Bianca Doria

Bianca Doria
Born	(1915-09-22)22 September 1915 San Gregorio nelle Alpi, Belluno, Kingdom of Italy
Died	2 February 1985(1985-02-02) (aged 69) Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1939–1986 (film)
Spouse	Alberto Doria

Bianca Doria (22 September 1915 – 2 February 1985) was an Italian actress. She appeared in more than forty films during her career. She appeared in the 1963 peplum Hercules Against the Mongols.^[1] She was married to director Alberto Doria.^[2][when?]

Life and career

Born in San Gregorio nelle Alpi, Doria studied music, painting and sculpture since young age.^[2] She made her critical acclaimed film debut in Piccolo hotel, which premiered at the 1939 Venice International Film Festival and got reviews in which she was paired to Katharine Hepburn.^[2] Following the overthrow of Benito Mussolini's government in 1943 she and her husband went to work in the film industry of the pro-German Italian Social Republic in Venice, for which she was criticized after the Second World War ended.^[2] In the following years she was mainly cast in character roles, and occasionally worked on stage and on television.^[2]

Selected filmography

• Short Circuit (1943)
• Stormbound (1950)
• Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
• Vacation with a Gangster (1951)
• The Last Sentence (1951)
• Deceit (1952)
• Drama on the Tiber (1952)
• For You I Have Sinned (1953)
• The World Condemns Them (1953)
• Guai ai vinti (1954)
• The Awakening
  (1956)
• The Dragon's Blood (1957)
• The Trojan Horse (1961)
• Hercules Against the Mongols (1963)
• Brief Season (1969)
• The Hassled Hooker (1972)
• Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye (1973)

References

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