Never was in a producer’s bed,” although she claimed, without naming names, that “because of a ‘no’ to one, I was destroyed.” A glamorous presence in European and American films from the postwar period until the early 1990s, Oscar-nominated actress Valentina Cortese played. In a 2012 interview with Rome daily La Repubblica, Cortese said “I could have remained in Hollywood for who knows how long, but I never made compromises. Valentina Elena Cortese ( Milano, 1 gennaio 1923 Milano, 10 luglio 2019) stata un' attrice italiana, considerata una delle ultime dive del cinema e del teatro italiano 1. Mankiewicz film, which starred Ava Gardner and Humphrey Bogart and which was filmed in Italy. ROME (AP) Valentina Cortese, an Italian post-war screen diva who was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar but lost out to Ingrid Bergman, died on Wednesday. Valentina Cortese al Premio Chiara nel 2012. She appeared in “The Barefoot Contessa,” the 1954 Joseph L. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her.
VALENTINA CORTESE PROFESSIONAL
She began her professional acting career back in 1941. Valentina Cortese was an Italian actress, who gained widespread prominence for her appearances in Sparrow (1993), Buster’s Bedroom (1991), and The Betrothed (1989). She stood out in a field filled with other beautiful and talented Italian women on the screen, including Alida Valli, Anna Magnani and Sophia Loren.īut by the early 1950s, she had returned from Hollywood. Valentina Cortese (1 January 1923 10 July 2019) was an Italian actress. Birthday: Janu(96 years) Died: J(3 years Ago) HomeTown: Milan, Lombardy, Italy. The theater in a statement mourned the loss of a “splendid, elegant, iconic” actress.Ĭortese’s film career included roles in Federico Fellini’s “Juliet of the Spirits” and Zeffirelli’s “Brother Sun, Sister Moon.” The theater will hold a wake for her on Thursday and Friday. Her performances at Milan’s Piccolo Theater included roles in works by Brecht, Goldoni and Pirandello, directed by Giorgio Strehler, one of the theater’s co-founders and a long-time companion. But Cortese was only nominated the following year in the supporting actress category.Ĭortese won acclaim too as a stage actress.
In an odd twist, the Truffaut film had won in the best foreign language film category a year earlier.
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