Marta Abba was an Italian actress who had a relationship with the famous Italian Nobel Prize winner playwright Luigi Pirandello. Marta Abba is most famous for her personal and artistic relationship with Luigi Pirandello. She was the sister of another actress, Cele Abba. After their meeting in 1923 and until his death in 1936, Marta Abba was the stimulus to Pirandello's creativity.

PropertyValue
dbpedia-owl:Person/birthDate
  • 1900-06-25 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:Person/deathDate
  • 1988-06-24 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:birthDate
  • 1900-06-25 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:deathDate
  • 1988-06-24 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:thumbnail
dbpprop:abstract
  • Marta Abba was an Italian actress who had a relationship with the famous Italian Nobel Prize winner playwright Luigi Pirandello. Marta Abba is most famous for her personal and artistic relationship with Luigi Pirandello. She was the sister of another actress, Cele Abba. After their meeting in 1923 and until his death in 1936, Marta Abba was the stimulus to Pirandello's creativity. She was an aspiring young 25 year old actress when she met the 58 year old acclaimed playwright, whose wife was confined to a mental asylum. From their correspondence it comes out how she not only inspired him but she also gave the ageing writer confidence in his work. Their relationship was complex but contributed much to the Italian theatre. Pirandello was obsessive in pursuit of what could be presumed to have remained an unconsummated affair. Marta was the true great actress for whom he had been waiting after his earlier bitter disappointment with Eleonora Duse. Luigi Pirandello's and Marta Abba's letters to each other have been published also in English. Marta Abba and Pirandello teamed up in 1925, and she appeared in many of his productions at the Rome Arts Theater. In 1930, Abba founded her own theatrical company and specialized in staging the works of Pirandello and other European playwrights like George Bernard Shaw, Gabriele d'Annunzio and Carlo Goldoni under the direction of prestigious directors like Max Reinhardt and Guido Salvini. Her Broadway theatre debut was in the play Tovarich at the Plymouth Theatre, (10/15/1936 - circa. 8/1937) in the role of Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna. Marta Abba's screen début in Broadway was in "Loyalty of Love", in 1937. In January 1938 she married a manufacturer of the powerful Millikin family and settled down in Cleveland, Ohio until 1952, when she divorced and returned to Italy. The last years of her life she suffered from paresis and had to use a wheelchair. She died, at 87, from a cerebral hemorrhage. She published her autobiography in Italian, La mia vita di attrice.
  • Marta Abba fue una célebre actriz de teatro y cine italiana. Una de las grandes actrices del "Novecento", fue la musa inspiradora de Luigi Pirandello con quien sostuvo una famosa relación epistolar que donó a la Universidad de Princeton. Se consagró como La gaviota de Anton Chejov. Formó su propia compañia en 1928 interpretando a George Bernard Shaw, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Carlo Goldoni dirigida por Max Reinhardt y Guido Salvini. En cine trabajó en 1934 en Teresa Confalonieri de Guido Brignone (hermano de Mercedes Brignone y padre de Lilla Brignone). En 1938 se casó en Estados Unidos con un industrial de la familia Milikin residiendo en Cleveland hasta 1952. Publicó una autobiografía llamada La mia vita di attrice.
dbpprop:bgcolour
  • silver
dbpprop:hasPhotoCollection
dbpprop:id
  • 7792 (xsd:integer)
dbpprop:imagesize
  • 200px
dbpprop:location
dbpprop:name
  • Marta Abba
dbpprop:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbpprop:wordnet_type
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Marta Abba was an Italian actress who had a relationship with the famous Italian Nobel Prize winner playwright Luigi Pirandello. Marta Abba is most famous for her personal and artistic relationship with Luigi Pirandello. She was the sister of another actress, Cele Abba. After their meeting in 1923 and until his death in 1936, Marta Abba was the stimulus to Pirandello's creativity.
  • Marta Abba fue una célebre actriz de teatro y cine italiana. Una de las grandes actrices del "Novecento", fue la musa inspiradora de Luigi Pirandello con quien sostuvo una famosa relación epistolar que donó a la Universidad de Princeton. Se consagró como La gaviota de Anton Chejov. Formó su propia compañia en 1928 interpretando a George Bernard Shaw, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Carlo Goldoni dirigida por Max Reinhardt y Guido Salvini.
rdfs:label
  • Marta Abba
  • Marta Abba
  • Marta Abba
owl:sameAs
skos:subject
foaf:depiction
foaf:name
  • Marta Abba
foaf:page
is owl:sameAs of