Ada Crostona

[Ciavazzaro]

Ada Crostona portrayed in the Eighties

pic from Trastevere App

Born in the Roman neighborhood of Trastevere, where she lived all her life (in the pic she's in the Vicolo de' Cinque), Ada Crostona (real name: Ada Passari), began to make movies in 1959 with the classic Nella città l'inferno. Despite the fact that acting was not a profession, for her, she has participated in some films until the early 1980s, as a generica yes, but always with a "figurazione speciale".

FILMOGRAPHY

1959

1. Arrangiatevi (uncredited) .... Woman in bar / Newsstand vendor
2. La cento chilometri (uncredited) .... Sora Italia
3. Nella città l'inferno (as Ada Passeri) .... Moby Dick
   
   1960
4. L'ultimo zar (uncredited) .... Street seller giving information
5. La dolce vita (uncredited) .... Woman by the miracle tree
   
   1961
6. La viaccia (as Ada Passeri) .... Cashier of the closed house
   
   1962
7. Marco Polo (as Ada Passeri) .... role?
   
   1971
8. Trastevere (uncredited) .... Sora Filomena
   
   1972
9. Roma (uncredited) .... Roman woman
   
   1973
10. Teresa la ladra (uncredited) .... Convict
    
    1980
11. Un sacco bello (uncredited) .... Peanuts vendor

[Emiliano]

Un sacco bello (1980) as Penauts vendor

[Emiliano]

Her most important and famous role, as convict nicknamed Moby Dick in Renato Castellani's Nella città l'inferno (1959).

[Ciavazzaro]

Her big role Trastevere (1971) as Sora Filomena

[Emiliano]

Teresa la ladra (1973) as Convict with a short line with Monica Vitti.

[Johan Melle]

Ada also appears in two sequences in Fellini's Roma (1972) as a Roman woman. First she can be glimpsed very briefly among the audience members at the Teatrino della Barafonda

And then she is present at the Festa de' Noantri celebration at the end of the film

[Johan Melle]

La cento chilometri (1959) as Sora Italia

[van den bremt rudy]

Arrangiatevi (1959) seen in two sequences as woman in bar and as newsstand vendor
uncredited parts in this movie set in Rome in post-war Italy.

first sequence woman in bar

second sequence as a newsstand vendor

new entry for filmography

[van den bremt rudy]

La viaccia (1961) as cashier of the closed house
credited role, she played again under name Ada Passeri.

in the second picture there is also French actor jean-paul belmondo

[PeplumParadise]

Marco Polo (1962), credited as Ada Passeri, role uncertain