Mara Berni
Mara Berni (actually Mara Rita Antonia Bernasconi ; born June 12, 1932 in Brunate ) is an Italian actress .
Life
Berni was one of those typical big-breasted blondes who populated the Italian film landscape in the 1950s. The curvaceous, slim, long-haired actress had already gained stage experience as a child in Wanda Petrini's “Compagnia dei Piccoli” and, after breaking off piano studies (for the sake of her parents), took lessons from the experienced actress Teresa Franchini . Her first engagement as a television announcer was soon followed by her cinema debut as one of the many marathon dancers in Luigi Comencini's La tratta delle bianche and a similar, covetous male-looking role in one of the episodes of More in città . Berni could only rarely escape this typical doll image of her time. Buonanotte, avvocato! was an opportunity to do so, in which she was challenged as an actor and gave a character study. This was followed by a theatrical period in which she could be seen in Ferenc Molnár's Liliom alongside Roldano Lupi and Carla Calò .
Film roles remained stuck to the well-known cliché until 1963, now often in sandal films ; The television programs that have been perceived since that year offered more variety (it was only seen twice in the cinema in 1968). There she was able to play under directors such as Sandro Bolchi and Leonardo Cortese and appear alongside Nino Taranto in the comedy Bello, che papà . Berni also took on guest roles in series episodes from time to time.
In 1969 Berni ended her career; Twenty years later, she married the 26 years younger Pakistani industrialist Tarik Mamoud Rana, with whom she has had a daughter since 1991.
Filmography (selection)
- 1952: Trafficking in girls (La tratta delle bianche)
- 1955: Good night, lawyer! (Buonanotte, avvocato!)
- 1955: A house full of innocent lambs (Accadde al penitenziario)
- 1956: The world will be ours (Il mondo sarà nostro)
- 1960: The Policeman (Il vigile)
- 1961: Hercules in Cleopatra's Net (Sansone)
- 1961: You play poker with pistols (Armas contra la ley)
- 1962: Maciste in battle with the pirate king (Maciste contro lo sceicco)
- 1962: Samson, Liberator of the Enslaved (La furia di Ercole)
- 1963: Hours of Love (Le ore dell'amore)
- 1968: Assassino senza volto
- 1968: Giorni di sangue
Web links
- Mara Berni in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mara Berni on MyMovies (Italian).
- Interview from July 2012
- Mara Berni in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ Enrico Lancia, Article Mara Berni , in: Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema Italiano, Le attrici. Rome, Gremese 2003, pp. 30/31
- ^ Report in La Repubblica of May 15, 1991
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berni, Mara |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bernasconi, Mara Rita Antonia (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brunate |