Dorian Gray (actress)
Dorian Gray | |
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 Gray in 1958 | |
| Born | Maria Luisa Mangini 2 February 1931 Bolzano, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 15 February 2011 (aged 80) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1951–1965 |
Dorian Gray (born Maria Luisa Mangini; 2 February 1931 – 15 February 2011) was an Italian actress.
Biography
[edit]Gray made her stage debut in 1950. After five years she left the world of the theater and devoted herself to cinema.
The role she played most often in films was that of a seductive sexual character. She played the titular "bad girl" in Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina. She also appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni's Il grido. In 1957, she took part in Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini.
Death
[edit]On February 15, 2011, Gray committed suicide by gunshot at her home in Torcegno. She was 80 years old; some media, however, reported her age as 75,[1] since she herself claimed to have been born in 1936.[2]
Partial filmography
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- Accidenti alle tasse!! (1951) - Margot
- The Reluctant Magician (1951)
- Amo un assassino (1951) - Vandina
- Anema e core (1951) - Amica di Cocciaglia
- Sardinian Vendetta (1952) - Columba Porchiddu
- The Queen of Sheba (1952) - Ati
- Poppy (1952) - La guardarobiera
- Io piaccio (1955) - Doriana Paris
- Totò lascia o raddoppia? (1956) - Ellen
- Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina (1956) - Marisa Florian (the 'malafemmina')
- Guaglione (1956) - Nadia Lanti
- Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge (1956) - Valeria
- Le notti di Cabiria (1957) - Jessy
- Il grido (1957) - Virginia
- Domenica è sempre domenica (1958) - Luciana
- Mogli pericolose (1958) - Ornella
- Racconti d'estate (1958) - Dorina
- Vacanze d'inverno (1959) - Carol Field
- Brevi amori a Palma di Majorca (1959) - Hélène
- Le sorprese dell'amore (1959) - Desdemona aka Didì
- Il Mattatore (1960) - Elena
- La regina delle Amazzoni (1960) - Antiope
- Crimen (1960) - Eleonora Franzetti
- Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960)
- Mani in alto (1961) - Pupina Micacci
- Gli attendenti (1961) - Lauretta
- The Constant Wife (1962) - Marie-Louise Jörgensen
- Peccati d'estate (1962) - Irene
- The Legion's Last Patrol (1962) - Nora
- Avventura al motel (1963)
- Thrilling (1965) - Veronique (segment "Sadik")
- I criminali della metropoli (1967) - Denise (final film role)
References
[edit]- ^ "Cinema: addio a Dorian Gray, si toglie la vita la "malafemmina" di Totò|Trentino". Archived from the original on 21 February 2011. Retrieved 17 February 2011.
- ^ "Dictionary of italian cinema - Actresses", by Lancia and Poppi, Gremese Ed. 2003
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dorian Gray (actress).
- Dorian Gray at IMDb
