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Anna Maria Sandri
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Anna Maria Sandri (born 10 August 1936) is an Italian actress, whose film career spanned the 1940s and 1950s. She is notable for her portrayal of Mabrouka ben Yussef in The Black Tent (1956).[1]
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Early life and career
[edit]Anna Maria Materzanini was born on 10 August 1936 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She made her on-screen debut at six years of age in the 1942 film La morte civile, directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, playing the young Ada.[2]
Sandri returned to the screen in 1952 in Raffaello Matarazzo’s melodrama Chi è senza peccato... (1952).[3] Her most prominent roles followed between 1953 and 1956: La provinciale (1953), Terza liceo (1954), Le Rouge et le Noir (1954), Fortune carrée (1955)[4] and The Black Tent (1956), directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, portraying Mabrouka ben Yussef. She retired from acting at the end of the 1950s.[5]
Personal life
[edit]Sandri was married to billionaire and Founder of Gaylord Hotels, Edward Gaylord.[6] They had three sons. She lives in San Diego, California.[citation needed]
Filmography
[edit]- La morte civile (1942)
- Who is Without Sin (1952)
- Captain Phantom (1953)
- High School (1954)
- The Red and the Black (1954)
- Square Fortune (1955)
- The Black Tent (1956)[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-74063-6.
- ^ Heritage Vintage Movie Poster Signature Auction 2005 Catalog #624. Ivy Press. October 2005. ISBN 978-1-59967-004-1.
- ^ The Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures. Film Daily. 1959.
- ^ Crisp, Colin (10 August 2015). French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940–1958. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01702-4.
- ^ Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (7 March 2017). Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-6291-6.
- ^ Bristol Virginia-Tennessean, Volume 7, Number 102, 14 February 1956
- ^ "The Black Tent". Time Out. 10 September 2012.
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Anna Maria Sandri
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Early life
Birth and childhood
Anna Maria Sandri was born Anna Maria Materzanini on August 10, 1936, in Rome, Lazio, Italy. [2] [1] She grew up in Rome during the World War II era in Italy. [2] [1] No formal education or early non-acting career details are documented for her childhood years in the city. [2] She entered acting at age six. [1]Film debut as a child
Anna Maria Sandri made her screen debut at the age of six in the 1942 Italian film La morte civile, directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli.[3] She was credited as Maria Sandri and played the minor child role of La piccola Ada in this drama.[1] This marked her only pre-adolescent acting credit, as she did not appear in any further films until 1952, resulting in a decade-long hiatus from the screen.[1] The role in La morte civile remains her sole documented childhood performance before she resumed her career as a teenager in Italian cinema.[1]Acting career
Adult roles in Italian cinema
Anna Maria Sandri resumed her acting career in 1952 after a ten-year hiatus from her childhood appearance in La morte civile (1942).[1] Her return marked her transition to adult roles in Italian cinema, where she primarily took supporting parts in melodramas and adventure films during the early 1950s.[1] She made her adult debut in Raffaello Matarazzo's melodrama Chi è senza peccato.... (1952), portraying Lisetta Dermoz in a cast that included Amedeo Nazzari and Yvonne Sanson. The following year, she played Consuelo de Mayo y Sol in the historical adventure Captain Phantom (Capitan Fantasma, 1953), directed by Primo Zeglio and starring Frank Latimore.[4] She also appeared in an uncredited role in The Wayward Wife (1953).[1] In 1954, Sandri portrayed Teresa Di Lieto in Terza liceo (High School), credited as Anna-Maria Sandri.[1] Throughout this period, she appeared in supporting or secondary roles in Italian productions.[1]International films and notable performances
Anna Maria Sandri appeared in several international co-productions during the mid-1950s, expanding beyond her early Italian films into French, German, and British productions. [1] She played Elisa in the French-Italian historical drama Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1954), directed by Claude Autant-Lara and adapted from Stendhal's novel. [1] In 1955, she portrayed Yasmina in the French adventure film Fortune carrée, set in North African desert environments. [1] That same year, she took the role of Kiki in the West German drama Griff nach den Sternen (Reaching for the Stars), also known as Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe. [1] Sandri is best remembered for her performance in the British wartime adventure The Black Tent (1956), directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, where she portrayed Mabrouka ben Yussef, the daughter of a Bedouin sheikh, opposite Anthony Steel in a story involving romance and tribal loyalties in the Libyan desert. [5] These international credits demonstrated her involvement in diverse continental productions before her career concluded. [1]Retirement from acting
Anna Maria Sandri retired from acting in 1956 at the age of 20, after completing her role in the British film The Black Tent. [1] Her decision to step away from the profession coincided with her marriage to an American, marking the end of her screen career. She received no further film or television credits after 1956. [1] Over the course of her career, she appeared in 9 feature films, spanning her childhood debut in the 1940s and her adult roles in the 1950s across Italian and international productions. [1]Personal life
Marriage and family
Anna Maria Sandri retired from acting after her marriage to an American. [6] The couple have three children. [1] They remained married for many years. [1]Filmography
Complete acting credits
Anna Maria Sandri's complete acting credits consist exclusively of nine film roles between 1942 and 1956, with no documented television appearances or further credits after her final film.[1] The following table presents her verified filmography in chronological order:| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | La morte civile | La piccola Ada | as Maria Sandri |
| 1952 | Chi è senza peccato.... | Lisetta Dermoz | |
| 1953 | The Wayward Wife | — | uncredited |
| 1953 | Captain Phantom | Consuelo de Mayo y Sol | |
| 1954 | High School | Teresa Di Lieto | as Anna-Maria Sandri |
| 1954 | The Red and the Black | Elisa | as Anna-Maria Sandri |
| 1955 | Fortune carrée | Yasmina | |
| 1955 | Reaching for the Stars | Kiki | as Anna-Maria Sandri |
| 1956 | The Black Tent | Mabrouka ben Yussef |