Maria Jacobini

{{Short description|Italian actress (1892–1944)}}

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| name = Maria Jacobini

| birth_date = 17 February 1892

| birth_place = Rome, Lazio, Kingdom of Italy

| death_date = 20 November 1944 (aged 52)

| death_place = Rome, Lazio, Italy

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| occupation = film actress

| yearsactive = 19101944

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Maria Jacobini (17 February 1892 – 20 November 1944) was an Italian film actress and writer. She was born in Rome. She was married to the film director Gennaro Righelli and appeared in many of his silent films for the Vesuvio Film Company.Moliterno p.266 She and her husband worked in the German film industry in the mid-1920s.{{Cite journal |last=Potamkin |first=Harry Alan |date=October 1930 |title=Cinema Italia: The Submerging of Italian Art in Italian Nationalism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=apYlCMbZmWEC&pg=RA2-PA48&dq=%22The+Cinema%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjHyvrKjMeMAxXFM0QIHSR_NC0Q6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&q&f=false |journal=Cinema |volume=1 |issue=7 |pages=20-21, 59-60}} She was the older sister of actress Diomira Jacobini. She died in Rome in 1944, at the age of 52.

Selected filmography

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Bibliography

  • Moliterno, Gino. The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
  • Vacche, Angela Dalle. Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema. University of Texas Press, 2008.