Clara Calamai

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Clara Calamai
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Born	September 7 1909 Prato, Image:Flag of Italy.svg Italy
Died	September 21 1998 Rimini

Clara Calamai (Prato, September 7 1909 - Rimini, September 21 1998) was an Italian actress.

Her debut was in 1938 with Pietro Micca (film), directed by Aldo Vergano.

In a very short scene of La cena delle beffe she Calamai shows her breasts. In no Italian movie had ever been seen such a thing before. It was a sensation for Italian audiences and many people saw the movie many times only for that scene. The film was an adaptacion of a Sem Benelli's work, directed by Alessandro Blasetti in 1941.

But her most remembered film was Luchino Visconti's Ossessione .

Anna Magnani could not make L'adultera (1946, Duilio Coletti) and she won the Nastro d'Argento.

She worked again with Luchino Visconti in Le notti bianche , as a prostitute (1957) and Le streghe in (1967).

After years of retirement, she came back to screen in 1975 with classic horror film Deep Red directed by Dario Argento .

Married to the explorer, documentary and film maker Leonardo Bonzi, she gotted divorce for living with Captain of Aviation Valerio Andreoli.