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Maria Caserini
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Maria Caserini began acting in stage productions at an early age. Her first film was in 1906 for Cines in Rome, in what is considered the first film adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Mario Caserini, her husband. She starred in Romeo and Juliet in 1908 and then in thirteen other films until 1909. One of these films was Macbeth, directed by her husband.
From 1910 to 1927 she acted in 65 films, many of them always directed by her husband, such as Lucrezia Borgia, whose performance gave her greater notoriety. She resumed theatrical activity soon after abandoning her film career.
She was buried in the Maggiore Cemetery in Milan, where her remains were later interred in a small ce…
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Maria Caserini began acting in stage productions at an early age. Her first film was in 1906 for Cines in Rome, in what is considered the first film adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Mario Caserini, her husband. She starred in Romeo and Juliet in 1908 and then in thirteen other films until 1909. One of these films was Macbeth, directed by her husband. From 1910 to 1927 she acted in 65 films, many of them always directed by her husband, such as Lucrezia Borgia, whose performance gave her greater notoriety. She resumed theatrical activity soon after abandoning her film career. She was buried in the Maggiore Cemetery in Milan, where her remains were later interred in a small cell.
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Maria Caserini's Filmography
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The Railway Owner
as Marchesa di Beaulieu
Life and Death
Christus
Monna Vanna
Passano gli Unni
as Belgian Girl's Mother
Nero and Agrippina
as Agrippina
Love Everlasting
as Granduchess of Wallenstein
No Poster
Floretta e Patapon
as Bianca Patapon
Parsifal
as Parsifal Mother
No Poster
Gabriella di Beaulieu
Agrippina
as Agrippina
No Poster
Regina per quindici giorni
Anita Garibaldi
The Garibaldi Boy
as Woman
No Poster
Wanda Soldanieri
No Poster
L'abbandonata
No Poster