Franca Tamantini

Acting

Franca Tamantini

Born — Died

1931-08-24 — 2014-08-11

Place of birth

Roma, Lazio, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

Franca Tamantini (24 August 1931 – 11 August 2014) was an Italian film, television and stage actress. Born in Rome, since young age Tamantini studied piano, singing and classical dance at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. In 1948 she was chosen by Luchino Visconti to play Olimpia in the stage drama Rosalinda o come vi piace, and one year later she made her film debut in Fernando Cerchio's Cenerentola, a musical adaptation of the Charles Perrault's fairy tale Cinderella. During her career Tamantini was often cast in operettas and musical comedies, both in the theater and in television. In films, she was often cast in character roles, and she enjoyed a late success only at mature age, with the …

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 4 titles

1950s · 16 titles

The Queen of Sheba poster
5.5

The 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

Totò Looking for Wife poster
6.3

Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.

Totò Looking for Wife

1950

Le vacanze del Sor Clemente poster
7.0

Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa he's left in the company of a friend and a butler.

Le vacanze del Sor Clemente

1955

The City Stands Trial poster
6.4

Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.

The City Stands Trial

1952

Greetings and sons! poster
6.5

Three friends, a mechanic, a clockmaker, and a night warden are engaged to three sisters but are broke and cannot get married and pay the rent. They convince their future father-in-law to buy three little flats for them but the man buys them from a swindler and the friends run the risk of going to prison.

Greetings and sons!

1951

No artwork available
7.5

A pirate tries to lead his followers in vengeance against a corrupt governor.

Revenge of the Pirates

1951

The Man Who Wagged His Tail poster
6.8

The owner of a building tyrannizes his immigrant tenants. Transformed into a dog by an old woman's curse, he experiences all the hardships of his situation; when a child's affection turns him back into a man, his soul is radically changed.

The Man Who Wagged His Tail

1957

Sunday Heroes poster
6.4

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.

Sunday Heroes

1952

The Young Caruso poster
7.5

This music filled biopic follows the life of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso from childhood poverty in Naples to the beginning of his rise to fame.

The Young Caruso

1951

Tomorrow Is Another Day poster
4.5

A doctor rescues a young woman who is about to throw herself into the river and takes her to the hospital. The woman learns of three very sad stories revolving around suicide.

Tomorrow Is Another Day

1951

Barrier of the Law poster
8.0

An undercover policeman infiltrates a criminal gang.

Barrier of the Law

1954

La sultana Safiyè poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La sultana Safiyè

1955

10 love songs to save poster
7.0

The plot concerns a songwriter, played by Jacques Sernas who leaves his sweetheart and publisher when he learns that he is going blind.

10 love songs to save

1953

Due soldi di felicità poster
7.0

A country boy moves to the city to attempt a singing career and gets seduced by a soubrette.

Due soldi di felicità

1955

Rigoletto poster
6.0

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

Rigoletto

1955

La Favorita poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Favorita

1952

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