Stefano Pittaluga (2 February 1887 – 26 April 1932) was an Italian film producer, one of several figures who helped revive Italian film production in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Originally a Genoa-based owner of cinemas, Pittaluga began to expand his business after 1924. He gained enormous power in the distribution sector by securing the rights to release the films of the Hollywood companies Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures and First National. Pittaluga also moved into the film production business around the same time, acquiring studios in Turin. Pittaluga was able to re-invest the profits he made from releasing foreign films into domestic production. He produced a series of films featuring pulp Strongman characters including Sansone and Saetta and particularly Maciste. The films led to him being the most commercially successful Italian producer of the era.[1]
Pittaluga's power grew in 1926 when he acquired the traditional leading production outfit Cines from the conglomerate Unione Cinematografica Italiana. Following on the heels of the development of sound film in America, Britain and Germany, Pittaluga had the Cines Studios in Rome fitted for sound production. Cines produced the first Italian sound film The Song of Love (1930), although another of the company's films Resurrection (1931) was actually made earlier but released later. Cines became the dominant force of the early sound era.[2]
Under Pittaluga the company specialised in releasing musicals and comedies. Much of the companies' output, often remakes of German or Hungarian films, were later branded "White Telephone" films. After Pittaluga's sudden death in 1932 the company continued to release the same kind of populist films, and were only overtaken when the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini invested large sums of money in production and constructed the vast Cinecittà complex in Rome.
StefanoPittaluga (2 February 1887 – 26 April 1932) was an Italian film producer, one of several figures who helped revive Italian film production in...
by StefanoPittaluga who oversaw production until his death in 1932. Emilio Cecchi served as head of production for a year following Pittaluga's death...
Filming by Cines-Pittaluga occurred in the "poorer sections" of Rome and the intended distributor was Società Anonima StefanoPittaluga (SASP). Ragazzo...
1956. It was formed in 1935, taking over the former organisation of StefanoPittaluga and his Cines company. Supported by the Fascist regime, the company...
The "Michele Pittaluga" International Classical Guitar Competition is an annual music competition for classical guitarists held in Alessandria, Italy...
March 1915, and was first screened in Rome on 14 April of that year. StefanoPittaluga, distributing the film on behalf of Corona, offered it both as a five-part...
Arata Production company Societa Anonima StefanoPittaluga Distributed by Societa Anonima StefanoPittaluga Release date August 1928 (1928-08) Country...
receiving an offer from StefanoPittaluga, the only significant commercial producer left working in Italy at the time. Pittaluga had recently converted...
Directed by Eugenio Perego Written by Ermanno Geymonat Produced by StefanoPittaluga Starring Domenico Gambino Pauline Polaire Oreste Bilancia Cinematography...
Italian capital Rome. They were established on Via Veio in 1930 by StefanoPittaluga, head of the Cines film company, at the beginning of the sound era...
Music by Giulio Bonnard Production company Cines-Pittaluga Distributed by Società Anonima StefanoPittaluga Release date 1933 (1933) Running time 78 minutes...
now derelict, were acquired as part of the growing film empire of StefanoPittaluga who already owned the Fert Studios in the city. In the early 1930s...
Ignazio Lupi Production company E.D.A. Distributed by Società Anonima StefanoPittaluga Release date 31 March 1922 (1922-03-31) Running time 90 minutes Country...
Cavagna Production company S.A.I.C. Distributed by Societa Anonima StefanoPittaluga Release date 27 October 1925 (1925-10-27) Country Italy Languages...
Matteis Production company Societa Anonima StefanoPittaluga Distributed by Societa Anonima StefanoPittaluga Release date September 1924 (1924-09) Country...
translation. A second critical edition with an Italian translation by StefanoPittaluga was published in Ferruccio Bertini, Commedie latine del XII e XIII...
be put under contract from the production company "Società Anonima StefanoPittaluga", and finally moved to Rome where she started her brief career. She...
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