Carroll Baker is a retired American actress. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954. From there, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in the adaptation of two Tennessee Williams plays into the film Baby Doll in 1956. Her role in the film as a coquettish but sexually naïve Southern bride earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Annie Suzanne Girardot was a French actress. She often played strong-willed, independent, hard-working, and often lonely women, imbuing her characters with an earthiness and reality that endeared her to women undergoing similar daily struggles.
Renato Salvatori was an Italian actor.
My Friends is a 1975 Italian comedy drama film directed by Mario Monicelli.
Gastone Moschin was an Italian stage, television and film actor.
Poveri ma belli is a 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi.
Roaring Years is a 1962 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa, set in the 1930s during the Fascist period of Benito Mussolini. It stars Nino Manfredi and Gino Cervi, and was inspired by the satirical comedy "The Government Inspector” by Nikolai Gogol.
Berlin, Appointment for the Spies is a 1965 Italian Eurospy film directed by Vittorio Sala and starring Dana Andrews. The film is also known as Bang You're Dead.
La visita is a 1963 Italian comedy film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli. It was entered into the 14th Berlin International Film Festival.
Sex Quartet is a 1966 Italian-French comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli, Mauro Bolognini, Antonio Pietrangeli and Luciano Salce. It starred Capucine, Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti and Raquel Welch.
The Specialists is a 1969 Spaghetti Western co-written and directed by Sergio Corbucci. It was an international co-production between Italy, France and West Germany. Retrospective critics and scholars of Corbucci's Westerns have deemed The Specialists to be the final film in the director's "Mud and Blood" trilogy, which also includes Django (1966) and The Great Silence (1968).
Italian Secret Service is a 1968 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. For his performance in this film and in Il padre di famiglia, Nino Manfredi was awarded with a Golden Plate at the 1968 Edition of David di Donatello.
La nonna Sabella is a 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. It is based on the novel of the same name written by Pasquale Festa Campanile. The film won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. It was followed by La nipote Sabella.
Omicron is a 1963 Italian science fiction-comedy film directed by Ugo Gregoretti. The plot concerns an alien who takes over the body of an Earthling in order to learn about The Planet Earth and threatens the human kind. The film was entered in the competition at the 24th Venice International Film Festival.
I magi randagi, internationally released as We Free Kings, is a 1996 Italian comedy film directed by Sergio Citti.
Sissignore, internationally released as Dismissed on His Wedding Night and Yes Sir, is a 1968 Italian comedy film written, directed and starred by Ugo Tognazzi.
Women in Skirts is a 1991 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Francesco Nuti. It was the highest-grossing Italian film in Italy in 1992. The film was nominated for two awards, Best Supporting Actress and Best Costume Design.
The Sweet Body of Deborah is a 1968 giallo film directed by Romolo Girolami and starring Carroll Baker and Jean Sorel. It was written by Ernesto Gastaldi based on a story by Gastaldi and producer Luciano Martino.
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte is a 1971 Italian heist comedy film directed by Michele Lupo.
Lea Lander is a former German film actress who worked mainly in Italian cinema. She is a cousin of the actor Hardy Krüger.
