Italian playwright and impresario (b. Feb. 25, 1919, Trieste, Italy—d. May 9, 2006, Rome, Italy), introduced (with his longtime writing partner, Sandro Giovannini) the Broadway-style musical comedy to the Italian stage. Garinei originally trained as a pharmacist. He met Giovannini in the early 1940s while working as a sportswriter. They founded the satiric magazine Cantachiaro, which first appeared in 1944, and mounted a series of musical revues starring actors who included Anna Magnani and Alberto Sordi before expanding into Broadway-style musical plays in the early 1950s. The pair’s most successful stage productions included Rugantino (1962; filmed 1973) and Ciao, Rudy (1966), which starred Marcello Matrioianni as Rudolph Valentino. Garinei, who continued producing on his own after Giovannini’s death in 1977, was often credited with the writing of the lyrics for the song “Arrivederci Roma.”
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