The Third Man
Cast Bios: Alida Valli
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Alida Valli was born in the Adriatic harbor town of Pula in the Italian province of Pola on May 31, 1921. At the time, this region, on a peninsula known as Istria (Istrien in German), had only been part of Italy for three years. In 1947 it became part of Yugoslavia and it now belongs to Croatia (Kroatien). Istria was under Austrian rule from 1797 until 1918 and the end of the First World War. Alida Valli was born Alida Maria Laura von Altenburger. Her father was an Austrian baron and philosophy professor who was married to an Italian.
For more about Alida Valli, see the biography & filmography at the The German-Hollywood Connection.
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