Nino Capozzi

Post by **Johan Melle** » 12/05/2019, 17:52

Nino Capozzi in the fotoromanzo "Amore bugiardo" (1952)

Tall, dark-haired and exceptionally handsome and well-dressed, Nino Capozzi is a textbook example of the Italian "bel tenebroso" whose good looks helped him became one of the most prominent leading men in fotoromanzi of the 1950s.

Nino's first fotoromanzo was "Destino di sangue", published in the famed milanese fotoromanzo magazine Bolero Film, but he then switched to starring for the Rome-based magazine Tipo, who used him in countless fotoromanzi. His success was instant and he become a beloved idol for the many impressionable female readers of fotoromanzo magazines.

In fact, it is thanks primarily to Nino's communication with his horde of female admirers that it has been possible to discover a few scarce biographical details for him, for when responding to his fans in Tipo's letter column, he revealed that he was born in Rome in 1926.

Although his success in fotoromanzi never extended to films, he did appear as an extra in numerous films since at least the end of the 1940s and until the first half of the 1960s, sometimes in speaking parts. In Tipo's letter column he revealed that he loved to dance and in films he is in fact quite frequently seen in scenes featuring dancing, for example in Moglie e buoi... (1956) where he dances with Sandra Milo.

FILMOGRAPHY

1948

Fifa e arena (uncredited) .... Matador

1949
L'imperatore di Capri (uncredited) .... Hotel guest
Monastero di Santa Chiara (uncredited) .... Officer dancing in nightclub

1950
47 morto che parla (uncredited) .... Officer at the party
È arrivato il cavaliere (uncredited) .... Young man on the beach
Margherita da Cortona (uncredited) .... Jealous man who interrupts the dance
Quel fantasma di mio marito (uncredited) .... Gianni's colleague
Totò cerca moglie (uncredited) .... Guest at the embassy party

1951
È l'amor che mi rovina (uncredited) .... Man in cable car
Era lui, sì, sì! (uncredited) .... Nightclub client
Incantesimo tragico (uncredited) .... Wedding guest
Otello (uncredited) .... Venetian senator

1952
L'eroe sono io (uncredited) .... Henchman
Menzogna (uncredited) .... Party guest

1954
I tre ladri (uncredited) .... Store customer
The Barefoot Contessa (uncredited) .... Roulette player
Tradita (uncredited) .... Officer at the ball

1956
Amaramente (uncredited) .... Audience member in the recording studio
Moglie e buoi... (uncredited) .... Party guest

1957
Il ricatto di un padre (uncredited) .... Party guest
Serenate per 16 bionde (uncredited) .... Audience member at music show

1958
Carosello di canzoni (uncredited) .... Nightclub client

1964
Che fine ha fatto Totò Baby? (uncredited) .... One of Totò Baby's victims

Post by **Johan Melle** » 12/05/2019, 17:59

A little selection of beautiful 1950s fotoromanzo covers featuring Nino:

Post by **Johan Melle** » 12/05/2019, 18:14

A little selection of fotoromanzo roles from Nino's extensive career:

"Tu, mia rivale" (Tipo, 1952)

"La peccatrice" (Tipo, 1952-53), an adaptation of the novel "Manon Lescaut" by Prévost

"Lettere nascoste" (Tipo, 1953)

"Il bacio di una morta" (Tipo, 1955)

"L'ombra del dubbio" (Tipo, 1956)

"Questo nostro difficile amore" (Tipo, 1956)

"...ed ella non rispose!" (Tipo, 1957)

"Carmen" (Tipo, 1958), an adaptation of the famous opera by Bizet

Post by **Johan Melle** » 12/05/2019, 18:19

And now the movie roles:

The earliest role I've found for Nino is in the Totò comedy L'imperatore di Capri (1949) as a hotel guest, shown dancing or in the background in numerous shots