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Alida Valli(1921-2006)

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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).
BornMay 31, 1921
DiedApril 22, 2006(84)
BornMay 31, 1921
DiedApril 22, 2006(84)
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Alida Valli in The Paradine Case (1947)
Alida Valli in The Third Man (1949)
Alida Valli in The Third Man (1949)
Alida Valli in The Third Man (1949)
Alida Valli in The Third Man (1949)
Alida Valli in The Third Man (1949)
Joseph Cotten and Alida Valli in The Third Man (1949)
Alida Valli in The Third Man (1949)
Joseph Cotten and Alida Valli in The Third Man (1949)
Alida Valli in The Third Man (1949)
Alida Valli in The Third Man (1949)
Joseph Cotten and Alida Valli in The Third Man (1949)

Known for

The Third Man (1949)
The Third Man
8.1
  • Anna Schmidt(as Valli)
  • 1949
Suspiria (1977)
Suspiria
7.3
  • Miss Tanner
  • 1977
Edith Scob in Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Eyes Without a Face
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  • Louise
  • 1960
Eugenie Grandet (1946)
Eugenie Grandet
6.7
  • Eugenia Grandet
  • 1946

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Actress

  • Angel of Death (2001)
    Angel of Death
  • Probably Love (2001)
    Probably Love
  • Vino santo (2000)
    Vino santo
  • Il dolce rumore della vita (1999)
    Il dolce rumore della vita
  • Fatal Frames (1996)
    Fatal Frames
  • Uma Thurman and Vanessa Redgrave in A Month by the Lake (1995)
    A Month by the Lake
  • The Final Scoop (1993)
    The Final Scoop
  • Carla Gravina in Il lungo silenzio (1993)
    Il lungo silenzio
  • Edwige Fenech, Gudrun Landgrebe, and Ray Lovelock in Delitti privati (1993)
    Delitti privati
  • Una vita in gioco 2
  • Alessandro Benvenuti in Zitti e mosca (1991)
    Zitti e mosca
  • La bocca (1991)
    La bocca
  • Una vita in gioco
  • À notre regrettable époux (1988)
    À notre regrettable époux
  • Le jupon rouge (1987)
    Le jupon rouge

Director

  • L'amore in tutte le sue espressioni

Writer

  • Alida Valli in Come diventai Alida Valli (2008)
    Come diventai Alida Valli

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Trailer originale italiano [OV]
Killer Nun
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Killer Nun
Senso
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Senso
The Third Man: 4k Restoration
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The Third Man: 4k Restoration
A Month By The Lake
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A Month By The Lake
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The Third Man
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Personal details

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    • May 31, 1921
    • Pola, Istria, Italy [now Pula, Istria, Croatia]
    • April 22, 2006
    • Rome, Lazio, Italy(undisclosed causes)
    • Oscar De Mejo1944 - 1952 (divorced, 2 children)
    • Carlo De Mejo
  • (5/31/48) Radio: Appeared (as "Olga") in a "Lux Radio Theater" broadcast of "The Miracle of the Bells".
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    • 1 Print Biography
    • 3 Interviews
    • 10 Articles
    • 6 Pictorials
    • 42 Magazine Cover Photos

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    Gregory Peck, who worked with Alida in The Paradine Case (1947), said of her, "Not only are her shapes and features perfect: from her eyes radiates an irresistible flashing of love."

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