1. Paola di Gerfalco, Contessa di Gerfalco, better known by her professional name Paola Mori, was an Italian actress and aristocrat, and the third and last wife of Orson Welles.
17 Facts About Paola Mori
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Paola Mori was born in 1928 to an Italian aristocratic family.
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Paola Mori's father, a colonel in the Italian army under King Victor Emmanuel III, was a member of the anti-Mussolini resistance.
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In 1953, Mori met Orson Welles, and he cast her as the female lead of his film Mr Arkadin.
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Paola Mori's voice was dubbed by Billie Whitelaw to conceal her Italian accent.
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Paola Mori assisted Welles with The Trial by picking the musical score and appearing in a bit part.
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Paola Mori scouted locations for Chimes at Midnight and Don Quixote.
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Paola Mori helped with costume designs for Chimes at Midnight.
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Paola Mori described Mori as the best influence on Welles's life.
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Paola Mori was seated next to her husband when he was honored with the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award in February 1975.
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When Paola Mori found out about Kodar in 1984, she threw Welles out of their Nevada house, and neither Paola Mori nor Beatrice Welles saw him for much of the last year of his life, although they still talked regularly on the telephone.
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Paola Mori told him he could come back home as soon as he stopped lying to her.
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Paola Mori didn't come home during that last year of his life, but he and my mother talked on the phone every day.
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Paola Mori's widow questioned several deals signed by Welles in his final weeks that greatly benefited Kodar and had not been reviewed by his lawyer.
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However, Paola Mori died in a car accident before it was signed.
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Paola Mori was in an automobile accident in Las Vegas on August 12,1986, when a car driven by a family friend pulled into cross traffic and was broadsided.
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Paola Mori died from head injuries at Desert Springs Hospital in Las Vegas several hours later at the age of 57.