Tamara Đorđević (born Italina Lida Kravanja; 7 July 1907 – 10 May 1979), known professionally as Ita Rina, was a Slovenian film actress and beauty queen.
Rina retired from her career shortly after her wedding in 1931, when she changed her religion from Roman Catholic to Serbian Orthodox and her name to Tamara Đorđević.
Ita Rina was born on 7 July 1907 in the small town of Divača (then Austro-Hungarian Empire, later Yugoslavia, now Slovenia) as Italina Lida Kravanja.
[1] Shortly after the outbreak of the World War I, the family moved to Ljubljana, where Rina matriculated in 1923.
In October 1926, Slovenski narod (Slovenian People) magazine organized a beauty pageant, and Rina entered the competition.
[2] Meanwhile, she married Miodrag Đorđević in 1931, and changed her religion from Roman Catholic to Serbian Orthodox.
[1] After the bombing of Belgrade in 1941, the family moved to Vrnjačka Banja, where Rina gave birth to a daughter, Tijana.
[1][2] After receipt of a letter she had written to President Tito, Rina began working as a co–production advisor in Avala Film.
[1] She returned to the silver screen once, in the 1960 film Atomic War Bride, directed by Veljko Bulajić.
[1][2][3] She was buried a few days later in Belgrade, in the presence of numerous film artists, admirers, friends and family.