Luisa Ferida
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Born | Luigia Manfrini Frané 18 March 1914 |
Died | 30 April 1945 | (aged 31)
Occupation | Actress |
Luisa Ferida (18 March 1914 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian stage and film actress.
Career[]
Born Luigia Manfrini Frané in Castel San Pietro Terme, near Bologna, Ferida started as a stage actress. In 1935 she made her first appearance in film with a supporting role in La Freccia d'oro. Because of her photogenic looks and talent as an actress, she soon graduated to leading roles by the end of the 1930s.
In 1939, while working on Un Avventura di Salvator Rosa (1940), directed by Alessandro Blasetti, she met the actor Osvaldo Valenti. The pair became romantically involved and had a son.
Valenti had been linked with many Fascist officials and personalities for years and he eventually joined the Italian Social Republic, and for this reasons he was on the partisans' hit list. He was finally arrested in Milan, alongside a pregnant Ferida in April 1945. They were both sentenced to be executed and shot immediately in the street, without any proper trial. The partisan chief who organized the execution, , defended himself declaring that one of the partisan leaders that ordered the two actors to be executed was Sandro Pertini, who decades later became president of the Italian republic. No other source, however, supports Marozin's version of the incident, and no written document certifies the order being dictated. Because of this, today the incident is attributed solely to Marozin.
Cultural references[]
The film Sanguepazzo starring Monica Bellucci discusses Luisa Ferida's relationship with Osvaldo Valenti. The film premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Partial filmography[]
- Golden Arrow (1935) - Evelyn - figlia di Sleiden
- The Joker King (1936) - Trottola
- The Amnesiac (1936) - Giulietta
- The Two Sergeants (1936) - Lauretta Fracassa
- The Ambassador (1936)
- Il grande silenzio (1936) - La figlia dell'ucciso
- White Amazons (1936)
- The Castiglioni Brothers (1937) - Nina Castiglioni
- Tomb of the Angels (1937) - Luisa
- The Three Wishes (1937) - Maria Lauri
- I due barbieri (1937)
- The Count of Brechard (1938) - Maria
- All of Life in One Night (1938) - Maria
- L'argine (1938) - Sina
- Il suo destino (1938) - Maria, la ballerina
- Star of the Sea (1938) - Luisa
- Mad Animals (1939) - Maria Luisa
- An Adventure of Salvator Rosa (1939) - Lucrezia
- Il segreto di Villa Paradiso (1940) - Mary, la cantante
- La fanciulla di Portici (1940) - Lucia
- The Iron Crown (1941) - Kavaora, madre di Tundra & Tundra
- Blood Wedding (1941) - Nazaria
- Amore imperiale (1941) - La principessa Elisabetta di Russia
- The Jester's Supper (1942) - Fiammetta
- Headlights in the Fog (1942) - Piera
- L'ultimo addio (1942) - Irene Serra
- Sleeping Beauty (1942) - Carmela
- Orizzonte di sangue (1942) - Daria
- Fedora (1942) - Fedora
- Jealousy (1942) - Agrippina Solmo
- Knights of the Desert (1942) - Ara
- The Son of the Red Corsair (1943) - Carmen
- Sad Loves (1943)
- Tristi amori (1943) - Emma Scarli
- Grazia (1943)
- The Innkeeper (1944) - Mirandolina
- Fatto di cronaca (1945) - (final film role)
References[]
- ^ "Sanguepazzo". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
External links[]
- 1914 births
- 1945 deaths
- People from Castel San Pietro Terme
- People executed by Italy by firing squad
- Executed Italian women
- Italian film actresses
- Italian stage actresses
- 20th-century Italian actresses
- Deaths by firearm in Italy
- Italian actor stubs