Lyda Borelli

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Lyda Borelli.

Lyda Borelli (born March 22, 1884 in Rivarolo Ligure , † June 1, 1959 in Rome ) was an Italian theater and silent film actress . Along with Pina Menichelli and Francesca Bertini, she is one of the most famous divas of Italian silent film .

Life

Borelli was born into a family of artists. She made her stage debut in 1902 at the age of 17. One of her best performances was the lead role of Splendore in La figlia di Iorio by Gabriele D'Annunzio . She was a celebrated stage actress before she came into contact with film; before 1910 she was mentioned in the same breath as Eleonora Duse .

She made her film debut in 1913 in Ma l'amor mio non muore , directed by Mario Caserini , who had filmed The Last Days of Pompeii that same year . Borelli appeared, as on the stage, in the role of the sensually beautiful, yet unapproachable woman. After the great success of the film, a personality cult began, which the production companies quickly understood as a means of pulling masses and then focused on stylized stars. Emerged for this phenomenon in Italian the neologisms borellismo and borelleggiare on. Her film-acting climax is her femme fatale role in Rapsodia satanica (1917) by Nino Oxilia .

In 1918 Lyda Borelli married the Venetian industrialist and later Count Vittorio Cini (1885–1977) and withdrew from the film business. In just 5 years of film career, she became one of the most famous divas of early Italian film with her expressive body-hugging style of playing in lavishly equipped melodramas.

Antonio Gramsci wrote in the Avanti! About them: "La Borelli è l'artista per eccellenza del film in cui la lingua è il corpo umano nella sua plasticità semper rinnovantesi" .

Filmography

  • 1913: Ma l'amor mio non muore
  • 1913: La memoria dell'altro
  • 1914: La donna nuda
  • 1915: Fior di male
  • 1915: Marcia nuziale
  • 1915: Il bosco sacro
  • 1916: La falena
  • 1916: Madame Tallien
  • 1917: Rhapsody of Satan (Rapsodia satanica)
  • 1917: Malombra
  • 1917: Carnevalesca
  • 1917: Il dramma di una notte
  • 1917: La storia dei tredici
  • 1918: Per la vittoria e per la pace
  • 1918: L'altro esecito

literature

  • Ivo Blom: The gestural repertoire. On the body language of Lyda Borelli . In: KINtop - Yearbook for Researching Early Films , Vol. 7. Frankfurt / M., Basel 1998, pp. 69–83

Web links

Commons : Lyda Borelli  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Borelli, Lyda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Rivarolo Ligure , Italy
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1959
Place of death Rome , Italy