Many people today have forgotten the personalities behind the names and
faces on movie posters of the past. Alida Valli was not just a pretty face
but a very talented actress. She will long be remembered for her work in
the The Third Man, GB, 1949, British Lion / London films, one of the finest
motion pictures in the history of the medium.
So bye bye, Alida Valli, and thanks for the memories!
Danny Steward / Seattle
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Italy's Valli, star of "Third Man," dies Sat Apr 22, 4:44 PM ET
Alida Valli, one of Italy's most famous movie actresses, who starred in
The Third Man" and "The Paradine Case," has died aged 84.
Valli, who was also known by her family name Alida Altenburger, died at
home in Rome, her son told Reuters.
She rose to fame in Italy in the late 1930s and 1940s with a string of
romantic films that endeared her to her war-weary compatriots and earned her
the soubriquet "Italy's girlfriend."
Her beauty and understated acting also got her noticed by Hollywood and
when World War Two ended she was chosen to star in two of the most famous
films of the post-war era.
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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