[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]
Maria Luigia Carteny was an Italian production designer, costume designer and film actress. She is often confused in film credits with Simonetta Santaniello who played Maureen McBain in Sergio Leone’s 1968 “Once Upon a Time in the West”. Marilu had worked as a costume designer on Italian films since 1950. She became a production designer in 1970.
Carteny also designed costumes for two other Spaghetti westerns Quién sabe? (A Bullet for the General) and Dio perdona ... io no! 1967 (God Forgives… I Don’t!) both in 1967.
She actually appears on screen in a small role as one of the mourners at the McBain ranch in the funeral scene.
CARTENY, Marilù (aka Marilyn Cartemy, Maria Luigia
Carteny, Marilu Carteny) (Maria Luigia Carteny) [Italian] –
production designer, costume designer, film actress.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - 1965 (observer at Tuco's hanging)
Once Upon a Time in the West – 1968 (mourner at McBain
funeral)
Also watching Tuco's hanging in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
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ReplyDeleteHello, Tomas. I found on a westerns website that Marilu Carteny was born on November 25, 1938 in Genoa, Italy. She died in 2009.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the information but doubt it is correct as he first credit was in 1950 making her 11 years-old.
ReplyDeleteHello, Tomas. It seems to me that Marilu Carteny was born in 1910. Ifound a record in MyHeritage for a Maria Luigia Carteny, born 1910. What do you think .
ReplyDeleteThat would make more sense as like said her first credit was in 1950 making her 40 years old. I'll use your information and see what I can find.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Ancestry,com there was a Marilu Carteny in the phone directory in Rome at least until 2005. I'll take 1910 as her date of birth. Thanks again for the information.
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