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First Name

Nita

Last Name

Naldi

Height

Build

Slim

Eye Color

Green

Hair Color

Black

Place of Birth

New York City, New York

Star Sign

Scorpio

Date of Death

17 February 1961

Place of Death

New York City

Cause of Death

heart attack

Ethnicity

White

Religion

Roman Catholic

Claim to Fame

Blood and Sand

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Wikipedia Text

Nita Naldi (November 13, 1894 � February 17, 1961) was an American silent film actress. She was usually cast in the role of the "femme fatale"/"vamp", a persona first popularized by actress Theda Bara.

Full Name at Birth

Nonna Dooley

Couple Profile

Joan Myers The silent screen’s last great vamp, Nita Naldi, had a name and persona every bit as manufactured as that of her storied predecessor, Theda Bara. This supposedly exotic Italian aristocrat was born not in a Tuscan villa, but in a Manhattan tenement on November 13, 1894. Her Irish Catholic parents named her Mary Nonna Dooley. Nita attended Catholic boarding school in her youth and began her show business career as a model. The black-haired, green-eyed beauty was a natural for the stage, and it was not long before she traded modeling for the bright lights of Broadway. She served the usual apprenticeship in the chorus, but by 1918 she was appearing as a featured showgirl in such prestigious productions as The Century Midnight Whirl and Shubert’s Passing Show of 1918. In December 1919, director J.S. Richardson hired Nita for her first film, a screen adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore. She began getting film work in east coast productions, working in film by day and on stage by night. In early 1922, she was signed by Famous Players-Lasky and paired with Rudolph Valentino for the film version of Blood and Sand. Nita gave a take-no-prisoners performance as �ber-vamp Do�a Sol; it is her signature role, and the role for which she is best remembered today. The vamp archetype into which Nita was quickly straightjacketed was already pass� by the time she entered films, and she never got a chance to try something different. Over the next two years she was assigned feature roles in programmers, such as Anna Ascends, Lawful Larceny, and Don’t Call It Love, and one special, Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments, always cast as a vamp. When Rudolph Valentino left Paramount in late 1924, the studio, fresh out of supporting-vamp roles, dropped Nita’s option. She made one final film with Valentino, Cobra, and was then hired by Natacha Rambova to star in What Price Beauty, her last American release. In 1923 Nita was publicly linked with the very wealthy, very married Long Island aristocrat J. Searle Barclay, Jr., and the two eventually married in Paris by early 1930. Nita made the last three films of her career in Europe (most notably in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Mountain Eagle) but typecasting, and her age and fluctuating weight were against her. Her last film, Die Pratermizzi, was shot in Vienna in 1926, and she returned to New York in 1931. by Joan Myers

Couple Profile Source

nitanaldi.com

Date of Birth

1894-11-13

Occupation Text

actress

Official Websites

nitanaldi.com

Favorite Places

New York

Favorite Colors

Pink, Red, Blue, Brown, Black, Yellow