Laura Betti
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Laura Betti (née Trombetti; 1 May 1927 – 31 July 2004) was an Italian actress known particularly for her work with directors Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci. She had a long friendship with Pasolini and made a documentary about him in 2001.
Betti became famous for portraying bizarre, grotesque, eccentric, unstable or maniacal roles, like Regina in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, Anna the medium in Twitch of the Death Nerve, Giovanna la pazza in Woman Buried Alive, hysterical Rita Zigai in Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina, Therese in Private Vices, Public Virtues, Emilia the servant in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and Mildred the protagonist's wife in Mario Bava's Hatchet for the Honeymoon.
Born Laura Trombetti in Casalecchio di Reno, near Bologna, she grew up to be interested in singing. She first worked professionally in the arts as a jazz singer and moved to Rome.
Betti made her film debut in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960). In 1963, she became a close friend of the poet and movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini. Under his direction, she proved a wonderful talent and played in seven of his films, including La ricotta (1963), Teorema (Theorem, 1968), his 1972 version of The Canterbury Tales, in which she played the Wife of Bath; and his controversial Salo (1975) ("120 Days of Sodom").
In 1976, Betti portrayed Regina, a cruel and eroto-maniacal fascist in Bernardo Bertolucci's Novecento (1900). She also played Miss Blandish in his Last Tango in Paris (1972), though her single scene was deleted.
In 1973 she dubbed the voice of the Devil for the Italian version of William Friedkin's The Exorcist.
From the 1960s, Betti dedicated much of her time to literature and politics. She became the muse for a number of leading political and literary figures in Italy and came to personify the revolutionary and Marxist era of 1970s Italy.
In 2001, she made a documentary about Pasolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini e la ragione di un sogno. She also donated her papers related to their long friendship along with more than 1000 volumes and many documents connected to Pasolini to the archives of the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, thus creating the Centro Studi Archivio Pier Paolo Pasolini. This Centro, strongly wanted by Betti, owns also thousands of photograph and all the works of Pasolini: poetry, literature, cinema and journalism. After her death in 2004 her brother Sergio Trombetti has donated all the personal documents of her career to the Centro that has absorbed them under the name Fondo Laura Betti.
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Discorama
Self
La cugina
Rosalia Scuderi
La dolce vita
Laura
À ma sœur !
Fernando's Mother
The Word
Maria
Novecento
Regina
Teorema
Emilia, the Servant
I racconti di Canterbury
The Wife from Bath
Ecologia del delitto
Anna Fossati
Cinecittà Cinecittà
Caterina Elisabetta Magrevich
Con gli occhi chiusi
Beatrice
Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù
Teresa
Le Gang
Felicia
Las playas de Agnès
Self (archive footage)
Edipo Rey
Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)
Le streghe
Male Tourist (segment "La Terra vista dalla Luna")
La certosa di Parma
The Vivandière
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Sonia, the 'Diva' (segment "La ricotta")
Jane B. por Agnès V.
Lardy
Viaggio con Anita
Laura
Il gabbiano
Irina
La noche de Varennes
Virginia Capacelli
Il Grande Cocomero
Aida
The Protagonists
Judge
Capriccio all'italiana
Desdemona
La ribelle
Sister Valida
Gli astronomi
Pavoncella
Allonsanfàn
Esther Imbriani
Sepolta viva
Giovanna la Pazza
Era notte a Roma
Teresa