Tomaso Smith

Tomaso Smith
Born	15 June 1886 Bagni di Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
Died	27 May 1966 (1966-05-28) (aged 79) Rome, Lazio, Italy
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1931–1944 (film)

Tomaso Smith (1886–1966) was an Italian screenwriter, politician, journalist, translator and newspaper editor active during the Fascist era. He started his career as a stringer for the Roman newspaper Il Messaggero but was forced to resign for his socialist stance. He then embarked on a career as screenwriter and playwright until the outbreak of the War. Smith was imprisoned in a German detention camp in Italy in 1943 but was able to escape. At the end of the war Il Messaggero offered him the editor's post. In the 1950s he started a political career, fist as an independent with the Italian Communist Party, and then with the ill-fated Adriano Olivetti's party La Giustizia. (The Justice)

Selected filmography

• Figaro and His Great Day (1931)
• The Blue Fleet (1932)
• The Last Adventure (1932)
• The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1934)
• Loyalty of Love (1934)
• Port (1934)
• Red Passport (1935)
• To Live (1937)
• The Fornaretto of Venice (1939)
• The Widow (1939)
• Father For a Night (1939)
• Kean (1940)
• Lucrezia Borgia (1940)
• The King's Jester (1941)
• Beatrice Cenci (1941)
• The Gorgon (1942)
• Maria Malibran (1943)
• The Champion (1943)
• Resurrection (1944)

Bibliography

• Matilde Hochkofler. Anna Magnani. Gremese Editore, 2001.

External links

• Tomaso Smith at IMDb