Maria Cumani Quasimodo
Date of birth: 1908-05-20
Place of birth: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Maria Clementina Cumani Quasimodo
Biography
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
Movie Credits
Galileo
1968-09-07
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the un
All the Colours of the Dark
1972-02-28
After a car accident that caused the loss of her baby, Jane experiences an increasing amount of nigh
Pulp
1972-11-01
A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write
Nosferatu in Venice
1988-09-10
Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampi
She
1984-05-15
In a backward post-apocalyptic world, She aids two brothers' quest to rescue their kidnapped sister.
The House of Witchcraft
1989-01-01
A man discharged from the hospital after suffering a nervous breakdown is taken to a remote Italian
The Laughing Woman
1969-08-24
Beautiful PR woman, Maria finds herself trapped in the home of the sinister and troubled Dr. Sayer,
Riot in a Women's Prison
1974-08-13
This film traces the prison life of a group of women who-rather than being prepared to reenter socie
Summer Frenzy
1964-02-04
The Subversives
1967-09-21
The film combines actual footage of Communist leader Palmiero Togliatti's funeral with the interming
Heart
1973-04-21
Four stories with teenagers as the protagonists: Young Blood - The Sardinian Drummer - The Little Lo
Veruschka - Poetry of a Woman
1971-04-02
Fashion photographer Franco Rubartelli's visually lush and moody head film about European supermodel
The Two Missionaries
1974-12-21
Two missionaries come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary into a parr
The Nun and the Devil
1973-01-25
It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calc
The Baby Sitter
1975-10-15
Michelle, a French sculptor living in Rome, is told of a job babysitting a rich man's son by her new
Five Women for the Killer
1974-12-04
Thriller about a reporter who comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospita
Behind Convent Walls
1978-01-25
A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally
Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate
1973-02-08
Michele, married to Rosaria, is a distinguished Neapolitan who "by profession" contacts only wealthy
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
1966-12-23
A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons,
Teresa
1987-11-27
Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.
L'inquilina del piano di sopra
1978-01-01
Exasperated by the great racket coming from Miss Aurora Trabocchetti's apartment, the neighbors give
Play-Boy
1967-08-07
I Do Not Forgive... I Kill!
1968-05-05
Don Ramon, a wealthy patron, receives his son back after he has sent him away to medical school, onl
Night Is Made for Stealing
1967-09-01
A new type of safe, touted as impregnable, alarms insurance companies. To deny the factory's assumpt
Medea
1969-12-28
Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her p