Marcella Theodoli

[Ciavazzaro]

Marcella Theodoli in I due carabinieri (1984)

Like many other generici active in Italian cinema, such as Irina Wassilchikoff and Andrea Esterhazy, Marcella Theodoli was a noblewoman - more precisely a marquesa. Active since the 1960s, she was never credited, but appeared in numerous films and TV productions up until at least the late 1990s - very frequenly in small party guest roles, but she was also memorable as Massimo Boldi's mother in I due carabinieri (1984).

Marcella Theodoli was identified thanks to the article "Le divine comparse", published in the magazine Epoca n° 1282 (published 3 May 1975).


FILMOGRAPHY

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1963

1. Il processo di Verona (uncredited) .... Vianini's wife
   
   1967
2. Requiescant (uncredited) .... Saloon girl
   
   1973
3. Io e lui (uncredited) .... Party guest
   
   1974
4. Il ritorno di Zanna Bianca (uncredited) .... Woman at the book launch
   
   1975
5. Divina creatura (uncredited) .... Party guest
6. Mahogany (uncredited) .... Woman at fashion show
7. Roma violenta (uncredited) .... Woman robbed at the restaurant
   
   1976
8. Bordella (uncredited) .... Client
9. Quel movimento che mi piace tanto (uncredited) .... Party guest
10. Roma, l'altra faccia della violenza (uncredited) .... Party guest
11. Spogliamoci così senza pudor - segment "La visita" (uncredited) .... Friend of the Partibon family
    
    1977
12. Al di là del bene e del male (uncredited) .... Brothel madam
13. Kleinhoff Hotel (uncredited) .... Hotel maid
    
    1979
14. I viaggiatori della sera (uncredited) .... Holiday village guest
    
    1980
15. Mi faccio la barca (uncredited) .... Dental patient
    
    1981
16. I carabbimatti (uncredited) .... Party guest
17. I ragazzi di celluloide (TV mini-series) (uncredited) .... Party guest
18. L'uomo della sabbia (TV) (uncredited) .... Party guest
19. Occhio alla penna (uncredited) .... Woman in train-restaurant
    
    1982
20. La sconosciuta (TV mini series) (uncredited) .... Woman at the hotel
21. Storia d'amore e d'amicizia (TV mini series) (uncredited) .... Rebecca, woman on the bus
22. Tenebre (uncredited) .... Airplane passenger
23. Vai avanti tu che mi vien da ridere (uncredited) .... Embassy party guest
    
    1983
24. Il conte Tacchia (uncredited).... Circolo Araldico member
25. La chiave (uncredited) .... Party guest
26. Nana (uncredited) .... Client at the erotic club
27. The Lonely Lady (uncredited) .... Patient in wheelchair / Audience member at awards show
    
    1984
28. C'era una volta in America (uncredited) .... A woman in the photo
29. Cenerentola '80 (uncredited) .... Party guest
30. I due carabinieri (uncredited) .... Occhipinti's mother
31. I racconti del maresciallo (TV series) - episode 3: "Il barboncino bianco" (uncredited) .... Woman at the awards show
32. Nucleo zero (TV mini series) (uncredited) .... Dancing woman at nightclub
    
    1985
33. Caccia al ladro d'autore (TV series) - episode 6: "Il calice di Murano" (uncredited) .... Baroness Razzi, a guest of the countess
34. Le due vita di Mattia Pascal (TV) (uncredited).... Casino player
35. Mamma Ebe (uncredited) .... Woman in the court room
    
    1986
36. Detective School Dropouts (Asilo di polizia) (uncredited) .... Airline passenger at customs
37. Quando arriva il giudice (TV series) - episode 4: "Morto per morto" (uncredited) .... Concierge
    
    1988
38. Una botta di vita (uncredited) .... German Tourist
    
    1989
39. Emma (TV) (uncredited) .... Party guest
40. Il bambino e il poliziotto (uncredited) .... Condominium resident
41. Il vigile urbano (TV series) - episode: "Il ladro in scarpe gialle" (uncredited) .... Widow
    
    1990
42. Il male oscuro (uncredited) .... Tourist
    
    1991
43. Faccione (uncredited) .... Woman at art gallery
    
    1992
44. Edera (TV series) - episode 21 (uncredited) .... Patient at the clinic
45. Mutande pazze (uncredited) .... Woman at the vernissage
    
    1993
46. Pacco, doppio pacco e contropaccotto - segment "Tengo un americano" (uncredited) .... Roulette gambler
    
    1997
47. Linda e il brigadiere (TV series) - season 1, episode 7: "La morale della formica" (uncredited) .... Retirement home resident
    
    1998
48. Linda e il brigadiere (TV series) - season 2, episode 1: "Il fratello di Linda" (uncredited) .... Mrs. Sinclair
    
    1999
49. Tea with Mussolini (uncredited) .... Restaurant diner

[Johan Melle]

Marcella Theodoli was apparently never credited in any films, but was identified due to her appearance in Giuseppe Patroni Griffi's Divina creatura (1975) where she plays a party guest (on the right)

Ghibarian found out that in the magazine Epoca n° 1282 (published 3 May 1975), there's an article about several Roman noblemen and women appearing as extras in the party sequence in Divina creatura. Emiliano was able to purchase this magazine on eBay, and thanks to the text and pictures in this article we were able to determine that our generica is the marquesa Marcella Theodoli.

Here are the complete scans of this article, entitled "Le divine comparse"

[Johan Melle]

And now some of Marcella's other roles, starting with her cult role as a party guest in Quel movimente che mi piace tanto (1975) who winks seductively at poor Enzo Cannavale

Double role for Marcella in The Lonely Lady (1983), an American film shot in Rome:

First as a hospital patient in a wheelchair

and then as a woman at the awards show (on the right)

Marcella plays a rather unfriendly concierge in the TV series Quando arriva il giudice - episode 4: "Morto per morto" (1986)

And another television role in Il vigile urbano (1989) - episode "Il ladro in scarpe gialle" as a widow

[Johan Melle]

Yet another television role in L'uomo della sabbia (1981), where Marcella plays a party guest and speaks some brief dialogue

Briefly seen on the dance floor in La chiave (1983) as a party guest

Le due vite di Mattia Pascal (1985) (TV) as a casino player (on the right)

And as a party guest in the TV movie Emma (1989)

[Ciavazzaro]

Very important discovery!
So far this is Marcella's first cinema role: Io e lui from 1973 as a party guest

So she did not begin her carrer with Patroni Griffi in 1975, (like if i remember wright was written in the magazine article, from which we found her name, in which it was written this was her first movie) but some years before.


Marcella as party guest in i Carrabimatti (1981)

In the hotel hall from the third episode of La sconosciuta (1982)

And again a tv-series in I ragazzi di celluloide (1981) as party guest

[Ciavazzaro]

And in the meantime why not a couple of new roles for our noblewoman?

As party guest in the famous Cinderella '80 (1984)

And as always is always a great thing to look back at older posts, looking the post of Angelo Casadei i found Marcella in Mamma Ebe (1985) too

[Johan Melle]

Marcella is a party guest in Roma, l'altra faccia della violenza (1976) though sadly no good face shots

As a woman at the awards show in the TV series I racconti del maresciallo - episode 3: "Il barboncino bianco" (1984)

And here's a new role for Marcella!
As one of the victims during the robbery of the restaurant in Roma violenta (1975)

[carlos]

occhio alla penna (actually in the old forum there is a photo but it is from spencer/hill database so is very little.

Occhio alla penna (1981) .... Woman in train-restaurant

[Ciavazzaro]

Perfect Carlos !

[Johan Melle]

I've just found Marcella in Mutande pazze (1992), the latest role for her so far!

She's a woman at the vernissage and is seems to be particularly interested in this painting of a naked man :p