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Alida Valli

Alida Valli

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Quốc tịch: Croatia]
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Enigmatic, dark-haired foreign import Alida Valli was dubbed "The Next
Garbo" but didn't live up to postwar expectations despite her cool,
patrician beauty, remote allure and significant talent. Born in Pola,
Italy (now Croatia), on May 3, 1921, the daughter of a Tridentine
journalist and professor and an Istrian homemaker, she studied
dramatics as a teen at the Motion Picture Academy of Rome and Centro
Sperimentale di Cinematografia before snaring bit roles in such films
as
Il cappello a tre punte (1935)
["The Three-Cornered Hat"] and
I due sergenti (1936) ["The Two
Sergeants"]. She made a name for herself in Italy during WWII playing
the title role in
Manon Lescaut (1940), won a Venice
Film Festival award for
Piccolo mondo antico (1941)
["Little Old World"] and was a critical sensation in
We the Living (1942) ["We the Living"]. She
briefly abandoned her career, however, in 1943, refusing to appear in
what she considered fascist propaganda, and was forced into hiding. The
next year she married surrealist painter/pianist/composer
Oscar De Mejo. They had two children, and
one of them, Carlo De Mejo, became an
actor. She divorced in 1955, then she came back to Italy,Following her potent, award-winning work in the title role of
Eugenie Grandet (1946), she was
discovered and contracted by
David O. Selznick to play the murder
suspect Maddalena Paradine in
Alfred Hitchcock's
The Paradine Case (1947). She
was billed during her Hollywood years simply as "Valli," and Selznick
also gave her top femme female billing in
Carol Reed's classic film noir
The Third Man (1949), but for every
successful film--such as the ones previously mentioned--she experienced
such failures as
The Miracle of the Bells (1948),
and audiences stayed away. In 1951 she bid farewell to Hollywood and
returned to her beloved Italy. In Europe again, she was sought after by
the best directors. Her countess in
Luchino Visconti's
Senso (1954) was widely heralded, and she
moved easily from ingénue to vivid character roles. Later standout
films encompassed costume dramas as well as shockers and had her
playing everything from baronesses to grandmothers in such films as
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
["Eyes Without a Face"],
Le gigolo (1960),
Oedipus Rex (1967) ["Oedipus Rex"],
The Big Scare (1974),
1900 (1976),
Suspiria (1977),
Luna (1979),
Inferno (1980),
Aspern (1982),
A Month by the Lake (1995)
and, her most recent,
Angel of Death (2001).
  • SpouseOscar De Mejo(1944 - 1952) (divorced, 2 children)
  • Con cái: Carlo De Mejo
  • Cha mẹ: Gino Altenburger von Marckenstein und FrauenbergSilvia Oberecker della Martina