| Alida Valli |
Alida Valli as she appeared in The Paradine Case (1947) | | Birth name | Alida Maria Laura von Altenburger, Baroness of Marckenstein and Frauenberg | | Born | 31 May 1921
Pola, Istria, Italy | | Died | 22 April 2006
Rome | | Other name(s) | Valli | | Spouse(s) | Oscar De Mejo | | Official site | www.alidavalli.net | Alida Valli (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ...
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Nickname: The Eternal City Motto: SPQR: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area - City 1285 km² (580 sq mi) - Urban...
May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ...
Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for full calendar). ...
April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ...
For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
Biography
Alida Valli was born in Pola, Istria, then in Italy (now called Pula, Croatia), of Austrian and Italian extraction on her father's side (his father is Luigi Altenburger from Trento and his mother is Elisa Tomasi from Trento, a cousin of the roman senator Ettore Tolomei) and Austrian and Italian on her mother's side(her mother is Virginia della Martina, whose brother Rodolfo was a close friend of Gabriele d'Annunzio and her father is the german- austrian Felix Oberecker from Laibach, at that time Austria (today Ljubljana, Slovenia)). She was christened Alida Maria Laura von Altenburger, Baroness of Marckenstein and Frauenberg of the The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Coat of arms Istria (Istra, pronounced in Croatian and Slovenian; Istria, pronounced in Italian, Istrien, pronounced in German) is the biggest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. ...
Pula (Italian Pola) is the largest city in Istria, Croatia, at the southern tip of that peninsula. ...
At 15 years old she went to Rome, where she attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, a school for film actors and directors. At that time she lived at her oncle, the roman senator Ettore Tolomei. Beautiful, elegant and talented (with a sensual and melancholic glance), Alida Valli started her movie career in 1934, in Il cappello a tre punte (The Three Cornered Hat). The first big success came with the movie 'Mille lire al mese'. After many roles in a large number of comedies, she could prove her dramatic talent in Piccolo mondo antico (1941), directed by Mario Soldati. During the War Years she starred in many movies, like Stasera niente di nuovo (1942) and Noi Vivi - Addio Kira! (1943), and became a movie star. Nickname: The Eternal City Motto: SPQR: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area - City 1285 km² (580 sq mi) - Urban...
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Alida Valli had a career in English language films through David Selznick, who signed her to a contract, thinking that he had found a second Ingrid Bergman. In Hollywood she performed in several movies: she was the murder suspect Maddalena Paradine in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947), and the mysterious Czech refugee wanted by the Russians in post-war Vienna in Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949). But her foreign experience was not a great success due to financial problems of Selznicks production company. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
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The Paradine Case was a 1947 courtroom drama movie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, produced by David O. Selznick. ...
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In the early 1950s she came back to Europe, and starred in many French and Italian movies. In 1954 she had a great success in the melodramatic Senso, directed by Luchino Visconti. In that movie, set in mid-1800s Venice during the Risorgimento, she was a Venetian countess torn between nationalistic feelings and an adulterous love for an officer (played by Farley Granger) of the occupying Austrian forces. Her performance was vivid and passionate. Her movie career suffered by the famous Wilma Montesi scandal, in which her lover and jazz musician Piero Piccioni (the son of the italian minister of foreign affairs) was involved together with Maurizio d'Assia (Moritz von Hessen), the son of the famous italian princess Mafalda di Savoia. This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ...
Senso is an Italian novella by Camillo Boito, a famous Italian author and architect. ...
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In 1959, she appeared in Georges Franju's horror masterpiece Les Yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face). Georges Franju (April 12, 1912 - November 5, 1987) was a French filmmaker. ...
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Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans Visage) is a 1959 French film directed by Georges Franju and co-written by the duo Boileau-Narcejac Categories: Film stubs ...
From the 1960s she worked in several pictures with great directors, like Pier Paolo Pasolini (Edipo re, Oedipus Rex, 1967), Bernardo Bertolucci (La strategia del ragno, 1972; Novecento, 1976) and Dario Argento (Suspiria, 1977). Her last movie appearance was in Semana Santa (2002), with Mira Sorvino. In Italy, she was also well-known for her stage appearances in such plays as Ibsen's Rosmersholm; Pirandello's Henry IV; John Osborne's Epitaph for George Dillon; and Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 - November 2, 1975) was an Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. ...
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Suspiria is a 1977 Italian horror film directed by Dario Argento, and co-written by Argento and actress Daria Nicolodi, whom Argento was romantically involved with at the time. ...
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Poster for the 2005 production of Epitaph for George Dillon Epitaph for George Dillon is an early John Osborne play, one of two he wrote in collaboration with Anthony Creighton (the other is Personal Enemy). ...
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She died on 22 April 2006 in Rome. April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ...
For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
Nickname: The Eternal City Motto: SPQR: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area - City 1285 km² (580 sq mi) - Urban...
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