Anna Campori

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Anna Campori, 1958

Anna Campori (born September 22, 1917 in Rome ; † January 19, 2018 there ) was an Italian actress .

Life

Campori, daughter of actors, was born in Trastevere, Rome , where she lived until her death. She attended a classic high school.

She made her stage debut as a child when she was used as a song singer as part of her father's troupe. In later years she also belonged to other companies. In the 1930s she got to know the Trio De Vico while performing in Naples , with whose member Pietro De Vico (the others were his cousins ​​Antonio and Mario) she soon had a private relationship and whom she married in March 1937. She also appeared with the De Vico brothers and served the Avanspettacolo and revue theater of the time; during the period up to World War II she toured frequently inland.

In 1940 she founded a new revue group with the Trio De Vico, in which she took over the role of prima donna in the listed revues . The ensemble members remained artistically connected in this way for a decade , with great success, until Campori left the company in 1951 to perform alongside Erminio Macario in Enrico Bassano's La bisbetica sognata . Next stations were a new ensemble with Alberto Semprini , Katyna Ranieri and Achille Togliani , with whom she primarily performed musical pieces. Also in 1951 she was hired for a film role for the first time and played a supporting supporting role in Una bruna indiavolata by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia . A large number of films followed by 1970, but in which Campori never got beyond the status of the character role; several times she was cast alongside comedian Totò as his wife.

At the Teatro Verdi in Trieste Campori 1953 gave Bombon in Il Paese dei Campanelli and the following year the Fifi in Sogno di un valzer of Oscar Straus and Claretta in Al Cavallino Bianco , where in addition Nuto Navarrini in the Castello di San Giusto occurred.

However, she achieved her greatest fame through a television role, namely the interpretation of "Giovanna, the grandmother of the Black Corsair", which was tailored to children and young people in 1961 and enjoyed immense popularity, so that two follow-up series were created by 1966. The Giovanna played by her acts as the leader of a troupe of bizarre people, among them Nicolino (played by Pietro de Vico) and Majordomus Battista (Giulio Marchetti). In addition to her never given up stage work, she played in the 1970s a. a. in Io non Spezzo… rompo (1971), Storia di fifa e di coltello - Er seguito d'er più (1972) and in Un uomo, una città (1974).

In the 1979/1980 season she was on stage next to Renato Rascel before a permanent collaboration with theater director Antonio Calenda began in the 1980s, under whose direction several classics could be seen: L'inventore del cavallo by Achille Campanile , Miles gloriosus by Plautus and Le rose del lago by Franco Brusati . Further film and television works (including a 1991 appearance together with her husband in Ladri di futuro ) were added.

In the same year 1981 Campori gave the Rosa in L'acqua cheta at the "Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi" in Trieste alongside Daniela Mazzucato , William Matteuzzi and Sandro Massimini under the direction of Gino Landi and two years later Madama Picon in "Madama di Tebe" by Carlo Lombardo alongside again Mazzucato, Massimini and Max Renè Cosotti .

At the reopening of the Teatro Ambra Jovinelli, on which she had often worked with her husband and cousins, she was a guest of honor in 1981 and interpreted a sketch. Her last theatrical appearance was in The Accidental Detective in 2003; in total she played in around 70 films. In 2007 she was a guest on Pippo Baudo's television show Domenica in , where she had been interviewed next to her husband ten years earlier on the occasion of the golden wedding anniversary.

Campori's last TV appearance was in 2010.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1951: Una bruna indiavolata
  • 1953: Un turco napoletano
  • 1956: The most beautiful days in life (I giorni più belli)
  • 1957: A night with 16 blondes (Serenate per 16 bionde)
  • 1958: The Greyhound of Venice (Venezia, la luna e tu)
  • 1959: This treasure from papa (Quel tesoro di papà)
  • 1960: Passionate thief (Risate di gioia)
  • 1961: Giovanna, la nonna del Cordaro Nero (TV series)
  • 1962: Le nuove avventure di Giovanna, la nonna del Corsaro Nero (TV series)
  • 1966: Giovanna alla riscossa più forte di un bicchiere di gin (TV series)
  • 1967: Ric e Gian alla conquista del West
  • 1984: As in Flight (Voglia di volare) (TV series)
  • 2003: The Accidental Detective

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Addio ad Anna Campori, Giovanna nel "Corsaro Nero"
  2. ^ Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Le attrici. Rome, Gremese 2003, pp. 59/60
  3. ↑ Articolo su tvblog
  4. ↑ [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Campori, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 2018
Place of death Rome