Cumani Quasimodo, Maria


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Cumani Quasimodo, Maria

Post by Emiliano » 19/03/2020, 23:15

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Maria Cumani Quasimodo
in Annuario del cinema e della TV 1974
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On the set of Giulietta degli spiriti (1965)
From Fellini's Faces (1982)
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In Annuario degli attori 1976
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In Annuario degli attori 1976
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In Annuario degli attori 1988-89
Maria Clementina Cumani was born in Milan on May 20, 1908, belonged to a high-middle class family.

After classical studies, she showed a great passion for dance. She was a pupil of Ruscaja, later she herself taught dance courses.

In 1936 at the home of Raffaello Giolli, his professor of art history, she met the famous poet Salvatore Quasimodo. A meeting that was crucial in her life, in fact she became the muse of the poet, before even being a collaborator. From the great love affair that followed her son Alessandro was born. In 1948 Quasimodo and Cumani married after the death of the poet's first wife.

As well as a dancer, Maria Cumani was a choreographer, prose actress, writer and from the sixties she enjoyed participating in numerous films, usually in character roles.

For her magnetic and hollow face with sunken eyes and sharp features, she was often preferred to interpret nostalgic aristocratic elderly, memories of an Italy of the beginning of the century.

She's gone at the age of 87 on November 22, 1995.

Filmography

1965
  1. Giulietta degli spiriti .... Woman at Bhishma's sitting (uncredited)

    1966
  2. Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario? .... Baroness Cornianu (credited as "Maria Quasimodo")

    1967
  3. I sovversivi .... Mother of Ludovico (credited)

    1968
  4. Galileo .... Old noblewoman at diner table (credited as "Maria Quasimodo")
  5. Io non perdono... uccido (Fedra West) .... Maria (credited as "Mary C. Cumani")
  6. La notte è fatta per... rubare .... Olga (credited)

    1969
  7. Atti degli apostoli (TV mini-series) - Ep. 5 .... The Corinthian hotelier (credited)
  8. Femina ridens .... Sayer's secretary (credited)
  9. Medea .... Old handmaid of the princess (uncredited)

    1971
  10. Veruschka - poesia di una donna .... Veruschka's mother (credited)

    1972
  11. Pulp .... Office manageress (credited as "Maria Quasimodo")
  12. Tutti i colori del buio .... Elderly neighbor (credited)

    1973
  13. Cuore - segment 1: "Sangue Romagnolo" as The grandmother (credited)
  14. Le monache di Sant'Arcangelo .... Mother superior (credited)

    1974
  15. 5 donne per l'assassino .... Marta (credited)
  16. Il tempo dell'inizio .... The head nurse / Maitresse (credited)
  17. Porgi l'altra guancia .... Marquise Gonzaga (credited)
  18. Prigione di donne .... Ursula, the mother superior (credited as "Maria Quasimodo Cumani")
  19. Tutto a posto e niente in ordine .... Restaurant owner (credited)

    1976
  20. L'eroe (TV movie) .... role? (credited in Radiocorriere TV)

    1978
  21. Interno di un convento .... Nun (credited as "Maria Cumari Quasimodo")
  22. L'inquilina del piano di sopra .... Wife of Colonel Saverio (credited as "Maria Quasimodo")

    1979
  23. Caligola .... High priestess of Isis (uncredited)
  24. Con gli occhi dell'occidente (TV mini-series) - ep. 3 .... Madame Denissovic (credited on Radiocorriere TV)

    1981
  25. La felicità (TV miniseries) (episode 3 of 3) .... Fioraia (credited on Radiocorriere TV)

    1984
  26. She .... Moona (credited as "Maria Quasimodo")

    1987
  27. Teresa .... The old baroness (uncredited)

    1988
  28. Nosferatu a Venezia .... The old princess (credited as "Maria Clementina Cumani Quasimodo")

    1989
  29. La casa dei sortilegi (TV Movie) .... The witch (credited as "Maria Clementina Cumani Quasimodo")

Filmography to check
  • Le prise du pouvoir par Louis XIV (a.k.a. La prese del potere da parte di Luigi XIV, 1966)
  • Play Boy (a.k.a. Non ti scordar di me, 1967) .... Mother of Sergio (another source says baroness)
  • Con gli occhi dell'occidente (TV mini-series, 1979) .... Madame Denissovic
  • Nostalghia (1983)
  • Dance music (1984)
  • Aquero (1994) .... Isadora

Maria, not found or not in movie!
  • Frenesia dell'estate as Giulia (1964)
  • Le fate - episode: "Fate Marta" (1966)
  • Amore e morte nel giardino degli dei (1972)
  • Bella ricca lieve difetto fisico cerca anima gemella (1973)
  • Babysitter - Un maledetto pasticcio (1975) .... Principessa Ruspini
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Re: Maria Cumani Quasimodo

Post by Emiliano » 19/03/2020, 23:20

One of her first big roles in Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario (1966) as the Baroness Cornianu.
In a sequence she also performs in a ballet, mindful of her famous past as a professional dancer.
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Post by Emiliano » 19/03/2020, 23:24

Uncredited in Pasolini's Medea (1969).
A small non-speaking role in which she enriches the scene with her presence.
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Post by Emiliano » 19/03/2020, 23:29

Another consistent role in Franco Rubartelli's portrait film, Veruschka - poesia di una donna (1971) as Veruschka's mother
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As Ursula, the severe mother superior, in the prison drama Prigione di donne (1974)
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Post by Emiliano » 19/03/2020, 23:41

The most terrifying role of her career, that of the killer witch that boiling heads in the TV movie La casa dei sortilegi (1989)
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Post by Emiliano » 19/03/2020, 23:47

In the role of the mother superior in Le monache di Sant'Arcangelo (1973)
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Post by Emiliano » 19/03/2020, 23:59

Fleeting appearances as nun in Borowczyk's nunsploitation Interno di un convento (1978)
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Post by Emiliano » 20/03/2020, 0:04

A well-knowed little role in Tutti i colori del buio (1972) as the Elderly neighbor
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Post by Emiliano » 20/03/2020, 0:06

In the TV Mini-Series Atti degli apostoli (1969) - Ep. 5 as The Corinthian hotelier
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