Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray

Born: February 2, 1928
Died: February 15, 2011
in Bolzano, Italy
Maria Luisa Mangini (2 February 1928 – 15 February 2011), better known as Dorian Gray, was an Italian actress.

Gray made her stage debut in 1950. After five years she left the theater world and devoted herself to the cinema.

The role she played most often in films was that of a seductive sex kitten. She played the titular "bad girl" in Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina. She also appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni's Il grido. In 1957, she took part in The Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini.

On February 15, 2011, Gray committed suicide by gunshot at her home in Torcegno. She was 83 years old; however, some media reported her age as 75, since she claimed to have been born in 1936.

Movies for Dorian Gray...

The Criminals of the Metropolis
Title: The Criminals of the Metropolis
Character: Denise
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A group of drug dealers clashes with the police several times between December 28th and New Year's Eve.
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Thrilling
Title: Thrilling
Character: Veronique (segment "Sadik")
Released: October 21, 1965
Type: Movie
An anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes.
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Commando
Title: Commando
Character: Nora
Released: November 14, 1962
Type: Movie
A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.
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Peccati d'estate
Title: Peccati d'estate
Character: Irene
Released: June 26, 1962
Type: Movie
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Finden Sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält?
Title: Finden Sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält?
Character: Marie-Louise Jörgensen
Released: March 29, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Orderly
Title: The Orderly
Character: Lauretta
Released: November 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Colonels, majors, lieutenants: all of them live in the same building. Some of them have a wife or children or none, but everyone has his orderly. Major Penna is harassed by Osvaldo's mother. Lt. Martucci gets involved in the love affair between Antonio, his orderly, and Lauretta.
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Destination Fury
Title: Destination Fury
Character: Pupina Micacci
Released: July 23, 1961
Type: Movie
Lemmy Caution has been assigned by Interpol to work as a double agent. Little does he know how many spies are on to this deception and how dangerous his assignment has become.
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...And Suddenly It's Murder!
Title: ...And Suddenly It's Murder!
Character: Eleonora Franzetti
Released: December 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.
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Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
Title: Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
Character: The maid
Released: September 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Italy signed the armistice and in the general confusion a corporal decides to bring the tank back from the coast to the barracks.
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Colossus and the Amazon Queen
Title: Colossus and the Amazon Queen
Character: Antiope
Released: September 8, 1960
Type: Movie
Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.
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Love and Larceny
Title: Love and Larceny
Character: Elena
Released: February 11, 1960
Type: Movie
Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
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The Surprises of Love
Title: The Surprises of Love
Character: Didi
Released: December 2, 1959
Type: Movie
This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries) of confused, mismatched, or ambivalent lovers. The script includes witty dialogue and humorous situations; most of all on display is the ridiculousness of the human compulsion to pair up. - timlin-4
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Vacations in Majorca
Title: Vacations in Majorca
Character: Hélène
Released: August 14, 1959
Type: Movie
Ugly, persistent, and (initially) annoying admirer pursues a beautiful actress. At first he is laughed of, especially by his ultra handsome rival, but with his firm insistence, and gradually emerging charm, he seduces the lady, to the total shocked surprise of his rival.
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Winter Holidays
Title: Winter Holidays
Character: Carol Field
Released: June 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, the prize of which is a free stay in a luxury hotel.
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Love on the Riviera
Title: Love on the Riviera
Character: Dorina
Released: November 27, 1958
Type: Movie
It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.
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Dangerous Women
Title: Dangerous Women
Character: Ornella
Released: November 26, 1958
Type: Movie
Federico, Bruno, Pirro and Benny are married. The first three have beautiful wifes, Benny instead is married to a ugly woman. Ornella is Bruno's wife, she is very jealous and maintains that all men are deceitful, granted the opportunity, while Claudine, Federico's wife, maintains the contrary point of view. So they bet that Tosca, a former dancer, will succeed in seducing Federico.
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Domenica è sempre domenica
Title: Domenica è sempre domenica
Character: Luciana
Released: April 5, 1958
Type: Movie
A television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will know how to sing". The award mirage lured many person, with ambitions or financial problems, to enroll in the competition.
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Nights of Cabiria
Title: Nights of Cabiria
Character: Jessy
Released: October 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
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Il Grido
Title: Il Grido
Character: Virginia
Released: September 26, 1957
Type: Movie
A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
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Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
Title: Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
Character: Valeria
Released: December 21, 1956
Type: Movie
Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.
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Guaglione
Title: Guaglione
Character: Nadia Lanti
Released: December 15, 1956
Type: Movie
This is an Italian Romance starring Terence Hill
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Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
Title: Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
Character: Marisa Florian
Released: August 23, 1956
Type: Movie
Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl).
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Totò Double or Nothing?
Title: Totò Double or Nothing?
Character: Hélène
Released: May 3, 1956
Type: Movie
The penniless Duke decides to participate in "Lascia o raddoppia", a TV quiz show, in order to win five million lira. Then two gangsters bet between themselves on his success and, alas, the Duke is kidnapped.
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Io piaccio
Title: Io piaccio
Character: Doriana Paris
Released: December 9, 1955
Type: Movie
Roberto Maldi, a young scientist, is trying to find a serum capable of giving courage but he unwittingly invents a serum which transforms any man in a womanizer. His boss scents a good business and wants to produce the serum on industrial basis, but Roberto does not agree.
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The Queen of Sheba
Title: The Queen of Sheba
Character: Ati
Released: November 6, 1952
Type: Movie
The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.
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Poppy
Title: Poppy
Released: May 3, 1952
Type: Movie
A high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets.
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Vendetta... sarda
Title: Vendetta... sarda
Character: Columba Porchiddu
Released: February 21, 1952
Type: Movie
A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death. He finds out he has to avenge his death instead.
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Appointment for Murder
Title: Appointment for Murder
Character: Vandina
Released: January 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's estranged husband does also.
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My Heart Sings
Title: My Heart Sings
Character: amichetta di Cocciaglia
Released: December 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Two two-bit singers become thieves to make ends meet. One day during a theft in the house of a music impresario they hear Marco an electrician gifted with a beautiful voice and give him some money to help for his debut as a singer.
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Il mago per forza
Title: Il mago per forza
Released: November 22, 1951
Type: Movie
In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.
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Damn the Taxes!!
Title: Damn the Taxes!!
Character: Margot
Released: September 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.