Lina Gennari

Lina Gennari

Born	(1920-06-21)21 June 1920 Bologna, Italy
Died	11 October 1997(1997-10-11) (aged 86) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Actress

Lina Gennari (22 March 1911 – 11 October 1997) was an Italian actress and operetta singer.

Born Carolina Gennari in Bologna, she made her debut in the early 1920s in the Schwarz stage company, and she had her first role as prima donna in the operetta Al cavallino bianco.^[1] She achieved a large success in 1939 with the revue Se un'idea mi porta fortuna and then in 1940 with Nuto Navarrini's Vicino alle stelle.^[1] She appeared in several films between 1933 and 1955, notably playing the greedy landlady in Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D..^[1]^[2]

Selected filmography

Tourist Train (1933)
Naples in Green and Blue (1935)
It Was I! (1937)
Eugenia Grandet (1946)
Umberto D. (1952)
The Sign of Venus (1955)
Il padrone sono me (1955)

References

1 2 3 Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano, Volume 2: Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 888440214X.
↑ Dario Minutolo. Cinema italiano 1945-1985. Effata Editrice IT, 2005. ISBN 8874022948.

External links

Lina Gennari at the Internet Movie Database

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