Mariella Lotti

Mariella Lotti
Born Maria Camilla Pianotti
(1919-11-17)17 November 1919[note 1]
Busto Arsizio, Lombardy
Italy
Died 18 December 2004(2004-12-18) (aged 85)
Paris
Occupation Actress
Years active 1939 - 1954

Mariella Lotti (Busto Arsizio, 1919 – Paris, 2004) was an Italian film actress. Lotti made her film debut in 1939, and played leading ladies in a number of Fascist era and post-war films. She was one of many actors employed on the anthology film The Ten Commandments, made following the overthrow of Benito Mussolini.[1] She made her final film Siempre Carmen in 1954. During the war she was involved in a passionate love story with King Michael of Romania.

Her sister Carola Lotti was also an actress.

Selected filmography

Notes

  1. Some sources say 18 November 1919, but the parish register states she was born before midnight.

References

  1. Gundle p.262-63

Bibliography

  • Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.
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