-
She was married to Oscar De Mejo from 1944 to 1952 and had two children with him.
-
At 15 years old she went to Rome, where she attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.
-
She was christened Alida Maria Laura von Altenburger, Baroness of Marckenstein and Freuenberg.
-
At one point in her life, she refused to make any movies for Italy.
-
She voiced the character Dr. Constance Petersen in a 1940s radio broadcast of Hitchcock's classic Spellbound.
-
Her name Alida means "flies like a bird."
-
She is the mother of actor Carlo De Mejo and of Lorenzo De Mejo.
-
She was involved in an infamous drug, sex, and murder scandal in 1954.
-
Her mother was shot by anti-fascists in 1945.