Marcella Albani
Marcella Albani, actually Aida Annita Maranca, ( born December 7, 1899 in Rome, † 11 May 1959 Wiesbaden) was an Italian actress, film producer and author, has been particularly successful in the German silent film.
Life
Her father Oreste Maranca owned a prestigious restaurant in Trastevere. She attended the Higher Girls' School, the gymnasium and the Gabelsberger - nOe Stenographieschule in Rome. Her training as an actress, she received at the Akademia Santa Cecilis in Rome.
For the film, she was discovered by Guido Parisch who gave her the stage name Marcella Albani. Her film debut was in 1919 in soul struggle of Myriam film, in which she played the lead role. After another film for Myriam film Albani turned from 1920 to 1922 a number of films for the Amrosio movie in Turin. She has worked in the film dramas and adventure strips with Parisch as a director.
Albani was born in 1923 with Parisch to Berlin and had immediate success in Germany. She turned first to the Berlin Nivo film, and from 1924 for their own Marcella Albani GmbH. Until 1926, most Guido Parisch led under the pseudonym Guido Schamberg in their films directed. Throughout the 1920s she played elegant Mediterranean beauties in German silent film. Also in French, Czechoslovakian and Austrian films she appeared.
With the advent of the talkies, she devoted herself increasingly to their literary activities and published several novels such as Glauca, l' amata l' innamorata, which appeared as a flirtation and love in German language. La Citta dell ' Amore was filmed by the director Mario Franchini. Franchini was since 1931, her husband, with whom she had a child. She died of a tumor.