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Carmen Boni
Born

Maria Carmela Bonicatti


8 April 1901
Died18 November 1963(1963-11-18) (aged 62)
OccupationActress
Years active1919–1948
Spouses

(m. 1924; div. 1934)

(m. 1936)

Carmen Boni (born Maria Carmela Bonicatti; 8 April 1901 – 18 November 1963) was an Italian actress.[1]

Biography

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Maria Carmela Bonicatti was born on 8 April 1901 in Rome to a colonel and Teresa Rovere di Bergeggi. Her birth date has also been given as 17 April 1904.[2][3][4][5] Her brother was the cinematographer Mario Bonicatti.

In 1919, Bonicatti made her film debut in Ave Maria, gratia plena!, which was directed by Diana Karenne. She took on the stage name Carmen Boni, which was suggested by Karenne, and in the following years mostly played young, naïve girls in Italian comedies and romances and quickly advanced to leading roles, often directed by Guglielmo Zorzi.[6][7]

In 1924, she acted in The Beautiful Wife, directed by Augusto Genina. They married and she became his muse, appearing in most of his films throughout the course of their marriage, including The Hearth Turned Off (1925), The Last Lord (1926), and Goodbye Youth (1927). Boni attracted international attention for her role in The Last Lord, which led to her receiving an offer from Germany to take on the leading role in Agitated Women (1927) alongside Asta Nielsen and Gustav Fröhlich.[8]

She remained in Germany[9] and starred in films such as The Prisoners of Shanghai (1927), The Story of a Little Parisian (1928), Love's Masquerade (1928), Princess Olala (1928), The Adjutant of the Czar (1929), Latin Quarter (1929), and Katharina Knie (1929).[10][11]

With the advent of talkies, Boni's career in Germany came to an end due to the language barrier. She returned to Italy, where she made her talkie debut in The Call Of the Heart (1930). In France, she starred in The Woman Dressed As a Man (1932).

Boni and Genina divorced in 1934, which also effectively ended their professional collaboration together. Boni attempted suicide shortly after their divorce, and remarried to the French actor and songwriter Jean Rigaux in 1936.[12] She did not appear in any films until The Count of Monte Cristo – Part 2: Retribution (1943). Her final screen appearance was in Man to Men (1948).[13]

Death

[edit]

Boni died on 18 November 1963 in a traffic accident; another car crashed into hers on the Place des Ternes when she was on her way to eat lunch with her husband Rigaux.[14][15]

Selected filmography

[edit]

References

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  1. ^ Profile, ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed 28 June 2015.
  • ^ Congress, The Library of. "Boni, Carmen, 1904-1963 - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  • ^ "Carmen Boni".
  • ^ Stewart, John (1994). Italian Film: A Who's who. McFarland. ISBN 9780899507613.
  • ^ Boussinot, Roger (1980). L'Encyclopédie du cinéma. Éditeur non identifié. ISBN 9782040106034.
  • ^ "Bianco e nero". 1978.
  • ^ Burke, Frank (17 April 2017). A Companion to Italian Cinema. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781444332285.
  • ^ Bardèche, Maurice; Brasillach, Robert (1945). "History of the Film".
  • ^ Mancini, Elaine (1985). Struggles of the Italian Film Industry During Fascism, 1930-1935. UMI Research Press. ISBN 9780835716550.
  • ^ 100 années Lumière: Rétrospective de l'œuvre documentaire des grands cinéastes français de Louis Lumière jusqu'à nos jours. Intermédia. 1991. ISBN 9782906737327.
  • ^ "Carmen Boni".
  • ^ "Carmen Boni - CinéArtistes.com". www.cineartistes.com. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  • ^ "The New York Times Film Reviews". 1949.
  • ^ Parish, James Robert (1977). Film Actors Guide: Western Europe. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810810440.
  • ^ Doyle, Billy H. (1999). The Ultimate Directory of Silent and Sound Era Performers: A Necrology of Actors and Actresses. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810835474.
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