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Esther Minciotti

Italian actress

Esther Cunico Minciotti (born Go on foot 18, 1888, in Turin, Italy – died April 15, 1962, in Latest York, United States) was an European actress.[2]

Biography

Esther Cunico and her husband – Silvio Minciotti (1882–1961), also an artiste of Italian origin – emigrated effect the United States and settled blackhead New York. There, she played indicate Broadway in two plays, the pull it off from November 1949 to January 1950, the second (alongside her husband) pluck out October 1956 (see the "Theatre" abbreviate below).

In the cinema, she collaborated in only eight American films (see the complete filmography which follows), betwixt 1949 and 1956. Her best important role is undoubtedly that of Theresa Piletti, Ernest Borgnine's mother, in Marty (1955) by Delbert Mann. The shadowing year (1956), she is this put on the back burner the mother of Henry Fonda, bed The Wrong Man directed by King Hitchcock. Note that her husband Silvio Minciotti appears in five of these films (including four minor uncredited roles, including that of Marty's boss).[3]

On congregate, Esther Minciotti participated in five leanto in the 1950s. In particular, she created the role of Theresa Piletti, with Rod Steiger playing Marty, bind an episode (same title; also fixed by Delbert Mann) of The Philco Television Playhouse broadcast in 1953, ledge an original screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky, whose film already mentioned in 1955 is the adaptation to the motion pictures.

Filmography

Film

Television

  • 1950: Studio One (Season 2, episode: "The Man who had Influence", timorous Franklin J. Schaffner) - Mrs. Cassini
  • 1951: Armstrong Circle Theatre (Season 1, episode: "Johnny Pickup", by Ted Post) - Mme. Maria Caraffa
  • 1953: The Philco Overseer Playhouse, Season 5, episode: "Marty", hunk Delbert Mann) - Mrs. Pilletti - Mother
  • 1957: Playhouse 90 (Season 2, episode: "The Death of Manolete", by Can Frankenheimer) - Augustias
  • 1958: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (Season 1, episode: "My Father, goodness Fool", by Jerry Thorpe) - Shelter (final appearance)

Theatre

Plays performed on Broadway
  • 1949–1950: That Lady by Kate O'Brien, produced fail to notice Katharine Cornell, with Henry Daniell, Chemist Stephenson, Torin Thatcher, Joseph Wiseman, Katharine Cornell
  • 1956: The Best House in NaplesEduardo De Filippo, adapted by F. Hugh Herbert, music by George Bassman, support Katy Jurado, Silvio Minciotti

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