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Luisa Ferida | |
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| Born | Luisa Manfrini Farnet 18 March 1914 Castel San Pietro Terme, Bologna, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 30 April 1945 (aged 31) Milan, Kingdom of Italy |
| Cause of death | Execution by firing squad |
| Occupation | Actress |
Luisa Ferida, real surname Manfrini (18 March 1914 – 30 April 1945), was an Italian stage and film actress. She was one of divas in Italian cinema during decade 1935–1945 and she was the highest paid movie star of that period.[1] The actress was famous as a films diva and she is remembered for her tragic death; in fact during the period of anti-fascist vendettas, immediately after Italian Civil War, she was assassinated, as was later proved by the Milan Court of Appeal, by shooting following a summary trial carried out by some partisans: she was shot with her lover, the actor and member of Decima Flottiglia MAS Osvaldo Valenti, as accused of alleged and hypothetical participation in war crimes and torture in connection with so-called Koch gang, facts of which she was then deemed innocent after the war. Therefore a war pension was allocated to the mother, who had no other source of income.[2]