Sandra Ravel (16 January 1910 – 13 August 1954) was an Italian
film actress
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...
of the 1930s.
Biography
She was born as Alessandra Winkelhauser Ratti in
Milan
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, Italy in 1910 to a German father who was a chemical plant worker, and a Swiss mother from the Ratti family of
Lugano
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.
Ravel had a minor role in ''
Together in the Dark
''Together in the Dark'' (Italian: ''Al buio insieme'') is a 1933 Italian comedy film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Sandra Ravel, Maurizio D'Ancora and Lamberto Picasso.Mancini p.216
The film's sets were designed by the art director G ...
'', where she met her future husband. She was married in 1944 in Venice to the actor and entrepreneur
Rodolfo Gucci
Rodolfo Gucci (16 July 1912 – 15 May 1983), also known by his stage name Maurizio D'Ancora, was an Italian actor and entrepreneur, who appeared in more than 40 films between 1929 and 1946. He was a member of the Gucci family. His only child, ...
. Their only child, Maurizio (1948-1995), was named for his father's theatrical alter ego, "Maurizio D'Ancora".
Sandra Ravel died in 1954, aged 44, from
uterine cancer
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Those Three French Girls
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*'' The Single Sin'' (1931)
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Paradise
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'' (1932)
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A Star Disappears
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'' (1932)
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Together in the Dark
''Together in the Dark'' (Italian: ''Al buio insieme'') is a 1933 Italian comedy film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Sandra Ravel, Maurizio D'Ancora and Lamberto Picasso.Mancini p.216
The film's sets were designed by the art director G ...
Two Million for a Smile
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It was shot at the Palatino Studios in R ...
Walter de Gruyter
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History
The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Be ...