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Alda Grimaldi
Alda Grimaldi (6 October 1919 – 28 December 2023), known as Dada, was an Italian director and actress who was active from the 1940s to the 1960s. Biography Grimaldi was born in Sampierdarena in 1919. She began her acting career in Turin at the in the 1940s. In 1955, Grimaldi sterted working at RAI. The same year, she won a scholarship to attend a directing course at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Grimaldi was among the first women to work as a television director in the state television corporation in the early days of regular broadcasting. She directed, among other things, an episode of the 1958 didactic-theatrical program '. In 1957, she was awarded the . She died on 28 December 2023, at the age of 104. Personal life Grimaldi was married to the Turin doctor Giovanni Rubino, who died in 1997. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Grimaldi, Alda 1919 births 2023 deaths 20th-century Italian actresses Italian film directors Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sampierdarena
Sampierdarena (also San Pier d'Arena; Ligurian: San Pè d'ænn-a) is a major port and industrial area of Genoa, in northwest Italy. With San Teodoro it forms the West Central (Centro Ovest) ''municipio''. Geography Sampierdarena lies on the coast about west of the centre of Genoa. In 2000 the population was 67,741. History Sampierdarena was an ancient fishing village, named after the church of San Pietro d'Arena ("St. Peter of the Sand"). During the Italian Renaissance it became a residential area, with great palaces being built such as the Palazzo Imperiale Scassi, designed by Domenico and Giovanni Ponzello according to the style of Galeazzo Alessi and for this reason believed in the past to be a work of Alessi himself and the Palazzo Spinola di San Pietro (whose designer is unknown), one of those drawn by the painter Peter Paul Rubens in the book Palazzi di Genova, published in Antwerp in 1622. After the coming of the railways (1854) it became one of the great industr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
