Dalida filmography

Throughout her acting career, Dalida had mainly thriller, comedy, drama, and romance films. She has appeared in twelve films, of which are ten action movies and two documentaries. She has two commercial appearances on TV. Before she started her singing career in 1956, she had two film roles, both in 1954. Her first movie was supposed to be stunt for Rita Hayworth in 1954 movie Joseph and his Brethren, but the shooting was cancelled. Eventually her first role was a minor one, in early 1954 after winning Miss Egypt, in movie Le Masque de Toutankhamon where she acted a dancer that is actually a spy. Same years she appears in Sigarah wa kas, from which came an iconic scene that was later often mentioned through her singing career, recalling on her debut years; Iolanda dances, sings and seduces her boss doctor in his family home, in front of eyes of his wife and other guests.

The rest of her acting career she spent by acting in B movies, largely main roles. None of her movies achieved big success as she dreamed to achieve, but every time she received the perfect criticism that pointed to her great, but untapped talent. She made the most effort and expressed herself mostly in her last movie Le sixième jour, when she even read the book before script, and connected herself with main character, Sadikka.

She also recorded several scoptione videos for her songs in the 60s.

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes Ref
1954 Le Masque de Toutankhamon "short role of a spy" [1]
1954 A Glass and a Cigarette Iolanda [2]
1958 Brigade des moeurs
(Vice Squad)		 Herself [3]
1958 Rapt au deuxième bureau
(Operation Abduction)		 Bella Morena [4]
1961 Che femmina... e che dollari! Laura Pisani [5]
1963 L'inconnue de Hong Kong
(Stranger from Hong-Kong)		 Georgia [6]
1965 Menage all'italiana
(Household alla Italiana)		 Armida [7]
1966 La morale de l'histoire
(The moral of the story)		 Colette [8]
1968 13 jours en France Herself (Uncredited) Documentary [9]
1968 Io ti amo
(I Love You)		 Judy [10]
1977 Dalida: Pour toujours Herself Documentary
1986 Le sixième jour
(The Sixth Day)		 Saddika [11]

Commercials
Year Company Promoting Theme Soundtrack Country
1960PermaflexMattressDalida laying on bed and talking about Permaflex mattressMes frèresItaly
1986Wizard SecAir freshenerDalida dancing through house and spraying around Wizard Sec on rhythm of musicAdaptation of Gigi l'amorosoFrance

See also

Footnotes
  1. Le Masque de Toutankhamon. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
  2. Sigara wa Kass. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
  3. Brigade des mœurs. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
  4. Rapt au deuxième bureau. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
  5. Che femmina... e che dollari!. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
  6. L'inconnue de Hong Kong. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
  7. Menage all'italiana. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
  8. La morale de l'histoire. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
  9. 13 jours en France. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
  10. Io ti amo. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
  11. Le sixième jour. IMDb. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
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