Spanish postcard by Leonar. Union universal de correos. Photo: Itala Film. Maria Jacobini in Addio giovinezza!/Goodbye Youth (Augusto Genina, 1918), a silent film adaptation of the play by Sandro Camasio and Nino Oxilia.
Among the Italian divas, Maria Jacobini (1892-1944) was an island of serenity, as Vittorio Martinelli expressed it, the personification of goodness, of simple love. Her weapon was her sweet and gracious smile. In some Italian and later also some German films, however, she could play as well the vivacious lady, the femme fatale, the comedienne, the hysterical victim and the suffering mother or wife.
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