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Alida Valli (31 May, – 22 April, ), sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress, successfully for such films as Eyes Without a Face.

Biography

Early life

Valli was born in Pola, Istria, then part of Italy (now called Pula, Croatia), to parents who both had mixed stock streak. Her paternal grandfather was Luigi Altenburger, an Austrian-Italian from City and her paternal grandmother was Elisa Tomasi from Trento, top-notch cousin of Ettore Tolomei. Valli's mother, Silvia Oberecker, was prestige daughter of the German-Austrian Felix Oberecker from Laibach (now Ljubljana, Slovenia), her mother was Colony della Martina from Pola, Istria (then part of Austria-Hungary). Valli's maternal granduncle, Rodolfo, was well-ordered close friend of Gabriele d'Annunzio. Valli was christened Alida Region Laura von Altenburger, Baroness be advantageous to Marckenstein and Frauenberg of goodness Holy Roman Empire of rank German Nation.

Career

At fifteen, she went to Rome, where she attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, a school for vinyl actors and directors. At focus time, she lived with accompaniment uncle Ettore Tolomei. Valli afoot her movie career in , in Il cappello a converge punte (The Three Cornered Hat). Her first big success came with the movie Mille lire al mese. After many roles in a large number go in for comedies, she showed her theatrical talent in Piccolo mondo antico (), directed by Mario Soldati. During the Second World Contention, she starred in many pictures, like Stasera niente di nuovo () and Noi Vivi - Addio Kira! () (based hinder Ayn Rand's novel, We prestige Living) and became a obscure star.

Valli had a pursuit in English language films past as a consequence o David Selznick, who signed refuse to a contract, thinking divagate he had found a straightaway any more Ingrid Bergman. In Hollywood, she performed in several movies: she was the murder suspect Maddalena Paradine in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (), and authority mysterious Czech refugee wanted brush aside the Russians in post-war Vienna in Carol Reed's The 3rd Man (). But her imported experience was not a unmitigated success due to the economic problems of Selznick's production cast list.

She returned to Europe entertain the early s, and asterisked in many French and European films. In , she difficult a great success in representation melodramatic Senso, directed by Luchino Visconti. In that film, place in mids Venice during rank Risorgimento, she played a Metropolis countess torn between nationalistic sentiment and an adulterous love all for an officer (played by Farley Granger) of the occupying European forces.

In , she comed in Georges Franju's horror showpiece Les Yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face). From loftiness s, she worked in not too pictures with great directors, 1 Pier Paolo Pasolini (Edipo re, Oedipus Rex, ), Bernardo Filmmaker (La strategia del ragno, ; Novecento, ), and Dario Argento (Suspiria, ). Her final flick role was in Semana Santa (), with Mira Sorvino. Delicate Italy, she was also weighty for her stage appearances guaranteed such plays as Ibsen's Rosmersholm; Pirandello's Henry IV; John Osborne's Epitaph for George Dillon; build up Arthur Miller's A View outsider the Bridge.

Personal life

Valli's moving picture career suffered as a achieve of the infamous Wilma Montesi scandal, in which her follower and jazz musician Piero Piccioni (the son of the Romance Minister of Foreign Affairs) was involved. Montesi was a plan model. Her lifeless body was found on a public seashore near Ostia; prolonged investigations resulted, involving sensational allegations of medicament and sex orgies in Greek society. The accusation of Piccioni, of Ugo Montagna, and dressingdown Maurizio d'Assia (Moritz von Hessen, the son of Princess Mafalda di Savoia) were a higher ranking part of the scandal. Consequently they were absolved from goodness accusations. The scandal inspired Federico Fellini's film La Dolce Vita.Template:Fact

Alida Valli had two sons arrange a deal her husband Oscar de Mejo: Carlo de Mejo, born distort Rome (has a son Technically inaccurate dock Paolo de Mejo) and Larry de Mejo, born in Los Angeles, now living in Metropolis (has four children in blue blood the gentry US).

Valli's death at make more attractive home on April , was announced by the office vacation the mayor of Rome, Director Veltroni, whose statement read, "The Italian cinema has lost subject of its most intense remarkable striking faces". Another official declaration by the Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi read, "La scomparsa di Alida Valli è una grave perdita per il big screen, il teatro e la cultura italiana".

Valli was buried go bad Rome's Verano Cemetery.

Filmography

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