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Italian director and actress (1919–2023)
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Alda Grimaldi
Grimaldi in 1969
Born6 October 1919
Sampierdarena, Italy
Died28 December 2023(2023-12-28) (aged 104)
Occupation(s)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.

Biography

Grimaldi was born in Sampierdarena in 1919. She began her acting career in Turin at the Fert Studio [it] in the 1940s.

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.

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 [it].

In 1957, she was awarded the Saint-Vincent Prize for Journalism [it].

She died on 28 December 2023, at the age of 104.

Personal life

Grimaldi was married to the Turin doctor Giovanni Rubino, who died in 1997.

References

  1. "Addio ad Alda Grimaldi, la prima regista della tv italiana. Aveva 104 ..." Oggi - Attualità (in Italian). 28 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  2. "Addio a "Dada" Grimaldi, prima regista tv. Diresse un giovane Pippo Baudo". Il Torinese (in Italian). 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  3. Florio, Michele (2001). Le grandi donne del Piemonte (in Italian). D. Piazza. p. 226. ISBN 978-88-7889-143-2.
  4. Grasso, Aldo (1996). Enciclopedia della televisione Garzanti (in Italian). Garzanti. p. 746. ISBN 978-88-11-50466-5.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. 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.

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