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C A L I G U L A

The Cast and Crew

Felix Cinematografica S.r.l. e Bob Guccione per la Penthouse Films International presentano
[Bob Guccione and Penthouse Films International present]

Caligula

Una produzione di Franco Rossellini
[A Penthouse Films International and Felix Cinematografica S.r.l. Production]
Copyright © 1979 Penthouse Films International, Ltd. (as advertised outside of Italy; later disputed)
Principal Photography: 3 August 1976 – 31 December 1976

Lori Wagner, Anneka diLorenzo, and Jane Hargrave
were mercilessly lampooned in Ultimate Porno as “Huey, Dewey, and Louie,” respectively.
Despite what the book says, I’m actually rather fond of them.
Too bad they obeyed orders though. LIFE RULE # 1: Never obey orders.

OTHERS IN THE CAST
Caligula’s retinue	Martinelli, first name unknown (Caligula’s bedroom; Proculus’s house; dinner; victory banquet; birth; Battle of Britain; Imperial Bordello) Mazzanti (Massanti?), first name unknown (Longinus’s office; Caligula’s bedroom; Drusilla’s bedroom; Proculus’s house; dinner; victory banquet; birth; Battle of Britain; Imperial Bordello) Montereale, first name unknown (Longinus’s office; Caligula’s bedroom; Drusilla’s bedroom; Proculus’s house; dinner; victory banquet; birth; Battle of Britain; Imperial Bordello) Romoli, first name unknown (Caligula’s bedroom; Drusilla’s bedroom; Proculus’s house; dinner; victory banquet; birth; Battle of Britain; Imperial Bordello)
Second of pair of nude slaves jogging down corridor	Anna Grimwood [birth name: Ann Burgess]
A slave in the corridor	Giulia Cardella [bitten by a Molossus between takes, taken for shots]
A slave in the corridor	Annalisa Fiore
Princess-Slave (tortured with barbed wire)	Angela La Vorgna [her face is never shown on screen, which is a terrible shame since she had about the nicest face of all]
Tiberius’s slave (Betty the Collapsible Crutch)	Loretta Young (no, not that one; this one was an actress-model from NYC about whom I know nothing else)
Band leader by Tiberius’s pool / Soldier who posts Caligula’s decree of one month’s public mourning	Guy Munthe
A musician under the conductorship of Guy Munthe	Gary Karp [in real life a music student in Ohio]
Orgy Master at Tiberius’s Grotto of Pleasures	Marcello Di Falco (b 7 Mar 1943, d 7 Sep 2010) [later, after a surgery, was known as Marcella Di Folco]
Drunken Sentry	Donato Mercouri [some hastily typed studio documents spell his surname Mercuri, which I think is wrong; I think he spelled it the Greek way, not the Latin way]
An exhibit at Tiberius’s Grotto of Pleasures	Tom Corey [in real life an art student from Scarsdale]
Three-eyed dwarf	Salvatore Furnari
Siamese Twins joined at scalp	Aléxico and Eloy de Llanos
Priest (“Rest Tiberius Cæsar”; entrail examiner at wedding banquet; “Golden ponds of Britain”)	Giuseppe Maffioli (b 28 Apr 1925, d 3 Jun 1985)
“Throw him in the river!”	Louis Rossetto
High Priest Bergarius	Eduardo Gustavo Bergara Leumann (b 5 Sep 1932, d 5 Sep 2008) (aka Edouard Bergara as well as just Bergara)
High Priestess of Isis [originally cast as midwife, a part that was cut prior to shooting]	Maria Cumani Quasimodo (b 20 May 1908, d 22 Nov 1995)
One of the blade-wielders on the head chopper	Pietro Torrisi (b 20 January 1940)
Senator (“He’s a tyrant”)	John Stacy
Senator Acesius (“I offer my life”)	Andrew Lord Miller [misidentified as Andrew Lord Russell in photo captions]
Console Consul	Nino Prester [misidentified as “Edoardo Prester” in Ministero del Turismo e dello Spettacolo application; glimpsed only for a moment during the coronation scene.]
2º Console 2nd Consul	Vittorio Fanfoni [glimpsed only for a moment during the coronation scene.]
Priestess of Isis (Sacred Dance of Isis) / A senator’s wife	Jane Hargrave (“Louie”)
Priestess of Isis (Sacred Dance of Isis)	Susanne Saxon (Susan Marie Swanson, b 27 Dec 1955, d 4 Sep 2006) [she was later brought back for the “additional scenes”]
Maître d’ at Wedding (“And the Lady Drusilla, and the Lady Cæsonia”)	John Francis Lane
Incitatus	Davide
Homosexual Guards who spy on Caligula & Drusilla at the beginning of the reign and then on the Caligula/Drusilla/Cæsonia trio during the storm	“Caramella” and “Belladonna” (I assume Caramella was the masculine-looking one, whom I can’t identify; the effeminate one, whose face is never revealed in the release versions, I assume was Belladonna, and his real name was Franco Caracciolo [b 6 Mar 1944, d 3 Nov 1992], and he seems to pop up later in the movie in the Suburra as a prostitute who tries to solicit Caligula’s attentions)
One of the Ladies-in-Waiting	Kris Petersson
Master of Ceremonies during arrest of Gemellus	Daniel Smith [deleted from release versions, visible in Lui’s Making of]
Boia Executioner	Eolo Capritti
One of the guests at Victory Banquet	Salvatore Governale [he also worked props and studio security]
A senator’s wife / priestess of Isis / Diana, Goddess of the Hunt at victory banquet	Carolyn Patsis (Carolynn A. Putsis, b. 9 Jan 1956, d. 26 Nov 2013) [Diana was deleted from release versions]
A senator’s wife	Bonnie Dee Wilson
Julia Drusilla (two years old)	Sansoni [first name unknown]
Dancing Master	Gambino [first name unknown, deleted from all release versions]
Also Appearing	Ryan, first name unknown (corridor, Gallery of Monsters) Doyle, first name unknown (corridor, Gallery of Monsters) De Petris, first name unknown (Gallery of Monsters) Suares, first name unknown (Gallery of Monsters) Caporale, first name unknown (Gallery of Monsters) Saltutti, first name unknown (Enrica???) (head-chopper) Fiorentini, first name unknown (Longinus’s office; Caligula’s bedroom) D’Ecclesia, first name unknown (Luigi???) (dinner; victory banquet; death of Proculus; Imperial Bordello) Bullo, first name unknown (Gianfranco???) (birth) Roiron, first name unknown (Georges???) (Suburra) Ianni, first name unknown (death of Proculus; victory banquet) Tanin, first name unknown (victory banquet;) Ritva Kaarina Maakorpi (victory banquet? — for the life of me I can’t remember where I learned that she appeared in this movie) O’Brian, first name unknown (Imperial Bordello) Caponera, first name unknown (Pipo???) (Imperial Bordello) Sottile, first name unknown (Imperial Bordello) Pino Ammendola (a soldier?) Omero Capanna (unknown) Fortunato Arena (unknown) Antonio Casale (unknown) Lella Cataneo (unknown) Decio Gabin (unknown) Giuseppe Namio (unknown) Claudio Aliotti Guglielmo Spoletini (b 18 Apr 1929, d 12 Mar 2005) [originally cast as circus director, which was cut from the script; he was in the movie but I can’t spot him] Giovanna Tovoli (a/k/a Lola Montez) Carlos Alberto Valles and about 200 or maybe 300 others (Please contact me if you can identify any of them. Thanks!)
Senators’ wives aboard the Imperial Bordello (appeared only in Guccione’s inserts)	Valerie Rae Clark Juliet Morris Henrietta D. Kelogg (or Kellogg, or Kellog) (b 4 Nov 1952, d 3 Jun 2009) Signe Berger and others
Other voice artists for the English dub	Joan Baker (b 14 Oct 1960) Seán Barrett (b 4 May 1940) David Dixon (b 28 Oct 1947) Olive Gregg (d 2007) Neville Jason Geoffrey Matthews (d 2010) Paula Mitchell Beryl Mortimer (d 2001) Jennifer “Gennie” Nevinson Robert Rietti (b 8 Feb 1923)
Footsteppers	Joan Baker (b 14 Oct 1960) Beryl Mortimer (d 2001)
THERE WERE SEVERAL HUNDRED EXTRAS, MOST OF WHOM I CANNOT IDENTIFY AND MOST OF WHOM WERE SURELY NOT ACTORS. MANY WERE PROBABLY CREW MEMBERS WHO WERE PUT INTO COSTUME. IF YOU CAN IDENTIFY ANY OF THESE EXTRAS, PLEASE WRITE TO ME. MANY, MANY, MANY THANKS!!!
Some years ago, back in 2009, we discovered the captions typed up for most of Mario Tursi’s black-and-white unit stills. I don’t think the unit stills for the last four or five weeks of the shoot were ever captioned, but everything else was. Please look at this one particular caption: Oooooo. That looks interesting, doesn’t it? I mean, heck, we all know that Sidney Sheldon was a good sport, and so why not? Why wouldn’t he do that? Alas, he didn’t. There was a typographical error in that caption, in duplicate. Nearly a decade later, we discovered the images. Take a look: Pay attention to the edge numbers. Mario Tursi purchased bulk 100' rolls of film and cut them himself into canisters of about 40 frames each. That is why frame 44 is followed on the same piece of film by frame 1. After the film was processed and cut into four-frame snippets, the studio folks renumbered them by hand, rather randomly, paying no attention at all to the edge numbers. The proper sequence is right to left. By the way, Sidney Sheldon was in Rome at the time to write Bloodline, a novel that was intended from the outset to become a movie entitled Sidney Sheldon’s Bloodline. Yes, Paramount Pictures insisted from the beginning that the author’s name be included in the title. The script was later polished by — hold your breath — Gore Vidal! Then the film was chopped to pieces and the scenes were tossed out of sequence and many outtakes were used instead of the preferred takes, and the result was a damaged film with a damaged story. When the movie was scheduled for network broadcast, Sidney Sheldon himself rounded up all the trims and deletions and oversaw a proper restoration, a “Writer’s Cut,” if you will. The “Writer’s Cut” has never been shown since, and has never been made available on home video. Darn! Copies are floating around on the grey market, though, and I got myself one. Quite amusing, indeed, and Audrey Hepburn was magnificent.

CONFLICTING CREDITS
FELIX/PAC: AUGUST 1979, ITALY	PENTHOUSE/ANALYSIS: FEBRUARY 1980, USA	FELIX/GAUMONT: MARCH 1984, ITALY	FELIX/CVF: JUNE 1987

Something amused me in 1980. It may have amused you, too. When journalists are under the gun with a deadline, they do hasty research, and the hastiness shows. That’s a professional risk — actually, it’s a professional inevitability. An editor at The New York Times assigned Tom Buckley to do a brief piece on the forthcoming Caligula. The editor recognized the principal names in the cast and crew, but he had never heard of the director before. Could Buckley learn something about this director? Now, in early 1980 that was not such an easy assignment, for it was next to impossible to find any reference to Tinto in any English-language journal, apart from the occasional passing reference to Madam Kitty that one could glean from Reader’s Guide. Nonetheless, Buckley did what he could, and I instantly recognized what he had done. He began his research by pulling up the 1980 International Motion Picture Almanac, edited by Richard Gertner, published by Quigley. Was Tinto mentioned? Yes, he was! The brief listing, though, was simply a list of Italian titles that were entirely unfamiliar. Apart from Caligula and Salon Kitty, there was only one title in English, namely Yankee. On a hunch, Buckley decided to look up Yankee in a respected book on westerns, and he lucked out. That, of course, was insufficient. Buckley needed to do a little more digging. He looked through an index of film journals, and discovered that Variety had published a few references to Tinto’s most recent movie. Behold the result:

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