Alida Valli, Requiescat in Pace - Harry Lime's girlfriend dies at 84

[Harvey Chartrand]

And so this week, as it must to all women, death came to Alida Valli, who starred with Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten in The Third Man. Ms. Valli was never directed by Welles, but she worked with Alfred Hitchcock on The Paradine Case, Luchino Visconti on Senso, Bernardo Bertolucci on The Spider's Stratagem and 1900, Georges Franju on Eyes without a Face, Dario Argento on Suspiria and Inferno, Michelangelo Antonioni on Il Grido/The Outcry, Mario Bava on Lisa and the Devil, Gillo Pontecorvo on The Wide Blue Road and Pier Paolo Pasolini on Edipo re/Oedipus Rex...
Ms. Valli also starred in a ton of Eurotrash, as well as in episodes of Dr. Kildare and Combat!, The Stranger's Hand (with Richard Basehart), This Angry Age (with Anthony Perkins) and the long-suppressed We the Living, based on the novel by Ayn Rand.
Ms. Valli's career in show business lasted an astonishing 68 years, surviving scandal, the aging process and changing public tastes. Her final film credit is Angel of Death (a straight-to-DVD thriller filmed in Spain in 2002), which features the same parade of hooded penitents that appear in Welles' Mr. Arkadin.

[Glenn Anders]

Is it possible that those hooded penitents are studio heads?

Glenn

[Tony]

Just last week I found a beautiful colour photo of her, and was trying to decide if she, or Gene Tierney, or Ava Gardner, or Rita Hayworth, or Audrey Hepburn, was the most beautiful woman in movies: that day, I felt it was her.

What can you say about a woman?

[The Voice of Cornstarch]

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