Ada Dondini

Ada Dondini

Birth : 1883-03-18, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy

Death : 1958-01-03

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Ada Dondini

Movies

Of Life and Love
Gina Migri
A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
Lo scocciatore
Suocere di Arduino
A bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young lady. When she doesn't answer the door, then is later found murdered he panics!
Sunday Heroes
Aunt Carolina
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.
Il microfono è vostro
Zia Camilla
Toto the Third Man
La signora Dupont
In a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women.
Honeymoon Deferred
Mama Pia
After World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where the husband fought. The town, however, holds some secrets.
Toto the Sheik
La marchesa
Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion.
The King's Guerrillas
Mother Superior
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.
Signorinella
Cesira, la governante
Circo equestre Za-bum
Fifa e arena
La zia Adele
In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry the rich Patricia Cotten and then kill her. So Nicolino play the bull fighter and heads to the arena....
I due orfanelli
La direttrice dell'orfanotrofio
In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.
Le vie del peccato
Eufemia Pinna
L'innocente Casimiro
Zia Tecla
Chi l'ha visto?
Nessuno torna indietro
Miss Lorenza
A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.
Zazà
Anaide
A glamorous female singer Zazà (Isa Miranda) has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne (Antonio Centa). But when Zazà impatiently comes to him in Paris she finds out that he is married and even has a daughter. He wants to escape from his relatives with Zazà, but, disillusioned and exhausted, she rejects his proposition and insists on his coming back to his family.
In cerca di felicità
La cliente dell'albergo 'Martedì'
Tutta la vita in ventiquattr'ore
Sora Maddalena
C'è sempre un ma!
Il treno crociato
La valle del diavolo
Zia Frida
Malombra
Fosca Salvador
A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor.
Violette nei capelli
Amalia
Se non son matti non li vogliamo
La domestica di Tamberlan
Schoolgirl Diary
Signorina Mattei
Piccolo mondo antico
la marchesa Orsola Maironi
Franco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmother's will.
L'eredità in corsa
Carlina
Joe il rosso
Duchess Sofia di Sandelle-Lafitte
A precious painting suddenly disappears from the house of a noble Italian family. A relative from America investigates the mystery.
Amo te sola
Donna Giuditta
Florence in 1848. There is a strong political tension in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Giovanni, a young Neapolitan composer who has just arrived in the city, accidentally comes into contact with some liberals and is convinced to compose the hymn of the Volunteers.
Oggi sposi
Heartbreaker
Giovanni's mother
A banker gets involved in the theft of a precious jewel.