Obit: Alida Valli, 84; One of
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Alida Valli,
was born
Her real name was Baroness Alida
Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein Freedenberg.
This
enigmatic, dark-haired foreign import was dubbed "The Next Garbo"
Her 140
Performances are listed at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0885098/
Her
earliest was in 1934, and latest in 2002
Her
Biographies by RAI and Istria.Net can be found at
the HyperLinks at the bottom of this article.
Reuters
Valli, who was also known by her family
name Alida Altenburger,
died at home in
She rose to fame in
Her beauty and understated
acting also got her noticed by
In Alfred Hitchcock's 1947
courtroom thriller "The Paradine Case", she
starred alongside Gregory Peck, while in the "Third Man" she played
the girlfriend to Orson Welles' Harry Lime.
Welles later told his biographer Valli was "the sexiest thing you ever saw in your
life".
She went on to work with
many more of the 20th century's great directors, including Roger Vadim, Claude Chabrol, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini
and Bernardo Bertolucci.
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by RAI: http://www.italica.rai.it/eng/cinema/biographies/valli.htm
Biography
at Istria.Net: http://www.istrianet.org/istria/illustri/valli/index.htm
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