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Valentina Cortese

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Valentina Cortese (January 1, 1923 - July 10, 2019) was an Italian film actress. The Milan-born actress starred in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) directed by Robert Wise, and costarring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan. Cortese, aged 28, married Basehart in 1951, and had one son with him before they divorced in 1960. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1975 for her performance in François Truffaut's Day for Night. Cortese appeared in Jules Dassin's Thieves' Highway (1949), Joseph L. Mankiewicz's The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Amiche (1955), Gérard Brach's The Boat on the Grass, Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and in the Franco Zeffirelli projects such as the 1972 film Brother Sun, Sister Moon, his 1977 miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth and the 1993 film Sparrow. Full list of TV and Movie credits for Valentina Cortese.. Born : 1st-Jan-1923

Movie Credits

Secret People

This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.
Released : 5th-Feb-1952

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Un americano in vacanza


Released : 7th-Sep-1946

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Soltanto un bacio

Italian film from 1942.
Released : 14th-May-1942

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Diva!

The moving life and international career of actress Valentina Cortese is acted out by eight Italian actresses who interpret parts of her biography. A rich assortment of stock footage and film clips creates a vibrant portrait of our Diva.
Released : 1st-Sep-2017

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Rome: Free City

In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave house together for a night full of misadventures. In a streets of Rome they meet the struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts to street life; a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”. Thieves, gamblers, hookers, policemen, soldiers and endless chain of cigarette-smoking and alcohol/espresso-drinking.
Released : 17th-Dec-1946

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Lulù


Released : 10th-Jun-1953

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Chocolatines: producto no comestible

A young woman goes through an internal crisis when she learns that her father is dying in a distant hospital. Going to meet him to say goodbye, irreversible events happen.
Released : 1st-Jan-2009

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Adriana Lecouvreur


Released : 11th-Aug-1955

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Ring of Darkness

Once a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins to regret her tryst with Lucifer when her teenage daughter, Daria, starts showing the evil influence of dear old Dad. Convinced that she can stop the devil's power on earth, Carlotta calls upon an exorcist for help.
Released : 29th-Oct-1979

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Les Misérables - Manhunt

Jean Valjean, pursued through the years for a minor infraction by the implacable policeman Javert, attempts to create a life for himself and for his adopted daughter Cosette amid the revolutionary struggles of France.
Released : 10th-Jan-1948

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Thieves' Highway

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get even. He partners with prostitute Rica, and together they go after Mike, all the while getting pulled further into the local crime underworld.
Released : 20th-Sep-1949

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The House on Telegraph Hill

Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
Released : 12th-May-1951

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The Rocket from Calabuch

Professor Hamilton, a naive Nuclear scientist who once thought bombs were good for humanity, realizes his mistake and runs away from his inventions. He hides in Calabuch, a beautiful seaside town where people still believe in humor and friendship.
Released : 28th-Sep-1956

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Son tornate a fiorire le rose

The birth of a nephew upsets the life of Paolo and Carlo who, unable to grow old, try to prove that they are lively.
Released : 17th-Oct-1975

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Tanto va la gatta al lardo...

Film in four episodes, inspired by the chronicle of the time: three mature sisters give themselves to a stranger, Maria tries to escape her husband, two Bolognese spouses quarrel and do not realize that the civil war has broken out, a Neapolitan fan scandalizes a first class compartment ..
Released : 23rd-May-1978

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Amore mio non farmi male

Anna and Marcello, two wealthy high school students. they would like to consume their Platonic love so far, going against the directives of their parents ... who get in the way to prevent their sexual initiation.
Released : 13th-Jul-1974

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Il passatore

The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor.
Released : 22nd-Oct-1947

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La passeggiata

A meek and simple-minded boarding school teacher falls in love with a prostitute and gets the boot from school. He tries to have her change her way of living but she is very hard to convince. When she finally realizes he really loves her it is too late.
Released : 27th-Jan-1953

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Square of Violence

Set in Italy, the story takes place in this very country, during WW2, where German occupation army ruled everything, just before the allied forces came, in 1944. Crawford plays here a doctor whose son has been shot by the Germans. Of course he has no more taste in life. He continues his work as a German officers' physician. One day, he throws a bomb just in the middle of German troops. Many soldiers and officers are killed. Some time later, the lead officer of the Nazis troops suspects the doctor to be the responsible of the explosion. He lets him know that he himself knows...
Released : 1st-Jan-1961

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L'ebreo errante

Matthew, a rich nationalist Jew and a contemporary of Jesus, regards the latter as an obstacle in this struggle to free their people from the Roman yoke by means of revolt.
Released : 24th-Jan-1948

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No One Comes Back

A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.
Released : 5th-Jan-1945

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Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris

The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attempt by suspicious innkeeper Thenardier, and a climax on the barricades of Paris.
Released : 21st-Jan-1948

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Facciaffittasi


Released : 1st-May-1988

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Widows' Nest

The arrival of some unwanted visitors interrupts the peaceful Cuban home life of sisters Dolores, Carmen and Elvira, as their presence stirs up unwelcome memories.
Released : 1st-Dec-1977

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Angels of Darkness

When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their livelihood. The girls must now find honest work.
Released : 27th-Jan-1954

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4 girls dream


Released : 5th-Aug-1943

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Shadow of the Eagle

During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
Released : 11th-Sep-1950

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Primo amore

An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.
Released : 5th-Oct-1941

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Il Conte Aquila


Released : 7th-Sep-1955

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Quarta pagina


Released : 17th-Dec-1942

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The Girl Who Knew Too Much

A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.
Released : 10th-Feb-1963

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Malaya

After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he could easily smuggle rubber, a key wartime natural resource, out of Malaya has him tasked with doing just that. He manages to get someone from his past, Carnaghan, sprung from Alactraz and together they head off to South East Asia posing as Irishmen. Once there, Carnaghan lines up some of his old cronies and with Royer and a few plantation owners plans to smuggle the rubber out from under the Japanese army's watchful eye.
Released : 27th-Dec-1949

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Black Sun

A young Gallic heiress Christine is looking for her long-lost brother in Algeria. She's not looking for danger, but that's what comes in her way from every nook and cranny.
Released : 10th-Dec-1966

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Buster's Bedroom

A young woman who is obsessed with Buster Keaton stays in the sanatorium where the actor was once a patient.
Released : 9th-May-1991

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Orizzonte di sangue

Directed by Gennaro Righelli.
Released : 2nd-Jan-1942

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Chronicle of a Homicide

Roma.During a clash between demonstrating laborers (whose fight the students have joined) a policeman and a student are both killed. The investigating magistrate - in charge of the case with two commissioners - wants to believe to the version of the police: the student was killed by one of the laborers, while the policeman would have been killed by Massimo Trotti.
Released : 4th-Feb-1972

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The Glass Mountain

An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer.
Released : 9th-Mar-1949

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Love and Troubles

Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart.
Released : 19th-Dec-1958

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Give Her the Moon

Marie, a young provincial girl, is seduced by an American billionaire. She agrees to stay with him if he moves her village to New York.
Released : 25th-Feb-1970

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Il corriere del re


Released : 4th-Dec-1947

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Chi l'ha visto?


Released : 1st-Sep-1945

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The Possessed

While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.
Released : 24th-Jul-1965

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Crossroads of Passion


Released : 4th-Aug-1948

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The Boat on the Grass

Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier's Paris apartment. When Olivier meets her there, he takes her to the country, where the three build a boat on the meadow. Eleanore divided the friends.
Released : 16th-Apr-1971

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The Assassination of Trotsky

A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
Released : 20th-Apr-1972

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The Jester's Supper

In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and harmless Giannetto. Even though determined to not react to the cruel pranks of the brothers, Giannetto is forced to take a stand when Ginevra, a beautiful girl that works in the Chiaramantesi household, is dragged into the game. To defend his honor and protect the girl, Giannetto works out a fiendish plot that will end in blood and madness.
Released : 10th-Feb-1942

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Le Amiche

Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into their friendships.
Released : 18th-Nov-1955

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Juliet of the Spirits

Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.
Released : 22nd-Oct-1965

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Appassionata

Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.
Released : 22nd-May-1974

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The Love Mates

Julien and Agatha appear to be a great couple, loving, caring and seem to feel complete with each other. Though Julien often gives the impression of being interested in other girls, his lover doesn't care all that much and sometimes even looks like she's encouraging him to do that. It all changes when they meet an American woman who'll change their lives and their perception of love.
Released : 18th-Dec-1970

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Magic Fire

Director William Dieterle's 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Thompson, Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, Alan Badel and Valentina Cortese.
Released : 30th-Jun-1955

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TV Credits

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Dr. Bruni - Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
Released : 5th-Oct-1951

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Lux Video Theatre

Emilie Gallatin - Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
Released : 2nd-Oct-1950

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Jesus of Nazareth

Herodias - Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.
Released : 27th-Mar-1977

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I promessi sposi

Donna Prassede -
Released : 12th-Nov-1989

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Il killer

- Italian miniseries.
Released : 17th-Apr-1969

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