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Fortunio Bonanova

Fortunio Bonanova

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Fortunio Bonanova

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Fortunio Bonanova, pseudonym of Josep Lluís Moll, (13 January 1895 – 2 April 1969) was a Spanish baritone singer and a film, theater, and television actor. He occasionally worked as a producer and director. According to Lluis Fàbregas Cuixart, the pseudonym Fortunio Bonanova referred to his desire to seek fortune, and his love of the Bonanova neighborhood in his native Palma. As a young man, living under his birthname, he was a professional telegraph operator. He studied music with the Italian Giovachini. In 1921, he debuted as a singer in Tannhäuser, at the Teatre Principal in Palma. That year, along with a group of Majorcan intellectuals and Jorge Luis Borges (who was briefly living in Majorca with his parents and sister), he signed the Ultraist Manifesto, using the name Fortunio Bonanova. Also in 1921, he appeared in a silent film of Don Juan Tenorio by the brothers Baños, which was shown the following year in New York City and Hollywood. He later directed his own Don Juan in 1924. In 1927, he acted in Love of Sunya, directed by Albert Parker and starring Gloria Swanson. In 1932 he had small parts in Hollywood productions featuring Joan Bennett and Mary Astor. In the same period, he appeared in New York in several operas as well as the zarzuelas La Canción del Olvido ("The song of forgetting"), La Duquesa del Tabarín ("The Duchess of Tabarín"), Los Gavilanes, and La Montería. In 1934, he returned to Spain, where he had a major role in the film El Desaparecido ("The disappeared one") written and directed by Antonio Graciani. In 1935 he acted and sang in the film Poderoso Caballero ("A Big Guy"), directed by Màximo Nossik. In 1936, with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he returned to the United States, where he played the role of Captain Bill in a film called Capitán Tormenta, directed by Jules Bernhardt. A sequence of increasingly larger acting and singing roles mostly in English-language films followed, especially after 1940. Among his roles were Signor Matiste, Susan Alexander Kane's opera coach in Citizen Kane (1941); General Sebastiano in Five Graves to Cairo (1943); Don Miguel in The Black Swan (1942); Fernando in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943); Sam Garlopis in Double Indemnity (1944); and a singing Christopher Columbus in Where Do We Go From Here?. He continued for the next several decades in a miscellany of character roles.

Citizen Kane poster
UHD Blu-ray
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WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

WB Europe 4K Blu-ray slightly better encoding than Criterion (caveat: missing Criterion extras)

Citizen Kane poster
UHD Blu-ray
English-Friendly:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Video:

WB Europe 4K Blu-ray slightly better encoding than Criterion (caveat: missing Criterion extras)

Five Graves to Cairo poster
1080p Blu-ray
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Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray is a newer 4K restoration, and better than the older restoration used by Britain MoC , France Elephant Films, or Germany Explosive Media Blu-ray see caps

English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray is a newer 4K restoration, and better than the older restoration used by Britain MoC , France Elephant Films, or Germany Explosive Media Blu-ray see caps

Going My Way poster
1080p Blu-ray
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Shout Factory Blu-ray

Best Video:

Shout Factory Blu-ray or France Elephant Films Blu-ray, no comparisons

Going My Way poster
1080p Blu-ray
English-Friendly:

Shout Factory Blu-ray

Double Indemnity poster
UHD Blu-ray
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Criterion 4k

Best Video:

Criterion 4k

Best Audio:

1991 MCA LaserDisc

English-Friendly:

Criterion 4k

Video:

Criterion 4k

Audio:

1991 MCA LaserDisc

Kiss Me Deadly poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion, HD transfer slightly better than Carlotta

English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Video:

Criterion, HD transfer slightly better than Carlotta

An Affair to Remember poster
1080p Blu-ray
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Fox Blu-ray

Best Video:

Fox Blu-ray

English-Friendly:

Fox Blu-ray

Video:

Fox Blu-ray

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