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Nita Naldi was born on November 13, 1894 in a tenement located at 309 E. 114th Street in the then-Irish enclave of Harlem. According to her birth certificate, her parents, Patrick and Julia Cronin Dooley, named her Mary. The 1900 and 1910 U.S. censuses, however, enumerate Mary Dooley as Nonna Dooley. Nita is enumerated twice on the 1910 census ...
Nita Naldi’s career as a movie star was a short one as film careers go, from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1920 to her last film, Die Pratermizzi, released in 1927. She had only one lead role ( The Mountain Eagle, 1926) and is mainly remembered for her costarring roles with Rudolph Valentino. She was typecast as a vamp, an archetype that was ...
29 mar 2023 · March 29, 2023. Nita Naldi, born Mary Nonna Dooley; November 13, 1894 – February 17, 1961, was an East Harlem stage performer and silent film actress. She was often cast in theatrical and screen productions as a vamp, a persona first popularized by actress Theda Bara. Early life. Nita Naldi was born in a tenement in East Harlem, NY to working ...
Nita Naldi was a famous Stage performer and actress from the Silent film era. She was often cast as a vamp in stage and screen productions, a persona popularized by Theda Bara. Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez assigned her the role of Doña Sol in the film version of his novel, ‘Blood and Sand (1922)’. The role was her first ...
Biography. Nita Naldi (born Nonna Dooley) was an American silent film actress. She was usually cast in the role of the "femme fatale" or "vamp". By the mid-1920s, Naldi's film career was coming to an end and in September 1925 she travelled to Europe with her lover J. Searle Barclay where she made 3 final films, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Mountain Eagle.
Died Feb. 17, 1961 of heart attack in New York, NY. N ita Naldi was a raven-haired silent screen star whose large piercing eyes and feminine mystique were the source of magnetic allure, and detriment, to many male film characters. Often playing a man-eating seductress, Naldi captivated film audiences as the queen of vamp throughout the 1920s.
Nita Naldi wurde in New York als Kind einer irisch-italienischen Arbeiterfamilie geboren. Sie begann ihre Karriere als Tänzerin unter anderem bei den Ziegfeld Follies. 1919 ging sie mit einem Vertrag von Paramount Pictures zum Film und spielte 1920 neben John Barrymore in Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde. Ihre exotische Ausstrahlung legten sie rasch ...
