William Ricciardi
Nacimiento : 1871-07-12, Sorrento, Campania, Italy
Muerte : 1961-02-16
Coachman to Leghorn
Anthony Adverse, un niño huérfano que crece en un convento, se enamora de la hija del cocinero. Pero el muchacho se verá envuelto en un sinfín de aventuras que lo llevarán de Cuba a África y después a París. Allí encontrará a su amada convertida en una estrella de la ópera; él, por su parte, llegará a descubrir los secretos que oculta su pasado.
Signor Baldini
La cantante de ópera Mary Blake huye de la miseria y busca cobijo en Blackie Norton, un empresario de San Francisco que le proporciona trabajo. Inevitablemente, surge una estrecha relación entre ambos que es desaprobada por el sacerdote Mullin. Mientras tanto, nos aproximamos a la fatídica fecha del 18 de abril de 1906, cuando un terremoto arrasó la ciudad y provocó más de 3.000 muertos.
Minotti
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
Luigi
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.
Kitchen Boss (Uncredited)
During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a challenging new life.
Manuel Silva, a Crewman
Mike es un pescador atunero de origen portugués que en una ocasión perdió una mano, cuando intentaba salvar a su amigo Pipes Boley. Ahora Mike está felizmente casado con Quita, hija de un marinero que sirvió de pasto a los tiburones, y no se da cuenta de que su mujer y Pipes están enamorados.
Pietro
Zara es una mujer que sufre amnesia desde hace años y se reencuentra con su marido Bruno sin saber la relación que les une. Poco a poco ella vuelve a enamorarse de él.
Tomasso Antiovi
Un cantante mujeriego se enamora de una sureña anticuada. El problema es que ella ya está comprometida.
Prime Minister Stemmler
Bob Howard, a WWI wounded soldier in a army hospital, meets and falls in love with Princess Elena. When the Armistice is signed, he is quickly shipped back home to America. Returning to Europe, he is mistaken as a Crown Prince traveling to be married to a Princess from another country. The Princess-bride, intended for another man, is his Elena.
Isabella's Uncle Emilio
This silent drama's story is based on the Broadway play Hail and Farewell by William Hurlbut.
Cabaret Owner
Jeff Farnell, forced by circumstances to take a job on a New York scandal sheet while he awaits the settlement of his claim against a steel company. Job Hardcastle, the hardened city editor of the paper, sends Jeff to get a story on "Mops" Collins, a society divorcée who has been reduced to dancing in a cabaret. Jeff takes pity on Mops, who is dying of consumption, and takes her into his apartment, telling Hardcastle that he could not find her. Afraid of losing his job, Jeff hunts for a big story, finding it when he discovers that Clive Ross-Fayne, a friend he thought lost in the war, has been arraigned on charges of narcotics peddling. (Pamela Short)
Sam Goldman
An English circus clown finds he's lost his touch after returning from war.
Papa Jacques
A pickpocket falls in love with a newspaperman. When he is sent off to war and she disguises herself as a boy, joins a gang and sets out to save him.