Linda Albertini

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Linda Albertini
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BornApril 13, 1894
Diedunknown
NationalityItalian
OccupationActress

Linda Albertini (April 13, 1894?) [1] was an Italian silent film actress. She starred in adventure films and was originally a circus acrobat. She is noted for playing a newly emerging female role during and after the First World War, which had been characterized as a strong, dauntless, and athletic woman. [2]

Albertini was the wife of Luciano Albertini, an Italian actor, who also founded his own film company.

Career

After World War I, Italian women had more freedom and strong women were featured in popular culture such as films. This new female form in film is said to have originated from the "popular adventure and romance stories in feuilleton and comic strips." [3] Albertini was the first Italian woman to portray that type of character in films, drawing on her experience as a circus acrobat and using the character name Sansonette for films. She starred in the 1917 adventure film La spirale della morte (The Spiral of Death), alongside her husband Luciano Albertini, as an acrobat who assists a lieutenant in the navy. Due to the film's success, they were able to star in multiple films and Luciano was able to start his own film company. Albertini was the main star of her husband's films and she enthusiastically used her talent as a trapeze artist in her roles. [4] She was known for acrobatics in the air with a trapeze, ropes, horses, and flying vehicles. [5] In 1920, she starred in The Monster of Frankenstein together with Albertini and Umberto Guarracino. [6]

Sansonette e i quattro arlecchini (Sansonette and the Four Harlequins), was her last Italian film, due to audiences becoming tired of the unrealistic and outlandish adventure films. Albertini and her husband moved to Germany and she starred in four films there until she was replaced by her husband with another woman. Her film career was longer than many similar actresses. [4]

Angela Dalle Vacche wrote in her book Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema that "Albertini was an Amazon of the air and a dancer of the prairie". [5] Frank Burke referred to Albertini as a noteworthy example of the adventurous diva archetype in the book A Companion to Italian Cinema. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Linda Albertini". BFI. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Fair, John D.; Chapman, David L. (2020). Muscles in the Movies: Perfecting the Art of Illusion. University of Missouri Press. ISBN   978-0-8262-7450-2.
  3. ↑ Rushing, Robert A. (2016). Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen. Indiana University Press. p. 9. ISBN   978-0-253-02250-9.
  4. 1 2 Fair, John D.; Chapman, David L. (16 November 2020). Muscles in the Movies: Perfecting the Art of Illusion. University of Missouri Press. p. 84. ISBN   9780826274502.
  5. 1 2 Vacche, Angela Dalle (15 March 2008). Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema. University of Texas Press. p. 115. ISBN   9780292717114.
  6. ↑ Conterio, Martyn (2015). Black Sunday. Leighton Buzzard: Auteur. p. 24. ISBN   978-1-906733-83-4.
  7. ↑ Burke, Frank (13 April 2017). A Companion to Italian Cinema. John Wiley & Sons. p. 56. ISBN   9781119043997.
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