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Sicilian born actor/writer/director was very popular with European audiences, but largely unknown to the west apart from his portrayal of the villainous SPECTRE agent "Emilio Largo" in the spectacular James Bond film Thunderball (1965). However, due to his heavy accent, Celi's voice was dubbed by Robert Rietty. Two years later Celi popped up in the appalling James Bond spoof Operation Kid Brother (1967) starring Neil Connery brother of Sean Connery.
Additional to his many film appearances in Italian productions, Celi spent many years on stage in South America to very positive reviews, and directed three films made in South America, Caiçara (1950), Tico-Tico no fuba (1952)_ and L'Alibi (1969)_.
He passed away on February 19th 1986 from a heart attack.- Gianna Maria Canale was born on 12 September 1927 in Reggio di Calabria, Calabria, Italy. She was an actress, known for Clash of Steel (1962), Theodora, Slave Empress (1954) and Dead Woman's Kiss (1949). She was married to Riccardo Freda. She died on 13 February 2009 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
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Helmut Käutner was born on 25 March 1908 in Düsseldorf, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for The Captain from Köpenick (1956), The Last Bridge (1954) and The Rest Is Silence (1959). He was married to Erica Balqué. He died on 20 April 1980 in Castellina in Chianti, Tuscany, Italy.- Additional Crew
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Lindsay Kemp was born on 3 May 1938 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Wicker Man (1973), Velvet Goldmine (1998) and Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders (1970). He died on 25 August 2018 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy.- Costume Designer
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He grew up in Normandy. After finishing primary school, Dior moved with his parents to Paris, where he attended the Ecole de Sciences Politiques. After graduating from high school and training as a diplomat, Dior opened an art gallery in Paris in 1928, which quickly made a name for himself in the city's select art circles. Dior was also artistically active with numerous drawings and illustrations. From 1931 onwards, he created his first fashion creations in the form of hat sketches commissioned by the magazine "Le Figaro Illustré". In 1937, Dior expanded his field of activity to design the first women's models (costumes, coats, shoes). In 1938, Dior became a designer at "Piquet" and in 1940 he moved to "Lelong" as chief designer. After German troops invaded France in 1940, the designer fled to southern France from the occupiers until the end of the war in 1945.
With the financial help of a wealthy friend of the Boussac family, on December 16, 1946, he moved into a studio on Avenue Montaigne in Paris, where the flagship store of the Dior brand is still located today. His first collection was published on February 12, 1947. Shortly afterwards, Dior founded his own fashion house under the label "Christian Dior", which launched the perfume "Miss Dior" on the market that same year. He celebrated his greatest successes in the same year with his design of the "New Look" in America. The "New Look" term was coined by Carmel Snow, the editor-in-chief of "Harpers Bazaar" at the time. These creations consisted of feminine, figure-hugging dress tops with round shoulders and a wide, swinging skirt. Furthermore, Dior set completely new accents with color-coordinated accessories, such as a delicate hat and cane umbrella, which made him the groundbreaking couturier of his time. The "New Look" designs became popular under the name "Ligne Corolle" or "Bellflower Line".
After these successes in the USA, Dior founded "Christian Dior New York Inc." in 1949, which was also represented at ready-to-wear shows in Paris under this name. In the same year, 1949, the designer also presented his first fashion show in Hamburg. From 1947 to 1950 he employed Pierre Cardin as a tailor. In 1951 he introduced the "Dior" trademark for worldwide distribution of his production under license. Dior made the young Yves Saint Laurent his assistant in 1953. In 1955 Dior founded "Christian Dior London Ltd." into life. After the "New Look" a changed line appeared every season. The "Tulip Line" was created in 1953 to 1954, the "H Line" in 1954 to 1955, the "A Line" in the summer of 1955 and the "Arrow Line" in 1956 to 1957. In April 1957 he was the first fashion designer to appear on the cover of the US "Time Magazine". Dior was considered the most influential couturier in the world.
After a heart attack, Christian Dior died on October 24, 1957 in the Italian spa town of Montecatini at the age of just 52. Saint Laurent posthumously became Dior's successor as chief designer of the House of Dior in 1957.- Guido Mannari was born on 13 December 1944 in Rosignano Marittimo, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Caligula (1979), The Decameron (1971) and Il medium (1980). He died on 10 August 1988 in Rosignano Marittimo, Tuscany, Italy.
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The son of Italian theatre critic Antonio Cervi, Gino Cervi was one of the most famous Italian actors, first on stage, then on screen and finally on television. He appeared in his first play in 1924, a year after his father's death. He won world fame with three movies directed by Alessandro Blasetti: Aldebaran (1935), Ettore Fieramosca (1938), and An Adventure of Salvator Rosa (1939). After the WWII, his film career flourished, and then on television, he found new fame as Inspector Jules Maigret in a series of TV Movies based on the novels of Georges Simenon.- Lina Cavalieri was born on 25 December 1874 in Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for Manon Lescaut (1914), The Eternal Temptress (1917) and The Two Brides (1919). She was married to Lucien Muratore, Robert W. Chanler, Giovanni Campari and Aleksandr Beriatinskij. She died on 7 February 1944 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- Carlo Collodi was born on 24 November 1826 in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany [now Tuscany, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022), Pinocchio (1940) and Pinocchio (2022). He died on 26 October 1890 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- Lisa Martinek studied acting at the Hamburg University for Music and Theatre from 1993 to 1997. During that time she also performed at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and acted in several TV and film productions. From 1997 to 2001 she was a member of the Schauspielhaus Leipzig, engagements with Schauspiel Frankfurt and Deutsches Theater Berlin followed. For her role as bike courier Lena in the movie Trial by Fire (Härtetest) she was nominated for the Deutscher Filmpreis, the highest German movie award, in 1998. She was also nominated for the Deutscher Fernsehpreis (German Television Award) in the category Best Lead for her work in the made-for-TV movie Jagd auf den Flammenmann. She starred alongside Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz in the 2007 made-for-TV remake of Helmut Käutner's Die Zürcher Verlobung and played the role of Juliane, which, in the original 50 years prior, had been played by Lilo Pulver. From 2006 to 2011 she starred as inspector Clara Hertz alongside Charlotte Schwab in the ZDF crime series Das Duo. Lisa Martinek lives with her husband Giulio Ricciarelli and their children in Berlin and Munich.
- Giovanni Boccaccio was born in June 1313 in Certaldo, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was a writer, known for The Little Hours (2017), Decameron n° 3 - Le più belle donne del Boccaccio (1972) and Decameron Nights (1953). He died on 21 December 1375 in Certaldo, Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
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Under the direction of Vittorio De Sica, Carlo Battisti left a remarkable mark in cinema history as the lead character in Umberto D. (1952), an Italian Neo-Realist classic about an elderly man who wanders through Rome with his dog Flike while trying to survive the Italy of post WWII. He was born on 10 October, 1882 in Trento - then an Austro-Hungary territory that later became part of Italy during the war years.
He wasn't an actor by trade, in fact, he was a Linguistic professor. At the age of 70, De Sica discovered Battisti and chose him for the lead role in Umberto D. (1952), who didn't want a professional actor for the role, wanting to give a more realistic approach to the story just like Rossellini did with his films in the late 1940's. Battisti received excellent reviews and praise from audiences who loved his heart-breaking performance and his memorable scenes with his loyal companion, the cute dog Flike.
After the movie, Battisti never appeared on another movie and returned to teaching until his retirement some years later. He died in 1977, aged 94.- Gina Falckenberg was born on 14 September 1907 in Emmering, Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany. She was an actress and writer, known for Ein Unsichtbarer geht durch die Stadt (1933), Ab Mitternacht (1938) and Vento di primavera (1958). She was married to Giulio Del Torre. She died on 12 February 1996 in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.
- Aldo Berti was born on 29 February 1936 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for A Stranger in Town (1967), Born to Kill (1967) and Night of Violence (1965). He died on 26 December 2010 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Italo Calvino was born on 15 October 1923 in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba. He was a writer, known for Boccaccio '70 (1962), Ti-Koyo e il suo pescecane (1962) and L'amore difficile (1962). He was married to Esther Calvino. He died on 19 September 1985 in Siena, Tuscany, Italy.- Muriel Spark was born on 1 February 1918 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She was a writer, known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), The Driver's Seat (1974) and Teletale (1963). She was married to Sidney Oswald Spark. She died on 13 April 2006 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
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Jerzy Grotowski was born on 11 August 1933 in Rzeszów, Podkarpackie, Poland. He was a director and actor, known for Akropolis (1969), Spoleto 1967 (1967) and Camera Three (1955). He died on 14 January 1999 in Pontedera, Tuscany, Italy.- Born into a time of extreme political upheaveal, Niccolò Machiavelli was a member of the old Florentine nobility. He received a proper humanistic Renaissance education, and as a young man began the climb up the perilous political ladder of Italy. In 1502 he was sent to Romagna as an envoy to Cesare Borgia, the infamous papal prince and despot who would later influence Machiavelli's political philosophy. The return of the Medici dynasty in 1512 resulted in Machiavelli's downfall. He lost his office and was imprisoned and tortured before finally being banished from Florence. It was during his exile that Machiavelli wrote his most famous work, "Il Principe (The Prince)", a handbook of sorts for autocratic rulers. Though his sympathies lay with republicanism, he was first and foremost intensely pragmatic, a quality which did not endear him to later, more idealistic, generations.
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For French art film lovers, Giorgio Albertazzi appeared out of nowhere and literally fascinated them in Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet's unidentified object known as Last Year at Marienbad (1961). Elegant, seductive, with a hypnotizing Italian accent, he tried to persuade an elegant, seductive woman speaking in a singsong voice that he had been her lover the year before in the same luxury hotel ... The lady, the marvelous 'Delphine Seyrig'did not seem to remember him. And life imitating art, it looked as if Giorgio Albertazzi, despite a haunting presence in a haunting film would also return to oblivion immediately after the release of this atypical movie; The man of one film? Of course not. He did make others in his native country, but mainly minor unpretentious works, nothing on a par with Last Year at Marienbad (1961). Obviously, cinema has helped the actor to keep body and soul together, nothing more. His contribution to Italian television is more ambitious, either as an actor, a scriptwriter or a director. His best role on the small screen may be Dostoievsky's moving Prince Miskin in Giacomo Vaccari's remarkable mini-series L'idiota (1959). He also interpreted Dante Alighieri and Don Giovanni in two interesting TV films or series directed by Vittorio Cottafavi. And wearing the three hats of actor (as Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde), writer (adapting Robert Louis Stevenson and director, he was very successful with Jekyll (1969). However, Albertazzi's main activity and great love has always been the stage. An actor since 1949 and still active after all these years, he debuted in William Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" under the direction of Luchino Visconti. Since then he has performed in scores of plays by Luigi Pirandello, George Bernard Shaw, Lillian Hellman, Gabriele D'Annunzio, among others. Into the bargain, this great name of the Italian theatre has been running a dramatic school from the mid-nineties as well as the Teatro di Roma since 2003. All in all, Giorgio Albertazzi did not come out of nowhere when Alain Resnais, a director who has always loved actors, chose him for being X the stranger in Last Year at Marienbad (1961). And he did not return to oblivion either. Just ask Italian theatre lovers if they have forgotten him and you will see!- Fiamma Breschi was born on 24 April 1934 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for Desiderio 'e sole (1954) and In amore si pecca in due (1954). She died on 21 November 2015 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- Franco Silva was born on 18 February 1920 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was an actor, known for Hannibal (1959), The Tough and the Mighty (1969) and The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo (1961). He died on 11 November 1995 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy.
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Gregor von Rezzori was born on 13 May 1914 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]. He was an actor and writer, known for Unter den Sternen von Capri (1953), Der liebe Augustin (1960) and Man nennt es Amore (1961). He was married to Beatrice Monti della Corte, Priska von Tiedemann and Hanna Axmann. He died on 23 April 1998 in Donnini, Reggello, Tuscany, Italy.- Producer
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Paul R. Picard was born on 17 July 1930 in Natick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA. He was a producer and production manager, known for The Dukes of Hazzard (1979), CBS Summer Playhouse (1987) and Enos (1980). He was married to Louise Latham and Juliette. He died on 3 October 1994 in Tuscany, Italy.- Arnold Böcklin was born on 16 October 1827 in Basel, Switzerland. He was a writer, known for The Isle of the Dead (1913). He was married to Angela Pascucci. He died on 16 January 1901 in Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy.
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Tonino Cervi was born on 15 June 1929 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a producer and writer, known for Il quaderno della spesa (2003), Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! (1968) and The Girls Who'll Do Anything (1975). He died on 1 April 2002 in Siena, Tuscany, Italy.- Odette Bedogni was born in Bracciano 25th of September in 1929. when she was 8 years old, she entered at ballet school of Scala and remained for 7 years, appearing in various ballet as "La bottega fantastica" (Gioacchino Rossini) and "La bella addormentata nel bosco" (Ciakovsky). She started to work in cinema with the nickname Delia Scala after the second world war. The director Luigi Zampa considered she had a simple smile and a good girl face and he gave her an important character in the movie "Anni difficili". With her lively and nervy body she appeared in a lot of films. In 1954 Delia debuted in theatre with Carlo Dapporto in "Giove in doppiopetto" and with Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini in "L'adorabile Giulio" (1957), "Buonanotte Bettina" (1956), "My fair lady" (1964) and "Rinaldo in campo" (1966). 1956 was the year in that she appeared with Nino Taranto in variety show "Lui e Lei". In 1959 and 1960 she presented "Canzonissima" in conjunction with Nino Manfredi and Paolo Panelli, directed by Antonello Falqui and in 1969 came "Delia Scala story". In the 70s she was with Lando Buzzanca in "Signore e Signora".
Scala had breast cancer and difficulties following this meant she did not resume her career. In 2001 her partner, Arturo Fremura, died of liver cancer, leading her to fresh despair. The undisputed Queen of TV variety shows, Delia Scala died at 74 years old on 15th of January 2005, in her home in Livorno. - Antonio Monselesan was born on 2 August 1941 in Tripoli, Italian Libya. He was an actor, known for Cry of Death (1968), Ordine firmato in bianco (1974) and Convoy Buddies (1975). He died on 25 February 2015 in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.
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- Producer
Paolo Rossi was born on 23 September 1956 in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor and producer, known for Lucignolo (1999), See You in Montevideo (2014) and Paolo Rossi: A Champion Is a Dreamer Who Never Gives Up (2020). He was married to Simonetta Rizzato and Federica Cappelletti. He died on 9 December 2020 in Siena, Tuscany, Italy.- Additional Crew
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- Sound Department
Cesare Barbetti was born on 29 September 1930 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He was an actor, known for Cinema Paradiso (1988), Once Upon a Time in America (1984) and The Affairs of Messalina (1951). He died on 13 September 2006 in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.- Production Manager
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- Producer
Aldo Pomilia was born on 27 September 1933 in Trapani, Sicily, Italy. He was a production manager and producer, known for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Assassination in Rome (1965) and War Gods of Babylon (1962). He was married to Chelo Alonso. He died on 13 June 1986 in Siena, Tuscany, Italy.- Director
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Andrea Frazzi was born in 1944 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Andrea was a director and writer, known for A Children's Story (2004), Il cielo cade (2000) and Il fascino dell'insolito (1980). Andrea died on 3 May 2006 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.- Maria Pia Schiaffino was an actress, known for Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963). She died on 11 December 1983 in Massarosa, Tuscany, Italy.
- Augusto Mastripietri was born on 16 June 1846 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Malombra (1917), Christus (1916) and After Six Days (1920). He died on 8 July 1930 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
- Vittorio Alfieri was born on 16 January 1749 in Asti, Kingdom of Sardinia [now Piedmont, Italy]. Vittorio was a writer, known for Teatro de siempre (1966), Saul (1959) and Agamennone (1968). Vittorio died on 8 October 1803 in Florence, Kingdom of Etruria [now Tuscany, Italy].
- Oriana Fallaci was born on 29 June 1929 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was a writer, known for Television Theater (1953), El grito (1968) and Oriana Fallaci intervista Ayatollah Khomeini (1979). She died on 15 September 2006 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
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Galliano Masini was born on 7 February 1896 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Love of a Clown - Pagliacci (1948), Regina della Scala (1937) and Star of the Sea (1938). He died on 15 February 1986 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy.- Composer
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Along with Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens, Serge Gainsbourg, Charles Aznavour and Jean Ferrat, Léo Ferré is a legend in french music. He was one of the best singer-songwriter in France, writing and performing memorable titles (Paris-Canaille, Paname, Jolie môme, Vingt ans, Thank You Satan, Quartier Latin, C'est extra, Avec le temps...) and putting into music the greatest french poets (Aragon, Appolinaire, Baudelaire, Verlaine).- Irma Gramatica was born on 25 November 1870 in Fiume, Austria-Hungary [now Rijeka, Croatia]. She was an actress, known for Il fu Mattia Pascal (1937), Porto (1934) and Sissignora (1942). She was married to Armando Cottin. She died on 14 October 1962 in Tavarnuzze, Tuscany, Italy.
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Entrepreneurial Italian producer and administrator, who was responsible for creating some of the most quintessentially British films made in the 1940's. Del Guidice came from a legal background, having worked for the Vatican. He left his native country in 1933, in part, because of financial difficulties, but also due to deep-felt disaffection with the Fascist regime. He settled in London, first as a teacher of Italian, then setting up his own law practice. Four years later, he had found the financial backing to establish Two Cities Films in conjunction with the director Mario Zampi. The success of his first venture, Noël Coward's In Which We Serve (1942), secured the patronage of J. Arthur Rank and led to other ambitious projects, including Blithe Spirit (1945), Johnny in the Clouds (1945) and Odd Man Out (1947). Raising the finances for the production of Laurence Olivier's patriotic epic Henry V (1944) -- in all, 470,000 pounds -- forced him to surrender controlling interest in the company to the Rank Organisation.
After the expensive failure of Men of Two Worlds (1946), Rank sought to establish tighter financial and artistic control over Two Cities. Unhappy, Del Guidice resigned in 1947. For a short time, he lived in seclusion at a monastery, but soon emerged to establish a new company, Pilgrim Pictures Limited. Under his administrative auspices, Pilgrim produced just three films -- The Outsider (1948), Private Angelo (1949) and Chance of a Lifetime (1950) -- all opened to mixed critical reviews and none recouped their cost at the box office. After the British Home Office refused his application for another visa in 1958, Del Guidice made several unsuccessful attempts to raise money for other projects in America and Italy. However, he never made another film and died penniless in Florence five years later.- Actor
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Giorgio Gaber was born on 25 January 1939 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was an actor and composer, known for Rossini! Rossini! (1991), Boccaccio '70 (1962) and Skin Deep (1979). He was married to Ombretta Colli. He died on 1 January 2003 in Montemagno, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.- Nicoletta Boris was an actress, known for Urban Animals (1987), Perduta (1990) and The Flesh (1991). She died on 11 July 2011 in Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, Tuscany, Italy.
- Carlo Monni was born on 23 October 1943 in Campi Bisenzio, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Capri (2006), 10 ragazze (2011) and I delitti del BarLume (2013). He died on 19 May 2013 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
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Elena Zareschi was born on 23 June 1916 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Medea (1965), Amleto (1955) and Rebecca (1969). She died on 31 July 1999 in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.- Bruno Mussolini was born on 22 April 1918 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer, known for Gente dell'aria (1943). He was married to Gina Ruberti. He died on 7 August 1941 in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy.
- Roffredo Gaetani was born on 4 March 1953 in Rome, Italy. He died on 23 December 2005 in Tuscany, Italy.
- Marcello Marziali was an actor, known for Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), I delitti del BarLume (2013) and Pinocchio (2019). He died on 1 December 2023 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy.
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Giancarlo Bigazzi was born on 5 September 1940 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was a composer and actor, known for Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019), Mediterraneo (1991) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). He was married to Gianna Albini. He died on 18 January 2012 in Viareggio, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.- Actor
Dalmazio Grenti was an actor. He died on 10 December 2012 in Leghorn, Tuscany, Italy.- Writer
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Robert Katz was born on 27 June 1933 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Salamander (1981), Il caso Moro (1986) and Kamikaze 89 (1982). He was married to Beverly Gerstel. He died on 20 October 2010 in Montevarchi, Tuscany, Italy.- Germana Paolieri was born on 29 August 1906 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Dream of Butterfly (1939), The Life of Giuseppe Verdi (1938) and La Wally (1932). She was married to Tramarallo, Piero. She died on 8 August 1998 in Montecatini, Tuscany, Italy.