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Actor: Alida Valli

Alida Valli was a major star in Italy before Hollywood, and The Third Man gives her Anna, who is loyal to a man who does not deserve it and who walks past the protagonist in the closing shot without stopping.

She then worked with Antonioni, Visconti and Pasolini, and Suspiria gives her a late horror role as a dance academy administrator.

She left Hollywood after a few years, having found the studio contract system intolerable, and worked in Europe for the rest of a sixty-year career.

Suspiria (1977) film posterAlida Valli

Suspiria (1977)

Dario Argento directs the giallo horror about an American dance student who discovers her German ballet academy is run by witches. Suspiria is Dario Argento's 1977 Italian horror film depicting an American ballet student who arrives at a prestigious German…

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