Vera Carmi

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Vera Carmi (actually Virginia Doglioli ; born November 23, 1914 in Turin , † September 6, 1969 in Rome ) was an Italian actress .

Life

Carmi began her acting career in her hometown theater and moved to Rome in 1940, where she was discovered for film by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli . She quickly rose to become one of the most sought-after female stars in Italy, who was able to use her emerald green eyes and blonde, elegant appearance, but also express coldness and detachment, in numerous dramas during the war. Her gentle beauty and refinement made her look older than she actually was. Films like Villa da vendere and La fortuna viene dal cielo , both playing in a “Hungary” built up in Cinecittà, show this, as do the praised works Una volta alla settimana , Il fidanzato di mia moglie and Giorni felice . After the Second World War , she had fewer opportunities (besides average goods) to fill more important characters with psychological insight: the ambitious and scheming bourgeois lady in The Note of Signor Travet , the malicious collaborator in O sole mio (both 1946), the fateful lover in Tempesta d'anime , the sensitive and lonely widow in A Sunday in August and the accommodating mother in Friends for Life 1955.

At the theater Carmi first played for Dina Galli / Odoardo Spadaro and was in the cast of Ritorna Za-Bum in 1943 and in his successor Sai che ti dico? . She played her only revue in 1948 in Garinei and Giovannini's Al Grand Hotel alongside Wanda Osiris , Enrico Viarisio and Dolores Palumbo . With Eduardo De Filippo she appeared in numerous comedies from 1949 to 1951 and in 1952 signed a contract with the “Teatro Atena” in Rome.

In the mid and late 1950s she occasionally took part in radio plays . At the beginning of her career, Carmi, who was only 54 years old, also used the pseudonym Vera Del Monte .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1940: Liebesfreud - love affair (Addio, giovinezza!)
  • 1946: The Troubles of Signor Travet (Le miserie del Signor Travet)
  • 1947: How I lost the war (Come persi la guerra)
  • 1948: carriage no.13 (Il fiacre n.13)
  • 1950: A Sunday in August (Domenica d'agosto)
  • 1953: The Blind of Sorrento (La cieca di Sorrento)
  • 1955: Friends for life (Amici per la pelle)
  • 1957: I miliardari

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enrico Lancia, article Vera Carmi , in: Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario des Cinema Italiano. Le Attrici. Gremese Editore, Rome 1999. p. 67
  2. ↑ Vera Carmi at mymovies.it
personal data
SURNAME Carmi, Vera
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doglioli, Virginia (real name); Del Monte, Vera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH 6th September 1969
Place of death Rome