Lina Gennari (22 March 1911 – 11 October 1997) was an Italian actress and

operetta Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs, and dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, length of the work, and at face value, subject matter. Apart from its s ...

singer. Born Carolina Gennari in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, she made her debut in the early 1920s in the Schwarz stage company, and she had her first role as

prima donna In opera or commedia dell'arte, a prima donna (; Italian for "first lady"; plural: ''prime donne'') is the leading female singer in the company, the person to whom the prime roles would be given. ''Prime donne'' often had grand off-stage pers ...

in the

''Al cavallino bianco''. She achieved a large success in 1939 with the revue ''Se un'idea mi porta fortuna'' and then in 1940 with Nuto Navarrini's ''Vicino alle stelle''. She appeared in several films between 1933 and 1955, notably playing the greedy landlady in

Vittorio De Sica Vittorio De Sica ( , ; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: ''Sciuscià'' and ''Bicycle Thieves'' (honorary) ...

's ''

Umberto D. ''Umberto D.'' () is a 1952 Cinema of Italy, Italian Italian neorealism, neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Most of the actors were non-professional, including Carlo Battisti who plays the title role of Umberto Domenico Ferrari, a poor ...

''.

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* Italian film actresses Italian stage actresses Actors from Bologna 1911 births 1997 deaths 20th-century Italian actresses {{Italy-actor-stub