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Itallywood
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English
thumb|right|1918, Italian-American actor Bull Montana signing his publicity photo with "Itallywood"
Alternative forms
en Italywood
Etymology
en Italy Hollywood, more popular in the silent film era.
Proper noun
en rare Italian actors and directors working in Hollywood
en 2002 Simon Louvish Stan and Ollie, the Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy 355 https://archive.org/details/stanollierootsof00louv/mode/2up?q=italywood Hal Roach Goes Italywood. Hal Roach of bathing beauty and film comedy fame, and Vittorio Mussolini, Il Duce's flying son, announced tonight formation of an equal partnership for production of motion pictures.
en 2014 Timothy J. Johnson Barbara Ottaviani-Jones The Virgin Mary on Screen: Mater Dei or Just a Mother in Guido Chiesa’s Io Sono con Te (I Am with You) Journal of Religion & Film 14 https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1140&context=jrf From a critical, cinematic point of view, certainly Io Sono con Te can be easily placed within the current, and unfortunately rare category of “contemporary Italian art films” that stand out in contrast for style and themes from en vogue cinepanettone and Itallywood movies. https://web.archive.org/web/20250623023500/https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1140&context=jrf 23 June 2025
Related terms
en Bollywood, en Kollywood, en Mollywood, en Nollywood, and similar, see :Category:en:Film industries.