Marcella Albani

Marcella Albani, photograph (around 1928) by Alexander Binder

Marcella Albani , actually Aida Annita Maranca , (* December 7, 1899 in Rome , † May 11, 1959 in Wiesbaden ) was an Italian actress, film producer and author who was particularly successful in German silent films.

Life

Her father, Oreste Maranca, owned a prestigious inn in Trastevere . She attended the secondary school for girls, the grammar school and the Gabelsberger-Nöe-stenography school in Rome. She received her training as an actress at the Akademia Santa Cecilis in Rome.

She was discovered for the film by Guido Parisch , who gave her the stage name Marcella Albani . Her film debut was in 1919 in agony of Myriam film in which she played the lead role. After another film for the Myriam film, Albani shot numerous films for the Amrosio film in Turin from 1920 to 1922 . She worked with Parisch as a director on the dramas and adventure flicks.

Albani came to Berlin with Parisch in 1923 and enjoyed immediate success in Germany. She shot first for the Berlin Nivo-Film, and from 1924 for her own Marcella Albani GmbH . Until 1926, Guido Parisch mostly directed her films under the pseudonym Guido Schamberg . During the entire 1920s she embodied elegant southern beauties in German silent films. She also appeared in French, Czechoslovak and Austrian films.

With the emergence of the talkie, she devoted herself more to her literary work and published some novels such as Glauca, l'amata l'innamorata , which appeared in German as Liebelei and Liebe . La Citta dell 'Amore was made into a film by the director Mario Franchini . Franchini had been her husband since 1931, with whom she had a child. She died of a tumor.

Filmography

1919: Soul struggle 1919: Shadow that returns 1921: Amore in fuga 1921: La Madonna della Robbia 1921: L'immortale 1921: La figlia delle onde 1921: Bufera 1921: La routa del falco 1922: Ferro di cavallo 1922: La sposa perduta 1922: the fate of women 1923: The game of love (also production) 1923: In the intoxication of passion (also production) 1924: Guillotine (also production) 1925: Letters that did not reach him 1925: The secret of old Mamsell 1926: Escape to the circus 1926: The divorced woman 1926: Dagfin 1927: The world holds its breath 1927: love dance 1927: The duty to be silent 1927: The Curse of Inheritance

1927: The secret of Abbé X 1927: Prince or clown 1928: The Lady in Black 1928: Secrets of the Orient 1928: L'évadée 1928: The last supper 1928: The battle for the Matterhorn 1929: The Sin of a Beautiful Woman ( Hříchy lásky ) 1929: Connection at midnight 1929: Storm surge of love 1929: masks 1929: Swap faces 1929: The experience of one night 1929: The woman on the cross 1930: Corte d'Assise 1932: Zaganella e il caliere 1933: Non son gelosa 1933: La città dell'amore 1934: Ritorno alla terra 1935: Stradivarius 1936: The Emperor of California

literature

• Albani, Marcella . In: Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, pp. 5-6.

Web links

Commons : Marcella Albani  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marcella Albani in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Marcella Albani at filmportal.de
• Marcella Albani at www.cyranos.ch
• Biografia, filmografia e curiosità ( Memento from July 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Pictures by Marcella Albani In: Virtual History