Trivia

Gregory Peck, who worked with Alida in The Paradine Case (1947), said of her, "Not only are her shapes and features perfect: from her eyes radiates an irresistible flashing of love."

Involved in an infamous drug, sex and murder scandal in 1954.

Her name Alida means "flies like a bird."

Voiced the character of "Dr. Constance Petersen" in a 1940s radio broadcast of Alfred Hitchcock's classic, Spellbound (1945).

Received a special tribute as part of the Annual Memorial tribute at The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007).

Alida Valli was fluent in several languages,i.e. English, French, Italian and her primary language was Serbo-Croatian.

She is buried in the Cimitero Monumentale del Verano in Rome.

Her mother, Silvia Obrekar, was born in Pola, Italy (now Croatia).

Grandmother of actor-director Pierpaolo De Mejo.

Mother of actor Carlo De Mejo and of Lorenzo De Mejo.

Entered films at 15.

Appeared in many routine productions but soon became one of the Italian screen's leading young stars due to her unusual beauty and natural charm.

The daughter of an Austrian journalist and an Italian mother.

Was engaged to Piero Piccioni in the fifties.

Orson Welles plays Valli's lover in The Third Man (1949) but has limited screen time and was notoriously absent for much of the shooting. According to Graham Greene's biographer Norman Sherry, when Welles saw the finished product his main emotion was remorse that he had missed the opportunity to make a move on Valli.