Lyda Borelli

Lyda Borelli ( born March 22, 1884 in Rivarolo Ligure, Italy, † June 1, 1959 in Rome, Italy) was an Italian theater and silent film actress. It is next to Pina Menichelli and Francesca Bertini one of the most famous divas of the Italian silent cinema.

Life

Borelli was born into a family of artists. At age 17, she made ​​her stage debut in 1902. Her best performance was the main role of Splendore in La figlia di Iorio by Gabriele D' Annunzio. She was already an acclaimed stage actress before she came in contact with the film; even before 1910 it was mentioned in one breath with Eleonora Duse.

Her film debut was in 1913 in Ma l' amor mio non muore directed by Mario Caserini, who had already shot The Last Days of Pompeii in the same year. Borelli joined, as well as on the stage, in the role of sensual beautiful but aloof woman. After the huge success of the film a cult of personality, the production company quickly realized as effective mass traction means and then translated specifically to stylized Stars began. For this phenomenon appeared in Italian borellismo the neologisms and borelleggiare on. When her movie histrionic climax applies her femme fatale role in satanica Rapsodia (1917 ) by Nino Oxilia.

1918 married Lyda Borelli the Venetian Count Vittorio Cini industrialist and later ( 1885-1977 ) and retired from the film business. In just five years of film career, she was with her expressive body-hugging play in lavish melodramas to one of the most famous divas of the early Italian film.

Antonio Gramsci wrote in Avanti! about them: " La Borelli è l' artista per eccellenza del film in cui la lingua è il corpo umano nella sua semper plasticità rinnovantesi ".

Filmography

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