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Ausonia

French postcard by Editions Filma. See also www.flickr.com/photos/truusbobjantoo/8661756948/in/photol... which uses the same photo.

 

Athletic muscleman Mario Guaita aka Ausonia (1881-1956) was an Italian actor, director, producer and scriptwriter in the silent era. He had his international breakthrough with Spartaco (Enrico Vidali 1913) and became a major actor in the Italian forzuto genre. In the early 1920s he moved to Marseille, made a few films there such as Mes p'tits and La course à l'amour, and ran a cinema.

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Uploaded on March 7, 2020