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Giovanni Pastrone was born on 13 September 1883 in Montechiaro d'Asti, Piedmont, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Cabiria (1914), Julius Caesar (1909) and Il fuoco (la favilla - la vampa - la cenere) (1916). He died on 27 June 1959 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.- Writer
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Cesare Pavese was born on 9 September 1908 in Santo Stefano Belbo, Piedmont, Italy. He was a writer, known for The Girlfriends (1955), Il diavolo sulle colline and Fuga in Francia (1948). He died on 27 August 1950 in Turin, Italy.- Only son of Fiat titan Giovanni Agnelli, and his wife Marella Agnelli, Edoardo served briefly on the board of directors of the family-owned soccer team, Juventus, but was more interested in mysticism than in making cars. He studied religion at Princeton, and took part in a world day of prayer in Assisi in 1986. Although he seemed burdened by the mantle of his surname, after he was busted in Kenya for drug possession in 1990, he announced at a press conference that he was taking over Fiat. This stunt earned him Gianni's ire, who passed Edoardo over in favor of a nephew. Edoardo committed suicide by jumping off a bridge in Turin; Gianni himself joined police at the scene. Edoardo never married, but had an illegitimate son whom Gianni never recognized. John Elkann, the eldest child of Gianni's daughter, was named Chairman of Fiat S.p.A. in 2010.
- Giovanni Arpino was born on 27 January 1927 in Pola, Istria, Italy [now Pula, Istria, Croatia]. He was a writer, known for Scent of a Woman (1992), The Young Nun (1964) and Boccaccio '70 (1962). He was married to Caterina Brero. He died on 10 December 1987 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Giorgio Faletti was born on 25 November 1950 in Asti, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Notte prima degli esami (2006), The Killer in My Eyes and Si ringrazia la regione Puglia per averci fornito i milanesi (1982). He was married to Roberta Bellesini. He died on 4 July 2014 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Agnelli was the son of Edoardo Agnelli (1892-1935) and Virginia Bourbon Del Monte (1899-1945) and grandson of Giovanni Agnelli, the founder of the Italian automobile industry. When he was 14 years old, his father died in a plane crash. In 1945 his mother died in a car accident. He then grew up with his grandfather of the same name, who founded the "Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino" (FIAT) in 1899. At the beginning of the Second World War, the young Agnelli initially reported for military service to fight for the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini on the Russian and African fronts. After 1943, however, the tank officer moved to the anti-fascist resistance camp. In the same year he joined the FIAT company. After 1945, Agnelli studied law at the University of Turin, which he completed with a doctorate. In the post-war period he became the playboy of high society. While still studying, he joined FIAT headquarters as Vice President following the death of his grandfather in 1946.
However, the automobile company was initially expertly managed by manager Vittorio Valletta as president until Agnelli became more involved in the company's management. In 1963, Agnelli joined the company's management as general director, and in 1966 he replaced Valletta as president. Agnelli held this position until 1996. The new company boss led FIAT beyond the actual automotive sector with the product range from Fiat, Lancia, Alfa Romeo and Ferrari to a group with a wide range of technologies, ranging from machines of all kinds, to chemical and biotechnology, industrial equipment and aviation technology, to press publishing. In addition to large Italian daily newspapers, the FIAT company also included department stores, financing companies and iron and metal processing companies.
Agnelli also bought the professional football club "Juventus Turin". In addition, the CEO served as President of the Italian Employers' Association from 1974 to 1976. In May 1987, Agnelli founded the superholding "Giovanni Agnelli & Co." for the management of the group, which was the responsibility of the council of limited partners. In addition to Agnelli, who secured a majority shareholding, it also included his younger brother Umberto Agnelli (born 1934) and FIAT CEO Cesare Romiti. After managing several FIAT subsidiaries, Umberto Agnelli headed the group's international activities from 1968 onwards. From 1970 to 1976 he was CEO of FIAT. At the same time, he had also been involved with the Italian Christian Democrats since the mid-1970s, for which he entered the Senate in 1976. In 1980, Umberto Agnelli handed over the role of chairman of the board to Cesare Romiti to run the family holding company "Istituto Finanziario Industriale" (IFI).
In 1990, Giovanni Agnelli, in competition with Daimler-Benz AG, achieved the 60% takeover of the Spanish commercial vehicle manufacturer "Enasa". In the first half of the decade he was able to avert the group's crisis by taking on partners for the first time who, such as Deutsche Bank, did not belong to the Agnelli family. In 1995, the Agnelli family became the main shareholder in the "Club Méditerranée". In 1996, Agnelli resigned as chairman of the FIAT board of directors in favor of Cesare Romiti. After three decades, he formally handed over the FIAT corporate management. However, as FIAT honorary president and boss of the Agnelli clan, he was able to maintain his decision-making power in the group. Agnelli was also represented on the supervisory boards of several companies and in several international economic advisory committees and cultural institutions. He continued to be a life member of the Italian Senate. He has also been a member of the International Olympic Committee since 2000.
In 1998, Paolo Fresco, former vice president of General Electric (GE), became the successor to Chairman Romiti. In the same year, Agnelli's grandson, John Elkann, a son from his daughter Margherita's first marriage, was appointed to the board of directors and the executive board of FIAT AG. Agnelli was married to Princess Marella Caracciolo di Casstagneto since 1953, who gave him two children; the son committed suicide in 2000; the daughter became a writer and painter. Therefore, John Elkann was considered the designated crown prince of the family and corporate patriarch, who was supposed to ensure the continuity of the family ownership in the future. In 2001, Agnelli also appointed his grandson as his successor in FIAT management. In October 2002, however, the traditional group hit the headlines due to another serious crisis, which was triggered by a slump in sales in the automotive sector and the company's enormous debt.
Involved in negotiations between the Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi and the FIAT management tried to restructure the company from ten banks. There was a threat of the closure of several of the group's production facilities, particularly in Termini Imerese, Sicily. The group sold off several subsidiaries in order to reduce its debt.
Giovanni Agnelli died on January 24, 2003, at the age of 81, at his estate in Turin. - Director
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Carlo Borghesio was born on 24 June 1905 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Due cuori (1943), Il campione (1943) and Due milioni per un sorriso (1939). He died on 12 November 1983 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.- Primo Levi was born on 31 July 1919 in Turin, Italy. He was a writer, known for The Truce (1997), Jövöbéli históriák (1971) and I riassuntini (2018). He was married to Lucia Morpurgo. He died on 11 April 1987 in Turin, Italy.
- Emilio Salgari was born on 21 August 1862 in Verona, Austrian Empire [now Verona, Veneto, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Mystery of the Black Jungle (1954), Carthage in Flames (1960) and El corsario negro (1944). He was married to Ida Peruzzi. He died on 25 April 1911 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Marella Agnelli was born on 4 May 1927 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was married to Giovanni Agnelli. She died on 23 February 2019 in Turin, Italy.
- Lidia Quaranta was born on 6 March 1891 in Turin, Italy. She was an actress, known for Beffa di Satana (1915), Iwna, la perla del Gange (1914) and Lo scrigno dei milioni (1914). She died on 5 March 1928 in Turin, Italy.
- Paolo Pininfarina was born on 28 August 1958 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was married to Ilaria. He died on 9 April 2024 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Adriana Innocenti was born on 16 October 1926 in Portico e San Benedetto, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for Lobster for Breakfast (1979), Verdi (1982) and Il maresciallo Rocca (1996). She was married to Piero Nuti. She died on 4 March 2016 in Turin, Italy.
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Italian stage actress who made a handful of films. She was the fourth child of merchant Alberto Adani and his wife Pia Capri, and was born in Modena on October 7, 1913. Although she had no antecedents involved in the theatre, her two sisters had married into theatrical families, and her interest in the stage developed early. Her brother-in-law, actor Ernesto Sabbatini, introduced her at fifteen to Russian-born theatre director Tatyana Pavlova, who took Laura into her company. Within a brief few years, she had become one of the most respected and acclaimed stage actresses in Italy, appearing in leading roles with a variety of prestigious companies. In 1935, she and actor Renzo Ricci formed their own theatrical company, which was a success until forced to close due to the Second World War. In her company, and in others during the war, she played the classic leading roles for women, including Ophelia, Marguerite Gauthier, and Juliet. She performed throughout the 1940s and '50s in important plays such as Tobacco Road, The Typewriter, and Samuel Beckett's Happy Days (in which she also successfully toured America). She had made her film debut at twenty in Aria di Paese (1933) and appeared in only twelve more feature films (and a smattering of television roles) over the next fifty years. For director Giacomo Vaccari, she appeared in television productions of La fine della signora Cheyney (from Frederick Lonsdale's The Last of Mrs. Cheyney) and the miniseries La Pisana (1960). In 1947, she married Duke Luigi Visconti di Modrone, brother of the famous director Luchino Visconti, who had both directed her and acted opposite her in the theatre. She was widowed twenty years later. Two years later, she married a second time, in 1969, to Admiral Ernesto Balbo Bertone, Count of Sambuy, Duke of Nocera. With her second husband she went to live in a villa at the foot of Superga Hill, near Turin. Adani died at 82 on August 30, 1996 in nearby Moncalieri, survived by her second husband. She is buried in the Chieri cemetery, near her home.- Actor
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Ignazio Leone was born on 19 April 1923 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He was an actor, known for Totò e Cleopatra (1963), Zorro and the Three Musketeers (1963) and Caesar Against the Pirates (1962). He died on 30 December 1976 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.- Actor
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Dante Testa was born on 24 August 1861 in Turin, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for The Dread of Doom (1913), Il segreto del vecchio Giosuè (1918) and Cabiria (1914). He died on 3 March 1923 in Turin, Italy.- Amleto Novelli was born on 18 October 1881 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra (1913), Quo Vadis? (1913) and Julius Caesar (1914). He died on 16 April 1924 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Giorgio Molino was born on 8 November 1933 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor, known for Uova fatali (1977), We All Fall Down (1997) and Wannabe Widowed (2013). He died on 10 December 2021 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
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Luigi Maggi was born on 21 December 1867 in Turin, Italy. He was a director and actor, known for The Last Days of Pompeii (1908), I conquistatori (1921) and Satana (1912). He died on 22 August 1946 in Turin, Italy.- Writer
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Franco Lucentini was born on 24 December 1920 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and actor, known for The Sunday Woman (1975), Processi a porte aperte (1968) and Notizie degli scavi (2010). He died on 5 August 2002 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.- Director
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Luigi Romano Borgnetto was born on 10 February 1881 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for La farina del diavolo (1920), La rivincita di Maciste (1921) and Il segno dei tempi (1921). He died on 25 December 1957 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.- Lola Visconti-Brignone was born on 24 November 1891 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for Nei labirinti di un'anima (1917), Il tredicesimo commensale (1921) and Il cuore dell'altra (1917). She was married to Guido Brignone. She died on 10 June 1924 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
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Ernesto Maria Pasquali was born in 1883 in Montù Beccaria, Lombardy, Italy. He was a producer and director, known for Oltre la vita, oltre la morte (1916), For King and Country (1913) and La contessa Arsenia (1916). He died on 9 May 1919 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.- Director
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Alda Grimaldi was born on 6 October 1919 in San Pier d'Arena [now Genoa], Liguria, Italy. She was a director and actress, known for Papà investigatore (1968), Vivere ancora (1945) and La signora è servita (1945). She was married to Giovanni Francesco Rubino. She died on 28 December 2023 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.- Gigetta Morano was born on 2 August 1887 in Verona, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Taming of the Shrew (1913), The Betrothed (1913) and Salambo (1911). She died on 11 October 1986 in Turin, Italy.