Gianna Maria Canale
{{Short description|Italian actress (1927–2009)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Gianna Maria Canale
| image = Gianna Maria Canale 59.JPG
| caption = Canale in 1959
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1927|09|12}}
| birth_place = Reggio Calabria, Kingdom of Italy
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|01|04|1927|09|12|df=yes}}
| death_place = Sutri, Viterbo, Italy
| resting_place =
| occupation = Actress
| years active = 1946–1964
| spouse = Riccardo Freda
| website =
| signature =
}}
Gianna Maria Canale (12 September 1927 – 13 February 2009) was an Italian film actress.
Biography
Canale was born in 1927 in Reggio Calabria. In 1947, she competed in the Miss Italia beauty contest, where she was runner-up to Lucia Bosè. Following this, she appeared in many Italian magazines, with her looks being compared to those of Ava Gardner.
File:Gianna Maria Canale.png (1956)]]
Canale was offered a role in a movie by Riccardo Freda, with whom she eventually fell in love. They moved to Brazil where they were married and worked together in two movies. As Canale did not enjoy living in South America, the couple returned to Italy where, often directed by her husband, she starred in many Sword-and-sandal movies, as well as horror and adventure ones. I vampiri was her last film with Freda.
Canale retired from acting in 1964 at the age of 37. She died in Sutri, Viterbo in January 2009.
Filmography
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| Year
! Title ! Role ! Director ! class="unsortable" | Cast ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1946
| |Riccardo Freda |Rossano Brazzi, Irasema Dilián, Gino Cervi | |
| 1946
|Rigoletto |Maddalena |Carmine Gallone |Tito Gobbi, Marcella Govoni, Lina Pagliughi | |
| 1948
|Countess Lehmann |Vittorio Gassman, María Mercader, Yvonne Sanson | |
| 1948
|Jacqueline |António Vilar, Mariella Lotti | |
| 1949
|Viviane de Valance |Totò | |
| 1949
| | |
| 1949
|Emilia | |
| 1949
|{{Interlanguage link multi|Il bacio di una morta|it|3=Il bacio di una morta (film 1949)|lt=Il bacio di una morta}} |Nora O'Kira | |
| 1950
|Linda | |
| 1951
|Luisetta |Amedeo Nazzari, Vittorio Gassman | |
| 1951
|Rosina | |
| 1951
|Tatiana Cernicevskij | |
| 1951
|Marisa Meris | | |
| 1952
|Maria Raneri | |
| 1952
|Contessa Giovanna Dolfin | | |
| 1953
|Sabina Crassus |Massimo Girotti, Ludmilla Tchérina | |
| 1953
|Lorraine Belogne | |
| 1953
|Nathalie Provence |Jean-Claude Pascal, Erich von Stroheim | |
| 1954
| |
| 1954
| |
| 1954
|Elena | |
| 1954
|Singer: Suzuki |Carmine Gallone |Kaoru Yachigusa, Nicola Filacuridi, Michiko Tanaka | |
| 1955
|Daniel Gélin, Raymond Pellegrin, Orson Welles, Erich von Stroheim, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux, Yves Montand, Jean Gabin, Jean Marais | |
| 1955
|Susy Esposito | |
| 1956
|Mara | |
| 1956
|Countess Athelstane Orloff |Jean-Claude Pascal, Omar Sharif, Jean Servais, Juliette Gréco | |
| 1956
|Julia Martia | |
| 1957
|Giselle du Grand | |Film completed by Mario Bava |
| 1958
|Infanta Caterina | |
| 1958
|Antea | |
| 1958
|Conchita |Laurence Harvey, Dawn Addams, Michael Craig | |
| 1958
|Armida |Francisco Rabal, Sylva Koscina, Rik Battaglia | |
| 1958
|Gina Bertini |Stewart Granger, Donna Reed, George Sanders | |
| 1958
|The Warrior and the Slave Girl |Amira | |
| 1959
|Baroness Elaine of Faldone | |
| 1960
|Libertà | |
| 1960
|The Night They Killed Rasputin |Edmund Purdom, John Drew Barrymore | |
| 1960
|Sandra | | |
| 1960
|Colossus and the Amazon Queen |Amazon Queen |Rod Taylor, Ed Fury, Dorian Gray | |
| 1960
|Dinazar / Zobeida | |
| 1961
|Lucetta Di Marca |Monty Berman, Robert S. Baker | |
| 1961
|Astra |Sergio Corbucci, Giacomo Gentilomo | |
| 1961
|Artemide |Jacques Sernas, John Drew Barrymore, Geneviève Grad, Gordon Mitchell | |
| 1962
|Claudia | |
| 1962
|{{Interlanguage link multi|Le Chevalier de Pardaillan|fr}} |Princess Fausta Borgia | |
| 1962
|Consuelo | |
| 1963
|{{Interlanguage link multi|The Adventures of Scaramouche|fr|3=Scaramouche (film, 1963)|lt=The Adventures of Scaramouche}} |Suzanne |Gérard Barray, Michèle Girardon | |
| 1963
|Silvia Alberti | |
| 1963
|Rossana | |
| 1964
|Luisa Mancini | | |
| 1964
|Imperia |Carlo Campogalliani, Piero Pierotti |(final film role) |
External links
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- {{IMDb name|id=0133521|name=Gianna Maria Canale}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110522070525/http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity/gianna-maria-canale/ Gianna Maria Canale] at MSN Movies
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Category:Actresses from Calabria
Category:Actors from Reggio Calabria