Valentina Cortese was born in Milan, Lombardy, Italy, in 1925. She made her movie debut in 1940 and played many ingenue parts in Italian films of that period, before making a real sensation in _Miserabili, I (1947)_ , playing both female leads, Fantine and Cosette (the film was a competent screen adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic). The international success of the British-made melodrama The Glass Mountain (1949) brought her some Hollywood offers: she was very sensual as a truck-driver's ...[Read Story]
Appassionata
(1974)
Tendre Dracula
(1974)
Fratello sole, sorella luna
(1972)
"Buddenbroock, I"
(1971)
Madly
(1969)
Square of Violence
(1963)
