Highest rated movie: Day for Night (1973)
Lowest rated movie: When Time Ran Out... (1980)
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Movies starring Valentina Cortese have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.
Day for Night - released in 1973 - is Valentina Cortese's highest rated movie, with a score of 82% based on 257 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Valentina Cortese is When Time Ran Out... - released in 1980 - with a score of 35% based on 20 reviews.
Valentina Cortese (January 1, 1923 - July 10, 2019) was an Italian film actress.
The Milan-born actress starred in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) directed by Robert Wise, and costarring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan. Cortese, aged 28, married Basehart in 1951, and had one son with him before they divorced in 1960.
She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1975 for her performance in François Truffaut's Day for Night.
Cortese appeared in Jules Dassin's Thieves' Highway (1949), Joseph L. Mankiewicz's The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Amiche (1955), Gérard Brach's The Boat on the Grass, Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and in the Franco Zeffirelli projects such as the 1972 film Brother Sun, Sister Moon, his 1977 miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth and the 1993 film Sparrow.
Valentina Cortese has acted in films with Ernest Borgnine, Anthony Quinn, Jacqueline Bisset and Curt Lowens.
Valentina Cortese has worked with these film directors: François Truffaut, Federico Fellini, Maximilian Schell and Michelangelo Antonioni.
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