Maria Carmi was born on March 3, 1880 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy as Eleanora Erna Cecilia Gilli. She was an actress, known for Das Mirakel (1912), A Venetian Night (1914) and Der Weg des Todes (1916). She was married to Georges V. Matchabelli and Karl Vollmöller. She died on August 4, 1957 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA.
June 15, 1957, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States
Place Of Birth
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Profession
Actress
Spouse
Georges V. Matchabelli (m. 1916), Karl Vollmöller (m. 1904–1920)
Movies
Das Mirakel, The Miracle
Star Sign
Pisces
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Fact
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Maria Carmi went to the USA in 1923 at the invention of Max Reinhardt and acted there in a new production of "Das Mirakel" in New York. After a tour through Detroit, Milwaukee and Dallas she opened a drama school in New York.
2
The movie "Das Mirakel" (1912) wasn't a film in this sense, it was more a shooting of a theater production, but Vollmoeller's "Eine venezianische Nacht" (1913) was captured on the screen in a manner of a motion picture.
3
She returned after World War I to Italy where her former German movies were great successes. But the affiliation with the Italian film wasn't granted to her. After only two movies she decided to devote completely to the theater.
4
In Germany she acted among others in two dramas of Karl Gustav Vollmoeller who she got married in 1904. When both stage plays of Vollmoeller were finally filmed, Maria Carmi could lay the foundation of her short career in the film business.
5
At the beginning of World War I she returned to Berlin and acted in movies mostly directed by Robert Reinert.
6
Because of her charisma Maria Carmi was like made for the highbrow melodramas "Sperduti nel bulo" (1914) and "Teresa Raquin" (1914).
7
During a guest performance in London she got in contact with the Italian Cines company and varied her engagements between German and Italian productions in the next years.
8
She began her stage career at Max Reinhardt's acting school and belonged to his company from 1907 to 1909. From 1911 she was also engaged on Italian stages.
9
After the war and her divorce from Vollmoeller in 1917 she got married a second time in the same year with Prince George V. Matchabelli and became Princess Norina Matchabelli.
10
When Maria Carmi became a supporter of the Guru Meher Baba the marriage with Prince Matchabelli got divorced. She remained active to the Guru till to her death and lived in poor circumstances in India till she had to return to the USA because of her carcinosis.