Leda Gys

Birth : 1892-03-10, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Death : 1957-10-02

History

Leda Gys (March 10, 1892 - October 2, 1957) was an Italian film actress of the silent era.

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Leda Gys

Movies

La Madonnina de' marinai
Mariella
Napule... e niente cchiù
Napoli è una canzone
Rossella
Profanazione
To save her profligate brother from disgrace, Giulia (Leda Gys) gives herself to her husband’s best friend and finds herself pregnant; years later her children’s paternity is called into question.
Vedi Napoli e poi muori
Pupatella
An American director comes to Italy to shoot a film about the beautiful city of Naples, casting Pupatella (Leda Gys), a native of Santa Lucia, the sailors' neighborhood, in the movie. Eager to become a film star, Pupatella returns to America with Billy, but their relationship is destroyed by a misunderstanding.
Santarellina
Esclave
La trappola
The life and loves of Leda, from orphan in a convent boarding school to film star, narrated through the pages of her diary and her correspondence with her best friend. Leda falls in love with her friend’s fiancé, but a timely letter brings the situation to a satisfactory conclusion for everyone. (giornatedelcinemamuto.it)
Mia moglie si è fidanzata
Leda
Italian silent film
Lilly e Lillette o l'arte di farsi amare
Lilly / Lillette
Italian silent film
Nobody's Children
Luisa / Suor Dolore
In 1921, Titanus released a three-part serial based on a popular Italian novel from the turn of the 20th century: Nobody’s Children by Ruggero Rindi. The tale of lovers thwarted by class differences, of illegitimate children and parental recognition denied was a major success for producer Gustavo Lombardo and leading lady Leda Gys.
Treno di lusso
Christus
La Madonna
Antamoro's CHRISTUS, epic in scale and ambition, and featuring decidedly otherworldly special effects, was released in 1916. Telling the story of the Life of Christ, the film is divided into three segments-- three Mysteries. The first of these includes the Birth of Jesus, the arrival of the Magi, Herod and the slaughter of the innocents, the flight into Egypt. The second Mystery features the expulsion of the merchants from the Temple, Mary Magdalene's conversion and Christ's entry into Jerusalem. The third Mystery is itself divided into three separate parts, which are The Passion, The Death and The Resurrection.
The Wedding March
Susanna Lechatelier
Grazia de Plessans abandons her studies in a convent following a mystical crisis. In her paternal house, she studies music together with maestro Claudio Morillot with whom she ends up falling in love.
The Masked Amazon
Nadia
Silent adventure film in which a horse riding woman has to save her husband from prison in a enemy country.
Pierrot the Prodigal
Louisette
A example of female fantasy is L'Histoire d'un Pierrot (1913), based on a musical pantomime by Mario Costa with Francesca Bertini in the role of Pierrot and Leda Gys as Louisette. The young and naive Pierrot is led astray by the evil wine merchant Pochinet (Emilio Ghione). He hopes to distract Pierrot with drinking and gambling while he tries to seduce Louisette.