Valentina Cortese, sometimes credited as Valentina Cortesa, was an Italian film and theatre actress. In her 50 years spanning career, she appeared in films of Italian and international directors like Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Franco Zeffirelli, François Truffaut, Terry Gilliam, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and others.
Eduardo De Filippo, also known simply as Eduardo, was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and playwright, best known for his Neapolitan works Filumena Marturano and Napoli Milionaria. Considered one of the most important Italian artists of the 20th century, De Filippo was the author of many theatrical dramas staged and directed by himself first and later awarded and played outside Italy. For his artistic merits and contributions to Italian culture, he was named senatore a vita by the President of the Italian Republic Sandro Pertini.
Ave Maria Ninchi was an Italian supporting actress who played character roles on stage, television, and in over 98 feature films that included Tomorrow Is Too Late (1949) and Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart (1971) and Lacombe, Lucien (1974).
Rossana Podestà was an Italian actress who worked mainly in Italy from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Valeria Moriconi was an Italian actress who appeared both in movies and on stage.
The Nastro d'Argento is a film award presented annually since 1946 by the Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics.
Anna Maria Ferrero was an Italian actress.
Clelia Matania was an Italian film and voice actress.
Marisa Merlini was an Italian character actress active in Italy's post-World War II cinema. Merlini appeared in over fifty films during her career, which spanned from World War II to 2005. In Luigi Comencini's 1953 film Pane, amore e fantasia, she portrayed Annarella, a village midwife, who marries the local police marshal, played by Vittorio De Sica.
Antonella Lualdi was an Italian actress and singer. She appeared in many Italian and French films in the 1950s and 1960s, notably in Claude Autant-Lara's film The Red and the Black in 1954.
Anna Campori was an Italian actress. From 1951 onwards, she appeared in 70 films.
Turi Pandolfini was an Italian stage and film character actor. He appeared in 46 films between 1917 and 1961.
Yvonne Sanson was a Greek-Italian film actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1946 and 1972, mainly working in Italy. Born in Thessaloniki, Sanson was a naturalised Italian citizen and was maternally of Greek origin and paternally of French-Russian origin.
Lea Padovani was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 60 films between 1945 and 1990. She starred in the film Black Dossier which was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.
Fulvia Franco was an Italian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder.
Anita Durante was an Italian actress.
Loris Gizzi was an Italian actor.
Emma Baron was an Italian stage and film actress.
Rosa Pisano was an Italian stage, film and television actress.
