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Alida Valli
31 May 1921
Alida Valli played in 8 movies in the Crime, Thriller, Music, Drama, Mystery, Fantasy, Horror, Romance genres.
Alida Valli got succeed with average imdb rating 6.7.
Born in Italy, Alida Valli (often billed simply as Valli) was the daughter of an Austrian broadcaster. Possessed of a haunting handsomeness consistent at an early age, Valli began her European film career when she was 15, after instruct formal training. Nevertheless few of her Italian starring films have stood the analysis of every now, she remained popular everywhere in the inappropriate 1940s.
When she refused to make any more films in compensation Italy's fascist regime, she
... had to virtually be got rid of into hiding to shun arrest and execution (ironically, her mother was shot as a collaborator nearby anti-fascists in 1945). After the contention fighting, Valli and her then-husband, composer Oscar de Mejo, came to Hollywood at the bait of regisseur David O. Selznick. Signed to a contract, she spent most of her Selznick years on loanouts, starring in such trivialities as Miracle of the Bells (1947). Her choicest free during this period included her portrayal of an accused murderess in Hitchcock's The Paradine The actuality (1947), and her unforgettable portrayal of Anna Schmidt (made balanced more unforgettable by her uncompromising unchangeable milieu) in Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949). Her career briefly stalled by an infamous intimacy-drug-murder shame in 1954, Valli returned to the screen in a progression of strong, well-defined character parts, often playing a worldly-wise adventuress of ambivalent carnal tastes.
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