
Dorian Gray
Actress
Born: February 2, 1928 (83 years old)
Died: February 15, 2011
Place of birth: Bolzano, Italy
Biography
Maria Luisa Mangini (2 February 1928 – 15 February 2011), better known as Dorian Gray, was an Italian actress. Gray made her stage debut in 1950. After five years she left the theater world and devoted herself to the cinema. The role she played most often in films was that of a seductive sex kitten. She played the titular "bad girl" in Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina. She also appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni's Il grido. In 1957, she took part in The Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini. On February 15, 2011, Gray committed suicide by gunshot at her home in Torcegno. She was 83 years old; however, some media reported her age as 75, since she claimed to have been born in 1936.
Filmography (17)
- Il Grido (1957, ★ 7.5)
- Nights of Cabiria (1957, ★ 8)
- Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy (1956, ★ 8)
- Winter Holidays (1959, ★ 6.6)
- Totò Double or Nothing? (1956, ★ 7)
- Domenica è sempre domenica (1958, ★ 6.7)
- Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge (1956, ★ 7.6)
- Vacations in Majorca (1959, ★ 5.9)
- ...And Suddenly It's Murder! (1960, ★ 6.5)
- Dangerous Women (1958, ★ 5.2)
- The Queen of Sheba (1952, ★ 5.5)
- Commando (1962, ★ 6.4)
- Thrilling (1965, ★ 7)
- The Surprises of Love (1959, ★ 6.5)
- Love and Larceny (1960, ★ 7.2)
- Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960, ★ 4.8)
- Love on the Riviera (1958, ★ 5.4)