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Other names
  
Valli

Role
  
Actress

Name
  
Alida Valli

Years active
  
1936 – 2002

Occupation
  
Actress, Singer


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Full Name
  
Baroness Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg

Born
  
31 May 1921 (
1921-05-31
)
Pola, Istria, Kingdom of Italy

Died
  
April 22, 2006, Rome, Italy

Spouse
  
Oscar De Mejo (m. 1944–1952), Giancarlo Zagni (m. ?–1969)

Children
  
Carlo De Mejo, Lorenzo De Mejo

Parents
  
Silvia Oberecker della Martina, Gino Altenburger von Marckenstein und Frauenberg

Movies
  
The Third Man, Senso, The Paradine Case, Eyes Without a Face, Suspiria

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Baroness Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), better known by her stage name Alida Valli (or simply Valli), was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 and Dario Argento's Suspiria.

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Early life

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Valli was born in Pola, Istria, Italy (today Pula, Croatia; until 1918 it had formed part of Austria-Hungary). Her paternal grandfather was the Baron Luigi Altenburger (also: Altempurger), an Austrian-Italian from Trento, a descendant of the Counts d'Arco; her paternal grandmother was Elisa Tomasi from Trento, a cousin of the Roman senator Ettore Tolomei. Valli's mother, Silvia Oberecker della Martina, born in Pola, was the daughter of Felix Oberecker (also: Obrekar) from Laibach, Austria (now Ljubljana, Slovenia); her mother was Virginia della Martina from Pola, Istria (then part of Austria). Valli's maternal granduncle, Rodolfo, was a close friend of Gabriele D'Annunzio. Valli was christened Baroness Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg. During her lifetime she also gained the titles Dr.h.c. of the III. University of Rome, Chevalier of Arts of France and Cavaliere of the Italian Republic.

Career

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At fifteen, she went to Rome, where she attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, a school for film actors and directors. At that time, she lived with her uncle Ettore Tolomei. Valli started her movie career in 1934, in Il cappello a tre punte (The Three Cornered Hat) during the so-called Telefoni Bianchi cinema era. Her first big success came with the movie Mille lire al mese (1939). After many roles in a large number of comedies, she earned her success as dramatic actress in Piccolo mondo antico (1941), directed by Mario Soldati, for which she won a special Best Actress award at Venice Film Festival. During the Second World War, she starred in many movies including Stasera niente di nuovo (1942) (whose song "Ma l'amore no" became the leitmotif of the Italian forties) and the diptych Noi Vivi / Addio Kira! (1943) (based on Ayn Rand's novel We the Living). These latter two movies were nearly censored by the Italian government under Benito Mussolini, but they were finally permitted because the novel upon which they were based was anti-Soviet. The films were successful, and the public easily realized that they were as much against Fascism as Communism. After several weeks, however, the films were pulled from theaters as the German and Italian governments, which abhorred communism, found out the story also carried an anti-fascist message.

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By her early 20s already widely regarded as the "most beautiful woman in the World," 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 Soviets in post-war Vienna in Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949). But her foreign experience was not a great success, owing to the financial problems of Selznick's production company.

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She returned to Europe in the early 1950s, and starred in many French and Italian films. In 1954, she had great success in the melodrama Senso, directed by Luchino Visconti. In that film, set in mid-19th century Venice during the Risorgimento, she played a Venetian countess torn between nationalistic feelings and an adulterous love for an officer (played by Farley Granger) of the occupying Austrian forces.

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In 1956, Valli decided to stop making movies, concentrating instead on the stage. She was in charge of a company that produced Broadway plays in Italy.

In 1959, she appeared in Georges Franju's horror masterpiece Les Yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face). From the 1960s, she worked in several pictures with famous directors, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini's Edipo re (Oedipus Rex), 1967; Bernardo Bertolucci's La strategia del ragno, 1972; Novecento, 1976, and Dario Argento's Suspiria, 1977. Her final movie role 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. At the 54th Venice International Film Festival in 1997 Alida Valli obtained the Golden Lion award for her career.

Name used in billing

When Valli came to the United States, she was billed by only her last name "to make her sound even more exotic." In 1951, she complained that she disliked the single-name reference. "I feel silly going around with only one name," she said. "People get me mixed up with Rudy Vallée."

Personal life

Her teenage love, Carlo Cugnasca, was a famous Italian aerobatic pilot. He served as a fighter pilot with the Regia Aeronautica and was killed during a mission over British-held Tobruk on 14 April 1941.

Valli's movie career suffered in 1953 from a scandal surrounding the death of Wilma Montesi, whose body was found on a public beach near Ostia; prolonged investigations resulted, involving allegations of drug and sex orgies in Roman society. Among the accused – all of whom were acquitted, leaving the case unsolved – was Valli's lover, jazz musician Piero Piccioni (son of the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs).

Valli married Oscar de Mejo in 1943 and filed for divorce from him in 1949, but they reconciled. She had two sons with him.

Death

Valli's death at her home on 22 April 2006 was announced by the office of the mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, whose statement read, "The Italian cinema has lost one of its most intense and striking faces". Another official statement by the Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi read, "La scomparsa di Alida Valli è una grave perdita per il cinema, il teatro e la cultura italiana" ("The death of Alida Valli is a great loss for the cinema, the theatre and Italian culture").

The critic David Shipman wrote in his book The Great Movie Stars: The International Years, that on the basis of her best known films before 1950, she might seem to be "one of Hollywood's least successful continental imports", but a viewer of "any two or three of the films she has made since then ... will probably regard her as one of the half-dozen best actresses in the world". The French critic Frédéric Mitterrand wrote: "[C]ette actrice fut la seule en Europe à égaler Marlène Dietrich ou Garbo" (This was the only actress in Europe to equal Marlene Dietrich or Greta Garbo).

Theatre

  • La casa dei Rosmer (1956) Henrik Ibsen (aka Rosmersholm)
  • L'uomo, la bestia e la virtù (1956), Luigi Pirandello
  • Gli innocenti (1956), William Archibald
  • Enrico IV (1958), Luigi Pirandello
  • Il sole e la luna (1965), Guglielmo Biraghi
  • Epitaffo per George Dillon (1966), John Osborne and Anthony Creighton (Epitaph for George Dillon)
  • Uno sguardo dal ponte (1967), Arthur Miller (A View from the Bridge)
  • La bambolona (1968), Raf Vallone
  • Il dio Kurt (1969), Alberto Moravia
  • I parenti terribili (1969), Jean Cocteau (Les parents terribles)
  • LSD-Lei, scusi, divorzierebbe? (1970), Carlo Maria Pensa
  • Uno sporco egoista (1971), Francois Dorin
  • Lulu (Lo spirito della terra – Il vaso di Pandora) (1972), Frank Wedekind (Lulu [Erdgeist-Die Büchse der Pandora])
  • Le massacre à Paris (1972), Christopher Marlowe (The Massacre at Paris)
  • Il Gabbiano (1973), Anton Cechov
  • L'uomo che incontrò de stesso (1981), Luigi Antonelli
  • La Venexiana (1981), Anonimo del Cinquecento
  • La fiaccola sotto il moggio (1981), Gabriele d'Annunzio
  • Ekaterina Ivanovna (1983), Leonid Andreev
  • Il malinteso (1984), Albert Camus (Le malentendu)
  • Romeo e Giulietta (1985), William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
  • A porte chiuse, da Sartre a Mishima (1986), di Jean-Paul Sartre e Yukio Mishima (Huis clos – Aoi – Hanjo)
  • La città morta (1988), Gabriele D'Annunzio
  • La nave (1988), Gabriele D'Annunzio
  • I paraventi (1990), Jean Genet (Les paravents)
  • Improvvisamente l'estate scorsa (1991), Tennessee Williams (Suddenly Last Summer)
  • Più grandiose dimore (1993), Eugene O'Neill
  • Così è (se vi pare) (1994), Luigi Pirandello
  • Questa sera si recita a soggetto (1995), Luigi Pirandello
  • Radio appearances

    Lux Radio Theatre broadcast "The Paradine Case" in a radio adaptation of the film on 9 May 1949, starring Joseph Cotten, with Alida Valli and Louis Jourdan reprising their role

    Filmography

    Actress
    2001
    Angel of Death as
    Doña Catalina
    2001
    Probably Love as
    Alida Valli
    2000
    Vino santo (TV Movie) as
    Sveva
    1999
    The Sweet Sounds of Life as
    Sofia's grandmother
    1996
    Fatal Frames as
    Countess Alessandra Mirafiori
    1995
    A Month by the Lake as
    Signora Fascioli
    1993
    The Final Scoop as
    Caterina la madre di Roberto
    1993
    Il lungo silenzio as
    Carla's Mother
    1993
    Delitti privati (TV Mini Series) as
    Matilde Pierboni
    - Episode #1.4 (1993) - Matilde Pierboni
    - Episode #1.3 (1993) - Matilde Pierboni
    - Episode #1.2 (1993) - Matilde Pierboni
    - Episode #1.1 (1993) - Matilde Pierboni
    1992
    Una vita in gioco 2 (TV Movie)
    1991
    Zitti e mosca as
    Clara
    1991
    La bocca as
    Countess Bianca Rospigliosi
    1991
    Una vita in gioco (TV Movie)
    1988
    À notre regrettable époux as
    Catarina
    1987
    Le jupon rouge as
    Bacha
    1985
    Segreti segreti as
    Gina
    1984
    La ragazza dell'addio (TV Mini Series)(1984)
    - Episode #1.3 (1984) - (1984)
    - Episode #1.2 (1984) - (1984)
    - Episode #1.1 (1984) - (1984)
    1983
    Dramma d'amore (TV Mini Series)
    - Episode #1.3 (1983)
    - Episode #1.2 (1983)
    - Episode #1.1 (1983)
    1983
    Piccolo mondo antico (TV Mini Series) as
    La marchesa Maironi
    - Episode #1.4 (1983) - La marchesa Maironi
    - Episode #1.3 (1983) - La marchesa Maironi
    - Episode #1.2 (1983) - La marchesa Maironi
    - Episode #1.1 (1983) - La marchesa Maironi
    1983
    Il malinteso (TV Movie) as
    La madre
    1982
    Sogni mostruosamente proibiti as
    Madre di Marina
    1982
    Aspern as
    Juliana Bartes
    1982
    Casa Cecilia (TV Mini Series) as
    Nonna Susanna
    - L'amico della nonna (1982) - Nonna Susanna
    1981
    Quell'antico amore (TV Mini Series) as
    Maria Teresa
    - Episode #1.4 (1982) - Maria Teresa
    - Episode #1.1 (1981) - Maria Teresa
    1981
    La caduta degli angeli ribelli as
    Bettina
    1981
    Sezona mira u Parizu
    1981
    Illa - Punto di osservazione (TV Mini Series) as
    Maria Dal Ponte
    - Episode #1.3 (1981) - Maria Dal Ponte
    - Episode #1.2 (1981) - Maria Dal Ponte
    - Episode #1.1 (1981) - Maria Dal Ponte
    1981
    La casa rossa (TV Mini Series) as
    Agla
    - Episode #1.5 (1981) - Agla
    - Episode #1.3 (1981) - Agla
    - Episode #1.2 (1981) - Agla
    - Episode #1.1 (1981) - Agla
    1980
    Puppenspiel mit toten Augen
    1980
    Aquella casa en las afueras as
    Isabel
    1980
    Verso l'ora zero (TV Movie) as
    Lady Tressilian
    1980
    L'eredità della Priora (TV Mini Series) as
    Priora
    - Episode #1.6 (1980) - Priora
    - Episode #1.5 (1980) - Priora
    - Episode #1.4 (1980) - Priora
    - Episode #1.3 (1980) - Priora
    - Episode #1.1 (1980) - Priora
    1980
    Inferno as
    Carol, the caretaker
    1979
    L'altro Simenon (TV Series)
    1979
    Licanthropus, il figlio della notte
    1979
    Luna as
    Giuseppe's Mother
    1979
    Der Landvogt von Greifensee as
    Marianne
    1979
    The Killer Nun as
    Mother Superior
    1979
    Zoo zéro as
    Yvonne, la mère
    1978
    Indagine su un delitto perfetto as
    Lady Clementine De Revere
    1978
    Les grandes conjurations (TV Series) as
    Catherine de Médicis
    - Le tumulte d'Amboise (1978) - Catherine de Médicis
    1978
    Dirty World as
    Teresina
    1977
    Berlinguer: I Love You as
    Mrs. Cioni
    1977
    A Simple Heart as
    Mrs. Obin
    1977
    Suspiria as
    Miss Tanner
    1976
    The Cassandra Crossing as
    Mrs. Chadwick - Nanny
    1976
    1900 as
    Signora Pioppi
    1976
    Le jeu du solitaire as
    Germaine
    1975
    Il caso Raoul as
    Elsa
    1975
    Cher Victor as
    Anne
    1975
    The Flesh of the Orchid as
    La folle de la gare
    1974
    The Antichrist as
    Irene
    1974
    The Big Scare as
    Héloïse
    1974
    Il consigliere imperiale (TV Mini Series) as
    Catina Zaiotti
    - Episode #1.3 (1974) - Catina Zaiotti
    - Episode #1.2 (1974) - Catina Zaiotti
    - Episode #1.1 (1974) - Catina Zaiotti
    1974
    Beyond Erotica as
    Louise
    1973
    Lisa and the Devil as
    Countess
    1972
    Indian Summer as
    Marcella Abati - Vanina's mother
    1972
    Diario di un italiano as
    Olga
    1972
    Eye in the Labyrinth as
    Gerda
    1972
    Il lutto si addice ad Elettra (TV Movie) as
    Christine Mannon
    1970
    The Spider's Stratagem as
    Draifa
    1970
    The Mushroom as
    Linda Benson
    1967
    Oedipus Rex as
    Merope
    1965
    Umorismo in nero as
    The Widow (segment 3 'La cornacchia')
    1964
    Desencuentro (TV Series)
    1964
    Dr. Kildare (TV Series) as
    Luisa Brabante
    - Rome Will Never Leave You: Part 3 (1964) - Luisa Brabante
    - Rome Will Never Leave You: Part 2 (1964) - Luisa Brabante
    - Rome Will Never Leave You: Part 1 (1964) - Luisa Brabante
    1964
    L'autre femme as
    Annabel
    1963
    A la salida (Short)
    1963
    The Getaway Face
    1963
    Combat! (TV Series) as
    Marie
    - Doughboy (1963) - Marie
    1963
    The Paper Man as
    La Italiana
    1963
    The Castilian as
    Reina Teresa
    1963
    Ophélia as
    Claudia Lesurf
    1962
    Las momias de Guanajuato (TV Series)
    - Episode #1.3 (1962)
    - Episode #1.2 (1962)
    - Episode #1.1 (1962)
    1962
    Homenaje a la hora de la siesta as
    Constance Fischer
    1962
    Al otro lado de la ciudad
    1962
    Disorder as
    Carlo's Mother
    1961
    Il caso Maurizius (TV Mini Series) as
    Sofia von Andergast
    - Episode #1.4 (1961) - Sofia von Andergast
    1961
    La fille du torrent as
    Livia Boissière
    1961
    The Happy Thieves as
    Duchess Blanca
    1961
    The Long Absence as
    Thérèse Langlois
    1960
    Le gigolo as
    Agathe
    1960
    Il peccato degli anni verdi as
    Elena Giordani's Mother
    1960
    Le dialogue des Carmélites as
    Mère Thérèse de Saint-Augustin
    1960
    Ragazza mia (TV Mini Series) as
    Kate
    - Episode #1.4 (1960) - Kate
    - Episode #1.3 (1960) - Kate
    - Episode #1.2 (1960) - Kate
    1960
    Eyes Without a Face as
    Louise
    1959
    Signé: Arsène Lupin as
    Aurélia Valéano
    1959
    I figli di Medea (TV Movie) as
    Medea / Alida Valli
    1958
    L'uomo dai calzoni corti as
    Carolina
    1958
    The Night Heaven Fell as
    Florentine
    1958
    This Angry Age as
    Claude
    1957
    La grande strada azzurra as
    Rosetta, la moglie
    1957
    Il Grido as
    Irma
    1954
    Senso as
    La contessa Livia Serpieri
    1954
    La mano dello straniero as
    Roberta Gleukovitch
    1953
    We, the Women as
    Alida (segment "Alida Valli")
    1953
    The World Condemns Them as
    Renata Giustini
    1953
    The Lovers of Toledo as
    Doña Inés de Arévalo Blas
    1951
    Ultimo incontro as
    Lina Castelli
    1951
    Les miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois as
    Claudia
    1950
    Walk Softly, Stranger as
    Elaine Corelli (as Valli)
    1950
    The White Tower as
    Carla Alton (as Valli)
    1949
    The Third Man as
    Anna Schmidt (as Valli)
    1948
    The Miracle of the Bells as
    Olga (as Valli)
    1947
    The Paradine Case as
    Maddalena Anna Paradine (as Valli)
    1946
    Eugenie Grandet as
    Eugenia Grandet
    1945
    Il canto della vita as
    Giovanna
    1945
    Life Begins Anew as
    Patrizia Martini
    1944
    Circo equestre Za-bum (segments "Gelosia", "Il postino" and "Galop finale al circo")
    1943
    Apparizione as
    Andreina
    1943
    T'amerò sempre as
    Adriana
    1943
    Laugh Pagliacci as
    Giulia Valmondi
    1942
    Stasera niente di nuovo as
    Maria
    1942
    Addio Kira! as
    Kira Argounova
    1942
    We the Living as
    Kira Argounova
    1942
    Two Orphans as
    Enrichetta
    1942
    Catene invisibili as
    Elena Silvagni
    1941
    L'amante segreta as
    Renata Croci
    1941
    Schoolgirl Diary as
    Anna Campolmi
    1941
    Luce nelle tenebre as
    Marina Ferri
    1941
    Piccolo mondo antico as
    Luisa Rigey Maironi
    1940
    La prima donna che passa as
    Gabrielle de Vervins
    1940
    Passione as
    Vanina Vanini
    1940
    The Last Enemy as
    A friend of Anna
    1940
    Taverna rossa as
    Susanna Sormani
    1940
    Manon Lescaut as
    Manon Lescaut
    1939
    Her First Love as
    Vera Fabbri
    1939
    Ball at the Castle as
    Greta Larsen
    1939
    Mille lire al mese as
    Magda
    1938
    La casa del peccato as
    La ragazza
    1938
    L'amor mio non muore! as
    Maria D'Alba
    1938
    L'ha fatto una signora as
    Maria Sardo
    1937
    Il feroce Saladino as
    Dora Florida / La bella Sulamita
    1937
    It Was I as
    Lauretta
    1936
    I due sergenti as
    Una commessa dell'emporio 'Au Bon Marché' (as Alida Altenburger)
    1935
    Il cappello a tre punte (uncredited)
    Director
    1968
    L'amore in tutte le sue espressioni (Documentary)
    Writer
    2008
    Come diventai Alida Valli (Documentary) (biography)
    Soundtrack
    1948
    The Miracle of the Bells (performer: "Powrot" - uncredited)
    1945
    Life Begins Anew (performer: "Io t'ho incontrata a Napoli" - uncredited)
    1942
    Stasera niente di nuovo (performer: "Ma l'Amore No")
    Self
    1989
    Du côté de chez Fred (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 20 November 1989 (1989) - Self
    1985
    Hitchcock: il brividio del genio (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1961
    Les échos du cinéma (TV Series short) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.44 (1961) - Self
    Archive Footage
    2023
    Compression (TV Series documentary)
    - Compression Il Grido de Michelangelo Antonioni (2023)
    - Compression La Prima Notte di Quiete de Valerio Zurlini (2023)
    - Compression Les Yeux sans visage de Georges Franju (2023)
    2021
    Alida (Documentary) as
    Self
    2017
    Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (Documentary) as
    Self
    2015
    Al Centro del cinema (Documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2014
    Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks (TV Series documentary) as
    Irene
    - The Antichrist (2014) - Irene
    2012
    Dai nostri inviati: La Rai e l'Istituto Luce raccontano la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1932-1953 (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2012
    Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
    2010
    Dai nostri inviati: La Rai racconta la Mostra del cinema 1954-1967 (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2010
    Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (Documentary) as
    Self
    2009
    Fear at 400 Degrees: The Cine-Excess of 'Suspiria' (Video documentary short) as
    Miss Tanner
    2008
    Strictly Courtroom (TV Movie documentary) as
    Mrs. Maddalena Anna Paradine (uncredited)
    2008
    Come diventai Alida Valli (Documentary)
    2004
    Shadowing the Third Man (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2001
    Suspiria 25th Anniversary (Video documentary) as
    Miss Tanner
    2000
    Passioni nere (Documentary)
    1999
    Luchino Visconti (Documentary) as
    Self
    1999
    Silent Witness (TV Series) as
    Anna Schmidt
    - A Good Body: Part 1 (1999) - Anna Schmidt (uncredited)
    1985
    Dario Argento's World of Horror (Documentary) as
    Miss Tanner (uncredited)
    1975
    The House of Exorcism as
    Countess
    1953
    C'era una volta Angelo Musco (Documentary)
    1942
    La scuola del cinema (Documentary short)
    1940
    Fantasmi a Cinecittà (Short)

    References

    Alida Valli Wikipedia


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