Dria Paola

{{Short description|Italian actress (1909–1993)}}

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| image = Dria-paola 1929.jpg

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| 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

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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.