Gino Saltamerenda

Known for Acting

6/2/1902

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Biography

Gino Saltamerenda was born on June 2, 1902 in Rome, Lazio, Italy as Luigi Saltamerenda. He was an actor, known for Bicycle Thieves (1948), The Affairs of Messalina (1951) and Campane a martello (1949). He died on September 25, 1951 in Rome.

Known For (10 credits)

4.0

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The Affairs of Messalina

1951

A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.

6.0

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The Young Caruso

1951

This music filled biopic follows the life of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso from childhood poverty in Naples to the beginning of his rise to fame.

5.0

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The Thief of Venice

1950

A beautiful tavern-keeper finds herself getting caught up in a war between Italy and Turkey.

5.7

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Campane a martello

1949

Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her home island to collect the money from the priest. But after arriving there Agostina learns in shock that the priest has been dead for more than a year and that his eccentric successor mistook the received money for donations and spent all of it on building a new orphanage for war orphans. To make matters even worse, other islanders think that Agostina is now a millionaire and beg her to help them financially.

7.7

Movie

Snow White and the Seven Thieves

1949

A bizarre mechanic tells a traveler the story of a bank employee, Peppino Biancaneve, who with the help of a disc is trying to put together the words he would like to use to ask for the hand of the daughter of the jeweler Carlo Casertoni, but while he mulls over the sentences he should pronounce to his future father-in-law he comes across a strange individual who could be a bringer of bad luck: a jettatore.

8.2

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Bicycle Thieves

1948

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

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When Love Calls

1947

Claudio and Anna Tancredi, opera singers, are husband and wife. Their married life, however, is often disturbed by small misunderstandings and Anna's burning jealousy.

6.5

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The Captain's Daughter

1947

A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.

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The Lovers

1946

After an astrologer has foretold him he will die at an early age if he does not avoid a romantic entanglement, Alessandro Stradella, a well-known composer decides to leave Rome for the North of Italy. Written by Guy Bellinger

7.8

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Shoeshine

1946

At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to ride...