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Occupation
  
Actress

Name
  
Lina Gennari

Role
  
Actress



Born
  
21 June 1920 (
1920-06-21
)
Bologna

Died
  
October 11, 1997, Rome, Italy

Movies
  
Umberto D, The Sign of Venus, Eugenia Grandet, Tourist Train, Naples in Green and Blue

Similar People
  
Raffaello Matarazzo, Vittorio De Sica, Dino Risi, Mario Soldati, Renzo Rossellini

Lina Gennari (22 March 1911 – 11 October 1997) was an Italian actress and operetta singer.

Born Carolina Gennari in Bologna, she made her debut in the early 1920s in the Schwarz stage company, and she had her first role as prima donna in the operetta Al cavallino bianco. She achieved a large success in 1939 with the revue Se un'idea mi porta fortuna and then in 1940 with Nuto Navarrini's Vicino alle stelle. She appeared in several films between 1933 and 1955, notably playing the greedy landlady in Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D..

Selected filmography

  • Tourist Train (1933)
  • Naples in Green and Blue (1935)
  • It Was I! (1937)
  • Eugenia Grandet (1946)
  • Umberto D. (1952)
  • The Sign of Venus (1955)
  • Il padrone sono me (1955)
  • References

    Lina Gennari Wikipedia