Tomaso Smith

Tomaso Smith
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Born	15 June 1886 Bagni di Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
Died	27 May 1966 (1966-05-28) (aged 79) Rome, Lazio, Italy
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1931–1944 (film)

Tomaso Smith (15 June 1886 – 27 May 1966) was an Italian screenwriter, politician, journalist, translator and newspaper editor active during the Fascist era. He started his career as a stringer for the Roman newspaper Il Messaggero but was forced to resign for his socialist stance. He then embarked on a career as screenwriter and playwright until the outbreak of the War. Smith was imprisoned in a German detention camp in Italy in 1943 but was able to escape. At the end of the war Il Messaggero offered him the editor's post. In the 1950s he began a career in politics, first as an independent with the Italian Communist Party and then with Adriano Olivetti's Community Movement, where he was involved in attempts to start a newspaper, La Giustizia ("Justice").

Selected filmography

• Figaro and His Great Day (1931)
• The Blue Fleet (1932)
• The Last Adventure (1932)
• The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1934)
• Loyalty of Love (1934)
• Port (1934)
• Red Passport (1935)
• To Live (1937)
• The Fornaretto of Venice (1939)
• The Widow (1939)
• Father For a Night (1939)
• Kean (1940)
• Lucrezia Borgia (1940)
• The King's Jester (1941)
• Beatrice Cenci (1941)
• The Gorgon (1942)
• The Woman of Sin (1942)
• Maria Malibran (1943)
• The Champion (1943)
• Resurrection (1944)

Bibliography

• Matilde Hochkofler. Anna Magnani. Gremese Editore, 2001.

External links

• Tomaso Smith at the Internet Movie Database