Milly Vitale

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Milly Vitale (1954)

Camilia "Milly" Vitale (born May 6, 1932 in Rome , † November 2, 2006 there ) was an Italian film actress with a career high point in the entire 1950s.

Life

The daughter of an Italian orchestra conductor and a Russian choreographer was discovered for film at the age of 15 and developed into one of the busiest actresses in domestic film in the 1950s. Milly Vitale became suddenly known in 1948 with Maria in “ Critical Years ”, a committed image from the Mussolini era. The chubby, attractive young woman from a young age played leading and supporting roles in romances such as melodramas, in period films as well as in sandal strips. Occasionally Milly Vitale was seen in British and US productions, especially when they were filmed in Cinecittà (such as “Graf Cagliostro” in 1947/48 and War and Peace in 1955 ).

During these years she worked with a number of well-known national and international directors, including the Italians Luigi Zampa , Mario Bonnard , Guido Brignone and Camillo Mastrocinque as well as the Hollywoodians Michael Curtiz , Melville Shavelson , Edward Dmytryk and King Vidor . Her film partners were world stars such as Orson Welles , Kirk Douglas , Henry Fonda , Audrey Hepburn , James Cagney and Bob Hope . The artist also worked as a voice actress.

At the beginning of the 1960s, along with the marriage to the American businessman Vincent Hillyer, a former brother-in-law of the Iranian Shah Reza Pahlevi, on October 25, 1960 in Bel Air (Los Angeles), Milly Vitale gradually withdrew from the film business and moved in the United States. There she gave birth to a son in 1961 and 1964. After her final return to Italy following her divorce from Hillyer (August 1966), Milly Vitale finally quit working in front of the camera in 1972.

Filmography

  • 1947: I fratelli Karamazoff
  • 1948: Città dolente
  • 1948: Critical Years ( Anni difficili )
  • 1948: Count Cagliostro ( Black Magic )
  • 1949: La sepolta viva
  • 1949: La figlia del peccato
  • 1950: The Lion of Amalfi ( Il leone di Amalfi )
  • 1950: Inexorable love ( Gli inesorabili )
  • 1950: Cuori sul mare
  • 1951: The Corsair's Revenge ( La vendetta del corsaro )
  • 1951: Trieste mia!
  • 1951: Il caimano del Piave
  • 1952: Il figlio di Lagardère
  • 1952: La prigioniera della torre di fuoco
  • 1952: On the sword's point ( A fil di spada )
  • 1953: Nero - The Fall of Rome ( Nerone e Messalina )
  • 1953: I sinned for you ( Per salvarti ho peccato )
  • 1953: Bitter Love ( Noi cannibali )
  • 1953: Condannatelo!
  • 1953: The Gehetzte ( The Juggler )
  • 1953: L'eterna femmina
  • 1953: Rasputin ( Raspoutine )
  • 1954: The beggar of Notre Dame ( Le due orfanelle )
  • 1954: Brutal violence ( Acque amare )
  • 1954: The daughter of Mata Hari ( La figlia di Mata Hari )
  • 1955: Vendicata!
  • 1955: Torna piccina mia
  • 1955: Komödiantenkinder ( The Seven Little Foys )
  • 1956: War and Peace ( War and Peace )
  • 1956: Gli occhi senza luce
  • 1957: The black devil ( Il diavolo nero )
  • 1957: Women We Meet at Night ( The Flesh Is Weak )
  • 1958: The Battle of V-1
  • 1958: Ten rifles are waiting ( Diez fusiles esperan )
  • 1959: Hannibal ( Annibale )
  • 1959: Princess Olympia ( Olimpia )
  • 1960: Revak - slave of Carthage ( Revak, lo schiavo di Cartagine )
  • 1962: Catherine of Russia ( Caterina di Russia )
  • 1968: Il medico della mutua
  • 1968: Gangsters Die Twice ( Gangsters '70 )
  • 1970: General strike ( Contestazione generale )
  • 1972: La grande avventura di Scaramouche

Web links

Commons : Milly Vitale  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Some sources mention July 16, 1933 (e.g. the IMDb)
personal data
SURNAME Vitale, Milly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vitale, Camilia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 2006
Place of death Rome