Many notable movies saw their release in the 1930s. Some of the best performers in acting and film history came from this decade.
Here below are 24 Italian movie stars featured in the 1930s.
1. Carmen Boni.
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| Carmen Boni |
Italian silent film star Carmen Boni (1901-1963) had a successful career in the Italian cinema of the early 1920s, before moving to Germany where she made one film after another in the late 1920s. She stopped acting in 1948.
2. Clara Calamai.
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| Clara Calamai |
Though she acted in many light entertainment films, Clara Calamai’s (1909-1998) most famous role will for always be femme fatale Giovanna in Luchino Visconti’s steamy (proto-)neorealist film Ossessione (1943).
3. Doris Duranti.
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| Doris Duranti |
Italian actress Doris Duranti (1917-1995) was a major star of the Italian cinema of the late 1930s and early 1940s, and the main competitor of Clara Calamai. Duranti was also the lover a notorious fascist.
4. Dria Paola.
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| Dria Paola |
Dria Paola (1909-1993) was an Italian film actress of the 1930s and 1940s. Her name is attached to the first Italian sound film La canzone dell’amore (1930) by Gennaro Righelli.
5. Elsa De Giorgi.
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| Elsa De Giorgi |
Born as Elsa Giorgi Alberti 1914 in Pesaro, Italian writer, director, art director and stage and screen actress Elsa De Giorgi was discovered by film director Mario Camerini following a photographic competition in which she participated at the age of almost 18. She was offered role of the protagonist in T’amerò sempre (1933).
Despite a prolific career in film under Mussolini, De Giorgi’s anti-fascism (notable is her description in her book I coetanei of her quarrel with Pavolini) did not make her love the regime’s cinema. Instead, she preferred the stage. In the post-war era she would mostly perform on stage with directors such as Giorgio Strehler and Luchino Visconti.
Elsa De Giorgi died in Rome in 1997.
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