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Mario Ausonia

French postcard by Cinématographes Méric. Mario Guaita aka Ausonia. Card made for a folder with cards on the film Mes p'tits aka Le Calvaire d'une saltimbanque (1923) by Paul Barlatier and Charles Keppens.

 

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 April 18, 2013
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