Mimì Aylmer

Mimì Aylmer (29 May 1896 – 20 October 1992) was an Italian stage and film actress. Aylmer emerged as a star in the Fascist era, appearing in films such as the drama Like the Leaves (1935).^[1]

Mimì Aylmer
Mimì Aylmer in 1929
Born	Eugenia Spadoni (1896-05-29)29 May 1896 Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Died	20 October 1992(1992-10-20) (aged 96) Bologna, Italy
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1914–1951 (film)

Life and career

Born Eugenia Spadoni in Rome into a bourgeois Pisan family, she debuted in 1913 at the age of seventeen as a chanteuse and was immediately hired by the Riviste Papa stage company.^[2] In 1914 she starred in her first film, Colei che tutto soffre by Amleto Palermi, and was a major star for over twenty years, until 1936.^[2] After the war, she appeared in two films in character roles, then she definitely retired from showbusiness in 1959 and in 1964 she moved to Bologna to stay in a rest home for artists.^[2]

Selected filmography

• The Telephone Operator (1932)
• Two Happy Hearts (1932)
• Like the Leaves (1935)
• Lohengrin (1936)
• Bayonet (1936)
• Hearts at Sea (1950)
• Revenge of the Pirates (1951)