From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Valentina Cortese (January 1, 1923 - July 10, 2019) was an Italian film actress. The Milan-born actress starred in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) directed by Robert Wise, and costarring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan. Cortese, aged 28, married Basehart in 1951, and had one son with him before they divorced in 1960. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1975 for her performance in François Truffaut's Day for Night. Cortese appeared in Jules Dassin's Thieves' Highway (1949), Joseph L. Mankiewicz's The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Amiche (1955), Gérard Brach's The Boat on the Grass, Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and in the Franco Zeffirelli projects such as the 1972 film Brother Sun, Sister Moon, his 1977 miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth and the 1993 film Sparrow. Description above from the Wikipedia article Valentina Cortese, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Barabbas
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Reporter’s Diary: 'Zoom on Fellini'
The Visit
Day for Night
The Boat on the Grass
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Ring of Darkness
Les Misérables
The Assassination of Trotsky
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
La Classe américaine
Juliet of the Spirits
Thieves' Highway
The House on Telegraph Hill
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
The Barefoot Contessa
Malaya
Le Amiche
When Time Ran Out...
