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Italian postcard by NPG, no. 5.
Emma Gramatica (1874-1965) was not only a ‘monstre sacré’ of the Italian stage but also played many old ladies in Italian sound cinema of the 1930s to the 1950s.
Emma Gramatica, originally Aida Laura Argia Gramatica, was born in Borgo San Donnino in 1874. She was the sister of the equally famous Irma Gramatica and less-known Anna Adele Alberta Gramatica. Emma was married to Ruggero Capodaglio and sister-in-law of the famous actress Wanda Capodaglio. Equipped with a physical appearance that was far from flashy, but with an elegantly incisive interpretive charge, Emma Gramatica made her debut as a teenager in the theatre next to Eleonora Duse in 'La Gioconda' by Gabriele D'Annunzio. Emma was the 'first actress' at the stage companies of some of the most prestigious names in the Italian theatre of the late 19th and the early 20th century, such as Ermete Zacconi, Flavio Andò, Enrico Reinach and Ermete Novelli. In the 1910s she formed the famous company Gramatica-Carini-Piperno, in which many great actors had their formation such as Renzo Ricci and Lola Braccini. In 1916, she debuted on the silver screen as a marriage wrecker in Quando il canto si spegne (Emilio Graziani-Walter, 1916), opposite Luigi Serventi and produced by the Milanese company General Film. Even if praising her stage qualities, the press condemned her for her looks and theatricality and didn’t accept her as the mistress for which a man breaks up his marriage. Gramatica understood the message and would stay away from the screen until the arrival of sound cinema in Italy.
From the early 1930s, Emma Gramatica did prose on radio, first with EIAR and later also with RAI. Gramatica was an actress of the old naturalist school, of acute and pathetic tones. At a high age, she started a successful film and television career, probably debuting in La vecchia signora (Amleto Palermi, 1931) as an impoverished lady who sells chestnuts on the streets to support her niece. Memorable, Gramatica was e.g. in Napoli d’altri tempi (Amleto Palermi, 1938) starring Vittorio De Sica, in Mamma (Guido Brignone,1941) starring Beniamino Gigli, and in the Ferdinando Maria Poggioli’s films Sissignora (1941) and Sorelle Materassi (1944), in which she and her sister Irma played two old spinsters. In the classic Miracolo in Milano (1951) by Vittorio De Sica, she was old Lolotta who finds young Totò (Francesco Golisano) in a cabbage and raises him with an optimistic and kind outlook. She also starred in Don Camillo Monsignore ... ma non troppo (Carmine Gallone, 1961). Emma Gramatica received awards and honours in Italy and also the Legion of Honor in France. She died in 1965 in Ostia, near Rome, and rests in the family tomb in the cemetery of Signa, with her sister Irma and their parents.
Sources: Wikipedia (Italian and English), and IMDb.
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Emma found easter eggs today !
She is very happy because she loves chocolate !!!
~ Happy Easter Flickr friends ~
Emma Frost from the Marvel's X-Men Universe.
1/8 scale PVC Bishoujo Statue by Kotobukiya
Released December 2010.
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Emma specialises in fashion and portrait work only so it was a rare treat to see her pull her dress up to show her legs and stocking tops.
Photographed by me on location and in my home
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Emma’s studio apartment has everything she needs within a 16x16 footprint.
Built for the FriendsBricks Frienduary Build Challenge to build an apartment for a Heartlake City resident within a 16x16 footprint.
PS. At one point in my life, I lived in a tiny, tiny one-bedroom apartment. I used to call it the “shoebox”. Fortunately, it was at least a little bigger than Emma’s studio. Anyway, that’s where the name for this MOC came from.
Emma tries to figure out whether Harriet and George love each other. And started asking herself, why she cares so much about it…
See the presentation below.
Emma Frost, played by January Jones, from X-Men: First Class (2011).
The decals are my own design. The hairpiece is painted tan. Everything else is LEGO.
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Emma remembers Jane’s singing performance and thinks it was better than her own. Now she is definitely in love with Frank.
See the presentation below.
Emma González, is a high school senior. She survived the February 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida and co-founded the gun-control advocacy group Never Again MSD.
This caricature of Emma González is an original Photoshop painting.