Vera Carmi

Italian actress (1914–1969)

Vera Carmi
Carmi in 1941
Born	Virginia Doglioli (1914-11-23)23 November 1914 Turin, Kingdom of Italy
Died	6 September 1969(1969-09-06) (aged 54) Rome, Italy
Other names	Vera Del Monte
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1940–1956

Vera Carmi (23 November 1914 – 6 September 1969) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1940 and 1956.^[1]

Life and career

Carmi was born Virginia Doglioli in Turin.^[2]^[3] After being spotted by the director Ferdinando Maria Poggioli in a beauty contest, she made her film debut in 1940, in a supporting role in Poggioli's Goodbye Youth and in a short time she became one of the most requested actresses in the Telefoni Bianchi genre.^[2]^[3]

After the war she got critical acclaim for a number of dramatic performances, notably Mario Soldati's His Young Wife and Luciano Emmer's Sunday in August.^[2]^[3] She was also very active on stage.^[2] Gradually cast in less important roles, she eventually retired in the second half of the 1950s.^[3]

Carmi was the first wife of the football player Aldo Giuseppe Borel.^[3]

Partial filmography

Carmi with Fosco Giachetti in *Labbra serrate* (1942)

Goodbye Youth (1940) - La fidanzata di Giovanni
A Husband for the Month of April (1941) - La fioraia
Il cavaliere senza nome (1941) - Bianca
Villa da vendere (1941) - Lidia
L'amore canta (1941) - Marta Della Rocca
La fortuna viene dal cielo (1942) - Anna Illes
Once a Week (1942) - Laura Macrè - sua fanciulla
Labbra serrate (1942) - Anna Massani
Happy Days (1942) - Nietta
Redemption (1943) - Maria
Two Hearts Among the Beasts (1943) - Laura Berti
Lively Teresa (1943) - Luisa, la manicure
Il fidanzato di mia moglie (1943) - Renata Sarti
La signora in nero (1943) - Bianca Maria De Ritis
Anything for a Song (1943) - La fanciulla
The Za-Bum Circus (1944) - (segment "Galop finale al circo")
Finalmente sì (1944) - Silvia
The Ten Commandments (1945) - (segment "Onora il padre e la madre")
His Young Wife (1945) - Madama Rosa Travet
07... Tassì (1945) - L'attrice
O sole mio (1946) - Clara, la spia
The Models of Margutta (1946) - Paola
Tempesta d'anime (1946)
Trepidazione (1946)
Christmas at Camp 119 (1947) - La maestrina torinese
Farewell, My Beautiful Naples (1947) - Roberta Sullivan
Sono io l'assassino (1948)
Cab Number 13 (1948) - Jeanne Herblet (segments "Delitto" & "Castigo")
L'isola di Montecristo (1948) - Elena Fabbri
How I Lost the War (1948) - Gemma
Sunday in August (1950) - Adriana
The Two Sisters (1950) - Franca
Milano miliardaria (1951) - Paola
My Heart Sings (1951) - Madre di Enrico
Black Feathers (1952) - Catina Cossutti
The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1953) - Elena Viscardi
Die Tochter der Kompanie (1953)
Buon viaggio pover'uomo (1953) - Teresa
I Always Loved You (1953) - Sister Anna
The Daughter of the Regiment (1953) - moglie di Carlo
Matrimonial Agency (1953) - Luisa
It Takes Two to Sin in Love (1954) - Bianca Giorgi
Appassionatamente (1954) - Paola
Concert of Intrigue (1954) - Capo infermiere
Ho pianto per te! (1954)
Trieste cantico d'amore (1954) - Anna di Sant'Elmo
Amici per la pelle (1955) - La madre di Mario
La ladra (1955) - Signora Barenghi
Revelation (1955) - Elena Ulianova, sorella di Nadia
Mai ti scorderò (1956) - La padrona della trattoria
I miliardari (1956) - Segretaria di Ferri

References

^ "Vera Carmi". MyMovies. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano, Le Attrici. Gremese Editore, 2003. pp. 68–69. ISBN 888440214X.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Achille Valdata (8 September 1969). "È morta a Roma l'attrice Vera Carmi". La Stampa. No. 207. p. 6.