Giulia Cassini Rizzotto

Giulia Cassini Rizzotto (15 June 1865 – 24 August 1943) was an Italian actress and film director, kindergarten teacher, novelist, translator and writer.

[1] An early appearance was in 1914 in Paternità, a short film that also starred Alfonso Cassini and Eugenio de Liguoro.

[2] Her acting in La Piccola Manon was well received but Lya Isauro and Alberto Monti who took leading roles less so.

[2]: 116  The film's story was her idea and it involved two couples where the women are rich and the men are penniless aristocrats.

[2]: 116 In later life, towards the end of the 1920s, Rizzotto travelled to Argentina with Maria Melato's theatre group, following the death of her husband.

La Piccola Manon , her 1920 film
Cassini Rizzotto in Malombra in 1917