Pina Cei

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Pina Cei (actually Giuseppina Casini ; born June 13, 1904 in San Juan , Puerto Rico , † February 1, 2000 in Rome ) was an Italian actress .

Life

The daughter of a lawyer and the Florentine dialect actress Luisa Cei , born during her mother's tour of South America, made her stage debut in 1922 when she was part of Raffaele Niccoli's ensemble ; after seven years as the latter's first actress, she moved to Emma Gramatica and then to Ruggero Ruggeri . Very late, in 1942, she was part of an acting troupe named after her, Aristide Baghetti / Cei / Mario Siletti / Cesare Bettarini . After the war, she worked with Paola Borboni / Salvo Randone / Piero Carnabuci (1945), Nino Besozzi / Cei / Franco Scandurra (1948), then again for one season with Ruggeri, with whom she also undertook a tour of South America, the “Piccolo Teatro di Milano “(1954/1955) and late, 1968/1969, with Sergio Fantoni / Valentina Fortunato . In 1956 she received the San Ginesio award for best actress in supporting roles. In her later years she also played with Giorgio Strehler .

Cei made her first film in 1933 when Giovacchino Forzano entrusted her with the role of Clothilde of Savoy in Villafranca , although she used the pseudonym Pia Torriani for this. The following year she filmed as Pia Torniai (her husband's family name). She then turned away from the cinema and only returned regularly (rare excursions were two works in the 1950s and one from 1967) in the 1970s, where she now took on supporting and character roles as (mostly somewhat eccentric) women of advanced age . Her appearance for television plays was more extensive; from multi-part film adaptations ( L'idiota , 1959 or David Copperfield 1964) to contemporary dramas (by authors such as Ephraim Kishon and Eugène Ionesco , Arthur Miller and Molly Kazan ) in the 1960s to original material ( Knock o il trionfo della medicina , 1968 ).

Cei was married to the tenor Bruno Torniai until his death and has with him the daughter Anna Maria Torniai who followed her mother's profession ; her younger sister Dory was also an actress.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1933: Villafranca
  • 1973: Love and anarchy (film d'amore e d'anarchia ovvero "Stamattina all 10 in via dei Fiori nella nota casa di tolleranza ...")
  • 1976: The gentleman's rider (La padrone è servita)
  • 1985: Scandalosa Gilda (Scandalosa Gilda)
  • 1987: Black eyes (Oci ciornie)
  • 1993: A dream of love and death (Una questione privata) (TV movie)
  • 1994: Occhiopinocchio

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Chiti, Article Pina Cei , in: Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario des Cinema Italiano. Le Attrici. Gremese Editore, Rome 1999. pp. 75/76
personal data
SURNAME Cei, Pina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Casini, Giuseppina; Torriani, Pia; Torniai, Pia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH San Juan , Puerto Rico
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 2000
Place of death Rome