Anne Triola

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Anne Triola during a troop visit to Dutch New Guinea , 1944

Anne Triola (born September 25, 1920 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American actress and singer . She was best known for her role as Gloria Davis in The Lullaby from Broadway from 1951.

Life

Anne Triola was born in Los Angeles in 1920 to parents of Italian origin. She took piano lessons at the age of three. At the age of twelve she learned to play the accordion and performed as a musician and singer in various cafes.

At the beginning of the Second World War , Triola joined a show group at the Asiatic-Pacific Theater, which also included actress Judith Anderson . The group performed in front of troops at several bases in New Guinea . Triola played the accordion during the performances and worked as a singer with Anderson.

After her time at the Asiatic-Pacific Theater, Triola appeared as a singer in various nightclubs. During an appearance at Blue Angel in New York , she was discovered by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein , who offered her a role in the musical Annie Get Your Gun in London , which she had to decline because of her contract with the nightclub.

In 1946 Triola was hired by the director Mervyn LeRoy and the film producer Jesse L. Lasky for three films after she had two small supporting roles in the films Snow Follies and Moon Over Las Vegas in 1939 and 1944 . In 1946 she played in Without Reservations on the side of Claudette Colbert and John Wayne and directed by LeRoy. She had her most famous and last film appearance in 1951 as Gloria Davis in the music film The Lullaby from Broadway as a dance partner of Billy De Wolfe . After her time as a film actress, Triola appeared in vaudeville plays and played in several musicals , including the role previously offered to her in Annie Get Your Gun .

Triola married the businessman Ralph J. Quartaroli in 1953, with whom they have a daughter. Quartaroli died along with three other passengers in a plane crash on the way from Las Vegas to Van Nuys in 1960 .

Filmography

  • 1939: Snow Follies
  • 1944: Moon Over Las Vegas
  • 1946: Without Reservations
  • 1948: Snares of Fear (Sleep, My Love)
  • 1951: The Lullaby of Broadway

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Without Reservations (1946). Movie review on The Movie Scene, accessed October 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Lost Plane Spurs Large Air Search. AP report in The Spokesman Review, May 17, 1960, p. 1 , accessed September 24, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Triola, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States