly admitted to a mental institution, she is declared sane - but by a truly mad person pretending to be a doctor. The real doctor thinks she is insane - how can she escape this madness?

Crazy Things

1954

Wolves Hunt at Night poster
5.8

A secret agent is summoned by the head of a counter espionage organization, to Trieste where he is to unmask a potential enemy operating in Venice.

Wolves Hunt at Night

1952

Tragic Hunt poster
6.6

Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural cooperative charged with bringing four million lire into office.

Tragic Hunt

1947

Violette nei capelli poster
5.6

Lilia Silvi stars as Carina, an orphaned little seamstress, who is in the habit of sneaking out of her window at night, and go to the theater. Once back in her small chamber, she will act out all the parts of the play she has just witnessed. Her longing is to be on the stage, and then she meets Oliva and Mirella, two sisters who share her ambition to enter the world of dance and drama. The three girls become inseparable friends, and we follow them in their aspirations to make it to the stage.

Violette nei capelli

1942

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts poster
6.5

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

2017

The Mill on the Po poster
5.9

In the Po Valley during the 19th century, a rich girl engaged to a well-to-do farmer ends up penniless and is forced to work for her fiancé’s relatives. Peasant unrest, carried to extremes by both workers and landowners, leads to violence and tragedy.

The Mill on the Po

1949

The Secret of Helene Marimon poster
4.2

At the end of the Great War, the wounded Jacques Taillandier is cared for by the beautiful Hélène Marimon and becomes her lover. He hides from her the fact that her husband is a comrade from the trenches, and only reveals the truth when he learns of Marimon's death. Outraged, Hélène drives him away. After many years, Jacques reappears to learn that Hélène had once given him a daughter. Hélène, unwilling to reveal anything to young Dominique, forces the man she loves to leave her country. Dominique not only gets her mother to talk, but also reunites those separated by fate.

The Secret of Helene Marimon

1954

Umanità poster
8.0

The meritorious assistance of a US institution, towards the inhabitants of a refugee camp, in the Italian post-war period, among the protagonists a doctor who tries to do everything possible to treat the population in critical health conditions. The doctor will fall in love with a girl particularly affected by the dramatic war period, but the return of the girl's boyfriend from captivity and the subsequent marriage will make the American doctor return to daily reality.

Umanità

1946

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'angelo e il diavolo

1946

Maddalena, Zero for Conduct poster
6.3

A young woman teaches commercial writing and makes her students practice by writing letters addressed to an imaginary recipient from Vienna. One day, the love letter the woman writes to this non-existent man is accidentally sent by one of her students –and falls into the hands of a real person.

Maddalena, Zero for Conduct

1940

Incontri di notte poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Incontri di notte

1943

A Garibaldian in the Convent poster
6.5

An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and her tragic love for a Garibaldian.

A Garibaldian in the Convent

1942

Tormento del passato poster
7.0

A gangster comes back to Rome after many years and meets his old flame and their daughter.

Tormento del passato

1952

Immortal Melodies poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Immortal Melodies

1952

La bocca sulla strada poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La bocca sulla strada

1941

No artwork available
10.0

A love story along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, set in Calabria: two young lovers belong to two families who have always been enemies of each other.

Il sentiero dell'odio

1950

Storms poster
5.9

A renowned surgeon becomes involved with an attractive circus trapeze artist with the relationship threatening his marriage and family life.

Storms

1953