Silvana Mangano

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Silvana Mangano (Italian pronunciation: [sil na maano]; 19 April 1930 to 16 December 1989) was an Italian film actress. She was one of a generation of neorealists and went on to become a major female celebrity in the 1950s and 1960s, regarded as a sex symbol for the 1950s and 1960s. She received the David di Donatello Award for Best Actress three times - for The Verona Trial (1963), The Witches (1967), and The Scientific Cardplayer (1973) - and the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress twice.

Mangano, who was born in poverty during World War II, trained as a dancer and spent as a model before winning a Miss Rome beauty pageant in 1946. This resulted in her work in film; she won fame in Bitter Rice (1949) and went on to make a name for herself in film, including Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, Alberto Lattuada, and Vittorio De Sica. Her career lasted well into her 50s, with supporting roles in David Lynch's Dune (1984) and Nikita Mikhalkov Dark Eyes (1987).

Mangano was the wife of international film producer Dino De Laurentiis and had four children with him, including Veronica De Laurentiis and Raffaella De Laurentiis.

Early life

Mangano was born in Rome to an Italian father and an English mother (Ivy Webb of Croydon). During World War II, Mangano lived in poverty. She performed for seven years as a dancer but also as a model.

Mangano won the Miss Rome beauty pageant in 1946, and through this she gained a role in a Mario Costa film. She became a contestant in the Miss Italia competition a year later. The competition, which included the winner Lucia Bosé, Mangano, and several other potential actors of Italian cinema, such as Gina Lollobrigida, Eleonora Rossi Drago, and Gianna Maria Canale, became a springboard for a pool of potential actors, including the winner Lucia Bosé, Mangano.

Personal life

It is believed she had links with Iranian Mohammad Reza Shah during the late 1940s. The couple, who were married to film director Dino De Laurentiis, had four children: Veronica, Raffaella, Francesca, and Federico. Giada De Laurentiis, Veronica's daughter, is the presenter of Everyday Italian and Giada at Home on the Food Network. Raffaella co-produced with her father on Mangano's penultimate film, Dune (David Lynch, 1984). Federico died in an airplane crash in Alaska in 1981. In 1983, De Laurentiis and Mangano married, and Mangano began divorce proceedings in 1988.

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Career

Mangano's earliest connection with filmmaking occurred through her romantic relationship with actor Marcello Mastroianni. This led her to a film contract, though it took some time for Mangano to ascend to international stardom with her performance in Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro, Giuseppe De Santis, 1949). She signed a contract with Lux Film in 1949, and later married producer Dino De Laurentiis.

Although she never had an international career to match her contemporaries Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida, Mangano remained a favorite star between the 1950s and 1970s, appearing in Anna (Alberto Lattuada, 1951), L'oro di Napoli (Vittorio De Sica, 1954), Mambo (Robert Rossen, 1955), Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968), Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti, 1971), The Scientific Cardplayer (Luigi Comencini, 1972), and Ludwig (Luchino Visconti, 1973). She played the lead role in the 1967 anthology film The Witches, which featured segments directed by Pasolini, Visconti, De Sica, and Mauro Bolognini. She collaborated four times with Pasolini and Visconti.

Over the course of her career, Mangano won the David di Donatello for Best Actress three times and the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress twice. Her final film role was in Nikita Mikhalkov for Dark Eyes, for which received a Nastro d'Argento nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Although it was sung by Flo Sandon's, Silvana Mangano was credited on the record label of "El Negro Zumbón", which is from the soundtrack of the film Anna (1951) and was a hit song in 1953. A clip of the opening of this performance is featured in the film Cinema Paradiso (1988).

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