ALIDA VALLI

Vintage, 10 1/2" x 7 5/8", double weight, satin finish

 photograph  by Angelo Novi; on verso - "Alberto Grimaldi presents "1900"

A Film by Bernardo Bertolucci; Photograph  by Angelo Novi" 

NOTE: large hat, pearls

Signed and inscribed:

 "To A. Walter** / With love  Alida Valli " 

"September 10th 1975 / Busseto"

Condition: minor signs of handling

 

** Walter Alford,  film Publicist

Alida Valli (baroness Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein u. Frauenberg)

was an Austrian-Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, 

including Alfred

Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947), Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949), Luchino Visconti's

Senso (1954), Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido (1957), Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 (1976). 

She was sometimes simply credited as Valli. 

 

Born: 1921, Pola, Istria, Italy (now Croatia); died: 2006, Rome, Italy.