Pietro Garinei

{{Short description|Italian playwright, actor, and songwriter (1919-2006)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} '''Pietro Garinei''' (1 February 1919 – 9 May 2006) was an Italian playwright, actor, and songwriter. Brother of [[Enzo Garinei]].

==Biography== [[File:Roma, targa garinei e giovannini accanto al teatro sistina.JPG|thumb|Commemorative plaque in Rome, Italy]] Garinei was born in [[Trieste]] in 1919.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=2006-05-10|title=Pietro Garinei, 87, Theatrical Voice of Rome, Is Dead|language=en-US|work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/arts/music/10garinei.html|access-date=2021-11-15|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He later worked as a sports journalist for the daily newspaper in Milan and Rome, where he met Sandro Giovannini. The two discovered a shared interest in music and entertainment, and left the paper shortly after to found a satiric newspaper.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2006-06-04|title=Obituary: Pietro Garinei |url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jun/05/guardianobituaries.italy|access-date=2021-11-15|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> In September 1944 they established a musical theater, Cantachiaro, which was named after a weekly [[Cantachiaro|satirical magazine]] they had contributed to.<ref name=nyt64>{{cite news |title='Like Taking a Watch to the Swiss'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/02/archives/like-taking-a-watch-to-the-swiss.html|access-date=11 May 2022|work=The New York Times|date=2 February 1964}}</ref> The first star of their theater was [[Anna Magnani]].<ref name=nyt64/>

Following the end of World War II, Garinei and Giovannini collaborated with the Radio [[RAI]]. In 1949 they started working as playwrights, and in 1952 they wrote one of Italy's first musical comedy, ''Attanasio cavallo vanesio'', featuring [[Renato Rascel]]. Garinei and Giovaninni also wrote a series of musicals such as ''Un paio d'ali'', ''Ciao Rudy'', ''[[Rugantino (musical)|Rugantino]]'', ''[[Aggiungi un posto a tavola]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vivarelli|first=Nick|date=2006-05-09|title=Italy's Garinei dies at 87|url=https://variety.com/2006/scene/markets-festivals/italy-s-garinei-dies-at-87-1200505448/|access-date=2021-11-15|website=Variety|language=en-US}}</ref> Actors who regularly performed in their comedies include [[Nino Manfredi]], [[Gino Bramieri]], [[Sandra Mondaini]], [[Walter Chiari]], [[Domenico Modugno]], [[Massimo Ranieri]], [[Raffaella Carrà]], [[Marcello Mastroianni]], [[Giulio Scarpati]] and [[Nancy Brilli]].{{cn|date=May 2024}}

Garinei and Giovannini also wrote the lyrics for many pop songs, including "[[Arrivederci Roma]]" and "Domenica è sempre domenica".{{cn|date=May 2024}}

Garinei died in Rome in 2006 at age 87.<ref name=":0" />

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080808141926/http://www.lastoriasiamonoi.rai.it/puntata.aspx?id=541 ''La storia siamo noi'' history of Garinei e Giovannini] * {{imdb name|0307448}} * {{discogs artist|Pietro Garinei}}

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