Evi Maltagliati (11 August 1908 – 27 April 1986) was an Italian stage, television and film actress.

Life and career

Born in

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as Evelina Maltagliati, she started her career at debuted in the theater just 15 years old, in the Galli-Guasti stage company. Her critical consecration came in 1933 with the role of Titania in a

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'' staged in Boboli. Maltagliati Lupi

She later worked on stage with

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, Gino Cervi,

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, Sergio Tofano among others. While she had few opportunities in films, she was very active on television, in TV dramas and series. Maltagliati was married to comedian Eugenio Cappabianca.

Partial filmography

* ''La fanciulla dell'altro mondo'' (1934) * ''

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'' (1935) - Anna Weiss * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1936) - Marilyne Gould * ''Jeanne Doré'' (1938) - Fanny * ''Inventiamo l'amore'' (1938) - Anna * '' I, His Father'' (1939) - Eva * ''Il piccolo re'' (1939) - Lucia * '' The Silent Partner'' (1939) - La diva * ''Scandalo per bene'' (1940) - Bianca Alviano * '' The Betrothed'' (1941) - La monaca di Monza detta "La Signora" * '' Yes, Madam'' (1942) - La signora Valdata * ''Il nemico'' (1943) - Silvia Harle * ''Monte Miracolo'' (1945) - Gianna Fortis * '' Fire Over the Sea'' (1947) - Dory Jane * ''

Daniele Cortis ''Daniele Cortis'' (also known as ''Elena'') is a 1947 Italian drama film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Vittorio Gassman, Sarah Churchill and Gino Cervi. The film (set in nineteenth-century Italy) follows the impossible love affair betwe ...

'' (1947) - Isa * '' Buried Alive'' (1949) - Elisa * ''La voce del sangue'' (1952) * '' Noi peccatori'' (1953) - La madre di Lucia * '' I Vinti'' (1953) - Claudio's mother * '' Ulysses'' (1954) - Ulysses' Mother * ''Ultima illusione'' (1954) * '' A Woman Alone'' (1956) - Pressenda * ''

Adorabili e bugiarde ''Adorabili e bugiarde'' (also known as ''Adorable and a Liar'') is a 1958 Italian comedy film directed by Nunzio Malasomma. Plot Three beautiful girls, a model, a journalist and a painter, eager for celebrity at all costs, decide to stage a fa ...

'' (1958) - Suzy / Suzanne the Costume Designer * ''Sergente d'ispezione'' (1958) * '' The Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'' (1958, TV series) - Signora Nickleby * '' Il padrone delle ferriere'' (1959) - Marchesa di Beaulieu * '' Il peccato degli anni verdi'' (1960) - Paolo Donati's Mother * ''Madri pericolose'' (1960) - La contessa Alessandra Improta * ''Suleiman the Conqueror'' (1961) - Anna, la Governante * ''La tragica notte di Assisi'' (1961) - Ortolana * '' La monaca di Monza'' (1962) - Badessa Inbeserco * ''Le scorpion'' (1962) * '' Imperial Venus'' (1962) - Madame Adelaide * '' Fire Over Rome'' (1965) - Livia Augusta, Marcus's Mother * '' The Strange Night'' (1967) * '' The Head of the Family'' (1967) - Luisa * '' Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence'' (1969) - Serpieri * ''

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'' (1970) - Old Woman * ''

Roma Bene ''Roma Bene'' is a 1971 Italian comedy-drama film starring Virna Lisi, Nino Manfredi, Irene Papas and Senta Berger. Plot The classic scene of the upper middle-class in Rome: a duchess, the industrial husband and the many apparently respectable ...

'' (1971) - La madre di Elena * ''

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'' (1972) - madre di Federico * '' The Dominici Affair'' (1973) - Marie Dominici

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maltagliati, Evi Actors from Florence Italian stage actresses Italian film actresses Italian television actresses 1908 births 1986 deaths 20th-century Italian actresses