Dalida filmography
Throughout her acting career, Dalida had mainly thriller, comedy, drama, and romance films. She has appeared in twelve films, of which are ten action movies and two documentaries. She has two commercial appearances on TV. Before she started her singing career in 1956, she had two film roles, both in 1954. Her first movie was supposed to be stunt for Rita Hayworth in 1954 movie Joseph and his Brethren, but the shooting was cancelled. Eventually her first role was a minor one, in early 1954 after winning Miss Egypt, in movie Le Masque de Toutankhamon where she acted a dancer that is actually a spy. Same years she appears in Sigarah wa kas, from which came an iconic scene that was later often mentioned through her singing career, recalling on her debut years; Iolanda dances, sings and seduces her boss doctor in his family home, in front of eyes of his wife and other guests.
The rest of her acting career she spent by acting in B movies, largely main roles. None of her movies achieved big success as she dreamed to achieve, but every time she received the perfect criticism that pointed to her great, but untapped talent. She made the most effort and expressed herself mostly in her last movie Le sixième jour, when she even read the book before script, and connected herself with main character, Sadikka.
She also recorded several scoptione videos for her songs in the 60s.
Filmography
Year | Title | Character | Director | Notes | Ref |
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1954 | Le Masque de Toutankhamon a.k.a. "L'Or du Nil" |
"short role of a spy" | Marco de Gastyne | Film, starring Gil Vidal and Samia Gamal (Arabic: سامية جمال) | [1] |
1954 | Sigarah wa kas a.k.a. "Un verre et une cigarette" a.k.a. "سيجارة وكاس" (Egyptian title) a.k.a. "A Glass and a Cigarette" (International (DVD box title) (English title)) |
Iolanda | Niazi Mostafa | Film, starring Samia Gamal (Arabic: سامية جمال) | [2] |
1958 | Brigade des moeurs a.k.a. Vice Squad |
Herself | Maurice Boutel | Film, co-starring with Eddie Barclay | [3] |
1958 | Rapt au deuxième bureau a.k.a. "Operation Abduction" |
Bella Morena | Jean Stelli | Film, co-starring with Frank Villard | [4] |
1961 | "Che femmina... e che dollari!" (Italy: Italian title) a.k.a. Parlez-moi d'amour (France: French title) |
Laura Pisani | Giorgio Simonelli | Film, co-starring with Jacques Sernas | [5] |
1963 | L'inconnue de Hong Kong a.k.a. "Stranger from Hong-Kong" (US) |
Georgia | Jacques Poitrenaud | Film, co-starring with Serge Gainsbourg and Tania Béryl | [6] |
1965 | Menage all'italiana a.k.a. "Household alla Italiana" |
Armida | Franco Indovina | Film, co-starring with Ugo Tognazzi | [7] |
1966 | La morale de l'histoire a.k.a. "The moral of the story" |
Colette | Claude Dagues | Film, co-starring with Daniel Gélin and Christiane Minazzoli | [8] |
1968 | 13 jours en France | Herself | Claude Lelouch and François Reichenbach | Documentary about the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. Features Charles de Gaulle, Dalida, Johnny Hallyday and Jean-Claude Killy. (Uncredited.) | [9] |
1968 | Io ti amo a.k.a. "I Love You" a.k.a. "Dalida, agapi mou" (Greece: Greek title) |
Judy | Antonio Margheriti | Film, co-starring with Alberto Lupo | [10] |
1977 | Dalida: Pour toujours | Herself | Michel Dumoulin | Documentary | |
1986 | Le sixième jour a.k.a. "The Sixth Day" (International: English title) a.k.a. "Al-yawm al-Sadis" (Arabic title) (Arabic: اليوم السادس) a.k.a. "Der sechste Tag" (Germany: German title) |
Saddika | Youssef Chahine (Arabic: يوسف شاهين) |
Film, co-starring with Mohsen Mohieddin | [11] |
Commercials
Year | Company | Promoting | Theme | Soundtrack | Country |
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1960 | Permaflex | Mattress | Dalida laying on bed and talking about Permaflex mattress | Mes frères | Italy |
1986 | Wizard Sec | Air freshener | Dalida dancing through house and spraying around Wizard Sec on rhythm of music | Adaptation of Gigi l'amoroso | France |
See also
Footnotes
- Le Masque de Toutankhamon. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
- Sigara wa Kass. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
- Brigade des mœurs. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
- Rapt au deuxième bureau. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
- Che femmina... e che dollari!. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
- L'inconnue de Hong Kong. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
- Menage all'italiana. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
- La morale de l'histoire. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
- 13 jours en France. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
- Io ti amo. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
- Le sixième jour. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.