Adriana Benetti

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Adriana Benetti (born December 4, 1919 in Comacchio , † February 24, 2016 ) was an Italian actress .

Life

After her acting diploma at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Benetti received the offer for the - tailor-made - leading role of shy and sensible Teresa in Vittorio De Sicas Teresa Venerdi , which brought her a great success. However, this success also meant that her subsequent film roles only offered blueprints of this characterization and she was cast again and again as a sensitive, reserved young woman. The brown-haired, delicate and always melancholy-looking Benetti thus became the embodiment of the Italian fiancé throughout the decade; In order to escape this cliché, after almost ten years of fulfilling the cliché (only the raffle from 1947 , paradiso nero , with the figure of a young woman driven into prostitution to overcome the post-war hardship), she turned it into a little successful breakout at the cash registers) in Spain and Argentina , including the first Argentinian film with international recognition and awards, Bloody Waters . No longer active after 1957, it is almost forgotten today.

In 1947, Benetti caused a minor scandal when she posed in a bikini for the weekly magazine "Tempo illustrato".

Filmography (selection)

  • 1941: Innocence in Love (Teresa Venerdi)
  • 1942: Lie of a Summer Night (Quattro passi fra le nuvole)
  • 1947: Storms of Passion (Furia)
  • 1949: Comrades at Sea (Neutralidad)
  • 1950: The last days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei)
  • 1950: The great Juxbaron (47, morto che parla)
  • 1954: Bloody Waters (Las aguas bajan turbias)
  • 1957: A vent'anni è semper festa

Web links

Commons : Adriana Benetti  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La morte di Adriana Benetti, diva dimenticata degli anni '40 e '50
  2. ↑ Enrico Lancia: Article Adriana Benetti , in: Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Le attrici. Rome 2003, p. 29
personal data
SURNAME Benetti, Adriana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actress
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Comacchio
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2016