Maria Caserini
Maria Caserini began acting in stage productions at an early age. Her first film was in 1906 for Cines in Rome, in what is considered the first film adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Mario Caserini, her husband. She starred in Romeo and Juliet in 1908 and then in thirteen other films until 1909. One of these films was Macbeth, directed by her husband. From 1910 to 1927 she acted in 65 films, many of them always directed by her husband, such as Lucrezia Borgia, whose performance gave her greater notoriety. She resumed theatrical activity soon after abandoning her film career. She was buried in the Maggiore Cemetery in Milan, where her remains were later interred in a small cell.
Love Everlasting
as Granduchess of WallensteinGrand Duchy of Wallenstein. Elsa Holbein is the young beautiful daughter of General Julius, the...
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Life and Death
as uncreditedAn eight-minute fragment of this Italian Golden Age film survives.
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Christus
as uncreditedAntamoro's CHRISTUS, epic in scale and ambition, and featuring decidedly otherworldly special...
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Agrippina
as uncreditedIn "Agrippina" (1910), Guazzoni recreates the particular and troublesome relationship between...
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Parsifal
as Parsifal MotherA fantasy film about the knight Parsifal, who has to protect the Holy Grail from wizards.
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The Railway Owner
as Marchesa di BeaulieuFilippo Derblay, a young man of humble birth, became, thanks to his job, the owner of the...
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Amleto
as uncreditedA selection of Hamlet’s most famous scenes are reproduced in this Italian production from 1910.
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Nero and Agrippina
as AgrippinaShort costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.
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Gabriella di Beaulieu
as uncreditedThe Count of Beaulieu wants to give his daughter Gabriella to the Viscount of Armagnac as a wife.
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