Costume & Make-Up

Vittorio Nino Novarese

Born — Died

1907-05-15 — 1983-10-17

Place of birth

Rome, Italy

Known for

Costume & Make-Up

Credits

40 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vittorio Nino Novarese (May 15, 1907 in Rome, Italy – October 17, 1983 in Los Angeles, United States) was an Italian costume designer who found great success in Hollywood after decamping there in 1949. In his first year there he scored an Oscar nomination for his work on the film Prince of Foxes, winning the Academy Award 14 years later for the grandiose epic Cleopatra. He was also nominated twice in 1965 for both The Agony and the Ecstasy and The Greatest Story Ever Told, and won a second Oscar in 1970 for Cromwell. Novarese was trained as a militarist, but contrary to what one might think from the name, this only gave him the classical training to kn…

Known for

Behind the camera

House of Ricordi poster
6.3

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.

House of Ricordi

1954

La colpa di una madre poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La colpa di una madre

1952

Night of Love poster
6.5

In 1915, at a time when Austria, Germany and Italy were supposed to be allied, two Italian brothers are pitted against each other not only for divisive politics but also because they love the same girl, Anna, the niece of an Austrian lieutenant.

Night of Love

1954

100 Years of Love poster
7.5

Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.

100 Years of Love

1954

Loves of Three Queens poster
9.0

At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, remembering the troubles caused by Paris in a similar situation.

Loves of Three Queens

1954

The Affairs of Messalina poster
4.1

A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.

The Affairs of Messalina

1951

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

The Age of Indiscretion poster
8.5

In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.

The Age of Indiscretion

1953

Il romanzo della mia vita poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il romanzo della mia vita

1952

When Love Calls poster
8.0

Claudio and Anna Tancredi, opera singers, are husband and wife. Their married life, however, is often disturbed by small misunderstandings and Anna's burning jealousy.

When Love Calls

1947

Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris poster
6.0

The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attempt by suspicious innkeeper Thenardier, and a climax on the barricades of Paris.

Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris

1948

Il falco rosso poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il falco rosso

1949

La congiura dei Borgia poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La congiura dei Borgia

1959

Don Juan's Night of Love poster
7.5

Mandrin, the French army deserter, becomes the leader of a gang of smugglers in Piedmont. He is loved by the beautiful innkeeper Rosetta but draws attention to the Marquise de Montbricourt, favorite of the king, who comes from Versailles just to see him. She will saved his life and allow him to marry Rosetta.

Don Juan's Night of Love

1952

The Great Deception poster
6.0

Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit his inheritance to his son Pascal. At least this is what he thinks, for Pascal has concealed from his father the fact that his son was ... a daughter, his eighth daughter! Well, enough is enough and Geneviève has no other choice but become a boy first, then a soldier and even the special envoy of Louis XV, King of France, to Catherine II, the Czarina of Russia.

The Great Deception

1959

Il cavaliere del sogno poster
9.0

Luisa's dreams of love comes true in a hotel in the mountains.

Il cavaliere del sogno

1947

Mata Hari's Daughter poster
7.0

In this espionage film, Mata Hari's daughter takes the mantle from her notorious mother and entangles her self in an Asian web of intrigue and war.

Mata Hari's Daughter

1954

The Fighting Men poster
6.5

Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland, hoping that his employer, discouraged by its low returns, will sell his earth to him for next to nothing. His plans are thwarted by a share cropper, Diego Costa, who farms his lot zealously and to good results.

The Fighting Men

1950

A Dog’s Life poster
6.9

Tragicomedy telling of the trials and tribulations of a troupe of variety show artists.

A Dog’s Life

1950

Il conte di Sant'Elmo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il conte di Sant'Elmo

1951

Two Anonymous Letters poster
5.3

When her sweetheart Bruno joins the Italian army, Gina, bored by her lack of social life, weds Tullio. She comes to regret her decision when Tullio proves to be a Nazi collaborationist. Casting her lot with the Resistance movement, Gina is forced into a difficult decision when the safety of ex-lover Bruno is endangered by the treachery of Tullio.

Two Anonymous Letters

1945

Silenzio, si gira! poster
10.0

A comedy set behind the scenes at Cinecittà studios in Rome during the war, focusing on a famous, demanding tenor and his love interest.

Silenzio, si gira!

1943

Il vento m'ha cantato una canzone poster
6.6

The owner of a cosmetics factory has made a contract with Radio Sibilla for the transmission of an evening program in which the products of his company are advertised.

Il vento m'ha cantato una canzone

1947

The King's Guerrillas poster
6.5

Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child.

The King's Guerrillas

1950

Captain Falcon poster
6.5

Baron Oddo de Serra who is cruel to his subjects, is neighbor of the Count Gualtiero of Roccalta. The servants of the baron cross the lands of Count to escape his abuses. Baron hatches a plot to assassinate the earl.

Captain Falcon

1958

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'angelo e il diavolo

1946

Disperato addio poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Disperato addio

1955

El pasado te acusa poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

El pasado te acusa

1958

Lovers Without Love poster
7.5

This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata named after the Beethoven piece. The story concerns marriage, divorce, love, carnal lust and jealousy.

Lovers Without Love

1948

No One Comes Back poster
6.0

A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.

No One Comes Back

1945

Canto, ma sottovoce... poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Canto, ma sottovoce...

1946

Rossini poster
9.0

The famous composer's life and his career. His love story with Isabella Colbran, the soprano who was to become his wife and the singer in all his operas up to the unfortunate day she lost her voice.

Rossini

1942

The Man with the Grey Glove poster
10.0

A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is withdrawn from the restorer's studio and exposed, the art critic Drago discovers that it is not the original, but a copy.

The Man with the Grey Glove

1948

La mano della morta poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La mano della morta

1949

Incanto di mezzanotte poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Incanto di mezzanotte

1940

Incanto di mezzanotte poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Incanto di mezzanotte

1940

Lasciateci in pace poster
10.0

A mild-mannered man is mistaken for a subversive.

Lasciateci in pace

1953

La ladra poster
10.0

Whistle is an orphaned boy, raised in an environment unsuitable for a budding child and thief. A shady lawyer, an accomplice of thieves and fences, entrusts him to Nino, the leader of a gang that is preparing a particularly valuable coup.

La ladra

1955

Paolo e Francesca poster
9.0

The tragic love story, already narrated by Dante in his Inferno, of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta. Francesca is married to Paolo's brother, Gianciotto an old and crippled man and secretly Paolo's mistress. When Gianciotto finds out tragedy ensues.

Paolo e Francesca

1950

Miss Italia poster
7.5

Journalist decides to report on Miss Italy candidates, in which detective intrigue is added.

Miss Italia

1950