Ave Ninchi
Birthday: Born in 1915-12-14 in Ancona, Italy
Deathday: 1997-11-10
Ave Maria Ninchi (14 December 1914 – 10 November 1997) was an Italian supporting actress who played character roles on stage, television, and in over 98 feature films that included Tomorrow Is Too Late (1949) and Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart (1971) and Lacombe Lucien (1974). Ninchi has worked with some of Italy's top movie stars, including Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, Marcello Mastroianni, Alberto Sordi, and Gina Lollobrigida; her performances playing in duo with Aldo Fabrizi and Totò are particularly memorable. Her television career was at its peak during the 1960s and 1970s when she was appearing in some of Italy's top-rated series. Source: Article "Ave Ninchi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Nel mondo di Alice
Character: La regina di cuori
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 a white rabbit and then through a mirror, she will have fantastic adventures, amid clumsy talking chessmen and a shrewish duchess, played by Franca Valeri. When she wakes up, everything will return to normal, leaving her with the memory of a frightening but beautiful dream at the same time....
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Liebe
Character: Beatrice
Anna falls madly in love with an Italian violinist, who instead marries her sister Monika....
Purple Noon
Character: Signora Gianna
Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess....
House of Cards
Character: Signora Orragi
In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to create a new world order....
Teresa
Character: Sra. Russo
An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband's possessive mother....
La famiglia Passaguai
Character: Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend a Sunday at the beach of Fiumicino, a series of troubles begins for everyone, in the form of a comic nightmare....
The Good Girls
Character: Madame Louise
Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams....
Duel Without Honor
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Bianca, a rich heiress, being an orphan, lives in her palace with her guardian uncle and cousin Olga....
Air of Paris
Character: Angela Posi
Victor Le Garrec, a former boxer, runs a gym in Paris while dreaming of finding an aspiring champion who will reach the goals he was never able to achieve....
Heart
Character: Mrs. Serra
A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of working-class backgrounds, after a novel in diary format by Enrico Bottini....
The Walls of Malapaga
Character: Maria
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter....
Toto and the Women
Character: Giovanna Scaparro
Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house....
Totò Seeks Peace
Character: Gemma Torresi
Two widowers decide to get married but their decision is continually hampered by their grandchildren, who are just interested in their inheritance....
Le motorizzate
Character: Sister Teresa (segment "Carmelitane Sprint")
Five episodes about women drivers during the economic boom....
La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna
Character: Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there....
Three Girls from Rome
Character: Madre di Marisa
Three gorgeous seamstresses meet on the historic steps of the Piazza de Spagna in Rome to discuss one another's love lives....
Mademoiselle Gobete
Character: Aglae Tricoin
A singer and operetta dancer works in a small french town where the authorities want to expel her because of her scandalous conduct and performance. When a puritan judge closes the show, the woman will take revenge involving the judge in an affair before the selfsame Justice minister. From that moment on, a series of diversions and misunderstandings will play out leading the main characters to the city of Paris....
The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue
Character: la nounou
Having been warned in dreams that Snow White is in danger, the Seven Dwarfs set out to rescue the princess from the evil Prince of Darkness....
Sunday in August
Character: Fernanda Meloni
The plot weaves several episodes with several groups of people, Roman families, youth gangs and young love couples, who spend a Sunday at the beach of Ostia....
Difficult Years
Character: Rosina Piscitello
Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late....
Angelina
Character: Carmela
A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and leads a march to the capital. She returns to her village a winner, an honourable MP. Yet, she is still the same simple, fiery woman, able to get in a hair-pulling brawl with the local barmaid for the affection of her man....
Dad Becomes Mom
Character: Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them....
Totò Looking for Wife
Character: La zia
Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married....
Flesh Will Surrender
Character: Emilia Canale
Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when he met Giulio, a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the over-confident man. Giovanni did what he should never have done: he associated himself with the crook. Giulio soon laid hands on Giovanni's money, ruined his career and manhandled him into marrying his own mistress, the beautiful Ginevra. It was of course an unhappy marriage but Giovanni found a little solace when his son Cir...
A Day in the Life
Character: Sister Celeste
Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the partisans eventually leave, the Germans take a terrible revenge....
I teddy boys della canzone
Character: Donna Celestina
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Scandali al mare
Character: Olga Cappelli
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Before Him All Rome Trembled
Character: Nina
An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome....
Sambo
Character: Amalia
A fallen nobleman convinces a Roman coachman that he has found the way to win at Sambo, a Brazilian game of chance. Sent a messenger to Brazil to gamble, the two men go wild and run up debts. When they realize they have won nothing, they initially fall into total despair; however the coachman had played a coupon from the football pools on his own account. He will win and make things right....
I prepotenti
Character: Clelia Pinelli
Cesare, from Rome, and Mimì, from Naples, don't agree with their children marriage, so the young couple runs away from their home....
Prepotenti più di prima
Character: Clelia Pinelli
Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The parents of the baby, tired of those fights, run away to Milan....
Gli italiani e le donne
Character: la moglie di Cesare
A group of vignettes about men, mostly married, scheming to get women and the funny ways the schemes play out....
Madri pericolose
Character: Mattea Tornabuoni
A great Party is given by the rich family of Improta. Every kind of intrigue gets around this party. The purpose of every plan is to find a husband or a wife with a quality: wealth....
Canto, ma sottovoce...
Character: Laura, la cameriera
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So In Love
Character: Cuoca Cesira
During his military service, the young singer Gianni Traimonti falls in love with Carla, the marshal's daughter....
Emigrantes
Character: Adele Bordoni
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Nights of the Teddy Boys
Character: Sora Nole
An Italian drama directed by Leopoldo Savona....
Signorinella
Character: Iris
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Paris Is Always Paris
Character: Elvira de Angelis
A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance....
The Captain's Daughter
Character: Mrs. Mironova
A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story....
Il vedovo allegro
Character: Dolores
An artist of variety, known in art with the name of Bebè, is a charlatan in Cannes, in a company with Zallos, a shady type....
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
Character: Shop owner
An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desperate, he goes to sleep in a flop-house, where he finds a job as a night watchman....
The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue
Character: The Nanny
Having been warned in dreams that Snow White is in danger, the Seven Dwarfs set out to rescue the princess from the evil Prince of Darkness....
È arrivato l'accordatore
Character: Signora Narducci
Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happens in the home of some new riches....
Hercules in the Valley of Woe
Character: l'indovina Ecubona
Two boxing promoters travel via time machine back to the days of Hercules, who must save them from Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde....
Il diavolo in convento
Character: Caterina
March 1945: an air raid destroys a fishing village. The homeless are hosted by Brother Angelo in the convent of San Fruttuoso in Camogli: years pass but the houses are not rebuilt and when the prior dies, the convent is sold to the rich engineer Milone, determined to transform it into a holiday complex. To prevent the homeless from ending up on the streets, Brother Angelo devises every possible expedient, even a fake miracle while waiting for San Fruttuoso to perform a real one....
Serenatella Sciuè Sciuè
Character: Agrippina Scuoffolo
Two women, Tina, who is a pizza chef, and Lisa, who runs a shop, can't stand each other, but they have a nephew and a daughter respectively, who love each other....
Christmas at Camp 119
Character: La signora Mancini
Second World War . Field 119 in California (USA ) . War is long over , but the Italian Prisoners Still waiting to return home , preparing to celebrate , away from families , another sad Christmas. To dare a little rein to Their longing , they tell Episodes of Their Life . A Roman tells the USA difficult married life . A Neapolitan soldier tells of His lieutenant, a Neapolitan duke penniless . Meanwhile , the camp commander gave : Prisoners and a gramophone , So , Ai stories intertwine songs . An...
A Mink Coat
Character: Assunta Santini
A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever....
Cleopazza
Character: Madre di Gabriella
When Cleopatra starts filming in Rome, a producer starts a search for a "local' Cleopatra look-a-like. A young actress is chosen for the role but it complicates here entire life....
The Nun's Story
Character: Sister Bernard (uncredited)
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II....
Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...
Character: Annunziata Caccavallo
Libero Sbardelloni, newly married, cannot find work in Rome, so he moves to Naples, where Baron Gaetano Gargiulo, his wife Marcella's uncle, lives. The baron, however, is a penniless nobleman who lives by swindling and petty theft, constantly going in and out of prison....
Beauties in Capri
Character: Cornelia
The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests....
To Live in Peace
Character: Corinna
Vivere in pace is a 1947 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Luigi Zampa....
Tomorrow Is Too Late
Character: Signora Berardi
Progressive schoolteachers Landi and Anna have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella and Franco. The two kids are enamored with one another and decide to experiment with some of the knowledge they've gleaned in the classroom....
Yvonne of the Night
Character: Rudegarda, la padrona del ristorante
Carlo Rutelli falls in love with the beautiful variety singer Yvonne la Nuit, but his father opposes the wedding. World War I breaks out and Carlo is killed while Yvonne has a son, but on orders from Carlo's father, she is told he is dead. Her career descends and only Nino, an art partner, remains close to her and helps her earn her living by singing in taverns....
Murmur of the Heart
Character: Augusta
This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother....
Lacombe, Lucien
Character: Mme Georges
In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman....
Il matrimonio
Character: Anastasia Scingalova, la madre della sposa
An Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton Chekhov....
Le tardone
Character: Adelina Borletti (episode "Un delitto quasi perfetto")
A collection of five episodes dealing with aging women....
Pulp
Character: Fat Chambermaid
A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta....
Le ambiziose
Character: Ines
Thirty girls arrive in a seaside town to participate in a beauty contest. Marina has no ambitions of victory: she only wants to have the sewing machine promised to each participant....
Venetian Honeymoon
Character: Yolanda
There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incognito, is said to be in the city. By chance, the elegant Isabella gets to know the handsome heir to the throne - and it does not take long for her to fall madly in love with him. Isabella has no idea that her dream man is really the impostor Gérard, who looks remarkably like the prince and was hounded by the sleazy crook Alfredo on Isabella to steal their precious jewelry....
I ragazzi dell'Hully Gully
Character: contessa Corinna Salimbeni
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Revenge
Character: Un'amica di Adele
A man comes home from the war and finds both his plant and his family destroyed....
Walter e i Suoi Cugini
Character: Adele
Walter Chiari as a Pugliese who lives in Milan. He has two cousins identical to him. The two arrive in the city to find work and twist their lives....
Eighteen Year Olds
Character: Signorina Mattei
Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with him....
Rome: Free City
Character: L'affittacamere
In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave house together for a night full of misadventures. In a streets of Rome they meet the struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts to street life; a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you rec...
Le donne ci tengono assai
Character: Angelica Allegri
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I'm Not Worthy of You
Character: Cesira
In the sequel of "In ginocchio da te", the engagement of Gianni and Carla is threatened by Giorgio....
The Bigamist
Character: Mrs. Masetti / Missis Masetti
A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently....
La sposa non può attendere
Character: Evelina
On his way to his own wedding, a young man saves a woman who attempted suicide by jumping into a river and falls for her....
Cops and Robbers
Character: Giovanna Bottoni
Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito....
Good Folk's Sunday
Character: Elvira
In the background of the football match Roma - Napoli different stories intertwine....
L'assassino si chiama Pompeo
Character: Doorkeeper Adelina
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Madonna delle rose
Character: Donna Filomena
A young couple, Renato and Maria, struggle to provide for their young daughter Pia....
Stranger on the Prowl
Character:
A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to deflects the kid from a life of crime. Tipped off by a woman anxious to collect the reward for him (who is wanted for murder), the police pursue the two lost souls....
The Affairs of Messalina
Character: Locusta
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....
The Firemen of Viggiù
Character: Gaetana
In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time....
Gioventù alla sbarra
Character: La sorella del giudice
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I pinguini ci guardano
Character:
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I Sing for You
Character: Zia Bettina
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Le magnifiche 7
Character: Margherita
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Serenata amara
Character: La madre die Mario
Mario and Fabrizio are two boxer friends who fall for the same girl and become enemies because of her. As time goes by things get better between the two men but... tragedy looms behind the corner....
Un mandarino per Teo
Character: zia Gaspara
Teo, a young theatre stand in, is offered a faustian pact by the devil: if he pushes a button a Chinese mandarin will die and leave his money to him. Teo seems to be tempted by the offer......
I due assi del guantone
Character: Adele
Two waiters who work in a restaurant, whose owner is a big boxing fan, pretend one of them is a boxer and the other his manager. The supposed boxer wins his first matches thanks to set ups organized by the other but when he beats a champion from another part of town, he is severely beaten up by his supporters....
SuperTotò
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Directed by Brando Giordani and Emilio Ravel...
Il sole è di tutti
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