Alda Grimaldi
{{Short description|Italian director and actress (1919–2023)}}
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{{Infobox person
| image = Alda Grimaldi 1969.jpg
| caption = Grimaldi in 1969
| birth_date = 6 October 1919
| birth_place = Sampierdarena, Italy
| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|12|28|1919|10|06|df=y}}
| occupation = Director and actress
}}
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.{{Cite web |date=28 December 2023 |title=Addio ad Alda Grimaldi, la prima regista della tv italiana. Aveva 104 ... |url=https://www.oggi.it/attualita/notizie/2023/12/28/addio-ad-alda-grimaldi-la-prima-regista-della-tv-italiana-aveva-104-anni/ |access-date=29 December 2023 |website=Oggi - Attualità |language=it}}
Biography
Grimaldi was born in Sampierdarena in 1919. She began her acting career in Turin at the {{Interlanguage link|Fert Studio|lt=Fert Studio|it|Fert (studio cinematografico)}} in the 1940s.{{Cite web |last= |date=29 December 2023 |title=Addio a "Dada" Grimaldi, prima regista tv. Diresse un giovane Pippo Baudo |url=https://iltorinese.it/2023/12/29/addio-a-dada-grimaldi-prima-regista-tv-diresse-un-giovane-pippo-baudo/ |access-date=29 December 2023 |website=Il Torinese |language=it-IT}}
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.{{Cite book |last=Florio |first=Michele |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ag-AQAAIAAJ&q=%22alda+Grimaldi%22+%22Centro+Sperimentale+di+Cinematografia%22 |title=Le grandi donne del Piemonte |date=2001 |publisher=D. Piazza |isbn=978-88-7889-143-2 |pages=226 |language=it}}
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 {{Interlanguage link|Il teatro dei ragazzi|lt=Il teatro dei ragazzi|it|Il teatro dei ragazzi}}.{{Cite book |last=Grasso |first=Aldo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GekaAQAAIAAJ&q=%22alda+Grimaldi%22+%221958%22+%22teatro+dei+ragazzi%22 |title=Enciclopedia della televisione Garzanti |date=1996 |publisher=Garzanti |isbn=978-88-11-50466-5 |pages=746 |language=it}}
In 1957, she was awarded the {{Interlanguage link|Saint-Vincent Prize for Journalism|lt=Saint-Vincent Prize for Journalism|it|Premio Saint-Vincent per il giornalismo}}.
She died on 28 December 2023, at the age of 104.{{Cite web |date=28 December 2023 |title=Morta a Torino Alda Grimaldi: fu la prima regista della televisione, da "Settenote" a Scaramacai |url=https://www.lastampa.it/torino/2023/12/28/news/morta_alda_grimaldi_prima_regista_televisione-13959282/ |access-date=28 December 2023 |website=La Stampa |language=it}}
Personal life
Grimaldi was married to the Turin doctor Giovanni Rubino, who died in 1997.{{Cite web |last=Gallina |first=Fabio |date=28 December 2023 |title=Morta a 104 anni Alda Grimaldi, attrice e regista, amica di Cesare Pavese |url=https://www.gazzettadalba.it/2023/12/morta-a-104-anni-alda-grimaldi-attrice-e-regista-amica-di-cesare-pavese/ |access-date=29 December 2023 |website=Gazzetta d'Alba - Dal 1882 il settimanale di Alba, Langhe e Roero |language=it-IT}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|1367051}}
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Category:20th-century Italian actresses
Category:Italian film directors