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“People go to the movies to see beautiful young girls, but an older woman who has worked a long time has achieved something a young actress hasn’t,” she told the Times in 1974. Mayor Giuseppe “Beppe” Sala announced the death in a tweet but did not provide a cause. Auteur Michelangelo Antonioni dies at 94; Depicted Bourgeois Despair. Cortese was encouraged by the ailing director to make explicit the lesbian relationship only subtly hinted at in Pinter’s original. She was predeceased by her second husband, pharmaceuticals magnate Carlo de Angeli. Born in Milan, to a single mother who left her in the care of a poor farming family, Cortese was sent to live with her maternal grandparents in Turin when she was six. Vulnerable but inwardly strong, Cortese interacts superbly with Richard Basehart, playing a man trying to murder her for her estate. Valentina Cortese and Richard Basehart in The House on Telegraph Hill, 1951. Her performances combined wily intelligence and earthy sensuality, and she was esteemed among her peers and by some critics. R.I.P Rip Torn. In 2012 she published her autobiography, Quanti Sono i Domani Passati, from which Francesco Patierno made a documentary, Diva!

I just love what I do. She said she became so busy in movies that she never had time to study at the academy. “If I wanted to be a star, I would have guided it,” she once told the New York Times. By continuing to use our site, you accept our use of cookies, revised Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala announced the death Wednesday, July 10, of the Milan-born actress in a tweet. This includes personalizing content and advertising. Her character blows her lines, opens the wrong doors and weeps in the arms of a clearly uncomfortable younger lover. Bergman later conceded the impolitic nature of her remark, given the presence of the other losing actresses — Madeline Kahn, Diane Ladd and Talia Shire. The centerpiece of her later career was “Day for Night.” The film, about the backstage personalities on a movie set, was partly anchored by what Times movie critic Vincent Canby called Ms. Cortese’s “hugely funny but also hugely affecting” portrayal. It was only after the second world war that she was given a chance to reveal her acting talents, beginning with Marcello Pagliero’s neorealist drama Roma Città Libera (1946), in which she gave an expressive performance as a typist who, unable to pay her rent and facing eviction, becomes a prostitute. She became a cult figure for addicts everywhere of high camp. I’ve always thought that if a rich man falls in love with me, he should stay away from me, because I would give all his money away.”. Film credits include “Critics Choice” and “The Cincinnati Kid.” In Albert Brooks’ “Defending Your Life,” he was featured as a gregarious attorney in the afterlife. Destined to play tragic roles for most of the 1950s, Cortese was a refugee in London in Thorold Dickinson’s Secret People (1952), plotting to kill a visiting dictator. Cortese was an actress for the majority of her life. “I am always saved by this good base in life, this peasant reality,” she told the Times. Back in Hollywood, in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951), a richly layered film noir directed by Robert Wise, she portrayed a survivor from a Nazi concentration camp who assumes the identity of a dead prisoner in order to enter the US. Her fans in Italy even adored her in the short-lived Roman run, in 1973, of Luchino Visconti’s travesty of Harold Pinter’s Old Times. ... Valentina Cortese was born in Milan to an unmarried concert pianist on Jan. 1, 1923. One of Cortese’s liveliest roles came in Fellini’s Juliet of the Spirits, in which she appeared in the grotesque seance scene as one of the exotic friends of the eponymous medium; her character was called Valentina. Valentina Cortese, right, with Jacqueline Bisset in Day for Night, 1973. Perhaps Ms. Cortese’s finest early turn was in Dassin’s well-regarded film noir “Thieves’ Highway” (1949), in which she played a streetwalker who helps a handsome young truck driver (Richard Conte) take down a corrupt San Francisco produce dealer (Lee J. Cobb).

“Please forgive me, Valentina.”, Ms. Cortese’s humane portrait, equal parts comic and disturbing, captured a prima donna past her prime and on the verge of a breakdown. “Soft hands,” he tells her. La nostra vicinanza ai suoi famigliari e ai suoi cari. ROME—Valentina Cortese, one of Italy’s post-war screen divas who was nominated for a best-supporting-actress Oscar, has died.She was 96. She said she was deposited with foster parents in rural Lombardy and spoke with happiness about her upbringing there.

When Ingrid Bergman accepted an Oscar for best supporting actress in 1975 for her cameo role in “Murder on the Orient Express,” she stood before millions of television viewers and insisted that fellow nominee Valentina Cortese was more deserving of the prize. Valentina Cortese in The Wandering Jew, 1948. Ms. Cortese entered films in 1941 playing ingenues before portraying two female lead characters, Fantine and Cosette (mother and daughter), in a 1948 Italian adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel “Les Misérables.” She went to England the next year to make a romantic melodrama, “The Glass Mountain,” a hit that captured the attention of Darryl F. Zanuck, chief of Twentieth Century Fox studios. She left for Hollywood in large part to break off their intense relationship, and she soon had a romantic fling with Dassin. She and Basehart married soon after the film was completed. Mayor Giuseppe “Beppe” Sala announced the death in a tweet but did not provide a cause. But I’m in rebellion. Son of Richard Basehart and Valentina Cortese. Last modified on Thu 1 Aug 2019 06.02 EDT. Silvana Mangano is where she is because of Dino De Laurentiis. Audrey Hepburn, in one of her first substantial roles, played her young ballerina sister. She garnered an Oscar nomination in 1975 playing a fading diva in Francois Truffaut’s “Day for Night,” a movie about making movies. In Malaya (1949), she was the obligatory love interest, playing alongside the smugglers Spencer Tracy and James Stewart. “As soon as we grasp things,” says the champagne-tippling Séverine, unmoored by her faulty memory, “they’re gone.”. (“One evening he asked me: ‘Would you mind if I fell in love with you?’ ”). Francesco Patierno used eight actresses to portray dimensions of her life in “Diva!,” a 2017 documentary based on her memoir, “Quanti Sono I Domani Passati” (“How many tomorrows past”). So began her international career. For him she played in Chekhov, Shakespeare, Brecht and, most memorably, Pirandello’s unfinished The Mountain Giants, as the enigmatic actor-countess whose company never gets to perform. Ms. Cortese’s films included “Secret People” (1952), a political thriller featuring a young Audrey Hepburn, and “Love and Troubles” (1958), an Italian comedy with Basehart and Marcello Mastroianni. “Sharp nails,” she retorts. No cause of death was given. Valentina Cortese obituary Italian actor remembered for her roles in Day for Night, The Wandering Jew and The House on Telegraph Hill Valentina Cortese in The Wandering Jew, 1948. We parted. As she later told an Italian publication: “He wanted to go back to Hollywood. She made several films in Hollywood billed as Valentina Cortesa, working for different studios and so retaining her freedom. Cortese was a popular muse for leading Italian directors including Michelangelo Antonioni and Franco Zeffirelli. ROME—Valentina Cortese, one of Italy’s post-war screen divas who was nominated for a best-supporting-actress Oscar, has died. After acclaimed performances in “Cross Creek,” ″Sweet Bird of Youth” and other dramas, Torn turned to comedy to capture his Emmy as the bombastic, ethically challenged television producer in “The Larry Sanders Show.” Created by and starring Garry Shandling, HBO’s spoof of TV talk shows aired from 1992 to 1998 and is widely credited with inspiring such satirical programs as “30 Rock” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”.

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