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Vito Corleone (born Vito Andolini) is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather and in the first two of Francis Ford Coppola's film trilogy. Vito is originally portrayed by Marlon Brando in the 1972 film The Godfather , and later by Oreste Baldini as a boy and by Robert De Niro as a young man in The Godfather Part II (1974).
In 1945, the New York City Corleone family don, Vito Corleone, listens to requests during his daughter Connie's wedding to Carlo Rizzi.Vito's youngest son Michael, a Marine and World War II hero who has thus far stayed out of the family business, introduces his girlfriend Kay Adams to his family at the reception.
Carmela "Mama" Corleone is a fictional character who appears in Mario Puzo's The Godfather, as well as its first two film adaptations.She is portrayed by Morgana King.She is the wife of Vito Corleone and the mother of Sonny, Fredo, Michael and Connie Corleone, and the adoptive mother of Tom Hagen.
The fictional Corleone crime family traces its roots to 1920, when Vito Corleone assassinated Little Italy's padrone, Don Fanucci, and took over Fanucci's territory along with his friends Genco Abbandando, Peter Clemenza and Salvatore Tessio. Shortly afterward, he founded the Genco Pura Olive Oil Company which was named after his closest friend ...
The Godfather is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo.Originally published on 10 March 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1] the novel details the story of a fictional Mafia family in New York City and Long Island, headed by Vito Corleone, the Godfather.
In 1901, nine-year-old Vito Andolini emigrates from Corleone, Sicily in the Kingdom of Italy to New York City after mafia chieftain Don Ciccio kills his family. An immigration officer registers him as Vito Corleone. By 1917 Vito is married in Little Italy and has an infant son, Sonny.
On March 5, 1973, Marlon Brando declined the best actor Academy Award for his gut-wrenching performance as Vito Corleone in "The Godfather." He did so for a very unexpected reason.
Anthony Vito "Tony" Corleone is a fictional character in The Godfather film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He is the son of Michael Corleone and Kay Adams (Diane Keaton), and the older brother of Mary Corleone (Sofia Coppola). While Tony was not a major character in the first two films, major events in his life were the backdrop of ...