Maria Cumani Quasimodo
Actor
Born May 20, 1908 in Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Maria Cumani Quasimodo was an Italian actress and dancer. Born Maria Cumani in Milan, she studied dance under Jia Ruskaja. In 1936, she became the companion of the poet Salvatore Quasimodo, with whom she had a son, Alessandro. In 1937, she made her professional debut as a dancer, and shortly later she specialized in "poetic dance", a personal style in which dance was combined with poetic verses. She was married to Quasimodo from 1948 to 1960. In the meanwhile, Cumani Quasimodo started a double career as a choreographer and a stage and film character actress. Shortly before her death, she released an autobiography, L'arte del silenzio, which particularly focuses on her years alongside Salvatore Quasimodo. - Wiki
Filmography
The House of Witchcraft
Witch
Nosferatu in Venice
Princess
Teresa
contessa madre
She
Moona
Behind Convent Walls
L'inquilina del piano di sopra
The Babysitter
Princess Ruspini (uncredited)
The Two Missionaries
Mrs. Gonzaga
Five Women for the Killer
Marta
Riot in a Women's Prison
Ursula - the Mother Superior
Heart
La Nonna
Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate
la madre di Teresa
The Nun and the Devil
Lavinia
Pulp
Office Manageress
All the Colours of the Dark
Elderly Neighbor
Veruschka - Poetry of a Woman
Medea
(uncredited)
The Laughing Woman
Sayer's Secretary
Galileo
I Do Not Forgive... I Kill!
The Subversives
Ludovico's Mother
Night Is Made for Stealing
Olga
Play-Boy
Baroness
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Baronessa Cornianu
Summer Frenzy
Julia