MarÃa Denis
María Denis (actually Maria Ester Beomonte; born November 22, 1916 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, † April 15, 2004 in Rome) was an Italian actress.
Life and career
Denis was born in Argentina of Italian parents and came at the age of 16 years to Italy. In 1934, she had great success, which they up to the early 1940s had many more to follow, mostly comedies, given the immense popularity among the public with the film Seconda B Goffredo Alessandrini of. Its pure, innocent-looking appearance, also Impish was no stranger but her critics attested to the delicacy and vibrancy in the game. Together with Assia Noris and Alida Valli she belonged to the fiancé of the audience during these years, which also developed (especially in the movies Augusto Geninas and Ferdinando Maria Poggolis ) dramatic potential. During the Second World War, she went to the rescue of threatened with prison Luchino Visconti in the dependence of the fascist police chief of Rome, Pietro Koch. Because of this relationship she had later for a short time as a collaborator in jail; her career was severely damaged, and Visconti had shown no gratitude. Denis was still active until 1954; according to the previously performed in wedding with an industrialist, she retired from the film business.
She died as a result of respiratory failure at the age of 87 years.