Mimì Aylmer | |
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Mimì Aylmer in 1929 | |
Born | Eugenia Spadoni 29 May 1896
Rome, Kingdom of Italy |
Died | 20 October 1992
Bologna, Italy | (aged 96)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1914–1951 (film) |
Mimì Aylmer (29 May 1896 – 20 October 1992) was an Italian stage and film actress. Aylmer emerged as a star in the Fascist era, appearing in films such as the drama Like the Leaves (1935). [1]
Born Eugenia Spadoni in Rome into a bourgeois Pisan family, she debuted in 1913 at the age of seventeen as a chanteuse and was immediately hired by the Riviste Papa stage company. [2] In 1914 she starred in her first film, Colei che tutto soffre by Amleto Palermi, and was a major star for over twenty years, until 1936. [2] After the war, she appeared in two films in character roles, then she definitely retired from showbusiness in 1959 and in 1964 she moved to Bologna to stay in a rest home for artists. [2]