Italians of Austrian Descent - Alida Valli, Luisa Casati, Giorgio Strehler, Franz Von Suppe, Anne Juliana Gonzaga, Julius Kugy, Max Fabiani (Paperback)

Chapters: Alida Valli, Luisa Casati, Giorgio Strehler, Franz Von Suppe, Anne Juliana Gonzaga, Julius Kugy, Max Fabiani, Josef Moroder-Lusenberg, Tinto Brass, Sepp Kerschbaumer, Dario Hubner, Luis Trenker, Anton Pichler, Giovanni Pichler, Giorgio Oberweger, Gianni Hecht Lucari. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 70. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alida Valli (31 May 1921 22 April 2006), sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in over 100 films, including Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, Ayn Rand's We the Living, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, and Dario Argento's Suspiria. Valli was born in Pola, Istria, Italy (today Pula, Croatia), to parents who both had mixed ancestry. Her paternal grandfather was the Baron Luigi Altenburger (also: Altempurger), an Austrian-Italian from Trento, a descendant of the Counts d'Arco; her paternal grandmother was Elisa Tomasi from Trento, a cousin of the Roman senator Ettore Tolomei. Valli's mother, Silvia Oberecker della Martina, born in Pola, was the daughter of the German-Austrian Felix Oberecker (also: Obrekar) from Laibach, Austria (now Ljubljana, Slovenia), her mother was Virginia della Martina from Pola, Istria (then part of Austria). Valli's maternal granduncle, Rodolfo, was a close friend of Gabriele d'Annunzio. Valli was christened Baroness Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. She also gained the titles Dr.h.c. of the III. University of Rome, Chevalier of Arts of France and Cavaliere of the Italian Republic. Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia At fifteen, she went to Rome, where she attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, a school ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2569353