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Alda Grimaldi | |
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 Grimaldi in 1969 | |
| Born | 6 October 1919 Sampierdarena, Italy |
| Died | 28 December 2023 (aged 104) |
| Occupations | Director and actress |
Alda Grimaldi (6 October 1919 – 28 December 2023), known as Dada, was an Italian director and actress who was active from the 1940s to the 1960s.[1]
Biography
[edit]Grimaldi was born in Sampierdarena in 1919. She began her acting career in Turin at the Fert Studio in the 1940s.[2]
In 1955, Grimaldi sterted working at RAI. The same year, she won a scholarship to attend a directing course at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.[3]
Grimaldi was among the first women to work as a television director in the state television corporation in the early days of regular broadcasting. She directed, among other things, an episode of the 1958 didactic-theatrical program Il teatro dei ragazzi.[4]
In 1957, she was awarded the Saint-Vincent Prize for Journalism.[5]
She died on 28 December 2023, at the age of 104.[5]
Personal life
[edit]Grimaldi was married to the Turin doctor Giovanni Rubino, who died in 1997.[6]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Addio ad Alda Grimaldi, la prima regista della tv italiana. Aveva 104 ..." Oggi - Attualità (in Italian). 28 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ↑ "Addio a "Dada" Grimaldi, prima regista tv. Diresse un giovane Pippo Baudo". Il Torinese (in Italian). 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ↑ Florio, Michele (2001). Le grandi donne del Piemonte (in Italian). D. Piazza. p. 226. ISBN 978-88-7889-143-2.
- ↑ Grasso, Aldo (1996). Enciclopedia della televisione Garzanti (in Italian). Garzanti. p. 746. ISBN 978-88-11-50466-5.
- 1 2 "Morta a Torino Alda Grimaldi: fu la prima regista della televisione, da "Settenote" a Scaramacai". La Stampa (in Italian). 28 December 2023. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ↑ Gallina, Fabio (28 December 2023). "Morta a 104 anni Alda Grimaldi, attrice e regista, amica di Cesare Pavese". Gazzetta d'Alba - Dal 1882 il settimanale di Alba, Langhe e Roero (in Italian). Retrieved 29 December 2023.
