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Umberto Sclanizza (1893–1951) was an Italian theatre and cinema actor, born in Venice, of noble stock. His film work straddles a period in Italian cinema, 1939–1943, when the industry was significantly turned over to the production of wartime propaganda pieces, such as 'Il Re d'Inghilterra non paga' ('The King of England Won't Pay') (1941). This spate of old-fashioned classical dramas, infused with gentle Axis sympathies, was to indirectly pave the way for the Italian Neorealism movement, by being consigned to the industry's Fascist past. == Early life == Umberto Sclanizza was born in Venice, Italy on 26 February 1893. His parents separated when he was a child, and his father Vittorio took him and his sister Iole to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he set up in business among the enormous Italian community there. Here Umberto entered the theatre and began training as an actor. In 1915 Italy joined the Allied side in the First World War, and passage was arranged to take young Italians back to their native country to fight. Umberto Sclanizza served in the Army as a chef in the front line throughout the war. He decided to remain in Italy after the war, and began working in touring theatre. Through the theatre company he met, and married, Maria Papa, an actor from a famous theatrical dynasty hailing from the opposite end of Italy, Calabria. Three children Scilla Sclaviza - aka Scilla Sclanizza - (1926–2006), Mario Sclaniza (1927–1993), Iole Sclanizza (1928 -) were born of the marriage, and a fourth died - along with the mother - during childbirth, in 1932. After the Italian conquest of Abyssinia in 1935-6 theatre companies including that of Umberto Sclanizza were invited to tour in the new Italian East Africa colonies, with huge subsidies, under the pretext of bringing civilised culture to Africa. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Umberto Sclanizza」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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