>Secondly, we are writing the press kit and have very little on the co-stars >Francisco Rabal and Alida Valli. Can anyone point us in the general direction >of any books, articles or interviews with these people? Alida Valli (Pola, Italy -- now Pula, Croatia, 1921-) Starts her film career in the mid-Thirties and becomes the star of the White Telephones (1939-1944), a genre which models itself upon the the American sophisticated comedies of Cukor, Hawks, and Brown. The White Telephones films rely on the careful construction of set designs, literally building an unproblematic environment located within an undefined "faraway," a conflict-free world where all dreams come true. These films advocate a complete disinterest in the Italian socio-political issues of the time and as such they are considered harmless by the Fascist regime. Thus their production can prosper undisturbed. Valli makes a number of English language films after WWII, most notably, *The Paradine Case* (1947), Alfred Hitchcock and *The Third Man* (1949), Carol Reed. In 1954, Valli finds new stardom with Luchino Visconti's *Senso,* the first Italian film shot in Technicolor. She continues to work with other major European directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni (*Il Grido/The Cry* 1957), Gillo Pontecorvo (*La Grande Strada Azzurra/The Wide Blue Road* 1957), Roger Vadim (*Les Bijoutiers du Claire de Lune/Heaven Fell that Night* 1957), Rene Clement (*Barrage Contre Le Pacifique/This Angry Age* 1958), George Franju (*Les Yeux Sans Visage/Eyes without a Face* 1959), Claude Chabrol (*Ophelia* 1962), Franco brusati (*Il Disordine/Disorder* 1962), Claude Autant-Lara (*Umorismo Nero/Black Humor* 1964), Pier Paolo Pasolini (*Edipo Re/Oedipus Rex* 1967), Bernardo Bertolucci (*La Strategia del Ragno/The Spider's Stratagem* 1970, *Novecento/1900* 1976, and *La Luna/Luna* 1979), Valerio Zurlini (*La Prima Notte di Quiete/The Professor* 1972), Mario Bava (*La Casa dell'Esorcismo/The Devil and the Dead* 1974), Dario Argento (*Suspiria* 1977 and *Inferno* 1980), Marco Tullio Giordana (*La Caduta degli Angeli Ribelli* 1981), Giuseppe Bertolucci (*Segreti Segreti/Secrets Secrets* 1985, *Probably Love* 1998, and *Il Dolce Rumore della Vita* 1999), Margarethe Von Trotta (*Il Lungo Silenzio/The Long Silence* 1993). Her latest work is an Austrian-Italian made for TV film, *Vino Santo* (2000). Gloria Monti ______________________________ gloria monti, ph.d. lecturer program in film studies 223 humanities instructional building university of california, irvine irvine, CA 92697-2435 phone: 949-824-6576 e-mail: [log in to unmask] 4/15/1980: Jean-Paul Sartre died in Paris at the age of 74. 4/15/1990: Greta Garbo died in New York at age 84. Happy 64th b-day, Claudia Cardinale! ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html