Name
Maria Cumani Quasimodo
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1908-05-20
Deathday
1995-11-22 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Biography
Maria Cumani Quasimodo was an Italian actress and dancer.
Born Maria Cumani in Milan, she studied dance under Jia Ruskaja. In 1936, she became the companion of the poet Salvatore Quasimodo, with whom she had a son, Alessandro. In 1937, she made her professional debut as a dancer, and shortly later she specialized in "poetic dance", a personal style in which dance was combined with poetic verses. She was married to Quasimodo from 1948 to 1960. In the meanwhile, Cumani Quasimodo started a double career as a choreographer and a stage and film character actress. Shortly before her death, she released an autobiography, L'arte del silenzio, which particularly focuses on her years alongside Salvatore Quasimodo. - Wiki
Known For
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On the surface the women at the convent are your average nuns. However, what they get up t...
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Two missionaries come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary i...
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Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the fa...
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After a car accident that caused the loss of her baby, Jane experiences an increasing amou...
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This film traces the prison life of a group of women who-rather than being prepared to ree...
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Beautiful PR woman, Maria finds herself trapped in the home of the sinister and troubled D...
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It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determine...
- 1968 Galileo
- 1972 All the Colours of the Dark as Elderly Neighbor
- 1972 Pulp as Office Manageress
- 1988 Nosferatu in Venice as Princess
- 1984 She as Moona
- 1989 The House of Witchcraft as Witch
- 1969 The Laughing Woman as Sayer's Secretary
- 1974 Riot in a Women's Prison as Ursula - the Mother Superior
- 1964 Summer Frenzy as Julia
- 1967 The Subversives as Ludovico's Mother
- 1973 Heart as La Nonna
- 1971 Veruschka - Poetry of a Woman
- 1974 The Two Missionaries as Mrs. Gonzaga
- 1973 The Nun and the Devil as Lavinia
- 1975 The Babysitter as Princess Ruspini (uncredited)
- 1974 Five Women for the Killer as Marta
- 1973 Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate as la madre di Teresa
- 1978 Behind Convent Walls
- 1966 Pardon, Are You for or Against? as Baronessa Cornianu
- 1987 Teresa as contessa madre
- 1978 L'inquilina del piano di sopra
- 1967 Play-Boy as Baroness
- 1968 I Do Not Forgive... I Kill!
- 1967 Night Is Made for Stealing as Olga
- 1969 Medea as (uncredited)
