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    Laura Betti

    1927-05-01 (97 years old) in Casalecchio di Reno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

    Laura Betti (née Trombetti; 1 May 1927 – 31 July 2004) was an Italian actress known particularly for her work with directors Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci. She had a long friendship with Pasolini and made a documentary about him in 2001. Betti became famous for portraying bizarre, grotesque, eccentric, unstable or maniacal roles, like Regina in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, Anna the medium in Twitch of the Death Nerve, Giovanna la pazza in Woman Buried Alive, hysterical Rita Zigai in Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina, Therese in Private Vices, Public Virtues, Emilia the servant in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and Mildred the protagonist's wife in Mario Bava's Hatchet for the Honeymoon. Born Laura Trombetti in Casalecchio di Reno, near Bologna, she grew up to be interested in singing. She first worked professionally in the arts as a jazz singer and moved to Rome. Betti made her film debut in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960). In 1963, she became a close friend of the poet and movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini. Under his direction, she proved a wonderful talent and played in seven of his films, including La ricotta (1963), Teorema (Theorem, 1968), his 1972 version of The Canterbury Tales, in which she played the Wife of Bath; and his controversial Salo (1975) ("120 Days of Sodom"). In 1976, Betti portrayed Regina, a cruel and eroto-maniacal fascist in Bernardo Bertolucci's Novecento (1900). She also played Miss Blandish in his Last Tango in Paris (1972), though her single scene was deleted. In 1973 she dubbed the voice of the Devil for the Italian version of William Friedkin's The Exorcist. From the 1960s, Betti dedicated much of her time to literature and politics. She became the muse for a number of leading political and literary figures in Italy and came to personify the revolutionary and Marxist era of 1970s Italy. In 2001, she made a documentary about Pasolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini e la ragione di un sogno. She also donated her papers related to their long friendship along with more than 1000 volumes and many documents connected to Pasolini to the archives of the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, thus creating the Centro Studi Archivio Pier Paolo Pasolini. This Centro, strongly wanted by Betti, owns also thousands of photograph and all the works of Pasolini: poetry, literature, cinema and journalism. After her death in 2004 her brother Sergio Trombetti has donated all the personal documents of her career to the Centro that has absorbed them under the name Fondo Laura Betti. Source: Article "Laura Betti" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

    Movies

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    Marx Can Wait
    75 %|Jul 15, 2021
    Documentary
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    Maresco / Pasolini
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    Documentary
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    Laura's Passion
    0 %|Oct 29, 2011
    Documentary
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    The Beaches of Agnès
    77 %|Dec 17, 2008
    Documentary
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    La Rabbia di Pasolini
    72 %|Sep 5, 2008
    Documentary
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    Fratella e sorello
    0 %|Jun 1, 2005
    Comedy
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    Raul - Right to Kill
    0 %|Apr 15, 2005
    Drama, Crime
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    Renzo e Lucia
    0 %|Jan 13, 2004
    TV Movie, Drama, Romance, History
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    Household Accounts
    0 %|Mar 7, 2003
    Romance, Drama, Comedy
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    Happiness Costs Nothing
    36 %|Jan 31, 2003
    Drama
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    Gli astronomi
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    Drama
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    Il diario di Matilde Manzoni
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    Fat Girl
    61 %|Mar 7, 2001
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    Pasolini, el poeta en la playa
    57 %|Nov 30, 2000
    Documentary
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    The Protagonists
    50.940000000000005 %|Sep 10, 1999
    Crime, Drama, Thriller, History
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    Marianna Ucrìa
    65 %|Aug 13, 1997
    Drama
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    We Free Kings
    60 %|Dec 20, 1996
    Comedy
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    Un eroe borghese
    66 %|Mar 3, 1995
    Drama
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    With Closed Eyes
    59 %|Nov 22, 1994
    Drama, Romance
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    Mario, Maria and Mario
    58 %|Dec 5, 1993
    Comedy, Drama, Romance
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    La Ribelle
    51 %|Aug 20, 1993
    Drama
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    The Great Pumpkin
    67 %|Feb 10, 1993
    Comedy, Drama
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    Suffocating Heat
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    Drama
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    Gallant Ladies
    33 %|Nov 14, 1990
    Comedy, History, Drama, Romance
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    The Carpathian Mushroom
    52 %|Mar 7, 1990
    Fantasy
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    Le rose blu
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    I cammelli
    58 %|Sep 19, 1988
    Comedy
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    Jane B. for Agnès V.
    67 %|Mar 2, 1988
    Documentary
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    Widow's Walk
    53.08 %|Dec 2, 1987
    Crime
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    Jenatsch
    55 %|Jun 1, 1987
    Fantasy, Drama
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    Sweets from a Stranger
    53 %|Apr 24, 1987
    Thriller, Horror, Crime
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    Blame it on Paradise
    65 %|Dec 19, 1985
    Comedy, Romance
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    Mother Ebe
    46 %|Apr 8, 1985
    Drama
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    The Defective Detective
    75 %|Oct 31, 1984
    Comedy
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    Class Relations
    68 %|Feb 21, 1984
    Drama
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    The Art of Love
    48 %|Dec 7, 1983
    Drama, Fantasy
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    Venise en hiver
    10 %|Oct 22, 1982
    Romance, Drama
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    The Night of Varennes
    68 %|May 15, 1982
    History, Comedy, Drama
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    Far from Manhattan
    76 %|Jan 27, 1982
    Comedy, Drama
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    Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die
    54 %|Feb 28, 1981
    Documentary
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    My Name Is Anna Magnani
    80 %|Sep 30, 1980
    Documentary
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    The Little Archimedes
    70 %|May 30, 1979
    Drama, TV Movie
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    Einzelzimmer
    0 %|May 13, 1979
    Drama
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    Lovers and Liars
    44 %|Jan 5, 1979
    Comedy
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    Butterfly on the Shoulder
    60 %|May 3, 1978
    Thriller, Mystery
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    At Night All Cats Are Crazy
    55 %|Nov 23, 1977
    Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
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    The Seagull
    60 %|Jul 2, 1977
    Drama
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    The Gang
    62 %|Jan 19, 1977
    Crime
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    1900
    78 %|Aug 28, 1976
    Drama, History
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    Private Vices, Public Virtues
    53 %|May 6, 1976
    Drama, War
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    Abicinema
    60 %|Aug 9, 1975
    Documentary
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    The Woman with Red Boots
    57 %|Dec 11, 1974
    Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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    The Murri Affair
    66 %|Sep 28, 1974
    History, Drama
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    Allonsanfan
    67 %|Sep 6, 1974
    History, Drama
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    The Cousin
    54 %|Jul 26, 1974
    Comedy, Drama
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    The Return
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    Woman Buried Alive
    30 %|Jan 1, 1973
    Drama
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    Slap the Monster on Page One
    76 %|Oct 19, 1972
    Drama, Thriller
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    The Canterbury Tales
    62.41 %|Sep 2, 1972
    Comedy
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    Sonny and Jed
    60 %|Aug 11, 1972
    Western, Comedy
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    In the Name of the Father
    65 %|Oct 12, 1971
    History, Drama, Mystery, Comedy
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    A Bay of Blood
    65.96000000000001 %|Sep 8, 1971
    Horror, Thriller
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    A Man Called Sledge
    61 %|Nov 14, 1970
    Western
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    Hatchet for the Honeymoon
    65 %|Jun 2, 1970
    Horror, Thriller, Mystery
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    Paulina Is Leaving
    25 %|Sep 1, 1969
    Drama
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    RARA
    45 %|May 30, 1969
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    Orgy
    0 %|Nov 27, 1968
    Drama
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    Theorem
    71 %|Sep 7, 1968
    Mystery, Drama
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    Caprice Italian Style
    62 %|Apr 13, 1968
    Comedy
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    What Are the Clouds?
    86 %|Apr 12, 1968
    Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
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    Oedipus Rex
    67.67 %|Sep 7, 1967
    Drama
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    The Witches
    61 %|Feb 22, 1967
    Comedy, Drama
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    The Earth As Seen from the Moon
    81.67 %|Feb 22, 1967
    Comedy
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    Ecco
    50 %|Nov 15, 1963
    Documentary
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    Ro.Go.Pa.G.
    71.98 %|Feb 19, 1963
    Comedy, Drama
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    Escape by Night
    68 %|Oct 7, 1960
    Drama, War
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    Red Lips
    0 %|May 14, 1960
    Drama
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    La Dolce Vita
    81 %|Feb 5, 1960
    Comedy, Drama
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    Noi siamo le colonne
    0 %|Dec 29, 1956
    Comedy

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    The Charterhouse of Parma
    100 %|Sep 12, 1982
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    The Word
    50 %|Nov 12, 1978
    Drama
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    Discorama
    0 %|Feb 4, 1959
    Talk