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Paola Borboni

 
Actor: Paola Borboni
  • Born: Jan 01, 1900 in Parma, Italy
  • Died: Apr 09, 1995 in Bodio Lomnago, Varese, Italy
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '50s-'80s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Yes, Giorgio, The Biggest Bundle of Them All, La Cage Aux Folles II
  • First Major Screen Credit: Ho Perduto Mio Marito (1937)

Biography

Paola Borboni ranked among Italy's finest interpreters of internationally renowned playwright Luigi Pirandello's work. She spent most of her long, distinguished career on stage and only occasionally ventured into feature films. Her most memorable film roles can be found in Federico Fellini's I Vitelloni (1953) and in Roman Holiday in which she played a crabby old charwoman in a scene with Audrey Hepburn. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Paola Borboni
Born 1 January 1900(1900-01-01)
Golese di Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Died 9 April 1995 (aged 95)
Bodio Lomnago, Lombardy, Italy

Paola Borboni (1 January 1900 - 9 April 1995) was an Italian film actress who career spanned 9 decades of cinema. She also made a substantial contribution to theatre.

She entered film in 1916 in the silent picture Jacobo Ortis under the directorship of Giuseppe Sterni and made over 80 film appearances between then and 1990.

Appearing in several silent films before 1921 she was absent from cinema for some 14 years during which time she made numerous stage appearances, gaining notoriety in 1925 when she appeared in a show in 1925 as a mermaid exposing her breasts which she saw as natural in the role but caused considerable outrage at the time. She returned to the silver screen in 1936 in the Mario Mattoli film L' Uomo che sorride.

She went on to appear in films such as the Carlo Lizzani directed film Ai Margini della Metropoli in 1952 in which she appeared alongside the main cast of Massimo Girotti, Marina Berti and Giulietta Masina. Between 1936 and 1956 her career was at its peak and her roles gradually became less numerous in the decades that followed, making a final appearance in the Giorgio Mosa film Blue dolphin - l'avventura continua in 1990.

She died of a stroke aged 95 on 9 April 1995.

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