Dorian Gray
Born: 1928-02-02 in Bolzano, Italy
Died: 2011-02-15
Known For: Acting
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
1977
- Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti as Self - Antiope (archive footage)
1967
- The Criminals of the Metropolis as Denise
1965
- Thrilling as Veronique (segment "Sadik")
1962
- Peccati d'estate as Irene
- Commando as Nora
- Finden Sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält? as Marie-Louise Jörgensen
1961
- The Orderly as Lauretta
- Destination Fury as Pupina Micacci
1960
- ...And Suddenly It's Murder! as Eleonora Franzetti
- Love and Larceny as Elena
- Colossus and the Amazon Queen as Antiope
- Il carro armato dell'8 settembre as The maid
1959
- Winter Holidays as Carol Field
- Vacations in Majorca as Hélène
- The Surprises of Love as Didi
1958
- Love on the Riviera as Dorina
- Domenica è sempre domenica as Luciana
- Dangerous Women as Ornella
1957
- Nights of Cabiria as Jessy
- Il Grido as Virginia
1956
- Guaglione as Nadia Lanti
- Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy as Marisa Florian
- Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge as Valeria
- Totò Double or Nothing? as Hélène
1955
- Io piaccio as Doriana Paris
1952
- Poppy
- Vendetta... sarda as Columba Porchiddu
- Appointment for Murder as Vandina
- The Queen of Sheba as Ati
1951
- Damn the Taxes!! as Margot
- Il mago per forza
- My Heart Sings as amichetta di Cocciaglia