Diana Karenne
Diana Karenne (born Dina Rabinovich; 4 July 1889 – 14 October 1940) was a Polish film actress and director.
Also recorded as Leucadia Konstantin
Diana Karenne
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- Name
- Diana Karenne
- Birth Name
- Dina Rabinovich
- Born
- 4 July 1889
- Birthplace
- Kiev, Russian Empire
- Died
- 14 October 1940 1888
- Place of death
- Aachen, Germany
- Occupation
- * Actress
- Nationality
- Poland
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Diana Karenne (born Dina Rabinovich; 4 July 1889 – 14 October 1940) was a Polish film actress and director.
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• Name — Diana Karenne • Birth Name — Dina Rabinovich • Born — 4 July 1889 • Birthplace — Kiev, Russian Empire • Died — 14 October 1940 1888 • Place of death — Aachen, Germany • Occupation — * Actress • screenwriter • producer • director • Years Active — 1916-1940
Career and death
Career and death
She appeared in more than 40 films between 1916 and 1940. In 1917, she opened her film production company in Milan. Injured in a World War II Allied bombing raid on Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) in July 1940, after three months in a coma, she died in October of the same year without having regained consciousness.
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• Sofia di Kravonia (1916) • Redemption (1919) • Miss Dorothy (1920) • Sophy of Kravonia; or, The Virgin of Paris (1920) • Playing with Fire (1921) • Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King (1922) • Poor Sinner (1923) • The Wife of Forty Years (1925) • The Loves of Casanova (1927) • The Golden Vein (1928) • Pawns of Passion (1928) • A Woman with Style (1928) • The White Roses of Ravensberg (1929) • The Queen's Necklace (1929)
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
She also worked under the names Diana Karenne, Diana Karren and Anna Karènne. The authorities additionally record the heading Leucadia Konstantin.
Diana Karenne in Redenzione, conosciuto anche come Maria di Magdala, film diretto da Carmine Gallone, 1919
IMMAGINE - autunno 1991
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1889
Diana Karenne born at Gdańsk.
1940
Diana Karenne died at Aachen.
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Gdańsk.
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Aachen.
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- 1.Enciclopedia dello spettacolo, cit. in bibliografia.
- 2.Non solo dive, cit. in bibliografia, p. 319.
- 3.Aldo Bernardini, Diana Karenne in Immagine, note di storia del cinema, seconda serie, n. 18, autunno 1991.
- 4.Dive italiane del muto, cit. in bibliografia, p. 210 - 214.
- 5.Modugno, cit. in bibliografia, p. 21.
- 6.Cfr. Giorgio de Vincenti Storia del cinema italiano, uno sguardo di insieme, Venezia - Roma, Marsilio - Edizioni di Bianco e nero, 2011, p.104.
- 7.Cfr. Roberto Chiti, Dizionario dei registi del cinema muto italiano, Roma, Museo Internazionale Cinema e Spettacolo, 1997.
- 8.Cfr. Tempesta d'arte sulla rive del Po, di Enrico Roma, in Film, n.30 del 27 luglio 1940.
- 9.Cfr. Aldo Bernardini, Le imprese del cinema muto italiano, Bologna, Persiani, 2015, ISBN 978-88-98874-23-1, p. 217.
- 10.Cristina Iandelli, La più intelligente di tutte in Non solo dive, cit. in bibliografia, p. 56.
- 11.Cfr. Georges Sadoul, Storia generale del cinema, vol. 2°, ed. ital. Torino, Einaudi, 1965, p.572.
- 12.Paolella, cit. in bibliografia, p. 484.
- 13.La rivista cinematografica, n.22 del 25 novembre 1921
- 14.Notizia in Eco del cinema, n. 14, febbraio 1925.
- 15.Filmlexicon, cit. in bibliografia.
- 16.Le dive del silenzio, cit. in bibliografia, p.142.
- 17.Alacci, cit. in bibliografia, p.34
- 18.Fausto Maria Martini, L'esule delusa sul mensile In penombra, luglio 1918.
- 19.Alcuni frammenti superstiti di pellicole interpretate dalla Karenne sono riprodotti nel documentario Le pioniere della macchina da presa, realizzato nel 1993 da Paola Faloja.
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