Rubi Dalma

Rubi Dalma
Born	Giusta Manca di Villahermosa (1906-04-24)24 April 1906 Milan, Kingdom of Italy
Died	7 August 1994(1994-08-07) (aged 88) Castel Gandolfo, Rome, Italy
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1937–1953 (film)

Rubi Dalma (24 April 1906 – 7 August 1994) was an Italian actress.

Life and career

Born Giusta Manca di Villahermosa in Milan, she belonged to an aristocratic family from the Sardinian town of Sassari.[1][2] After a bit part in the Camillo Mastrocinque's film Regina della Scala, in which she basically played herself, Manca di Villahermosa decided to start a career as an actress and she adopted the stage name Rubi Dalma (sometimes spelled as Rubi D'Alma or Ruby Dalma).[1] Her breakout role was as the aristocrat donna Paola unsuccessfully courted by Vittorio De Sica in Mario Camerini's Il signor Max.[1][2] From then Dalma started a successful career, even if often limited to stereotyped roles of cold, sophisticated and sometimes snobbish noblewomen.[1] After the war she mainly appeared in character roles and, gradually, moved away from the cinema industry.[1]

Selected filmography

• Il signor Max (1937)
• Queen of the Scala (1937)
• Hurricane in the Tropics (1939)
• Heartbeat (1939)
• Red Roses (1940)
• Antonio Meucci (1940)
• A Pistol Shot (1942)
• Odessa in Flames (1942)
• C'è sempre un ma! (1942)
• Calafuria (1943)
• Daniele Cortis (1947)
• Heaven over the Marshes (1949)
• Story of a Love Affair (1950, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
• Eager to Live (1953)

References

1. Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano, Volume 2: Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 888440214X.
2. Pietro Picciau. Il moderno era Hollywood. Turistel, 2006. ISBN 8890230916.

External links

• Rubi Dalma at IMDb