Silvana Mangano

Silvana Mangano (April 21, 1930 - December 16, 1989) was the most sexy actress of Italy's neo-realistic period. She was born in Rome, Italy. Trained as a dancer, she was supporting herself as a model.

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In 1946, at 16, Mangano won the Miss Rome beauty pageant. One year later she was one of the girls in the Miss Italia contest. Potential actress Lucia Bose became "The Queen", among Mangano and some other future stars of Italian cinema like as Gina Lollobrigida, Eleonora Rossi Drago and Gianna Maria Canale.

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Mangano's earliest connection with filmmaking occurred through her romantic relationship with actor Marcello Mastroianni. This led her to a movie contract, though it would take sometime for Mangano to ascend to international stardom with her stunning performance in Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro, Giuseppe De Santis, 1949).

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Though she never scaled the heights of her contemporaries Sophia Loren and Lollobrigida, Mangano remained a favorite star between the 1950s and 1970s, appearing in Anna (Alberto Lattuada, 1951), The Gold of Naples (L' Oro di Napoli, Vittorio De Sica, 1954), Mambo (Robert Rossen, 1955), Theorem (Teorema, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968), and Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia, Luchino Visconti, 1971).

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Married to Bitter Rice producer Dino De Laurentiis, Mangano had four children, one of whom, daughter Raffaela, coproduced with his father the Mangano's next-to-last film Dune (David Lynch, 1984).

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Silvana Mangano died of lung cancer in Madrid, Spain, at 59 years of age.

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1930: 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday....

December 16: December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 15 days remaining....

1989: 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The world population growth in absolute numbers is believed to have been the highest ever around this time. http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldpop.html...

Silvana Mangano related Images and Photos (experimental)

Silvana Mangano	Silvana Mangano and Jeanne Moreau in "Jovanka and Le Altre" by Martin Ritt 1959	Barabbas from Left Anthony Quinn Silvana Mangano 1962	Director Dino De Laurentis and Actress Wife Silvana Mangano with Family
Silvana Pampanini	Fabrizi Franco and Silvana Papanini in "Racconti Romani" by Gianni Franciolini 1955