Silvana Mangano

Silvana Mangano is an actress Italy born the April 23rd 1930 with Rome and deceased of a cancer the December 16th 1989 with Madrid.

Biography

Girl of a sicilian railwayman and an English mother , it is high in a climate of poverty and deprivation, with her Roy older brother and her two younger sisters, Patrizia and Natascia. She discovers the dance with the Opera and, during seven years, his/her mother will make the effort pay him courses of dance at Jia Ruskaya, with Milan. Silvana becomes then mannequin with the Mascetti workshop. She takes part in several beauty contests and sees herself elected Miss Rome in 1946. She will contribute under Italy Miss, at the sides of Lucia Bose (elected Reine), Gina Lollobrigida, Eleonora Rossi Drago and Gianna Maria Canale, which will do everything career in the cinema.

She takes then courses of comedies and meets on this occasion its first great love, Marcello Mastroianni. Their union will last however little of time, but they will be re-examined regularly on the film sets. Its first appearance with the cinema will be in a figuration in 1945 in a French film, the last Judgment of Rene Chanas. The director Mario Costa the remark at that time and makes him turn a small role in " Elixir of amour".

The dedication arrives as of 1949 with bitter Riz (Riso amaro) of Giuseppe De Santis: she camps a rice provocante planter, with the white skin, bottoms with semi-thighs and the shameless air and is essential like the first “sex-symbol” of Italy of post-war period, a kind of national answer to the Hollywood ienne Rita Hayworth. Its marriage with the producer Dino de Laurentiis, the same year, enables him to manage its career as well as possible: in the seasons to come, it will make it work with the most famous actors, as well Italian like Vittorio Gassman, Raf Vallone, Alberto Sordi or Nino Manfredi that international like Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn or Anthony Perkins, in front of the cameras of scenario writers of prestige such as Mario Camerini, Vittorio de Sica, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti or Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Tempting, impassioned, pathetic or funny, it adapts to all the roles. And successes accumulate at a rate of approximately a turning per annum. Except two incursions into the kind Péplum, one with Mario Camerini for Ulysses in 1955, the other with Richard Fleischer for Barabbas in 1962, it offers superb compositions of roles in Anna with Lattuada, the Gold of Naples with of Sica, Hommes and wolves with of Santis, the Great War with Monicelli, Each one its alibi with Camerini or the Lawsuit of Vérone with Lizzani.

Progressively, its activity is done more selective. It chooses subjects of quality which will become admirable works. It will be on the one hand with Pasolini for Oedipus king in 1967, Théorème in 1968, Décaméron in 1971 and on the other hand with Visconti for Mort in Venice in 1971, Ludwig or the twilight of the gods in 1972, Violence and passion in 1974 without forgetting their Co-realization of the Sorcières in 1967.

After 1974, it leaves the film sets to devote itself to its family life. One will re-examine it only in 1984, in Dune , the film of David Lynch produces by his daughter, Raffaella de Laurentiis, and in 1987 at the sides of Marcello Mastroianni in the black Eyes (Oci ciornie) of Nikita Mikhalkov.

It will die out two years later in a private clinic inhabitant of Madrid, victim of a tumor to the lungs. It leaves the memory of a very large actress, estimated of the public and profession.

His/her brother Roy Mangano, Sound engineer, held the role of Jesus-Christ in the film Barabbas . She lived separate of her husband since 1983. She had four children with Dino de Laurentiis: Veronica, Raffaella (become producing), Federico and Francesca. The disappearance of Federico, deceased on July 15th, 1981, at the 21 years age, in an air crash in Alaska had plunged the actress during one time of depression.

Catalog of films

Rewards

  • 1955 : Ribbon of money of the best main actor for the Gold of Naples (Oro di Napoli)
  • 1963: David di Donatello of the best actress for the Lawsuit of Vérone (It Processo di Verona)
  • 1964: Ribbon of money of the best main actor for the Lawsuit of Vérone (It Processo di Verona)
  • 1967: David di Donatello of the best actress for the Witches (Streghe)
  • 1972: Ribbon of money of the best actress in a secondary role for Died in Venice (Dead has Venezia)
  • 1973: David di Donatello of the best actress for Money of the old woman (Lo Scopone scientifico)

External bonds

  • Silvana Mangano on the IMDb

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