Caterina Boratto

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Caterina Boratto (born March 15, 1915 in Turin , † September 14, 2010 in Rome ) was an Italian actress .

Life

Boratto studied singing at the Liceo Musicale in her hometown; she originally wanted to be an opera singer . She was discovered by the director Guido Brignone for the film by chance. She made her film debut in 1937 in the film drama Vivere! at the side of the famous Italian tenor Tito Schipa , with whom she later entered into a love affair. Also directed by Brignone and again with Tito Schipa as a partner, she starred in the 1938 film Chi è più felice di me? . In 1938 she took on the role of a Russian Grand Duchess in the film comedy Hanno rapito un uomo at the side of Vittorio de Sica . Together with Elisa Cegani and Vera Carmi , she was one of the film divas of the Telefoni Bianchi films in the 1930s . Due to her success in Italy, she received a seven-year contract from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1940 , but could not take it because of the Second World War .

In 1942 she was in the drama Romanzo di un giovane povero , again directed by Guido Brignone ; her partner was Amedeo Nazzari , with whom she also entered into a love affair. In 1943 she played together with the young, aspiring actress Anna Magnani in the comedy Campo de 'fiori by Mario Bonnard .

The time of the Second World War brought several private disasters for Boratto. She fell in love with the Conte Guidi di Romena, an Italian fighter pilot who died in a plane crash. Two of her brothers died in the war; one was shot as a partisan . She then retired to the luxury sanatorium in Turin; later she married its director Armando Ceratto, with whom she also had a daughter.

After the Second World War, she played in 1951 under the direction of Riccardo Freda at the side of Vittorio Gassman in the drama Il tradimento . Boratto then withdrew from the film business and was largely forgotten in Italy. In the 1960s she was rediscovered by the director Federico Fellini , who cast her in his films 8½ (1963) and in Julia and the Ghosts (1965) (as the mother of Giulietta Masina ). She later played under the direction of Sydney Pollack in the war film The Castle in the Ardennes (1969) and in 1975 under the direction of Pier Paolo Pasolini in his film The 120 Days of Sodom .

In later years, Boratto worked as a stage actress . She appeared in the operetta Die Csárdásfürstin and in plays by Luigi Pirandello . She also worked in several television productions.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1937: Vivere!
  • 1938: Chi è più felice di me?
  • 1938: Hanno rapito un uomo
  • 1939: I figli del marchese Lucera
  • 1942: Romanzo di un giovane povero
  • 1943: Campo de 'fiori
  • 1951: Il tradimento
  • 1963: eight and a half (8½)
  • 1965: Julia and the Spirits (Giulietta degli spiriti)
  • 1969: The Beloved (Una storia d'amore)
  • 1969: The Nun of Monza (La monaca di Monza)
  • 1969: The castle in the Ardennes (Castle Keep)
  • 1972: The horse came without socks (Ettore lo fusto)
  • 1973: The Nonnenspiegel (Storia di una monaca di clausura)
  • 1974: Anna Karenina (TV movie)
  • 1975: The 120 days of Sodom (Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma)
  • 1978: A sack full of fleas (Primo amore)
  • 1980: Two dead pants remove cream (Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici)
  • 1982: The escape to Varennes (La nuit de Varennes)
  • 1990: Villa Arzilla (TV series)
  • 1992: There was a murder (Once upon a crime) - Director: Eugene Levy

literature

  • Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario des Cinema Italiano. Le Attrici. , Pp. 42/43 Gremese Editore 1999. ISBN 88-7742-342-0

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Photo, Tito Schipa with Caterina Boratto, 1937. Accessed June 9, 2020 .
  2. ^ Poster for Vivere. The song of life. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Boratto, Caterina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 2010
Place of death Rome