fiction.wikisort.org - Actor Valentina Cortese (1 January 1923 – 10 July 2019) was an Italian actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in François Truffaut 's Day for Night (1973).[1] [2]
Italian actress (1923–2019)
Valentina Cortese
Born (1923-01-01 ) 1 January 1923Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Died 10 July 2019(2019-07-10) (aged 96)Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Other names Valentina Cortesa Occupation Actress Years active 1941–1993 Spouse(s) Children Jackie Basehart
Personal life
Cortese was born in Milan to a family from Stresa, Piedmont. In 1940, she met conductor Victor de Sabata , who was 31 years older and married with children. She left high school to follow him to Rome, and there she graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art. They separated in 1948.[3] Cortese married Richard Basehart , her co-star in The House on Telegraph Hill , in 1951, and had one son with him, the actor Jackie Basehart ; they divorced in 1960. She never remarried.[4] Jackie Basehart died in Milan in 2015, predeceasing Cortese.
Cortese died on 10 July 2019, aged 96.[5]
Career
Cortese in 2012
Cortese made her screen debut in Italian films in 1940, leading to her first internationally acclaimed roles in Riccardo Freda 's 1948 Italian film Les Misérables with Gino Cervi and a very young Marcello Mastroianni , in which she played both Fantine and Cosette , and the 1949 British film The Glass Mountain (1949),[6] which led to a number of roles in American films of the period, but continued to make films in Europe with such directors as Michelangelo Antonioni , Federico Fellini and François Truffaut .[6] [7]
She signed a contract with 20th Century Fox in 1948. She starred in Malaya (1949), a Second World War film about smuggling and guerrilla warfare against the Japanese with Spencer Tracy and James Stewart , Jules Dassin 's Thieves' Highway (1949) with Richard Conte and Lee J. Cobb , The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) directed by Robert Wise and co-starring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan , and Joseph L. Mankiewicz 's The Barefoot Contessa (1954), with Humphrey Bogart , Ava Gardner and Edmond O'Brien . In Europe she starred in Michelangelo Antonioni 's Le Amiche (1955), Gérard Brach 's The Boat on the Grass (1971), Terry Gilliam 's British film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and in Franco Zeffirelli projects such as the film Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972), the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977) and the film Sparrow (1993). Her final American film role was in When Time Ran Out (1980).[8]
Selected filmography
L'orizzonte dipinto [it] (1941)
L'attore scomparso (1941)
The Hero of Venice (1941) – Alina
First Love (1941) – Nerina Redi
Girl of the Golden West (1942) – Madge / Juanita
The Jester's Supper (1942) – Lisabetta
The Queen of Navarre (1942) – Eleonora d'Austria
Soltanto un bacio [it] (1942) – Maria Renda / Luisa Renda
Orizzonte di sangue [it] (1942) – Lidia
Quarta pagina [it] (1942) – Valentina, la sua segretaria
Happy Days (1942) – Marianna
4 ragazze sognano [it] (1943) – Enrichetta Dorlence
La carica degli eroi [it] (1943)
Nessuno torna indietro [it] (1945) – Valentina
The Ten Commandments (1945) – (segment "Non nominare il nome di Dio invano")
Chi l'ha visto? [it] (1945) – Luisella
Roma città libera [it] (1946) – La ragazza
A Yank in Rome (1946) – Maria, La maestrina
Bullet for Stefano (1947) – Barbara
The Courier of the King (1947) – Louise de Renal
Les Misérables (1948) – Fantine and Cosette
The Wandering Jew [it] (1948) – Esther
Crossroads of Passion (1948) – Maria Pilar
The Glass Mountain (1949) – Alida
Black Magic (1949) – Zoraida
Thieves' Highway (1949) – Rica
Malaya (1949) – Luana
Women Without Names (1950) – Anna Petrovic the Jugoslav
Shadow of the Eagle (1950) – Elizabeth, Princess Tarakanova
The Rival of the Empress (1951) – Principessa Tarakanova
The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) – Victoria Kowelska
Secret People (1952) – Maria
Lulu (1953) – Lulù
Jealousy (1953) – Agrippina (voice, uncredited)
The Walk (1953) – Lisa
Angels of Darkness (1954) – Vally
Marriage (1954) – Natalia Stefanovna Chubukova
Avanzi di galera (1954) – Moglie di Luprandi
The Barefoot Contessa (1954) – Eleanora Torlato-Favrini
Adriana Lecouvreur (1955) – Adriana Lecouvreur
Le Amiche (1955) – Nene
Il conte Aquila (1955) – Teresa Casati
Faccia da mascalzone (1956)
Magic Fire (1956) – Mathilde Wesendonk
The Rocket from Calabuch (1956) – Eloisa, the Schoolmistress
Dimentica il mio passato (1957)
Kean – Genio e sregolatezza (1957) – Fanny (uncredited)
Amore a prima vista (1958)
Love and Troubles (1958) – Marisa
Square of Violence (1961) – Erica Bernardi
Barabbas (1961) – Julia
Axel Munthe, The Doctor of San Michele (1962) – Eleonora Duse
The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) – Laura Craven-Torrani
The Visit (1964) – Mathilda Miller
The Possessed (1965) – Irma
Juliet of the Spirits (1965) – Valentina
Soleil noir (1966) – Maria
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) – Countess Bozo Bedoni
Listen, Let's Make Love (1968) – Lallo's Mother
Oh, Grandmother's Dead (1968) – Ornella
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) – Gabriella (uncredited)
Give Her the Moon (1970) – Madeleine de Lépine
First Love (1970) – Mother
The Love Mates (1970) – Eva
The Boat on the Grass (1971) – Christine
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (1971) – Mrs. Sobiesky
Chronicle of a Homicide (1972) – Luisa Sola
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972) – Pica Di Bernardone
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) – Natalia Sedowa Trotsky
Day for Night (1973) – Séverine
Appassionata (1974) – Elisa Rutelli
Tendre Dracula (1974) – (uncredited)
The Kiss of Death (1974) – Elizabeth Blixen
Amore mio non farmi male (1974) – Sabina Foschini
Dracula in the Provinces (1975) – Olghina Franchetti
Kidnap Syndicate (1975) – Grazia Filippini
Son tornate a fiorire le rose (1975) – Sabina Foschini
Nick the Sting (1976) – Regina – Nick's Mother
The Big Operator (1976) – The Widow
Jesus of Nazareth (1977, TV Mini-Series) – Herodias
Nido de viudas (1977) – Dolores
Tanto va la gatta al lardo... (1978) – Vilma / Leonilde Bosco Casagrande
Un'ombra nell'ombra (1979) – Elena Merrill
When Time Ran Out (1980) – Rose Valdez
La ferdinanda: Sonate für eine Medici-Villa (1982) – Caterina de Dominicis
Via Montenapoleone (1987) – Madre di Guido
Tango blu (1987) – Rachele Cigno
Young Toscanini (1988) – Comparsa (uncredited)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) – Queen Ariadne / Violet
Buster's Bedroom (1991) – Serafina Tannenbaum
Sparrow (1993) – Mother Superior (final film role)
References
External links
Awards for Valentina Cortese
Authority control
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На других языках - [en] Valentina Cortese [es] Valentina Cortese Valentina Cortese (Milán, 1 de enero de 1923-ibid, 10 de julio de 2019),[1] también conocida como Valentina Cortesa, fue una actriz italiana de teatro y cine. [ru] Кортезе, Валентина Валентина Кортезе, или Валентина Кортеза (итал. Valentina Cortese; 1 января 1923 — 10 июля 2019) — итальянская актриса театра и кино.
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