Assia Noris
Assia Noris ( native Anastasia von Herzfeld, * 13 Februarjul / February 26 1912greg in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, .. † January 27, 1998 in Sanremo ) was an Italian actress of Russian origin.
Life and work
The daughter of a well -born German Russian Guard officer and a Ukrainian woman came with her parents after the October Revolution in France and grew up in Nice, where she attended school. In 1929 she went to Italy and took acting lessons there. She married the first of her five husbands, the Italian Gaetano d' Assia, from whose name they derived their Leinwandpseudonym.
Discovered in 1932 producer Giuseppe Amato and director Mario Bonnard them for the film. She became the star of the films of director Mario Camerini Telefoni by Bianchi, under whose direction it was first played in 1933 in the crime film spoof Giallo. From the mid- 1930s, she was often seen in Camerinis comedies in the role of a naive young girl who dreams of love and a quiet life. Among her film partners included Vittorio De Sica (eg è una cosa seria non Ma, 1936) and Amedeo Nazzari (eg Cento dollari Milla, 1940). From 1940 to 1943 she was married to Camerini. Among her outstanding achievements include Mario Soldati scandal Dora (1939) and Renato Castellani's Un colpo di pistola (1942 ), in which she played the uncharacteristic for her role of a mature woman.
The Italian neorealism postwar practically meant the end of her film career, as neither her her screen presence during the Mussolini period from new Italian film industry and the audience was still savored as obsolete existing display style yet. Only 1949 she starred in the Egyptian film Amina on under the direction of the Italian Goffredo Alessandrini and 1964 she took Carlo Lizzani once again for the title role in La Celestina P. .. R. .. front of the camera.