Word: cortesa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Valentina Cortesa, 25, Italian-born cinemactress (Thieves' Highway), and Richard Basehart, 27, Ohio-born cinemactor (Fourteen Hours) : their first child, a son. Name: John. Weight...
Valentina Cortesa, borrowing the identity of a dead fellow Pole in the concentration camp, comes to the U.S. to claim her friend's child and fortune. She marries the boy's guardian and moves with him to the house on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, where the boy and his ice-blonde governess are already installed. Soon Valentina is asking herself a familiar Hollywood question: "Is my husband trying to kill...
Sydney Greenstreet and Valentina Cortesa, the mainstays of the supporting cast, do an excellent job of keeping up the oriental atmosphere. Greenstreet, a stock character in exotic movies, plays a saloon-keeper who trades with both Japs and Allies, while Cortesa is a halfbreed singer who does just about the same thing, but what they do or say is unimportant; it's the remarkable far-eastern aura they create that counts...