Valeria Creti

Biography

Valeria Creti’s silhouette flickers only on the margins of film history, yet every frame she graced still pulses. Born Valeria Peretti, she stepped into the movies at the side of her husband, Vasco Creti—whose sister, Amelia Chellini, was already a screen magnet. Together the couple steered their talents toward the fledgling Reiter-Carini outfit, then, late in 1912, helped launch the short-lived Torino Films experiment. By 1913 they had migrated to Savoia Films where Valeria took centre stage in the brooding Miarka Romanè and Il carnefice opposite Roncoroni, while also turning in a key performance in Poor Children! Corona Films snapped the pair up in 1914; for the next two years they alternated between joint projects and solo ventures. Under Giuseppe Giusti’s direction Valeria rode the 12:35 train in Il treno delle 12.35, matched wits with pirates in Il ritorno del pirata, confronted superstition in Il castell del ragno, faced the headsman’s axe in La scure, unravelled mysteries in Il promo comando, followed Deigo Trism’s gaze in L'occhio di Deigo Trism, weighed justice in Signori giurati, and exposed backstage murder in Il delitto dell'opera. After 1916 the projector lights dimmed on her story; the reels survive, the woman vanished.