Actress Nita NALDI , Movie Film Star Art Deco Semi-Nude - eBay (item 260221484595 end time May-24-08 23:37:47 PDT)

Actress Nita NALDI , Movie Film Star Art Deco Semi-Nude

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Nita Naldi (April 1, 1897 – February 17, 1961) was one of the most successful silent film actresses of the Roaring Twenties.
Born Anita Donna Dooley in New York City into a working class Irish – Italian family, Nita began her professional career in the Ziegfeld Follies, changing her decidedly Irish sounding surname to the more exotic Naldi as an homage to a childhood friend with the surname Rinaldi. During her time at the Follies, she posed for famous pin-up girl artist Alberto Vargas who painted Naldi topless next to the bust of an imp.
Discovered in 1919 by actor John Barrymore, Nita soon took Hollywood by storm. With her sultry, exotic looks, she was immediately snapped up for a Paramount Pictures contract.
She appeared in her first film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1920 at Barrymore's request. Initially, Nita was often cast in the role of the vamp; a sort of paean to earlier Hollywood star and rival Theda Bara. It was an onscreen persona that Naldi would capitalize on during her years in the film industry.
Her most memorable role came when she was teamed with Italian screen idol Rudolph Valentino in the enormous 1922 hit Blood and Sand. The pairing of the overtly seductive duo was so appealing to the public that Naldi was Valentino's co-star in three more films: 1924's The Hooded Falcon and A Sainted Devil, and Cobra in 1925. Naldi was often even referred by to by the press as the "Female Valentino". Naldi would become close friends with Valentino and would star in What Price Beauty? (1925), a film that Valentino's wife Natacha Rambova had written. While the film would be given a delayed, limited release, it is noteworthy for being actress Myrna Loy's first screen appearance.
At her career's peak, Naldi appeared in the colossal 1923 epic film The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Nita Naldi appeared in one of legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock's first directorial efforts, 1926's The Mountain Eagle. She is often credited, mistakenly, as appearing in Hitchcock's The Pleasure Garden.
Naldi would spend the mid-1920s appearing opposite such popular actors as of the era as: Leatrice Joy, Conrad Nagel, Maurice Costello, Rod La Rocque, Dorothy Gish, Norma Shearer and Bebe Daniels. She would make her last appearance onscreen in the 1929 Austrian film Pratermizzi opposite Czech actress Anny Ondra.
In the late 1920's she travelled to Europe and made several films before returning to America and appearing on Broadway in the 1933 productions of The Firebird and Queer People. Like so many other silent film stars, however, the advent of the talkies saw Naldi's career wane. By the end of the 1920s, with America entering the Great Depression, her vamp persona seemed passé to American film-goers. Nita eventually retired and married Searle Barclay in 1929; the couple remained married until his death on January 30, 1945. Naldi never remarried nor had children.
She occasionally came out of retirement to appear in minor parts in films, television, and the stage — most notably her role in the 1952 play In Any Language, co-starring the legendary stage actress Uta Hagen.
Nita Naldi died of a heart attack in her New York City apartment at the age of 63 and was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Woodside, Queens County, New York, United States.
For her contribution to the film industry, Nita Naldi was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6316 Hollywood Blvd.
Filmography:
   1. Pratermizzi (1927) .... Tänzerin mit den Larven
   2. Femme nue, La (1926) .... Princesse de Chabrant
   3. The Mountain Eagle (1926) .... Beatrice
      ... aka Bergadler, Der (Germany)
      ... aka Fear o' God (USA)
   4. The Unfair Sex (1926) .... Blanchita D'Acosta
   5. The Miracle of Life (1926) .... Helen
   6. Cobra (1925) .... Elise Van Zile
   7. Clothes Make the Pirate (1925) .... Madame De La Tour
   8. The Pleasure Garden (1925) (unconfirmed) .... Levet's Native Lover
      ... aka Irrgarten der Leidenschaft (Germany)
   9. The Marriage Whirl (1925) .... Toinette
      ... aka Modern Madness (UK)
10. The Lady Who Lied (1925) .... Fifi
11. What Price Beauty? (1925) .... Rita Rinaldi
12. A Sainted Devil (1924) .... Carlotta
13. The Breaking Point (1924) .... Beverly Carlysle
14. The Hooded Falcon (1924)
15. Don't Call It Love (1923) .... Rita Coventry
16. The Ten Commandments (1923) .... Sally Lung, a Eurasian
17. Lawful Larceny (1923) .... Vivian Hepburn
18. You Can't Fool Your Wife (1923) .... Ardrita Saneck
19. The Glimpses of the Moon (1923) .... Ursula Gillow
20. Anna Ascends (1922) .... Countess Rostolff
21. The Snitching Hour (1922) .... The 'Countess'
22. Blood and Sand (1922) .... Doña Sol
23. Channing of the Northwest (1922) .... Cicily Varden
24. Reported Missing (1922) .... Nita
25. The Man from Beyond (1922) .... Marie Le Grande
26. Experience (1921) .... Temptation
27. A Divorce of Convenience (1921) .... Tula Moliana
28. The Last Door (1921) .... The Widow
29. Life (1920) .... Grace Andrews
30. The Common Sin (1920) .... Warren's Mistress
      ... aka For Your Daughter's Sake (USA: reissue title)
31. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920/I) .... Miss Gina - Italian Singer
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