 There, billed as the "Italian Marlene Dietrich", she played several femme fatale roles in films such as "Hotel Imperial" (1939) and "Adventure in Diamonds" (1940).She returned to Italy soon after the outbreak of World War II and continued to act on the stage and to make films.In 1949, she starred in René Clément's "The Walls of Malapaga", which won an Academy Award for the most outstanding foreign language film of 1950, and for Miranda, the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.