Emma Gramatica
Emma Gramatica ( born October 25, 1874 in Borgo San Donnini, today Fidenza, † November 8, 1965 in Lido di Ostia) was an Italian actress.
Life
Gramaticas great passion was the theater, where they enjoyed great success. Soon she had made at the Eleonora Duse's a Russian and U.S. tour page. Then they belonged to influential ensembles of the late 19th century to Ermete Zacconi, Flavio Andò, Enrico Reinach and Ermete Novelli. With her own company she kept at the romantic and realistic pieces and was responsible for the productions of plays by George Bernard Shaw known. European tours followed.
The sister of actress Irma Gramatica was in 1916 made her film debut. From the early 1930s, she starred in a series of successful film dramas, culminating she could celebrate with Miracle in Milan in 1951. In 1954, she turned as co-director of the film Piero Ballerini Peppino e la nobile at that. In the 1930s, she was also active for the then popular radio productions.
Gramatica was one of the most famous and popular actresses of her generation.