And for Monday, a mystery woman…..
And for Tuesday, a mystery fellow.
Please congratulate Mike Hawks and Claire Lockhart for identifying our mystery woman and the mystery film!
And for Wednesday, a mystery fellow and a mystery companion.
Please congratulate Gary Martin and Pat in Michigan for identifying our mystery film and cast.
Gary says: XXXXX is the most underrated great actor of the 20th century: see XXXXX in which he plays XXXXX’s doppelganger.
And for Thursday, a mystery gent.
Dewey Webb, Mary Mallory and Gregory Moore have identified our mystery movie and cast. Mike Hawks has identified our mystery fellows for Tuesday and Wednesday.
And for Friday, our mystery chap has a mystery companion.
Please congratulate Patrick and Barbara Klein for identifying our mystery film and cast!
Yes, this is the Italian version of “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” by Luchino Visconti, released in 1943.
According to an Aug. 18, 1963 New York Times article (behind a paywall):
Since the film was made in Mussolini’s Italy in 1942, Mr. Visconti, understandably enough, neglected to do anything about the American copyright. In 1946, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with full legal approval of the author and publishers, produced a version of “The Postman” with Lana Turner. Mr. Visconti’s film was never released in America, and may be shown only illegally in most parts of the world.
It was reviewed by Vincent Canby in the New York Times (behind a paywall) in 1976, when a 35-millimeter print was shown in the U.S. for the first time during the New York Film Festival.
Canby said:
“Comparing the Visconti ‘Ossessione’ with the [Tay] Garnett ‘Postman’ is to stand a production of ‘Traviata’ next to a McDonald’s commercial, which is not meant to underrate the American film that is as effectively steamy, tough and terse as the Hollywood law allowed in those days.”
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Nary a clue! Who is she?
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A young Barbara Stanwyck?
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Anna Magnani ?
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I’m with Cal and Lulu!
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Katina Paxinou
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I have to agree with Julie even though her comment being visible means her answer is being rejected. Anna Magnani
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Ann Dvorak with minimal makeup?
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Anna Magnani from ‘Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma’ (1946).
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Daughter of Luis Rainer and Barbara Parkins–pretty!
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This is Clara Calamai in OSSESSIONE 1943.
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Clara Calamai in OSSESSIONE (1943)
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr.?
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Looks like one of 20th-Century Fox’s faux Italian neo-realism films from late Forties-early Fifties–Thieves’ Highway or like that. . .
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Clara Calamai and Massimo Girroti in Ossessione …aka the postman rings etc. Girotti is the most underrated great actor of the 20th century: see Last Tango in Paris in which he plays Brando’s doppleganger.
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Clara Calamai and Massimo Girotti in “Ossessione”.
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Clara Calamai & Ossessione co-stars
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our leading man is Massimo Girotti and our hen plucker is Juan de Landa.
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OSSESSIONE, Clara Calamai and Massimo Girotti.
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Clara Calamai and Massimo Girotti (Handsomest italian actor…ever?) in “Ossessione”.
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I know I’m late to the party but it took me a while to get past the fact that Monday’s mystery woman was not Anna Magnani. It is Clara Calamai and the film is Ossessione from 1943. Tuesday would be Massimo Girotti and Wednesday is Juan de Landa. Don’t know the priest’s name; nor the chicken’s.
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The move is “Ossessione”
Monday – Clara Calamai
Tuesday – Massimo Girotti
Wednesday – Juan De Landa (and rooster)
Thursday – I have no idea!
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Elio Marcuzzo
Interestingly, one source says he was executed by Nazis, and another source says he was shot by Partisans.
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I don’t remember the actors’ names, but this is L’Ossessione from Italy in 1942. It was based on The Postman Always Rings Twice.
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