Marta Abba
Marta Abba , pseudonym of Marta Trabucchi (born June 25, 1900 in Milan , † June 24, 1988 ibid) was an Italian actress .
Life
Abba attended the drama school of the Accademia dei Filodrammatici in her native city and made her debut in 1922 under director Virgilio Talli in Anton Chekhov's Die Möwe . In the following year she engaged Luigi Pirandello as the first lady for his Teatro d'Arte di Roma , where Abba played almost exclusively in his pieces for many years and gave his work new strength. She was particularly successful in 1925 at the New Oxford Theater in London in Pirandello's drama Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore . The complex relationship between the 58-year-old author and the 25-year-old actress is the subject of several books. In 1928 Abba founded her own acting company, with which she performed other European authors in addition to Pirandello and for which she hired directors such as Max Reinhardt and Guido Salvini . Tours at home and abroad, particularly the United States, also followed. 1931–32 gave Abba, who took an anti-fascist stance, for example guest performances in Paris and 1936 in New York . In January 1938 she married Severance A. Millikin from the entrepreneurial family of the same name in the United States, withdrew from the theater for a long time and lived in California . She resumed her appearances on a modest scale after her return home (1952, after the divorce from her husband). She only appeared in films twice.
Actress Cele Abba is her sister. Marta Abba published her biography as La mia vita di attrice ('My life as an actress').
Filmography
- 1933: Il caso Haller
- 1934: Teresa Confalonieri
literature
- Alessandro Tinterri: Abba, Marta. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). 2014
Web links
- Marta Abba in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Abba, Marta. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
- Abba at mymovies (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ So in Benito Ortolani (ed.): Pirandello's Love Letters to Marta Abba. 1994, 371 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-03499-7
- ^ Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Le attrici. Gremese 2003, p. 7
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abba, Marta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1988 |
| Place of death | Milan |