#Duse

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Eleonora Duse on a vintage postcard

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Crazy fit

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Presentazione del libro "Eleonora Duse. Storia e immagini di una rivoluzione teatrale" di Mirella Schino

L'evento si terrà il 18 ottobre presso il Museo Civico di Alessandria, nell'ambito di "Ottobre Alessandrino – Il Mese del Cinema".

L’evento si terrà il 18 ottobre presso il Museo Civico di Alessandria, nell’ambito di “Ottobre Alessandrino – Il Mese del Cinema”. Venerdì 18 ottobre, alle ore 17:30, presso il Museo Civico di Palazzo Cuttica ad Alessandria, verrà presentato il libro della Prof.ssa Mirella Schino, intitolato “Eleonora Duse. Storia e immagini di una rivoluzione teatrale”, pubblicato da Carocci editore nella…

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Eleonora Duse

Almost forgotten about today, Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse (1858-1924), known as Duse, was one of the most talented Italian actresses of her time. Born in Vigevano, Lombardy, Duse spent her first three years living in the Austrian Empire until the Kingdom of Sardinia captured the area, after which it formed part of the Kingdom of Italy. Duse’s father, Alessandro Vincenzo Duse (1820-92), and his…

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Ilya Repin, Portrait of actress Eleonora Duse, 1891

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If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

-- Eleanora Duse

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“Se la vista di cieli azzurri ti riempie di gioia, se le cose semplici della natura hanno un messaggio che tu comprendi, rallegrati, perché la tua anima è viva.”

— Eleonora Duse

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Jedva čekam da te vidim...

A to ne mogu da ti kažem.

Ne smemo ponovo završiti zajedno.

To što se glupiramo je drugo.

Ti i ja jedno drugom nismo više ništa do povremeni susreti...

Zar nam nije bolje tako?

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Dominik Datko, Edoardo Duse - editorial "After Party" for Sportweek magazine, December 2024

Photographed by Marcello Junior Dino

source: instagram.com

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If only I were she!

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Eleonora Duse on a vintage postcard

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Ma oggi , mi sento tutta tagliata dentro.

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Fredi Washington - The Dark Duse of Hollywood

Fredericka "Fredi" Washington (born on December 23, 1903 in Savannah, Georgia) was an American actress who refused to live by racial stereotypes. She is one of the first Black Americans to gain recognition for her work on film and on the stage, earning her the nickname of "The Dark Duse of Hollywood."

The daughter of parents who were both of mixed African and European ancestry, Washington had green eyes and light skin that belied the era’s common expectations of what an African-American “looked like.” She moved to Harlem along with her family during the Great Migration.

Washington's entertainment career began in 1921 as a chorus girl on Broadway. She was hired by dancer Josephine Baker as a member of a cabaret group. She quickly became a popular, featured dancer, and toured internationally.

Washington turned to acting and moved to Hollywood in 1928. She made her movie debut the year after. Her best-known movie roles were in Imitation of Life (1934) and One Mile from Heaven (1937); both films were social commentaries of the era's views on race.

Despite receiving critical acclaim for her performance, studio heads had no idea what to do with a biracial woman. Considered too beautiful to play servant roles (the only mainstream opportunities for Black actresses in the 1930s) and since the film production code prohibited suggestions of miscegenation, she wore dark, heavy makeup in race films.

After turning down several roles requiring her to pass for White, she quit movies, moving back to New York City. Her experiences in the film industry and theater led her to become a civil rights activist and a writer. Washington died, aged 90, from pneumonia following a series of strokes while living in Stamford.

Legacy:

Co-founded the Negro Actors Guild of America in 1936 and served as its first executive secretary

Served in the American Women's Voluntary Service during World War II

Actively involved with and lobbied for social activist groups, such as the Cultural Division of the National Negro Congress, the Committee for the Negro in the Arts, the Actors' Equity Committee on Hotel Accommodations for Negro Actors throughout the United States, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since 1937

Served as the entertainment editor for The People's Voice from 1943 to 1948

Gifted a collection of her personal papers to the Connecticut Historical Society in 1958, the Amistad Research Center in Tulane University in 1975 and 1979, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at The New York Public Library in 1982

Inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1975

Received the CIRCA Award for lifetime achievement from the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1979

Received an award from the Audience Development Company (AUDELCO), a New York-based nonprofit group devoted to preserving and promoting African-American theater, in 1981

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everytime i see these two (gianni santuccio and lilla brignone) act together i go how can I make this about stepvara

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Telo bez duse Wiktor Grodecki Czech Republic, 1996

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AND JESUS IF YOURE THERE WHY DO I FEEL SO ALONE IN THIS ROOM WITH YOU?