Caterina Boratto
Caterina Boratto (15 March 1915 – 14 September 2010) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1936 and 1993.
Born in Turin, Boratto studied at the Musical Lyceum in her hometown with the purpose of becoming a singer; noted by Guido Brignone, she made her debut in To Live, alongside Tito Schipa. Thanks to the film's success, she immediately became a star in the Telefoni Bianchi genre, and also got a seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which eventually dissolved because of World War II.
In 1943, Boratto lost two brothers, the partisan Renato and the soldier Filiberto, killed in the massacre of the Acqui Division. In 1944, she married a doctor, Armando Ceratto, with whom she had two children. Except for a film in 1951, she basically retired from show business for twenty years before accepting to play two key roles in 8½ and Juliet of the Spirits by Federico Fellini, who had known her in the set of The Peddler and the Lady, where he had served as screenwriter. Starting from the second half of the 1960s, Boratto resumed appearing in films with some regularity, and from the late 1970s, she also became very active on television, being cast in dozens of TV series.
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Movies (47)
Fellini dice...
2006 · Self
Once Upon a Crime
1992 · Madame de Senneville
The Sleazy Uncle
1989 · passante
The Last Emotion
1989
Phantom of Death
1988 · Robert's Mother
32nd of December
1988 · Carlotta
Un caso d'incoscienza
1985
My Friends Act III
1985 · Amalia Pecci Bonetti
Claretta
1984 · Giuseppina Petacci
Fellini nel cestino
1983 · Self
Ehrengard
1982 · contessa von Gassner
That Night of Varennes
1982 · Madame Faustine
Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici
1981 · signora Colombo
The House by the Edge of the Lake
1979 · Kira - The Witch
First Love
1978 · Lucy
This Is the Night
1977
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976 · Signora Castelli
Footprints on the Moon
1975 · Boutique Owner
The Beautiful Summer
1974 · The Princess
Story of a Cloistered Nun
1973 · Mother of Carmela
The Off-Road Girl
1973 · Silvia Marino
Lady Caroline Lamb
1972
The House of Doves
1972 · Virginia
Hector the Mighty
1972 · Ecuba
Symphony of Love
1970 · Principessa Vorokin
Jet Set Swingers
1970 · Marco's Mother
Castle Keep
1969 · Red Queen
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
1969 · Self
The Lady of Monza
1969 · Sister Francesca Imbersaga
Danger: Diabolik
1968 · Lady Clark
Tonight I'll Throw Me
1967
Hello... There's a Certain Giuliana for You
1967 · Aunt Amelia
The Tiger and the Pussycat
1967 · Della
Don't Sting the Mosquito
1967 · Marchioness Filangeri
Pardon, Are You for or Against?
1966 · Agnese Frustalupi
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
1966 · Luigia, Peppino's Sister-in-law
Juliet of the Spirits
1965 · Giulietta's mother
8½
1963 · Mysterious Lady
Double Cross
1951 · Clara Vanzetti
The Peddler and the Lady
1943 · Elsa Bianchini
Dente per dente
1943 · Isabella
Il romanzo di un giovane povero
1942 · Margherita Laroque
I figli del marchese Lucera
1939 · Giannina
Hanno rapito un uomo
1938 · La granduchessa Sonia
Who Is Happier Than I?
1938 · Rina
Marcella
1937 · Marcella
Vivere!
1936 · Paola
