Michael Rennie, Vittorio Gassman and Shelley Winters in Mambo (1954 Movie)

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Mambo is a 1954 Italian/American film directed by Robert Rossen.

The film stars Silvana Mangano as Giovanna Masetti, a poor Venetian who is admired by the crafty croupier Mario Rossi (Vittorio Gassman) and the rich count Enrico Marisoni (Michael Rennie). Giovanna lives out a dream to become a dancer and moves to Rome. Returning 6 months later to the competing affections of Mario and Enrico, resulting in a choice between the two and the dramatic finale.

Cast Silvana Mangano as Giovanna Masetti Michael Rennie as Enrico Marisoni Vittorio Gassman as Mario Rossi Shelley Winters as Toni Salerno Katherine Dunham as Dance teacher Mary Clare as Contessa Marisoni Eduardo Ciannelli as Padre di Giovanna Julie Robinson as Marisa Walter Zappolini Ottone Candiani Franco Caruso as Pio Mimi Dugini Giovanna Galletti Cecilia Maris as Barbara Martitia Palmer as Lena Masetti Sergio Parlato as Eduardo Catherine Zago

Mambo is a film written and directed in 1952 to 1953 Robert Rossen and released in 1955. A mambo craze spread through the USA in the 1950s, and Rossen aimed to repairing his finances after almost two years without work since his 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee hearing.

He later said, "Mambo was to be for fun only," but he "took it seriously, and it didn't come off." The New York Times found the plot contorted, the script long and incredible, and lead actress Silvana Mangano's performance laboriously, but praised Rossen's skilfully created moods, some decadent and others melancholy. Alan Casty dismissed the film as a "mere job."

However, in 2001 Dorothea Fischer-Hornung concluded that the film achieved more than Rossen and contemporary critics realised. The lead, Italian shop-girl Giovanna, enrolls in a troupe led by real-time choreographer Katherine Dunham. The other three main characters in different ways try to dominate Giovanna, but she renounces one while the other two die violently. Giovanna returns to the troupe to devote herself to dance. In the first scene a sexually-charged dance accompanies a character's intense pass at Giovanna. The rest of the first third of the film forms three stages of Giovanna's training: basic lessons in Durham's technique; Giovanna collapses; more advance training, using twirling and other movements to induce trances. While most contemporary critics considered the cinematography of the dance scenes "confusing" and "handled with no real flair", one described it as "briefly, seems like genius", replacing conventional straight shots with sudden cuts, mirroring and montage.

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[cursosparalacocina]

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[tabianamoto]

God bless Katherine Dunham!

[JubalCalif]

Heavens to Murgatroid! THANKS for posting! Have never had a chance to see this or any clips from it before now. Very talented cast! Delightful dancin! The late great Shelley Winters had some fascinatin stories about the making of this 50's flick over in Italy in her 1980 autobiogrpahy. Bravissimo!!! :-)

[TheVirajster]

Excellent ensemble! Levine, Ponti, De Laurentis, Rota, Rossen, Winters, Gassman! !This was like a neo realistic piece. Like a DeSica movie. Any more like this?? THX!