Maria Teresa Ricci

Maria Teresa Ricci (* 1912 in Rome ; † March 3, 1969 ibid) was an Italian film director and screenwriter .

Ricci worked as assistant director for Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia on about ten films between 1939 and 1942 , including two films in which Vittorio de Sica played the leading role ( Pazza di gioia , 1940, and Se io fossi onesto , 1942), and one more time for Luigi Zampa . In 1942, she was the first woman to stage the melodrama La principessa del sogno in Italian talkies with Roberto Savarese . After that, their track is lost. The date of death is unconfirmed.

Filmography

1939: L'amore si fa così (screenplay)
1940: Pazza di gioia (screenplay and assistant director)
1941: La forza bruta (screenplay)
1942: La principessa del sogno (screenplay and direction)

Web links

Maria Teresa Ricci in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, p. 358 (partly available from Google Books )
^ ^A ^b Bert Cardullo: Vittorio De Sica: Actor, Director, Auteur , Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009, ISBN 978-1-4438-1233-7 , pp. 100 and 101

personal data
SURNAME	Ricci, Maria Teresa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rome
DATE OF DEATH	March 3, 1969
Place of death	Rome

[Poppi-1] A ^b Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, p. 358 (partly available from Google Books )

[Cardullo-2] A ^b Bert Cardullo: Vittorio De Sica: Actor, Director, Auteur , Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009, ISBN 978-1-4438-1233-7 , pp. 100 and 101