Alba Arnova

Born in Buenos Aires as Alba Fossati, daughter of two Italian emigrants, Arnova studied piano at the Conservatory and enrolled in the university at the medical faculty.[4] She became the principal classical dancer of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and changed her surname first to Ars Nova and then to Arnova.[5] She left Argentina in 1948, for a six months stage tour, and eventually remained in Rome, where she worked first in theater as a classical dancer and as a revue and avanspettacolo soubrette. She began acting in films in 1949, though usually in minor roles.[5]

In 1956 Arnova created a controversy when she appeared on the RAI television variety show La piazzetta wearing a tight leotard that made her appear semi-nude because of the lighting effects and the black-and-white system. The show was suspended and she was subsequently fired and banned from Italian television. She subsequently chose to leave showbusiness.[6]

Arnova was married to composer and conductor Gianni Ferrio.

• Al diavolo la celebrità, Director: Mario Monicelli and Steno (1949)
• La strada buia, Director: Sidney Salkow and Marino Girolami (1950)
• La cintura di castità, Director: Camillo Mastrocinque (1950)
• Miracle in Milan, Director: Vittorio De Sica (1950)
• Totò Tarzan, Director: Mario Mattoli (1951)
• Arrivano i nostri, Director: Mario Mattoli (1951)
• O.K. Nerone, Director: Mario Soldati (1951)
• Altri tempi, Director: Alessandro Blasetti (1952)
• Finalmente libero, Director: Mario Amendola (1953)
• Loving You Is My Sin, Director: Sergio Grieco (1953)
• Aida, Director: Clemente Fracassi (1953)
• My Life Is Yours, Director: Giuseppe Masini (1953)
• La Gioconda, Director: Giacinto Solito (1953)
• Amori di mezzo secolo, Director: Mario Chiari (1954)
• Cento anni d'amore, Director: Lionello De Felice (1954)
• Red and Black, Director: Domenico Paolella (1954)
• Farewell, My Beautiful Lady, Director: Fernando Cerchio (1954)
• The Lady of the Camellias, Director: Raymond Bernard (1954)
• Una donna prega, Director: Anton Giulio Majano (1954)
• Tempi nostri, Director: Alessandro Blasetti (1954)
• L'amante di Paride, Director: Marc Allègret (1954)
• Figaro, barbiere di Siviglia, Director: Camillo Mastrocinque (1955)
• I pinguini ci guardano, Director: Guido Leoni (1955)
• Il motivo in maschera, Director: Stefano Canzio (1955)
• La ribalta dei sogni, Director: Ernesto Araciba (1955)
• Una viuda difícil ' ' Director Fernando Alaya (1957)
• Gerusalemme liberata, Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (1957)
• Europa di notte, Director: Alessandro Blasetti (1959)

• Alba Arnova at IMDb