Biography

Brunetti was born Argentina Ferrau in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

. She began her show business career at the age of three with a walk on role in the opera, Cavalleria Rusticana

Cavalleria rusticana

Cavalleria rusticana is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from a play written by Giovanni Verga based on his short story. Considered one of the classic verismo operas, it premiered on May 17, 1890 at the Teatro...

and followed Mimi Aguglia

Mimi Aguglia

Mimi Aguglia was an Italian actress. She was born on stage in Catania, Sicily while her mother, Giuseppina Aguglia, was playing Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Othello....

, her famous mother's footsteps in the theater performing supporting roles on stages throughout Europe, and South America.

In 1937, she was placed under contract to MGM pictures and began dubbing the voices of Jeanette MacDonald

Jeanette MacDonald

Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy...

 and Norma Shearer

Norma Shearer

Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s...

 in Italian. Next she became a narrator for the Voice of America, interviewing American movie stars for broadcast in Italy. At the same time she had her movie debut in the classic It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern....

(1946), as Mrs. Martini.

Throughout her varied career she has also written and performed in daily radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 shows, became a member of the 'Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Hollywood Foreign Press Association

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is an organization composed of working journalists who cover the United States film industry for a variety of outlets, including newspapers and magazines in Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. Today, the 90 members of the HFPA represent at least 55...

', writing numerous articles on Hollywood personalities, authored books, written music and acted in over 57 television programs and 68 movies in which she mainly played multi-ethnic roles. She hosted a weekly weblog on the Internet, called Argentina Brunetti's Hollywood Stories, which her son plans to continue running, and has written a biographical novel called In Sicilian Company.

She continued to act well into her 90s, most notably as a relative from the Old World who visits and stays with the (wrong) Barone family on Everybody Loves Raymond

Everybody Loves Raymond

Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of lead actor Ray Romano, creator/producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff...

.

She moved to Rome in 2004 to be with her family. She died there from natural causes on December 20, 2005, at the age of 98. With her death, the only adult actor in It's a Wonderful Life known to still be alive as of 2009 is Virginia Patton (b. 1925), who played Ruth Bailey, the wife of George Bailey's younger brother, the war hero.

Filmography

• The 4th Tenor (2002) .... Neighbor Woman
• That's Life
  That's Life (2000 TV series)
  That's Life is an American dramedy series created by Diane Ruggiero, that was broadcast on CBS from October 1, 2000 to January 26, 2002.-Synopsis:...
  
  .... Aunt Rose (1 episode, 2000)
• Lookin' Italian (1998) .... Grandmother
• Everybody Loves Raymond
  Everybody Loves Raymond
  Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of lead actor Ray Romano, creator/producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff...
  
  .... Zia Sarina (1 episode, 1998)
• Adam 12 .... Old Woman on Bus (1 episode, 1991)
• Booker
  Booker (TV series)
  Booker is an American crime drama series starring Richard Grieco that aired on the Fox Network from September 24, 1989 to May 6, 1990. The series was a spin-off of 21 Jump Street...
  
  .... Grandma Petrelli (1 episode, 1990)
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  (1963) TV series .... Filomena Soltini
  Filomena Soltini
  Filomena Soltini was a fictional character on the ABC soap opera General Hospital. She was portrayed by Argentina Brunetti, who originated the role in 1985.- Relatives and extended family :*Robin Scorpio...
  
   (unknown episodes, 1985–1986)
• 1st & Ten (1 episode, 1985)
• Joanie Loves Chachi
  Joanie Loves Chachi
  Joanie Loves Chachi is an American television spin-off of the popular American sitcom Happy Days that was originally broadcast on ABC from March 23, 1982 to September 13, 1983...
  
  .... Aunt Gina (1 episode, 1983)
• The Quest (1 episode, 1982)
• Evita Peron (1981) (TV) .... Old woman
• Fatso (1980) .... Zi Jule
• Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
  Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
  Tenspeed and Brown Shoe is an American detective/comedy series originally broadcast by the ABC network between January through June 1980. The series was created and executive produced by Stephen J. Cannell.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1 episode, 1980)
• Fantasy Island
  Fantasy Island
  Fantasy Island is the title of two separate but related American fantasy television series, both originally airing on the ABC television network.-Original series:...
  
  .... Teresa (1 episode, 1978)
• Quincy M.E. .... Mrs. Maggiore (1 episode, 1978)
• Black Market Baby (1977) (TV) .... Aunt Imelda
• Wonder Woman
  Wonder Woman (TV series)
  Wonder Woman is an American television series based on the DC Comics comic book superhero of the same name. Starring Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince and Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor, the show originally aired from 1975 to 1979....
  
  .... Manageress (1 episode, 1977)
• Flight to Holocaust (1977) (TV) .... Woman in Elevator
• Kojak
  Kojak
  Kojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973, to March 18, 1978, on CBS. It took the time slot of the popular Cannon series, which was moved one hour earlier...
  
  .... Christina (1 episode, 1976)
• Blue Sunshine (1976) .... Mrs. Rosella
• The Magician .... Landlady (1 episode, 1974)
• Temperatures Rising (1 episode, 1973)
• The Streets of San Francisco
  The Streets of San Francisco
  The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros...
  
  .... Consuela (1 episode, 1973)
• The Barefoot Executive
  The Barefoot Executive
  The Barefoot Executive is a live-action Disney film released by Buena Vista Distribution in 1971 starring Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Wally Cox, Heather North and John Ritter , about a pet chimpanzee, named Raffles, who can predict the popularity of television programs...
  
  (1971) (uncredited) .... Mrs. Bernaducci
• To Rome with Love
  To Rome With Love
  To Rome With Love is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 1969 to September 1971.-Synopsis:To Rome With Love is the story of a widowed college professor, Michael Endicott, who decided to leave his native Iowa following the death of his wife and accept a new position as an instructor...
  
  .... Josie (1 episode, 1970)
• The High Chaparral
  The High Chaparral
  The High Chaparral is a Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The show was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network...
  
  .... Duena (1 episode, 1969)
• The Flying Nun
  The Flying Nun
  The Flying Nun is an American sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC based on the 1965 book The Fifteenth Pelican, by Tere Rios, which starred Sally Field as Sister Bertrille...
  
  .... Consuelo Gomez / ... (2 episodes, 1969)
• Ironside
  Ironside (TV series)
  Ironside is a Universal television series which ran on NBC from September 14, 1967 to January 16, 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as the wheelchair-using Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside. The character's debut was in a TV-movie on March 28, 1967. The original title of the show in the...
  
  .... Rita's Aunt (1 episode, 1968)
• The Shakiest Gun in the West
  The Shakiest Gun in the West
  The Shakiest Gun in the West is a 1968 Western comedy film starring Don Knotts. It was directed by Alan Rafkin and written by Jim Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum.The film is a remake of The Paleface, a 1948 movie starring Bob Hope and Jane Russell....
  
  (1968) (uncredited) .... Squaw
• I Spy .... Chica (1 episode, 1968)
• The Big Valley
  The Big Valley
  The Big Valley is an American television Western which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969, which starred Barbara Stanwyck, as a California widowed mother. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman...
  
  .... Maria (1 episode, 1968)
• Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
  Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
  Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.The show renders the title as Gomer Pyle - USMC. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot was aired as the finale of the fourth season of The Andy...
  
  .... Cara (1 episode, 1967)
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
  The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
  The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international espionage and law-enforcement...
  
  .... Proprietor (1 episode, 1967)
• The Venetian Affair (1967) (uncredited) .... The Nun
• The Invaders
  The Invaders
  The Invaders, a Quinn Martin Production , is an ABC science fiction television program created by Larry Cohen that ran in the United States for two seasons, from January 10, 1967 to March 26, 1968...
  
  .... Luz (1 episode, 1967)
• The Appaloosa (1966) (uncredited) .... Yaqui woman
• The Andy Griffith Show
  The Andy Griffith Show
  The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised by CBS between October 3, 1960, and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays a widowed sheriff in the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina...
  
  .... La Farona (1 episode, 1966)
• The F.B.I.
  The F.B.I.
  The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series - indeed, this was a key point of Mad magazine's July 1971 satire of the series .-Synopsis:Produced...
  
  .... Tia Rodriguez (1 episode, 1966)
• The Fugitive
  The Fugitive (TV series)
  The Fugitive is an American drama series produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen stars as Richard Kimble, a doctor from the fictional town of Stafford, Indiana, who is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death...
  
  .... Mexican Woman (1 episode, 1966)
• Gunsmoke
  Gunsmoke
  Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
  
  .... Louise Danby (1 episode, 1965)
• The Money Trap
  The Money Trap
  The Money Trap is a 1965 drama film starring Glenn Ford , Elke Sommer and Rita Hayworth and directed by Burt Kennedy.-Plot:Joe Baron is a cop with financial troubles because of his wife Lisa's constant spending. One day, a burglar is reported shot at the home of a doctor...
  
  (1965) .... Aunt
• Ben Casey
  Ben Casey
  Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, *, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph...
  
  .... Mrs. Sanchez (1 episode, 1965)
• Stage to Thunder Rock (1964) .... Sarita
• 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) .... Sarah Benedict
• Going My Way
  Going My Way (TV series)
  Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series starring dancer and actor Gene Kelly. Based on the 1944 film of the same name starring Bing Crosby, the series aired on ABC with new episodes from October 3, 1962 to April 24, 1963. The program was Kelly's first and only attempt at a weekly television...
  
  .... Mrs. Molletti / ... (2 episodes, 1962–1963)
• The Gallant Men
  The Gallant Men
  The Gallant Men is a 1962-1963 ABC television series which depicted an infantry company of American soldiers fighting their way through Italy in World War II.-Description:...
  
  .... Mother Superior (1 episode, 1962)
• The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962) (uncredited) .... Relative at Easter Dinner
• The Horizontal Lieutenant
  The Horizontal Lieutenant
  The Horizontal Lieutenant is a 1962 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe. It is a military comedy about an unfortunate army intelligence lieutenant who finds himself isolated on a remote Japanese island army outpost during World War II....
  
  (1962) (uncredited) .... The Nun
• The Rifleman
  The Rifleman
  The Rifleman is an American Western television program that starred Chuck Connors as homesteader Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show, filmed in black-and-white with a half hour running time, ran...
  
  .... Mrs. Ramirez (1 episode, 1962)
• The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
  The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
  The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and some episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, that also inspired the 1953 film The Affairs of Dobie Gillis with Debbie...
  
  .... Grandmother (1 episode, 1961)
• The George Raft Story (1961) .... Mrs. Raft
• Miami Undercover .... Mrs. Alemada (1 episode, 1961)
• The Lawless Years
  The Lawless Years
  The Lawless Years is the first television crime drama set during the Roaring 20s, having predated ABC's far more successful The Untouchables with Robert Stack by six months. The 47-episode half-hour series aired nonconsecutively on NBC from April 16 to August 27, 1959, from October 1, 1959, to...
  
  (1 episode, 1961)
• Route 66
  Route 66 (TV series)
  Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America. The show ran weekly on CBS from 1960 to 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod...
  
  .... Senora Maria Otero (1 episode, 1961)
• Wagon Train
  Wagon Train
  Wagon Train is an American Western series that ran on NBC from 1957–62 and then on ABC from 1962–65...
  
  .... Lisa Canevari (1 episode, 1961)
• Checkmate
  Checkmate (TV series)
  Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions" in co-operation with Revue...
  
  .... Berta (1 episode, 1961)
• Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond .... Margarita Castera / ... (2 episodes, 1960–1961)
• Lock Up .... Mrs. Voltaire (1 episode, 1961)
• Tales of Wells Fargo
  Tales of Wells Fargo
  Tales of Wells Fargo is an American Western television series that ran from March 18, 1957 to June 2, 1962 on NBC. Produced by Revue Productions, the series aired in a half-hour format until its final season when it expanded to an hour.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1 episode, 1961)
• COronado 9
  COronado 9
  Coronado 9 is a syndicated crime drama set in San Diego, California, starring Rod Cameron as Dan Adams, a former United States Navy intelligence officer turned private detective. Coronado 9 is Adams's address; the numeral 9 on a rock shown near his front door in the opening credits denotes the...
  
  .... Mrs. Dominguez (1 episode, 1960)
• The Roaring Twenties .... Mamma Zorich (1 episode, 1960)
• Wanted: Dead or Alive .... Juanita Domingo (1 episode, 1960)
• Thriller .... Mrs. Romano (1 episode, 1960)
• The Deputy
  The Deputy (TV series)
  The Deputy is a 1959-1961 half-hour NBC western series featuring Henry Fonda as Chief Marshal Simon Fry of the Arizona Territory and Allen Case as Deputy Clay McCord, a storekeeper who tried to avoid using a gun.-Production:...
  
  .... Evita (1 episode, 1960)
• Rawhide
  Rawhide (TV series)
  Rawhide is an American Western series that aired for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959 to September 3, 1965, before moving to Tuesday nights from September 14, 1965 until January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 black-and-white episodes...
  
  .... Rosa Patines (1 episode, 1960)
• Bonanza
  Bonanza
  Bonanza is an American western television series that both ran on and was a production of NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series and still continues to air in syndication. It centers on the...
  
  .... Bruja's Helper (1 episode, 1960)
• General Electric Theater
  General Electric Theater
  General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald W. Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.-Radio:...
  
  .... Saral (1 episode, 1960)
• The Untouchables
  The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
  The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a...
  
  .... Angelo Cestari / ... (2 episodes, 1959–1960)
• The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor
  The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor
  The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season...
  
  .... Mrs. Moretti (1 episode, 1960)
• Jet Over the Atlantic (1959) .... Miss Hooten
• M Squad
  M Squad
  M Squad is an American police drama television series that ran from 1957 to 1960 on NBC. Its format would later inspire the creation of spoof TV show Police Squad! Its sponsor was the Pall Mall cigarette brand; Lee Marvin, the program's star, appeared in its commercials during the...
  
  .... Mrs. Doris Michaels (1 episode, 1959)
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse .... Elena (1 episode, 1959)
• Showdown at Boot Hill (1958) .... Mrs. Barabbas
• The Thin Man
  The Thin Man
  The Thin Man is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in Redbook. Although he never wrote a sequel, the book became the basis for a successful six-part film series which also began in 1934 with The Thin Man and starred William Powell and Myrna Loy...
  
  .... Shana Daupha (1 episode, 1958)
• The Veil .... Maria (1 episode, 1958)
• The Brothers Rico (1957) .... Mrs. Rico
• The Midnight Story (1957) .... Mama Malatesta
• The Unholy Wife (1957) .... Theresa
• Code 3 .... Mrs. Morales (1 episode, 1957)
• Panic! .... Tina D'Alessio (1 episode, 1957)
• The Adventures of Jim Bowie
  The Adventures of Jim Bowie
  In September of 1956 a TV series named "The Adventures of Jim Bowie" was aired on ABC. The show was only on the air for two years from 1956 to 1958. The series' music was unique in that is was primarily vocal, provided by Ken Darby and The King's Men .-Synopsis:The series stars Scott Forbes as the...
  
  .... Tri Rosa (1 episode, 1957)
• Duel at Apache Wells (1957) .... Tia Maria
• Three Violent People (1956) .... Maria
• Navy Log
  Navy Log
  Navy Log is an American anthology series that initially aired on CBS. The series featured over 70 regular guests and told about the greatest survival war stories in the history of the United States Navy. This series premiered on September 20, 1955. The following year, it was moved to ABC, where it...
  
  .... Mme. Deschamps (1 episode, 1956)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The series featured dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. By the premiere of the show on October 2, 1955, Hitchcock had been directing films for over three decades...
  
  .... Mrs. Salvatori (1 episode, 1956)
• Telephone Time (1 episode, 1956)
• Anything Goes
  Anything Goes (1956 film)
  Anything Goes is a 1956 musical film adapted from the Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse stage production of the same title. The book was drastically rewritten for the second film version, also by Paramount, released in 1956...
  
  (1956) .... Suzanne
• Celebrity Playhouse (1 episode, 1956)
• Matinee Theatre (1 episode, 1956)
• The 20th Century-Fox Hour .... Mrs. Rosa Hernandez (1 episode, 1956)
• TV Reader's Digest .... Mrs. Barrett (1 episode, 1955)
• The Rains of Ranchipur
  The Rains of Ranchipur
  The Rains of Ranchipur is a 1955 film drama made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Frank Ross from a screenplay by Merle Miller, based on the novel The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield. The music score was by Hugo Friedhofer and the cinematography by Milton R...
  
  (1955) (uncredited) .... Mrs. Adoani
• The Tall Men
  The Tall Men
  The Tall Men can refer to:* The Tall Men starring Clark Gable* The Tall Men by William Faulkner....
  
  (1955) .... Maria the Dressmaker
• Letter to Loretta .... Mrs. Farenzi / ... (2 episodes, 1954–1955)
• Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre .... Mrs. Adams (1 episode, 1955)
• The Last Command (1955) (uncredited) .... Maria
• The Far Horizons (1955) .... Old Crone
• The Prodigal (1955) (uncredited) .... Woman
• Hell's Island (1955) (uncredited)
• The Lone Ranger
  The Lone Ranger
  The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked Texas Ranger who, with his Native American companion Tonto, fights injustice in the American Old West. The character has become an enduring icon of American culture....
  
  .... Maria (1 episode, 1955)
• The Lone Wolf .... Mama Crocetti (1 episode)
• Lux Video Theatre
  Lux Video Theatre
  Lux Video Theatre, is a weekly television anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays....
  
  (1 episode, 1954)
• The Public Defender
  The Public Defender (TV series)
  The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.-Premise:...
  
  .... Mrs. Derek (1 episode, 1954)
• Make Haste to Live
  Make Haste to Live
  Make Haste to Live is an American suspense film released by Republic Pictures.- Plot :'Chris' Crystal Benson is a single mother living in a small town in New Mexico. One night she feels a man is stalking. She grabs a gun and makes a series of arrangements anticipating his own death...
  
  (1954) .... Mrs. Gonzales
• Waterfront (1 episode)
• King of the Khyber Rifles
  King of the Khyber Rifles (film)
  King of the Khyber Rifles is a 1953 adventure film directed by Henry King and starring Tyrone Power and Terry Moore. The film is based on the novel King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy. It is a remake of John Ford's The Black Watch . The Khyber Pass scenes were shot in Alabama Hills, Lone...
  
  (1953) .... Lali
• The Caddy
  The Caddy
  The Caddy is a 1953 American film starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis. It was filmed from November 24, 1952 through February 23, 1953. It was released by Paramount Pictures on August 10, 1953...
  
  (1953) .... Mama Anthony
• The Story of Three Loves (1953) (scenes deleted) .... Saleswoman (segment "Mademoiselle")
• San Antone (1953) .... Mexican Woman
• Tropic Zone (1953) .... Tia Feliciana
• My Cousin Rachel (1952) .... Signora
• Racket Squad .... Mrs. Scarpita (1 episode, 1952)
• Hopalong Cassidy
  Hopalong Cassidy
  Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of popular short stories and twenty-eight novels based on the character....
  
  .... Senora Soledad (1 episode, 1952)
• Woman in the Dark (1952) .... 'Mama' Morello
• Apache War Smoke (1952) .... Madre
• Bal Tabarin
  Bal Tabarin
  Le Bal Tabarin was a Parisian nightclub that featured a variety of entertainment, including a line of showgirls dancing the can-can. Nightclubs in other cities used the name after the one in Paris became well known.-Nightclubs:...
  
  (1952) (uncredited) .... Teresa
• When in Rome
  When in Rome (1952 film)
  When in Rome is a film starring Van Johnson, Paul Douglas, and Joseph Calleia. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was based on a story by Robert Buckner, Dorothy Kingsley, and Charles Schnee. When in Rome was one of the last films directed by famed MGM director Clarence Brown.-Plot...
  
  (1952) .... Mrs. Lugacetti
• Rose of Cimarron
  Rose of Cimarron
  Rose Of Cimarron is the 11th album by the country rock band Poco, released May 1976. Former Loggins & Messina sax/fiddle player Al Garth joined the band to record this album, but left shortly after due to internal conflicts...
  
  (1952) .... Red Fawn
• The Fighter (1952) .... Maria
• Force of Arms
  Force of Arms
  Force of Arms is a 1951 romantic drama film set in the Italian theater of World War II. It reteamed William Holden and Nancy Olson in the third of their four movies together , all released in 1950 or 1951...
  
  (1951) (uncredited) .... Signora Maduvalli
• Sirocco (1951) (uncredited) .... Woman
• Ghost Chasers
  Ghost Chasers
  Ghost Chasers is a 1951 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on April 29, 1951 by Monogram Pictures and is the twenty-second film in the series.-Plot:...
  
  (1951) .... Mrs. Parelli
• The Great Caruso (1951) .... Mrs. Barretto
• Southside 1-1000 (1950) (uncredited) .... Storekeeper Babo's Wife
• Dial 1119 (1950) (uncredited) .... Bus Passenger
• Broken Arrow
  Broken Arrow (1950 film)
  Broken Arrow is a western Technicolor film released in 1950. It was directed by Delmer Daves and starred James Stewart and Jeff Chandler. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, and won a Golden Globe award for Best Film Promoting International Understanding. It made history as the first...
  
  (1950) (uncredited) .... Nalikadeya, Cochise's Wife
• The Lawless
  The Lawless
  The Lawless is a 1950 American drama film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Macdonald Carey, Gail Russell and Johnny Sands. A newspaper editor in California becomes concerned about the plight of the state's fruit pickers, mostly illegal immigrants from Mexico...
  
  (1950) .... Mrs. Rodriguez
• Captain Carey, U.S.A.
  Captain Carey, U.S.A.
  Captain Carey, U.S.A. is a 1950 drama film starring Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix, and Francis Lederer. An American returns to post-World War II Italy to bring a traitor to justice.The film was based on the novel No Surrender by Martha Albrand...
  
  (1950) (uncredited) .... Villager
• The Blonde Bandit (1950) .... Mama Sapelli
• The Silver Theater .... Mama Romani (1 episode, 1950)
• Holiday in Havana (1949) (uncredited) .... Mrs. Estrada
• The Red Danube
  The Red Danube
  The Red Danube is a 1949 drama film directed by George Sidney and starring Walter Pidgeon. The film was based on the 1947 novel Vespers in Vienna by Bruce Marshall.-Plot:Shortly after World War II, British Col...
  
  (1949) (uncredited) .... Italian Woman
• House of Strangers
  House of Strangers
  House of Strangers is a film noir, and is the first of three film versions of Jerome Weidman's novel I'll Never Go There Anymore, each scripted by Phillip Yordan...
  
  (1949) (uncredited) .... Applicant
• We Were Strangers
  We Were Strangers
  We Were Strangers is a 1949 adventure–drama film directed by John Huston and starring Jennifer Jones and John Garfield.The film, set in 1933, concerns a group of revolutionaries attempting to overthrow the Cuban regime...
  
  (1949) (uncredited) .... Mother
• El Paso (1949) (uncredited) .... Don Nacho's Woman
• Knock on Any Door (1949) (uncredited) .... Ma Romano
• Shockproof (1949) (uncredited) .... Stella
• Mexican Hayride (1948) (uncredited) .... Indian Woman
• Tenth Avenue Angel (1948) (uncredited) .... Boy's Mother
• Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948) .... Sita
• Tycoon (1947) (uncredited) .... House Guest
• High Tide (1947) .... Mrs. Cresser
• California (1946) .... Elvira
• It's a Wonderful Life
  It's a Wonderful Life
  It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern....
  
  (1946) .... Mrs. Maria Martini
• The Return of Monte Cristo (1946) (uncredited)
• Gilda
  Gilda
  Gilda is a 1946 American black-and-white film noir directed by Charles Vidor. It stars Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth in her signature role as the ultimate femme fatale. The film was noted for cinematographer Rudolph Mate's lush photography, costume designer Jean Louis' wardrobe for Hayworth , and...
  
  (1946) (uncredited) .... Woman

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