Gherardo Gherardi

{{Short description|Italian screenwriter}} {{Infobox person | name = Gherardo Gherardi | image = Gherardo_Gherardi.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 2 July 1891 | birth_place = [[Bologna]], [[Emilia-Romagna]], [[Italy]] | death_date = 10 March 1949 | death_place = [[Rome]], [[Lazio]], [[Italy]] | other_names = | occupation = Screenwriter | years_active = 1936-1949 (film) }} '''Gherardo Gherardi''' (1891–1949) was an Italian [[screenwriter]].<ref>Landy p.66</ref> He co-wrote the screenplay for [[Vittorio De Sica]]'s 1948 [[Neorealism (art)|neorealist]] classic ''[[Bicycle Thieves]]''. Originally a [[playwright]], he worked prolifically in the Italian film industry following its rapid expansion during the late [[Fascist era]].

==Selected filmography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''[[The Countess of Parma]]'' (1936) * ''[[Music in the Square]]'' (1936) * ''[[The Two Sergeants (1936 film)|The Two Sergeants]]'' (1936) * ''[[Adam's Tree]]'' (1936) * ''[[These Children]]'' (1937) * ''[[Doctor Antonio (1937 film)|Doctor Antonio]]'' (1937) * ''[[The Three Wishes (1937 Italian film)|The Three Wishes]]'' (1937) * ''[[Triumph of Love (1938 film)|Triumph of Love]]'' (1938) * ''[[Departure (1938 film)|Departure]]'' (1938) * ''[[It Always Ends That Way]]'' (1939) * ''[[The Knight of San Marco]]'' (1939) * ''[[A Thousand Lire a Month]]'' (1939) * ''[[The Sons of the Marquis Lucera]]'' (1939) * ''[[Red Tavern]]'' (1940) * ''[[Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto]]'' (1941) * ''[[Blood Wedding (1941 film)|Blood Wedding]]'' (1941) * ''[[The Secret Lover]]'' (1941) * ''[[A Pilot Returns]]'' (1942) * ''[[The Queen of Navarre]]'' (1942) * ''[[Giarabub (film)|Giarabub]]'' (1942) * ''[[Luisa Sanfelice (1942 film)|Luisa Sanfelice]]'' (1942) * ''[[Odessa in Flames]]'' (1942) * ''[[C'è sempre un ma!]]'' (1942) * ''[[Signorinette]]'' (1942) * ''[[The Taming of the Shrew (1942 film)|The Taming of the Shrew]]'' (1942) * ''[[The Children Are Watching Us]]'' (1943) * ''[[Farewell Love!]]'' (1943) * ''[[Mist on the Sea]]'' (1944) * ''[[L'abito nero da sposa]]'' (1945) * ''[[The Song of Life (1945 film)|The Song of Life]]'' (1945) * ''[[Before Him All Rome Trembled]]'' (1946) * ''[[Fire Over the Sea]]'' (1947) * ''[[Bicycle Thieves]]'' (1948) * ''[[Eleven Men and a Ball]]'' (1948) * ''[[Buried Alive (1949 film)|Buried Alive]]'' (1949) {{div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Landy, Marcia. ''Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema, 1931-1943''. Princeton University Press, 2014.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0315657}}

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