{{Short description|Italian actress (1906–1994)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Rubi Dalma | image = Rubi Dalma.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Giusta Manca di Villahermosa | birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|4|24|df=y}} | birth_place = Milan, Kingdom of Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|1994|8|7|1906|4|24|df=y}} | death_place = Castel Gandolfo, Rome, Italy | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1937–1953 (film) | spouse = }}
'''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.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano, Volume 2: Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=888440214X}}</ref><ref name=icciau>{{cite book|last=Pietro Picciau|title=Il moderno era Hollywood|publisher=Turistel, 2006|isbn=8890230916}}</ref> 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).<ref name=bio/> Her breakout role was as the aristocrat donna Paola unsuccessfully courted by Vittorio De Sica in Mario Camerini's ''Il signor Max''.<ref name=bio/><ref name="icciau"/> From then Dalma started a successful career, even if often limited to stereotyped roles of cold, sophisticated and sometimes snobbish noblewomen.<ref name=bio/> After the war she mainly appeared in character roles and, gradually, moved away from the cinema industry.<ref name=bio/>
==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 == {{Reflist}}
== External links == {{Commons}} * {{IMDb name|0195003}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dalma, Rubi}} Category:Italian film actresses Category:Actresses from Milan Category:1906 births Category:1994 deaths Category:20th-century Italian actresses