Caterina Boratto

Known for ActingBorn 1915-03-14Died 2010-09-14Rome - Lazio - Italy

Caterina Boratto (15 March 1915 – 14 September 2010) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1936 and 1993. Born in Turin, Boratto studied at the Musical Lyceum in her hometown with the purpose of becoming a singer; noted by Guido Brignone, she made her debut in To Live, alongside Tito Schipa. Thanks to the film's success, she immediately became a star in the Telefoni Bianchi genre, and also got a seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which eventually dissolved because of World War II. In 1943, Boratto lost two brothers, the partisan Renato and the soldier Filiberto, killed in the massacre of the Acqui Division. In 1944, she married a doctor, Armando Ceratto, with whom she had two children. Except for a film in 1951, she basically retired from show business for twenty years before accepting to play two key roles in 8½ and Juliet of the Spirits by Federico Fellini, who had known her in the set of The Peddler and the Lady, where he had served as screenwriter. Starting from the second half of the 1960s, Boratto resumed appearing in films with some regularity, and from the late 1970s, she also became very active on television, being cast in dozens of TV series.Read more

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I figli del marchese Lucera

Who Is Happier Than I?

The Beautiful Summer

Il romanzo di un giovane povero

Vivere!

Un caso d'incoscienza

Ehrengard

Bel Ami

8½

Marcella

The Far Pavilions

Fellini nel cestino

The Off-Road Girl

32nd of December

Juliet of the Spirits

Claretta

The Peddler and the Lady

This Is the Night

That Night of Varennes

The Tiger and the Pussycat

Fellini: A Director’s Notebook

Hanno rapito un uomo

My Friends Act III

Double Cross

Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Symphony of Love

Danger: Diabolik

Footprints on the Moon

The Sleazy Uncle

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici

Pardon, Are You for or Against?

Hector the Mighty

Once Upon a Crime

Lady Caroline Lamb

Phantom of Death

Professione vacanze

First Love

Castle Keep

Story of a Cloistered Nun

Tonight I'll Throw Me

Anna Karenina

Don't Sting the Mosquito

The House of Doves

The House by the Edge of the Lake

The Lady of Monza

The Last Emotion