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Edy Vessel
Italian actress and businesswoman
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Born | Edoarda Vesselovsky () 8 March (age&#;84) Trieste, Italy |
Occupation | Actress |
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Spouses | Camillo Crociani &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#; |
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Edoarda Vesselovsky (born 8 March ), better known by her stage nameEdy Vessel, Edi Vessel, or Edy Vesel, is an Italian actress and businesswoman.
Biography
Vesselovsky was born in Trieste in [1][2] In her youth, she worked as a model in the local boutiques while attending school.[1] She landed a part as a chorus girl in a Wanda Osiris revue, where she was discovered by Mario Mattoli, who cast her in her debut film role in the film Guardatele ma non toccatele [Look, But Don't Touch].[1]
This was followed by a dozen films, culminating with a role in Fellini's8½.[1][2] After this film, Vessel abandoned her film career.[2]
Personal life
In Vessel started a relationship with Italian businessman Camillo Crociani&#;[it]; once he obtained the annulment of his first marriage from the Roman Rota, the couple married in [2] Heavily implicated in a bribery scandal involving Lockheed Corporation's alleged bribery of government officials to induce the purchase of Lockheed planes, Crociani moved the whole family to Mexico.
Upon Crociani's death in , Vessel remarried to Count Pierluigi Vitalini and assumed control of Crociani's company Ciset (later to become Vitrociset), resulting in a court battle with Crociani's children from his first marriage.[3][4]
Vessel purchased Les canots amarrés by Vincent van Gogh at Sotheby's from Scottish collector Royan Middleton in [5]
Filmography
- Guardatele ma non toccatele (Mario Mattoli, ) - Maggie
- Il raccomandato di ferro (Marcello Baldi, )
- Tipi da spiaggia (Mario Mattoli, ) - Lucy
- Un dollaro di fifa (Giorgio Simonelli, )
- The Passionate Thief (Mario Monicelli, ) - La ragazza
- The Thief of Baghdad (Arthur Lubin and Bruno Vailati, ) - Kadeejah
- Sword of the Conqueror (Carlo Campogalliani, ) - Matilda
- The Trojan Horse (Giorgio Ferroni, ) - Helen
- Psycosissimo (Steno, ) - Annalisa Michelotti
- Seven Seas to Calais (Primo Zeglio, ) - Arabella Ducleau
- 8½ (Federico Fellini, ) - L'indossatrice
- Rocambole (Bernard Borderie, ) - Cléo Santelli (singer) (final film role)