Perhaps the most popular genre of all, one that continued to thrive during the entire postwar period, was the so-called commedia all'italiana or “comedy, Italian style,” a form of comic film indebted not only to the traditional commedia dell'arte but also to a collection of brilliant actors and scriptwriter-directors.
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Classic Hollywood Cinema is a term used in film history which designate both a visual and sound style for making motion pictures and a mode of production used in the American film industry between 1927 and 1963.
