Dorian Gray (actress)
Dorian Gray | |
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Gray in 1958 | |
Born | Maria Luisa Mangini 2 February 1928 Bolzano, Italy |
Died | 15 February 2011 Torcegno, Italy | (aged 83)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1951–1965 |
Maria Luisa Mangini (2 February 1928 – 15 February 2011), better known as Dorian Gray, was an Italian actress.
Biography[]
Gray made her stage debut in 1950. After five years she left the world of the theater and devoted herself to cinema.
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Dorian Gray in Totò, Peppino e... la malafemmina (1956).
The role she played most often in films was that of a seductive sex kitten. She played the titular "bad girl" in Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina. She also appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni's Il grido. In 1957, she took part in The Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini.
Death[]
On February 15, 2011, Gray committed suicide by gunshot at her home in Torcegno. She was 83 years old; some media, however, reported her age as 75,[1] since she herself claimed to have been born in 1936.[2]
Partial filmography[]
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Gray in Io piaccio (1955)
- Accidenti alle tasse!! (1951) - Margot
- The Reluctant Magician (1951)
- Amo un assassino (1951) - Vandina
- Anema e core (1951) - Amica di Cocciaglia
- Vendetta... sarda (1952) - Columba Porchiddu
- The Queen of Sheba (1952) - Ati
- Lo sai che i papaveri (1952) - La guardarobiera
- Io piaccio (1955) - Doriana Paris
- Totò lascia o raddoppia? (1956) - Ellen
- Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina (1956) - Marisa Florian (the 'malafemmina')
- (1956) - Nadia Lanti
- Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge (1956) - Valeria
- Le notti di Cabiria (1957) - Jessy
- Il grido (1957) - Virginia
- (1958) - Luciana
- Mogli pericolose (1958) - Ornella
- Racconti d'estate (1958) - Dorina
- Vacanze d'inverno (1959) - Carol Field
- Brevi amori a Palma di Majorca (1959) - Hélène
- Le sorprese dell'amore (1959) - Desdemona aka Didì
- Il Mattatore (1960) - Elena
- La regina delle Amazzoni (1960) - Antiope
- Crimen (1960) - Eleonora Franzetti
- Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960)
- Mani in alto (1961) - Pupina Micacci
- Gli attendenti (1961) - Lauretta
- (1962) - Marie-Louise Jörgensen
- (1962) - Irene
- The Legion's Last Patrol (1962) - Nora
- (1963)
- (1965) - Veronique (segment "Sadik")
- I criminali della metropoli (1967) - Denise (final film role)
References[]
- ^ "Cinema: addio a Dorian Gray, si toglie la vita la "malafemmina" di Totò|Trentino". Archived from the original on 21 February 2011. Retrieved 17 February 2011.
- ^ "Dictionary of italian cinema - Actresses", by Lancia and Poppi, Gremese Ed. 2003
External links[]
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- Dorian Gray at IMDb
Categories:
- 1936 births
- 2011 suicides
- Italian film actresses
- Actors from Bolzano
- Suicides by firearm in Italy
- Nastro d'Argento winners
- 20th-century Italian actresses
- 2011 deaths