Baroness Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), better known by her

stage name A stage name or professional name is a pseudonym used by performers, authors, and entertainers—such as actors, comedians, singers, and musicians. The equivalent concept among writers is called a ''nom de plume'' (pen name). Some performers ...

Alida Valli, or simply Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films in a 70-year career, spanning from the 1930s to the early 2000s. She was one of the biggest stars of Italian film during the Fascist era, once being called "the most beautiful woman in the world" by

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, and was internationally successful post-World War II. According to Frédéric Mitterrand, Valli was the only actress in Europe to equal

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. Valli worked with many significant directors both in Italy and abroad, including

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('' The Paradine Case''; 1947),

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(''

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''; 1949),

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('' Senso''; 1954),

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('' Il Grido''; 1957),

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('' Eyes Without a Face''; 1960),

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( ''Oedipus Rex''; 1967),

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('' Lisa and the Devil''; 1972),

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(''

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,'' 1976; ''La Luna''; 1979), and

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(''

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''; 1977). Within her lifetime, Valli was invested a Knight of the Italian Republic, and received the Lifetime Achievement

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at the 1997 Venice Film Festival for her contributions to cinema.

Early life and family

Valli was born in Pola,

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, Italy (today

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, Croatia). She was christened ''

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'' Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg. Valli was of Austrian, Slovenian and Italian descent, although "she was never considered to be anything other than Italian." Her paternal grandfather was the Baron Luigi Altenburger (also spelled Altempurger), an Austrian-Italian from

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, 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 a "culturally sophisticated" housewife of half-Slovene and half-Italian descent. Valli's mother was the daughter of Felix Oberecker (also spelled Obrekar) from Laibach, Austria (now

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, Slovenia) and 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 multi-lingual. She grew up speaking Slovene, Italian, and German and was also fluent in Serbo-Croatian, French, and English. In European films with international casts she would routinely film her dialogue in the language of the actors opposite her and dub herself (usually in Italian) for the soundtrack.

Career

Intellectually gifted, at fifteen Valli travelled to Rome, where she attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, the oldest school for film actors and directors in Western Europe and still one of the most prestigious. At that time, she lived with her cousin 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 a dramatic actress in '' Piccolo mondo antico'' (1941), directed by

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, for which she won a special Best Actress award at the

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. 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

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''Noi Vivi / Addio Kira!'' (1943) (based on

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's novel ''

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''). These latter two movies were nearly censored by the Italian government under

, 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 theatres as the German and Italian governments, which abhorred communism, found out the story also carried an anti-fascist message. Sinatra Radio

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 a contract, thinking that he had found a second

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. In Hollywood, she performed in great successes and memorable movies, in

's '' The Paradine Case'' (1947) with

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; with

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and

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(in his first non-musical performance), in ''

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'' (1948); alongside

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and

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's ''

'' (1949), regarded as one of the best movies ever made worldwide and the

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selection as the greatest British film of all time; and again with Cotten in '' Walk Softly, Stranger'' (1950). Through these and other films, she gained international renown, often credited with the cursive word ''Valli'', which would become her characteristic 'wordmark' in America "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

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." The actress could not tolerate the strict rules of Selznick, who imposed total control on his actors, and managed to gain her contract's rescission, though with the payment of a high penalty. Adele Cambria
«Alida mi raccontava il cinema come una favola»L'ultimo intimo saluto all'attrice. Veltroni: volevamo organizzare una serata con i suoi film, ma se ne è andata prima
, ''

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'', 25 April 2006. Senso pozzo

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

. In that film, set in mid-19th-century Venice during the

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, she played a Venetian countess torn between patriotic ideals and an adulterous love for an officer (played by Farley Granger) of the occupying Austrian forces. 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. She appeared in

's horror film '' Eyes Without a Face'' (1959) with

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. From the 1960s, she worked in several pictures with prominent directors, such as

's ''

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'' (1967);

's '' The Spider's Stratagem'' (TV movie, 1970); Bernardo Bertolucci's '' Novecento'' (1976);

's ''

'' (1977); and

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's '' Berlinguer, I Love You'' (1977), as the mother of the main character played by

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in his film debut. Her final movie role was in ''Semana Santa'' (2002), with

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. In Italy, she was also well known for her stage appearances in such plays as

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's ''

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'';

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's '' Henry IV'';

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's '' Epitaph for George Dillon''; and

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's ''

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''. At the 54th Venice International Film Festival in 1997 Alida Valli obtained the Golden Lion award for her career.

Personal life

Oscar De Mejo e Alida Valli anni quaranta

Her teenage love, Carlo Cugnasca, was a famous Italian aerobatic pilot. He served as a

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with the ''

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'' and was killed during a mission over British-held

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on 14 April 1941. Valli married Oscar de Mejo in 1943 and filed for divorce from him in 1949, but they reconciled. They had two sons together before their marriage ended in divorce in 1952 and she returned to Italy. She married Italian film director Giancarlo Zagni in the early 1960s, divorcing in 1970. Valli's movie career suffered in 1953 from a scandal surrounding the death of

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, 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

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(son of the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs). During her lifetime Valli received a

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from the

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, as well as the titles of

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of France and Knight of the Italian Republic.

Death

Valli's death at her home on 22 April 2006 was announced by the office of the mayor of Rome,

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. 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".David Shiopman ''The Great Movie Stars'', London: Macdonald, 1989, p. 586 The French critic Frédéric Mitterrand wrote: " hewas the only actress in Europe to equal

Filmography

Film

Television

*'' I Figli di Medea'' (1959) as Medea / Alida Valli *''Il caso Mauritius'' (1961) * '' Combat!'' as Marie (Episode: "Doughboy", 1963) *'' Desencuentro'' (series, 1964) *''Rome Will Never Leave You'', three episodes of '' Dr. Kildare'' (1964) as Luisa Brabante *'' Il consigliere imperiale'' (1974) *'' Les grandes conjurations: Le tumulte d'Amboise'' (1978) *'' L'altro Simenon'' (series, 1979) *'' L'eredità della priora'' (serial, 1980) as Priora *'' Dramma d'amore'' (serial, 1983) *'' Piccolo mondo antico'' (serial, 1989) as La marchesa Maironi *'' Una vita in gioco 2'' (serial, 1992) *'' Delitti privati'' (1992) as Matilde Pierboni

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 rdgeist-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

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reprising their roles.

References

External links

Alida Valli webpage

* *

Obituary
in ''The Telegraph.'' April 24, 2006.

in ''New York Times.'' April 25, 2006. * *
Photographs of Alida Valli
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Valli, Alida 1921 births 2006 deaths Austrian baronesses Burials at Campo Verano Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia alumni David di Donatello Career Award winners David di Donatello winners Istrian Italian people Italian film actresses Italian stage actresses Italian people of Austrian descent Italian people of German descent Italian television actresses Italian people of Slovenian descent Nastro d'Argento winners People from Pula Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement recipients