Vivi Gioi
Vivi Gioi (actually Vivienne Trumpy; born January 2, 1914 in Livorno, † 12 July 1975 Fregene) was an Italian actress.
Life
Gioi, the daughter of an Italian mother and a Norwegian, was the late 1930s and until the mid- 1940s, the flagship blonde of Italian cinema. With her slender mannequin figure, the fun-loving actress was the most popular actress of the Telefoni Bianchi comedies, of which the title Bionda sotto chiave, her first film from 1939, for the performance of acts Giois programmatically.
In 1936, she had begun in a small roll of film è una cosa seria non Ma, in which she appeared as Vivien DIESCA as a tribute to the beloved of her Vittorio De Sica. Your participation in the following film Mario Camerinis was cut almost entirely from the published version. Two years later, starting in 1939, then she turned film to film. This workaholic wore from 1942 fruit from which it was unquestionably become a star at the latest. She remained in demand and popular and played the role of her life, a hysterical and cruel woman who works at the worst times of war against the partisans. Their first post-war role ( and after 2 years break) in Giuseppe De Santis ' Caccia tragica A Silver Ribbon as an award for her interpretation was the reward. Thereafter, however, the film Gioi could offer no matching roles more; she played until 1951 especially some now forgotten melodramas.
Already since 1944 she started stage performances; they played under Luchino Visconti in Closed Society and in the Marriage of Figaro 1945/1946. In the season 1947/1948 she was in an ensemble and Carlo Ninchi and Aroldo Tieri under contract, two years later, among others with Marcello Mastroianni, then with Vittorio Gassman, Edda Albertini and Massimo Girotti in the " Compagnia del Teatro Nazionale " under Guido Salvini. Other highlights of their theater creations were Dreamgirl directed by Morton DaCosta, La ragazza da portare in collo under Alessandro Brissoni and The Dance of Youth (1959 ) by Arthur Schnitzler. With two new pieces of Shelagh Delaney and Francoise Sagan, she ended her stage career in the same year.
Apart from a few television appearances in the 1950s, she appeared after 1951 only in four films in supporting roles; the last two were obscure genre works spaghetti Westerns or the crime film.