Mariella Lotti | |
Birth Name: | Maria Camilla Pianotti |
Birth Date: | 1919 11, df=yes[1] |
Birth Place: | Busto Arsizio, Varese, Kingdom of Italy |
Death Place: | Paris, France |
Occupation: | Actress |
Yearsactive: | 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.[2] 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.
. Stephen Gundle. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books. 2013. 262–63.