Maria Jacobini
Jacobini Maria ( born February 17, 1890 in Rome, † November 20, 1944 ibid ) was an Italian actress at the domestic and German film.
Life and work
Maria Jacobini, which was one of the most celebrated silent film divas of their country in the 10s and 20s, was born as a granddaughter of the Cardinal and Secretary of State of Pope Leo XIII. , Lodovico Jacobini. Her artistic craft she learned at the Accademia dell'Arte Drammatica her hometown of Rome. 1910 debuted Maria Jacobini in film. Jacobini played famous female figures of contemporary history such as Lucrezia Borgia, Beatrice Cenci or Jeanne d' Arc in the same movies, but also acted in melodramas and comedies. Directed by doing several times her partner Gennaro Righelli. Your gesture was expansive and expressive, her characters sometimes melancholy, fatalistic ( " Come le foglie " ), sometimes effusively - cheerful ( " Addio giovinezza " ).
At the turn of 1922/23, Maria Jacobini went along with Righelli to Berlin, where she turned in the next five years in a multitude of productions, often melodramatic films with content. Only her first German film, she was able to realize in their own production ( Maria Jacobini -Film GmbH ). After her temporary return to Rome sat Jacobini their 1926 German film work continued. Her latest work in Berlin was " at the same time also their most rewarding " Fedor Ozeps version of Leo Tolstoy's The Living Corpse. In it, she played Lisa Protassowa. 1929 Maria Jacobini went for a movie stint in France, where Julien Duvivier they occupied " Irene Rysbergues great love " with the title role - a married, neglected by her husband lady of French society. Then they returned to Rome.
With the beginning of the sound film era turned the German language hardly powerful Italian only in Cinecittà, without being able to connect to their greatest successes. Besides, from 1937 to 1943, she also taught art of speaking at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Her pupils included Alida Valli and Clara Calamai. Maria Jacobinis sister Diomira Jacobini (1899-1959) also worked as an actress.