Claudia Mori
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Claudia Mori is an Italian
actress, singer, television producer, and wife of the singer Adriano Celentano
.
as an actress playing in musicals, but also in major films such as Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers) by Luchino Visconti
and Sodoma e Gomorra (Sodom and Gomorrah) by Robert Aldrich
.
In 1963 she met Adriano Celentano on the film set of Uno strano tipo ("A Strange Type"). Surprisingly, Celentano left his girlfriend Milena Cantù, and in 1964 he married Claudia, secretly in the night, at the church of San Francesco in Grosseto
. She bore three children: Rosita (1965), Giacomo (1966) and Rosalinda (1968).
In 1964, she acted in Super rapina a Milano ("The Great Robbery in Milan"), the first film directed by Celentano. Since then her acting career suffered a setback, in favor of that as singer, in 1964, in fact, with Non guardarmi ("Do Not Look at Me"), she recorded her first album. The flip side of the vinyl record includes a cover of Little Eva
, Quello che ti dico ("What I Say", The Locomotion
).
She achieved a big success while singing with her husband, in 1967 with La coppia più bella del mondo ("The Most Beautiful Couple in the World") and in 1970, winning the Sanremo Music Festival, with "Chi non lavora non fa l'amore" ("Those who don't work don't make love").
, Romolo Valli
, Maurizio Arena
and Ninetto Davoli
directed by Sergio Corbucci
. In 1973 she acted in the film version of Rugantino
, with Adriano Celentano, and played Rosita Flores in L'emigrante ("The Emigrant"), directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile
.
In 1974, she recorded the album Fuori tempo ("Out of Time"), collaborating with Paolo Limiti, who wrote the famous song "Buonasera dottore" ("Good Evening Doctor"), sung with Franco Morgan.
In 1975, Claudia participated in Yuppi du, a film directed by Celentano. In the same year, she starred in the films of Marcello Mastroianni
Come una Cenerentola ("Like a Cinderella") and Culastrisce Nobile Veneziano ("Culastrisce Noble Venetian").
Another foray into the world of music was in 1977, with release of the album È amore ("It is Love"), with the title song written by Shel Shapiro. It is the first single "Ehi, ehi, ehi" ("Hey, Hey, Hey"), written by Roberto Vecchioni. The LP also contains "Mi vuoi" ("You want me", written by Ivano Fossati and published the following year on a single version of Marcella Bella) and a cover of Roberto Carlos, "Io bella figlia" ("I, Beautiful Daughter").
In 1978, she was Marcella in her husband's film Geppo il folle ("The Crowds"), and in 1979 she took part in the movie Bloodline by Terence Young, with actors like Audrey Hepburn
, Ben Gazzara
, Irene Papas
, Romy Schneider
and Omar Sharif
.
, with Paolo Villaggio
and Milena Vukotic
.
In 1982, Claudia returned as a guest at the Sanremo Music Festival, singing the known song "Non succederà più" ("Will Not Happen Again"). The song, which enjoyed some commercial success in Spain, France and Germany, contains a vocal interlude by Adriano Celentano. This success helped the couple at an alleged time of crisis, and therefore the text was understood as autobiographical.
In 1984, she released Claudia canta Adriano, an album where she sings her husband's covers.
In 1985, she acted in the film Joan Lui - Ma un giorno nel paese arrivo io di lunedì ("Joan - But One Day I Arrive in the Country on Monday") and participated at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Chiudi la porta" ("Close the Door").
In 1989, she hosted the show Du du du with Pino Caruso; in 1991, she became the CEO of the label Clan Celentano, producing her husband's famous albums, as Mina Celentano
(1998). In 1994, Claudia participated at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Se mi ami" ("If You Love Me"), written by Toto Cutugno
.
judging panel, with Mara Maionchi
and Morgan
.
More over, recently she emerged as a TV series and TV movie producer, such as with C'era una volta la città dei matti... ("There Was Once a City of Fools"), with her production company
Ciao ragazzi! ("Hello Boys"), winning the Roma FictionFest Special Award for her achievements as a TV producer.
Italian people
The Italian people are an ethnic group that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence , and are distinguished from people...
actress, singer, television producer, and wife of the singer Adriano Celentano
Adriano Celentano
Adriano Celentano is an Italian singer, songwriter, comedian, actor, film director and TV host.-Biography:Celentano was born in Milan at 14 Via Gluck, about which he later wrote the famous song "Il ragazzo della via Gluck"...
.
1960s
She began her career in show businessShow business
Show business, sometimes shortened to show biz, is a vernacular term for all aspects of entertainment. The word applies to all aspects of the entertainment industry from the business side to the creative element ....
as an actress playing in musicals, but also in major films such as Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers) by Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his films The Leopard and Death in Venice .-Life:...
and Sodoma e Gomorra (Sodom and Gomorrah) by Robert Aldrich
Robert Aldrich
Robert Aldrich was an American film director, writer and producer, notable for such films as Kiss Me Deadly , The Big Knife , What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? , Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte , The Flight of the Phoenix , The Dirty Dozen , and The Longest Yard .-Biography:Robert...
.
In 1963 she met Adriano Celentano on the film set of Uno strano tipo ("A Strange Type"). Surprisingly, Celentano left his girlfriend Milena Cantù, and in 1964 he married Claudia, secretly in the night, at the church of San Francesco in Grosseto
Grosseto
Grosseto is a city and comune in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the Province of Grosseto. The city lies 14 km from the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Maremma, at the centre of an alluvial plain, on the Ombrone river....
. She bore three children: Rosita (1965), Giacomo (1966) and Rosalinda (1968).
In 1964, she acted in Super rapina a Milano ("The Great Robbery in Milan"), the first film directed by Celentano. Since then her acting career suffered a setback, in favor of that as singer, in 1964, in fact, with Non guardarmi ("Do Not Look at Me"), she recorded her first album. The flip side of the vinyl record includes a cover of Little Eva
Little Eva
Eva Narcissus Boyd , known by the stage name of Little Eva , was an American pop singer.-Biography:...
, Quello che ti dico ("What I Say", The Locomotion
The Locomotion
The Locomotion may refer to:*The Loco-Motion; a 1962 song by R&B singer Little Eva and covered by several artists*Locomotion No 1; an early railway locomotive...
).
She achieved a big success while singing with her husband, in 1967 with La coppia più bella del mondo ("The Most Beautiful Couple in the World") and in 1970, winning the Sanremo Music Festival, with "Chi non lavora non fa l'amore" ("Those who don't work don't make love").
1970s
She returned to the film set many years later, in 1971, with her husband in Er più - Storia d'amore e coltello (The best-a story of romance and knife) with Vittorio CaprioliVittorio Caprioli
Vittorio Caprioli was an Italian film actor, director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990...
, Romolo Valli
Romolo Valli
Romolo Valli was an Italian actor.Valli was born in Reggio Emilia. He was one of the best known Italian actors from the 1950s to his death. He worked both for the stage and the silver screen...
, Maurizio Arena
Maurizio Arena
Maurizio Arena was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 78 films between 1952 and 1978.-Selected filmography:* It Happened in the Park * Siamo tutti inquilini * The Sign of Venus...
and Ninetto Davoli
Ninetto Davoli
Ninetto Davoli is an Italian actor who became known through his roles in several of Pier Paolo Pasolini's films.-Biography:Davoli was born in San Pietro a Maida, Calabria...
directed by Sergio Corbucci
Sergio Corbucci
Sergio Corbucci was an Italian film director. He is best known for his very violent yet intelligent spaghetti westerns...
. In 1973 she acted in the film version of Rugantino
Rugantino
Rugantino is a musical comedy by Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini, which debuted at the Teatro Sistina in Rome, Italy, on 15 December 1962. Music was written by Armando Trovaioli.It is a comedy set in the papal Rome of the 19th century...
, with Adriano Celentano, and played Rosita Flores in L'emigrante ("The Emigrant"), directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile
Pasquale Festa Campanile
Pasquale Festa Campanile was an Italian screenwriter, film director and novellist. He was born at Melfi and died in Rome.- Director :* Un tentativo sentimentale * La nonna Sabella...
.
In 1974, she recorded the album Fuori tempo ("Out of Time"), collaborating with Paolo Limiti, who wrote the famous song "Buonasera dottore" ("Good Evening Doctor"), sung with Franco Morgan.
In 1975, Claudia participated in Yuppi du, a film directed by Celentano. In the same year, she starred in the films of Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards.- Personal life :...
Come una Cenerentola ("Like a Cinderella") and Culastrisce Nobile Veneziano ("Culastrisce Noble Venetian").
Another foray into the world of music was in 1977, with release of the album È amore ("It is Love"), with the title song written by Shel Shapiro. It is the first single "Ehi, ehi, ehi" ("Hey, Hey, Hey"), written by Roberto Vecchioni. The LP also contains "Mi vuoi" ("You want me", written by Ivano Fossati and published the following year on a single version of Marcella Bella) and a cover of Roberto Carlos, "Io bella figlia" ("I, Beautiful Daughter").
In 1978, she was Marcella in her husband's film Geppo il folle ("The Crowds"), and in 1979 she took part in the movie Bloodline by Terence Young, with actors like Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century...
, Ben Gazzara
Ben Gazzara
-Early life:Gazzara was born Biagio Anthony Gazzara in New York City, the son of Italian immigrants Angelina and Antonio Gazzara, who was a laborer and carpenter. Gazzara grew up on New York's tough Lower East Side. He actually lived on E. 29th Street and participated in the drama program at...
, Irene Papas
Irene Papas
Irene Papas is a Greek actress and occasional singer, who has starred in over seventy films in a career spanning more than fifty years.-Life:...
, Romy Schneider
Romy Schneider
Romy Schneider was an Austrian-born German film actress who also held French citizenship.-Early life:Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in Nazi-era Vienna, six months after the Anschluss, into a family of actors that included her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty, her Austrian...
and Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif is an Egyptian actor who has starred in Hollywood films including Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Funny Girl. He has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won two Golden Globe Awards.-Early life:...
.
1980s and 1990s
In 1980, she played Mirandolina in the film La locandiera di Goldoni ("The Landlady of Goldoni"), directed by Paolo CavaraPaolo Cavara
Paolo Cavara has been a screenwriter and a movie director. He was born in Bolognain 1926.-Biography:During the Fifties, he studied architecture in Florence University, then he realized documentaries for scientific trips, and emerged as a pioneer of the underwater cinematography Paolo Cavara has...
, with Paolo Villaggio
Paolo Villaggio
Paolo Villaggio is an Italian actor, writer, director and comedian.-Life:Villaggio was born in Genoa in 1932. His jobs included being a clerk for the Italsider steel major which inspired his character "Il ragioniere Fantozzi Ugo", "the accountant Ugo Fantozzi"...
and Milena Vukotic
Milena Vukotic
Milena Vukotic is a former ballerina and a stage, television, and film actress.Vukotic was born in Rome, to a Serbian Montenegrian comediographer father and an Italian pianist/composer mother....
.
In 1982, Claudia returned as a guest at the Sanremo Music Festival, singing the known song "Non succederà più" ("Will Not Happen Again"). The song, which enjoyed some commercial success in Spain, France and Germany, contains a vocal interlude by Adriano Celentano. This success helped the couple at an alleged time of crisis, and therefore the text was understood as autobiographical.
In 1984, she released Claudia canta Adriano, an album where she sings her husband's covers.
In 1985, she acted in the film Joan Lui - Ma un giorno nel paese arrivo io di lunedì ("Joan - But One Day I Arrive in the Country on Monday") and participated at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Chiudi la porta" ("Close the Door").
In 1989, she hosted the show Du du du with Pino Caruso; in 1991, she became the CEO of the label Clan Celentano, producing her husband's famous albums, as Mina Celentano
Mina Celentano
Mina Celentano is an album by Italian singers Mina and Adriano Celentano, issued in 1998.An immediate success upon release, Mina Celentano became the best selling album of the year in Italy .- Track listing :...
(1998). In 1994, Claudia participated at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Se mi ami" ("If You Love Me"), written by Toto Cutugno
Toto Cutugno
Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno is an Italian pop singer-songwriter and musician.-Biography:Toto Cutugno was born in Fosdinovo, Tuscany, to a Sicilian father and a Tuscan mother. Shortly after his birth the family moved to La Spezia ....
.
Recent activities
In 2009, Claudia Mori released the Claudia Mori Collection, containing a CD with her greatest hits and a DVD with a Celentano family private movie. In September 2009, she joined the X FactorX Factor (Italy)
X Factor is a successful TV show airing on prime time in Italy. The singing competition is the Italian version of The X Factor franchise...
judging panel, with Mara Maionchi
Mara Maionchi
Mara Maionchi is an Italian record producer and a TV personality.-Biography:Mara began her career in 1967, as secretary in the Ariston Records press office, working with Ornella Vanoni and Mino Reitano...
and Morgan
Morgan (singer)
Marco Castoldi better known by his stage name Morgan is an Italian singer, musician and multi-instrumentalist...
.
More over, recently she emerged as a TV series and TV movie producer, such as with C'era una volta la città dei matti... ("There Was Once a City of Fools"), with her production company
Production company
A production company provides the physical basis for works in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, and video.- Tasks and functions :...
Ciao ragazzi! ("Hello Boys"), winning the Roma FictionFest Special Award for her achievements as a TV producer.
External links
- Claudia Mori