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Luisa Ferida, real surname Manfrini, (18 March 1914 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian stage and film actress. She was one of divas in
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during decade 1935-1945 and she was the highest paid movie star of that period. The actress was famous as a films
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and she is remembered for her tragic death; in fact during the period of anti-fascist
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, immediately after Italian Civil War, she was assassinated, as was later proved by the Milan Court of Appeal, by shooting following a summary trial carried out by some criminal partisans: she was shot with her lover, the actor and member of
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Osvaldo Valenti Osvaldo Valenti (17 February 1906 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1928 and 1945. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey to a Sicilian carpet trader and a wealthy Lebanese woman of Greek descen ...
, as accused of alleged and hypothetical participation in war crimes and torture in connection with so-called Koch gang, facts of which she was then deemed innocent after the war. Therefore a war pension was allocated to the mother, who had no other source of income.


Career

Born Luisa Manfrini Farnet in
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, near
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, Ferida started as a stage actress. In 1935 she made her first appearance in film with a supporting role in ''La Freccia d'oro''. Because of her photogenic looks and talent as an actress, she soon graduated to leading roles by the end of the 1930s. In 1939, while working on ''Un Avventura di Salvator Rosa'' (1940), directed by Alessandro Blasetti, she met the actor
Osvaldo Valenti Osvaldo Valenti (17 February 1906 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1928 and 1945. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey to a Sicilian carpet trader and a wealthy Lebanese woman of Greek descen ...
. The pair became romantically involved and had a son.


Death by criminal partisans

Valenti had been linked with many Fascist officials and personalities for years and he eventually joined the Italian Social Republic, and for this reasons he was on the partisans' hit list. He was finally arrested in Milan, alongside a pregnant Ferida in April 1945. They were both sentenced to be executed and shot immediately in the street, without any proper trial. The partisan chief who organized the execution, Giuseppe "Vero" Marozin, during trial by Milano's tribunal, defended himself declaring that the partisan leader who by telephone ordered the two actors to be executed was
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, who during the year 1978 became president of the Italian republic: this version is confirmed by
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. Few sources affirm the crime is attributed solely to Marozin.


Cultural references

The film '' Sanguepazzo'' starring
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and
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discusses Luisa Ferida's relationship with Osvaldo Valenti. The film premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.


Partial filmography

* '' Golden Arrow'' (1935) - Evelyn - figlia di Sleiden * ''
The Joker King ''The Joker King'' (Italian: ''Il re Burlone'') is a 1935 Italian historical comedy film directed by Enrico Guazzoni and starring Luisa Ferida, Armando Falconi and Luigi Cimara.Moliterno p.158 It was shot at the Cines Studios in Rome. Plot I ...
'' (1936) - Trottola * ''
The Amnesiac ''The Amnesiac'' (Italian: ''Lo smemorato'') is a 1936 Italian comedy film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Angelo Musco, Checco Durante and Franco Coop.Goble p.66 The film's plot is based on a stage play, inspired by the Bruneri-Canella ...
'' (1936) - Giulietta * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1936) - Lauretta Fracassa * '' The Ambassador'' (1936) * ''Il grande silenzio'' (1936) - La figlia dell'ucciso * ''
White Amazons ''White Amazons'' (Italian: ''Amazzoni bianche'') is a 1936 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Paola Barbara, Luisa Ferida and Doris Duranti. Screwball A screwball is a baseball and fastpitch soft ...
'' (1936) * ''
The Castiglioni Brothers ''The Castiglioni Brothers'' (Italian: ''I fratelli Castiglioni'') is a 1937 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Corrado D'Errico and starring Camillo Pilotto, Ugo Ceseri and Amedeo Nazzari. It was based on a play of the same tit ...
'' (1937) - Nina Castiglioni * ''
Tomb of the Angels ''Tomb of the Angels'' (Italian: ''La fossa degli angeli'') is a 1937 Italian drama film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Luisa Ferida, and Antonio Gradoli. Roberto Rossellini co-wrote the screenplay and served ...
'' (1937) - Luisa * '' The Three Wishes'' (1937) - Maria Lauri * ''I due barbieri'' (1937) * ''
The Count of Brechard ''The Count of Brechard'' (Italian: ''Il conte di Brechard'') is a 1938 Italian historical drama film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Luisa Ferida, and Ugo Ceseri.Klossner p.83 It was adapted from the Giovacchino Forzano ...
'' (1938) - Maria * '' All of Life in One Night'' (1938) - Maria * ''L'argine'' (1938) - Sina * ''Il suo destino'' (1938) - Maria, la ballerina * '' Star of the Sea'' (1938) - Luisa * ''
Mad Animals ''Mad Animals'' (Italian:''Animali pazzi'') is a 1939 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Totò, Luisa Ferida and Calisto Bertramo.Moliterno p.316 It was made at the Titanus Studios in Rome. Pl ...
'' (1939) - Maria Luisa * ''
An Adventure of Salvator Rosa ''An Adventure of Salvator Rosa'' (Italian: ''Un'avventura di Salvator Rosa'') is a 1939 Italian historical adventure film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Gino Cervi, Luisa Ferida and Rina Morelli. It is set in seventeenth century ...
'' (1939) - Lucrezia * ''Il segreto di Villa Paradiso'' (1940) - Mary, la cantante * ''La fanciulla di Portici'' (1940) - Lucia * ''
The Iron Crown ''The Iron Crown'' () is a 1941 Italian adventure written and directed by Alessandro Blasetti, starring Massimo Girotti and Gino Cervi. The narrative revolves a sacred iron crown and a king who is prophesied to lose his kingdom to his nephew. I ...
'' (1941) - Kavaora, madre di Tundra & Tundra * ''
Blood Wedding ''Blood Wedding'' ( es, link=no, Bodas de sangre) is a tragedy by Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. It was written in 1932 and first performed at Teatro Beatriz in Madrid in March 1933, then later that year in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...
'' (1941) - Nazaria * ''Amore imperiale'' (1941) - La principessa Elisabetta di Russia * '' The Jester's Supper'' (1942) - Fiammetta * ''
Headlights in the Fog ''Headlights in the Fog'' (Italian: ''Fari nella nebbia'') is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Gianni Franciolini and starring Fosco Giachetti, Luisa Ferida and Antonio Centa. The film's art direction was by Camillo Del Signore. It was made a ...
'' (1942) - Piera * ''L'ultimo addio'' (1942) - Irene Serra * ''
Sleeping Beauty ''Sleeping Beauty'' (french: La belle au bois dormant, or ''The Beauty in the Sleeping Forest''; german: Dornröschen, or ''Little Briar Rose''), also titled in English as ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods'', is a fairy tale about a princess cu ...
'' (1942) - Carmela * ''Orizzonte di sangue'' (1942) - Daria * '' Fedora'' (1942) - Fedora * ''
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'' (1942) - Agrippina Solmo * '' Knights of the Desert'' (1942) - Ara * '' The Son of the Red Corsair'' (1943) - Carmen * ''
Sad Loves ''Sad Loves'' (Italian: ''Tristi amori'') is a 1943 Italian historical drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Jules Berry, Gino Cervi and Andrea Checchi.Nowell-Smith, Hay & Volpi p.57 It was based on the play of the same title by Giu ...
'' (1943) * ''Tristi amori'' (1943) - Emma Scarli * ''Grazia'' (1943) * ''
The Innkeeper ''The Innkeeper'' (Italian: ''La locandiera'' also known as ''Mirandolina'') is a 1944 Italian historical comedy film directed by Luigi Chiarini and starring Luisa Ferida, Armando Falconi and Osvaldo Valenti.Reich & Garafalo p.28 The film is an a ...
'' (1944) - Mirandolina * ''Fatto di cronaca'' (1945) - (final film role)


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* * 1914 births 1945 deaths People from Castel San Pietro Terme People executed by Italy by firing squad Executed Italian women Italian film actresses Italian stage actresses 20th-century Italian actresses Deaths by firearm in Italy {{Italy-actor-stub