Alida Valli

• Alida Valli, the Italian star whom the youth of Europe cheered before the last war — we scarcely catch sight of her before we begin to ask ourselves: where have we seen her face before? Nor do we ponder long: her face is the famous face of the Mona Lisa that stands in the Louvre museum, with its abiding dignity and majesty...

Valli is a peasant girl from Italy. She made 34 films there and met with dazzling success in her acting career. She was nicknamed the Deanna Durbin, for the strength of the resemblance between the two in charm and lightness of spirit... And when the Allied army entered Rome, they found Valli fully prepared to leave her birthplace for Hollywood — that glittering city which forever welcomes new faces of a distinctive stamp, such as this face of Valli's.

Valli repeated the English words in her parts while ignorant of what they meant! For she had never acquired any education! But how was the naive public to suspect such a thing, when she was so gifted, so masterly in the perfection of her roles? And by the time she was seen in the film "The Miracle of the Bells," Valli had begun to understand what she was saying... It is expected that this actress will shine brightly in the sky of Hollywood...