Dria Paola
{{Short description|Italian actress (1909–1993)}}
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{{Infobox person
| image = Dria-paola 1929.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Dria Paola in Cinematografo magazine 1929
| name = Dria Paola
| birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1909|11|21}}
| birth_place = Rovigo, Italy
| death_date = {{death date and age |df=yes|1993|11|12|1909|11|21}}
| death_place = Rome, Italy
| othername = Etra Pitteo
| occupation = Film actor
Stage actor
| yearsactive = 1926–1942 (film)
}}
Dria Paola (1909–1993) was an Italian stage and film actress. She played the female lead in Alessandro Blasetti's late silent Sun (1929).Reich & Garofalo p.235 In 1930 she starred in the first Italian sound film The Song of Love.Forgacs & Gundle p.159
Selected filmography
- Sun (1929)
- The Song of Love (1930)
- The Man with the Claw (1931)
- Lowered Sails (1931)
- Courtyard (1931)
- The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1931)
- Pergolesi (1932)
- Fanny (1933)
- Mr. Desire (1934)
- The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1934)
- Adam's Tree (1936)
- Battles in the Shadow (1938)
- My Song to the Wind (1939)
- The Knight of San Marco (1939)
- The Hotel of the Absent (1939)
- The Night of Tricks (1939)
- The Black Panther (1942)
References
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Bibliography
- Forgacs, David & Gundle, Stephen. Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War. Indiana University Press, 2007.
- Reich, Jacqueline & Garofalo, Piero. Re-Viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922 to 1943. Indiana University Press, 2002.
External links
- {{IMDb name|0237868}}
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Category:Italian silent film actresses
Category:Italian film actresses
Category:Italian stage actresses
Category:Actresses from Veneto
Category:20th-century Italian actresses
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