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Eleonora Duse (born the October 3rd 1858 with Vigevano, in the Province of Pavia in Lombardy, Italy and dead the April 21st 1924 with Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was a actress Italy. She is regarded as one of the largest actresses of her time. Rival of Sarah Bernhardt, it dedicated a major admiration however to him.

Biography

After having played in the troop of her parents as of the four years age, she is its first success in 1879 in the role of Therese Raquin , then plays the first parts. In 1886 it founds its own company and binds secretly to the poet Arrigo Boito who translates for it the Antoine and Cléopâtre of Shakespeare.

Its repertory is composed primarily of the parts of Alexandre Dumas wire, Victorien Sardou and, later, of Henrik Ibsen, of which she interprets Doll's house and Hedda Gabler .

Starting from 1890, it plays mainly out of Italy, of which the France, where it knows the dedication to Paris in 1897. Until 1904, it is the mistress and interprets of the poet Gabriele D' Annunzio.

It leaves the theater in 1908, then plays in 1916, for the only time at the cinema, in Cenere of Arturo Ambrosio, and returns to the theater of 1921 to 1923.

In 1953, Luigi Comencini devoted a biographical film to him, Valigia dei sogni .

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