Maria Carmela Bonicatti was born on 8 April 1901 in Rome to a colonel and Teresa Rovere di Bergeggi. Her birth date has also been given as 17 April 1904.[2][3][4][5] Her brother was the cinematographer Mario Bonicatti.
In 1919, Bonicatti made her film debut in Ave Maria, gratia plena!, which was directed by Diana Karenne. She took on the stage name Carmen Boni, which was suggested by Karenne, and in the following years mostly played young, naïve girls in Italian comedies and romances and quickly advanced to leading roles, often directed by Guglielmo Zorzi.[6][7]
With the advent of talkies, Boni's career in Germany came to an end due to the language barrier. She returned to Italy, where she made her talkie debut in The Call Of the Heart (1930). In France, she starred in The Woman Dressed As a Man (1932).
Boni and Genina divorced in 1934, which also effectively ended their professional collaboration together. Boni attempted suicide shortly after their divorce, and remarried to the French actor and songwriter Jean Rigaux in 1936.[12] She did not appear in any films until The Count of Monte Cristo – Part 2: Retribution (1943). Her final screen appearance was in Man to Men (1948).[13]
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Boni died on 18 November 1963 in a traffic accident; another car crashed into hers on the Place des Ternes when she was on her way to eat lunch with her husband Rigaux.[14][15]
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^100 années Lumière: Rétrospective de l'œuvre documentaire des grands cinéastes français de Louis Lumière jusqu'à nos jours. Intermédia. 1991. ISBN9782906737327.
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