Nella Maria Bonora
Acting
Biography
Nella Maria Bonora (Mantua, May 19, 1904 - Florence, August 3, 1990) was an Italian actress and voice actress. After twenty years of experience on stage (she entered the art world at a very young age with Amedeo Chiantoni, then continuing with Febo Mari's company), she was hired in 1939 at EIAR by Aldo Silvani, the then director of the Turin prose company, immediately becoming a darling of the radio audience, so much so that she ended up playing herself in the 1940 film directed by Giacomo Gentilomo Ecco la radio!, dedicated to the glories of the state radio broadcasting company. Cousin of the actor Fernando Farese with whom she often had the opportunity to act both on the radio and in the theater. She was married, in the thirties, to the actor Carlo Lombardi.
Known For
Attempting to cover the fault of one of his subordinates, an officer of the Napoleonic army is condemned to death for treason.
The Two Sergeants
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L'avvocato difensore
A youth and an elderly libertine aristocrat vie for the favors of a beautiful woman, amid the setting of Rapallo.
The Last Fling
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I due misantropi
An elderly chestnut vendor lives in poverty but once a month puts on a show with silk and a carriage to impress her daughter in a convent. One day she is robbed of her meager savings.
The Old Lady
A nanny, in order to give in to the invitation of a suitor who proposes a motorboat trip, leaves her child unattended on land. The trip ends in a dramatic dive into the water, and while the two inexperienced navigators are picked up unconscious by some fishermen, a good devil takes the little boy with him, whom he finds abandoned and crying on the shore. However, the disappearance is believed to be the result of a kidnapping and the poor devil, identified, risks going through a bad time if the nanny and her suitor, who have recovered, do not rush to justify him in time. The nanny finds in her marriage to her helmsman the compensation for the dismissal by the child's parents, and the good devil secures an honest job.