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Trio Ausonia

Postcard, probably French. Editor unknown.

 

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 would become famous as an action and adventure film hero or forzuto. Before acting in film, Guaita did tableaux vivants of famous paintings and sculptures and knew triumphant successes not only in Italy but all over Europe. he did so as member of the Trio Ausonia, ‘Gladiators of the Twentieth Century’,

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