Franca Valeri

AKA: Франка Валери
3.7643

1920-07-31

Milan, Italy

Biography

Crew Roles

Tosca e altre due
Screenplay
The Sign of Venus
Screenplay
Listen, Let's Make Love
Story
Listen, Let's Make Love
Screenplay
Paris, My Love
Screenplay
The Sign of Venus
Story
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {55}

Armida, la moglie di Alfredo

1954-11-12 0

These Phantoms

A young husband is persuaded to move his new bride into an old palace that is supposedly haunted.But the so called ghost is really the bride's former lover who is stalking her on the premises. ...
Genre :Comedy

Marisa, 'Siberia'

1959-09-04 7.078

You're on Your Own

In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel. ...
Genre :Comedy

Giulia Sofia

1952-04-08 7.291

Totó in color

In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most imp ...
Genre :Comedy

Bianca Sereni

1963-10-10 6.833

Gli onorevoli

Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy. ...
Genre :Comedy

Contessa Bernardi

1957-12-20 5.8

The Love Specialist

A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but things come to a crazy conclusion when he tries to brib ...
Genre :Comedy

Signora Della Rosa

1980-08-12 4.5

Love in First Class

A man from Milan, Carmelo, is forced to take his young son Malcolm, on a trip down South so his mother, who usually takes care for the boy, can go on vacation with her Moroccan boyfriend. Carmelo, who ...
Genre :Comedy

Elvira Almiraghi

1959-11-20 7.4

The Widower

Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful bus ...
Genre :Comedy

Cesira

1955-03-12 6.851

The Sign of Venus

Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Lady Eva / Filomena Cangiullo

1955-12-22 6.5

Piccola posta

Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a Roman girl whose advice will create a series of tangle ...
Genre :Comedy

Vedova De Ritis

1955-09-15 6.779

A Hero of Our Times

Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him bu ...
Genre :Comedy

Giovanna

1960-12-13 6.5

...And Suddenly It's Murder!

Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo. ...
Genre :Comedy

Pola Prima

1970-12-27 4.7

Basta guardarla

Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dada

1976-05-21 4.625

Come ti rapisco il pupo

Genre :Comedy

Maria

1978-05-23 4.8

Tanto va la gatta al lardo...

Film in four episodes, inspired by the chronicle of the time: three mature sisters give themselves to a stranger, Maria tries to escape her husband, two Bolognese spouses quarrel and do not realize th ...
Genre :Comedy

contessa Giovanna

1976-04-13 4

Italy is Rotten

Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride w ...
Genre :Comedy

Giulia Nascimbeni

1974-08-14 4.088

Poker in Bed

A poker player on a losing streak meets a beautiful young woman. He's attracted to her, but she appears to be perfectly content with her boyfriend, a somewhat wussy writer. The gambler gets the idea t ...
Genre :Comedy

Carla

1955-02-09 6

Le signorine dello 04

The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single moth ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Giulia

1961-12-22 5.2

Leoni al sole

The endless summer of a group of thirty-something neapolitans at Positano. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

2009-10-19 0

L'uomo dalla bocca storta

Genre :Documentary

1962-01-29 8.1

Questi fantasmi

Genre :Comedy

Diraghi

1968-09-13 4.8

Listen, Let's Make Love

When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a gigolo. He is successful at finding rich women to prey on, but finds himself ...
Genre :Comedy

Maritza

1980-10-03 6.25

I Don't Understand You Anymore

On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the man is arrested. At the police station Alberto, a psychiatrist, recognizes the man: he is Paolo, Luisa ...
Genre :Comedy

Cassandra

1972-01-06 5

Hector the Mighty

A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal comes up with a plan to force Hector into selling him the land by kidnapping Helen, triggering a small ...
Genre :Comedy

Delia Nesti

1962-12-05 7.2

Paris, My Love

Parigi O Cara is probably the most camp in the history of Italian cinema, certainly a favourite with the queer community who quote its lines by heart. Unique as it's the only film where Franca Valeri ...
Genre :Comedy

la regista

1973-01-01 5.3

The Last Italian Tango

A woman feeds her husband with scraps and gives the best food to her lover, whom she hides in the attic. The husband abandons her and goes and lives with a young girl who drags him into a sadomasochis ...
Genre :Comedy

Elena

1960-11-24 6.5

Mariti in pericolo

Genre :Comedy

Journalist

1966-02-16 6.1

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta. ...
Genre :Comedy

Carla Weiss

1980-01-23 5.3

It's Not Me, It's Him

Pierre Renard is the blackboy of the writer George Vallier. At the time of a reception, the Italian actor Aldo Barazutti takes him for the writer and proposes to him to come to work with him in Tunisi ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure

Beatrice Clacton

1959-04-16 5.2

Non perdiamo la testa

A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mitzy - Hungarian Designer

1950-12-06 7

Variety Lights

In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hir ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Bice Marinetti

1967-04-13 0

Soldier's Girl

Anita, a free Emilian girl falls in love with Salvatore, a Neapolitan bersagliere. The two would like to get married, but he drowns while bathing in the river. From that moment the woman is unable to ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

2009-09-17 6.3

Vittorio D.

A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family. ...
Genre :Documentary

contessa

1983-09-28 5.544

Lady Football

It is the story of the brilliant football player Cotechiño, hired by the Napoli team as a centre-forward. Too bad that his professional career will be strongly influenced by the frequent absence of hi ...
Genre :Comedy

Giovanna Bronchi

1977-05-19 4

The Rip-Off

Crime Comedy starring Walter Chiari, Maurizio Arena and Ettore Manni. Directed by Luciano Ercoli in 1977, but shelved when producer Niccolo De Nora was kidnapped... ironically the theme of the movie. ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

Virginia

1959-06-30 6.402

The Moralist

The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

2013-02-16 7.5

Alberto il grande

Docu-film directed by Carlo and Luca Verdone realized on 2013 in occasion of the tenth anniversary from the actor’s death happened on 24th February 2003. Through this documentary Verdone’s brothers w ...
Genre :Documentary

Fatma Angioj (segment "La manina di Fatma")

1963-11-21 6

I cuori infranti

Two surreal/satirical comedy episodes. ...
Genre :Comedy

Velia

1962-11-30 5.808

I motorizzati

A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy. ...
Genre :Comedy

Vedova Anticoli

1970-03-18 4.3

On the Day of the Lord

Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of ...
Genre :Comedy

Elvira (segment: Concorso di bellezza)

1953-12-18 6.4

It Happened in the Park

Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Isolina Fornaciari

1956-02-17 6.6

The Bigamist

A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Wife (segment "il pezzo antico")

1964-03-28 5

The Maniacs

An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sé stessa (materiale d'archivio)

2020-11-27 0

Zona Franca

Genre :Documentary

Se stessa

2011-10-31 0

Franca, la prima

Directed by Sabina Guzzanti ...
Genre :Documentary

"Olivetti"

1957-12-18 6

Husbands in the City

In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time. ...
Genre :Comedy

Moglie del bersagliere alla stazione

1963-02-14 6.22

The Shortest Day

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle. ...
Genre :Comedy, History, War

1969-05-30 4.5

RARA

In all of his work, Bussotti makes frequent reference to the body, to sexuality. This to remind musicians — especially classically trained ones — that they are not body-less angels, that they are not ...
Genre :

2003-05-15 0

Tosca e altre due

Genre :Comedy

Naturista autobus

1977-10-01 0

Grazie tante arrivederci

Genre :Romance

Self

2007-09-14 0

Le ragazze di Milano

Genre :

Avvocatessa

2000-10-29 4.3

Come quando fuori piove

A mysterious lottery win of 5 billions italian liras creates turmoil in the town of Cittadella. ...
Genre :Comedy

1996-03-08 7.5

Caro maestro

Caro maestro is an Italian television comedy series which aired from 1996 to 1997 on Canale 5. The series follows Stefano Giusti, a bus driver who is allowed to teach at Forte dei Marmi elementary sch ...
Genre :Talk, Comedy, Drama, Family

Norma Del Becco

1995-10-15 0

Norma e Felice

Norma e Felice is an Italian television series. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

La duchessa

1974-09-03 0

Nel mondo di Alice

On a warm afternoon Alice falls asleep on the lawn and when she wakes up finds herself catapulted into an unreal and colorful world populated by strange characters and talking animals. Following first ...
Genre :Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Olga Peres

1997-04-06 6

Linda e il brigadiere

Linda e il brigadiere is an Italian television series. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime