Actress. She was an Italian stage and film actress, whose career bloomed during the Fascist era in Italy. Born Eugenia Spadoni into a wealthy family of Tuscan ancestry, she made her debut in the world of entertainment, pretending to be of English nationality. At age nineteen, she changed her name to Mimì Aylmer and started her career, successfully singing in café-concerts, which led to various impresarios and theater companies. In 1914 she was hired for the stage by the Compagnia di rivista Papa, alongside Guido Riccioli, and Luciano Molinari, and in 1917 she obtained the role of "prima soubrette" in the company of Carlo Lombardi. With the same role she then moved on to the Bartoli National Company, to the Vannutelli Company of Operettas, until arriving at the Compagnia Città di Milano. With great success and popularity, which she obtained in the interpretations of the Princess della Czarda and the musical comedy "La Piccola Cioccolataia", she pushed her to move to prose theater starting from 1921. After World War I, she joined the Compagnia del Teatro Sperimentale directed by Virgilio Talli, subsequently she held the role of Prima Attrice with Antonio Gandusio, continuing to act with Ruggero Ruggeri and Aristide Baghetti until the end of the 1920s, when she gradually abandoned the theatrical scenes. Between 1914 and 1920, she also participated in some silent films, such as "Colei che tutto soffre" in 1914 and "La straniera" in 1930. She made a dozen films until 1951, when she decided to permanently retire to private life. Far from the entertainment scene, in October of 1964, she entered, a rest home for artist, the Lyda Borelli House for Artists and Show Business Operators in Bologna. In 1966 she published "Il Romanzo della Mia Vita", an autobiographical novel. In the novel, she narrates her own personal, artistic and sentimental story: from the historic participation in the Mille Miglia car race in 1929 paired with Eugenio Stiniasacchi, at the wheel of a Lancia Lambda sedan, ranking 29th overall; to her career as an artist; to her famous loves, among are remembered the relations had with Umberto II of Savoy and with Galeazzo Ciano.
Actress. She was an Italian stage and film actress, whose career bloomed during the Fascist era in Italy. Born Eugenia Spadoni into a wealthy family of Tuscan ancestry, she made her debut in the world of entertainment, pretending to be of English nationality. At age nineteen, she changed her name to Mimì Aylmer and started her career, successfully singing in café-concerts, which led to various impresarios and theater companies. In 1914 she was hired for the stage by the Compagnia di rivista Papa, alongside Guido Riccioli, and Luciano Molinari, and in 1917 she obtained the role of "prima soubrette" in the company of Carlo Lombardi. With the same role she then moved on to the Bartoli National Company, to the Vannutelli Company of Operettas, until arriving at the Compagnia Città di Milano. With great success and popularity, which she obtained in the interpretations of the Princess della Czarda and the musical comedy "La Piccola Cioccolataia", she pushed her to move to prose theater starting from 1921. After World War I, she joined the Compagnia del Teatro Sperimentale directed by Virgilio Talli, subsequently she held the role of Prima Attrice with Antonio Gandusio, continuing to act with Ruggero Ruggeri and Aristide Baghetti until the end of the 1920s, when she gradually abandoned the theatrical scenes. Between 1914 and 1920, she also participated in some silent films, such as "Colei che tutto soffre" in 1914 and "La straniera" in 1930. She made a dozen films until 1951, when she decided to permanently retire to private life. Far from the entertainment scene, in October of 1964, she entered, a rest home for artist, the Lyda Borelli House for Artists and Show Business Operators in Bologna. In 1966 she published "Il Romanzo della Mia Vita", an autobiographical novel. In the novel, she narrates her own personal, artistic and sentimental story: from the historic participation in the Mille Miglia car race in 1929 paired with Eugenio Stiniasacchi, at the wheel of a Lancia Lambda sedan, ranking 29th overall; to her career as an artist; to her famous loves, among are remembered the relations had with Umberto II of Savoy and with Galeazzo Ciano.
Bio by: Ruggero
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