Mariella Lotti

{{Short description|Italian film actress (1919–2004)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Mariella Lotti | image = Mariella Lotti - La freccia nel fianco (1945).png | image_size = | caption = Lotti in 1945 | birth_name = Maria Camilla Pianotti | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1919|11|17}}<ref group=note>Some sources say 18 November 1919, but the parish register states she was born before midnight.</ref> | birth_place = Busto Arsizio, Varese, Kingdom of Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2004|12|18|1919|11|17}} | death_place = Paris, France | other_names = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1939–1954 }}

'''Mariella Lotti''' (born '''Maria Camilla Pianotti'''; 17 November 1919 – 18 December 2004) was an Italian film actress. Lotti made her film debut in 1939, and played leading ladies in a number of Fascist era and post-war films. She was one of many actors employed on the anthology film ''The Ten Commandments'', made following the overthrow of Benito Mussolini.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gundle|first=Stephen|authorlink=Stephen Gundle|title=Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy|publisher=Berghahn Books|year=2013|pages=262–63}}</ref> She made her final film ''Carmen'' in 1954. During the war she was involved in a passionate love story with King Michael of Romania.

Her sister Carola Lotti was also an actress.

==Filmography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''The Silent Partner'' (1939) * ''I, His Father'' (1939) * ''The Sons of the Marquis Lucera'' (1939) * ''The Daughter of the Green Pirate'' (1940) * ''Kean'' (1940) * ''Inspector Vargas'' (1940) * ''Il ponte dei sospiri'' (1940) * ''Il signore della taverna'' (1940) * ''Marco Visconti'' (1941) * ''Il vetturale del San Gottardo'' (1941) * ''Il cavaliere senza nome'' (1941) * ''I mariti (Tempesta d'anime)'' (1941) * ''Headlights in the Fog'' (1942) * ''The Gorgon'' (1942) * ''Disturbance'' (1942) * ''Torrents of Spring'' (1942) * ''Silenzio, si gira!'' (1943) * ''Men of the Mountain'' (1943) * ''Mater dolorosa'' (1943) * ''Squadriglia Bianca'' (1944) * ''Il fiore sotto gli occhi'' (1944) * ''No Turning Back'' (1945) * ''The Ten Commandments'' (1945) * ''La freccia nel fianco'' (1945) * ''Un giorno nella vita'' (1946) * ''Canto, ma sottovoce...'' (1946) * ''For the Love of Mariastella'' (1946) * ''The Opium Den'' (1947) * ''Life of Donizetti'' (1947) * ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1947) * ''Il principe ribelle'' (1947) * ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (1947) * ''Guarany'' (1948) * ''Be Seeing You, Father'' (1948) * ''The Pirates of Capri'' (1949) * ''The Devil in the Convent'' (1950) * ''The Captain of Venice'' (1951) * ''His Last Twelve Hours'' (1951) * ''Leathernose'' (1952) * ''What Price Innocence?'' (1952) * ''Solo per te Lucia'' (1952) * ''The Woman Who Invented Love'' (1952) * ''La storia del fornaretto di Venezia'' (1952) * ''The City Stands Trial'' (1952) * ''Carmen'' (1953) {{div col end}}

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0521545}}

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