Naldi, Nita (1897–1961)
Naldi, Nita (1897–1961)
Italian-American silent-screen actress. Born Anita Donna Dooley, April 1, 1897, in New York, NY; died Feb 17, 1961, in New York, NY; m. J. Searle Barclay, 1929 (died 1945).
A leading lady of 1920s, came to prominence in the Ziegfeld Follies; in Hollywood, was typecast as a screen siren in such silents as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), The Unfair Sex (1922), Blood and Sand (1922), The Ten Commandments (1923), Cobra (1925), A Sainted Devil (1925), The Marriage Whirl (1926) and The Lady Who Lied (1927); retired from film with advent of talkies.
See also Women in World History.
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