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In 1951, she married her The House on Telegraph Hill co-star Richard Basehart, with whom she returned to Italy. Cortese continued to appear in national and international productions; the most notable of this era include Joseph Mankiewicz's The Barefoot Contessa (1954) and Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Amiche (1955). [3]
After the death of his first wife Stephanie Klein, he married Italian Academy Award-nominated actress Valentina Cortese, with whom he had one son, actor Jackie Basehart; the couple divorced in 1960. [11] [12] In 1962, he married his third wife, Diana Lotery, with whom he had two children.
Jul 21, 2019 · She soon returned to Italy, where her actor husband Richard Basehart starred in Fellini’s 1954 masterpiece, La Strada, and Cortese had a supporting role the same year in The Barefoot...
Jul 10, 2019 · Valentina Cortese, an Italian film actress best known for her role as a fading, tippling movie diva in François Truffaut’s “Day for Night,” which earned her a 1975 Academy Award nomination and,...
- Paul Vitello
Jul 12, 2019 · Her co-star, however, who turns out in the story to be planning to murder her for her inheritance – the house on Telegraph Hill – was the American actor, Richard Basehart.
- Telegraph Obituaries
Jul 11, 2019 · Valentina Cortese, an Italian postwar actress who was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for her role as a fading diva in Francois Truffaut’s “Day for Night” but lost to Ingrid...
Jul 11, 2019 · When Basehart and Cortese divorced in 1960, he returned to the States, leaving her to raise their son, Jackie Basehart, who’d grow up to become an actor himself. Professionally, Cortese barely slowed down, though her choices were growing more eclectic.
