Silvana Mangano

Silvana Mangano died of lung cancer in Madrid, Spain, at 59 years of age.
. 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).
Brief Filmography:. 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). Matarazzo recently came out of the closet as a lesbian in the New York Times; she unassumingly referenced her "girlfriend" and then clarified the meaning. 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). Her breakthrough role was as a geeky girl in the movie Welcome to the Dollhouse.

Mangano's earliest connection with filmmaking occurred through her romantic relationship with actor Marcello Mastroianni. Heather Matarazzo (Born: November 10, 1982 in Long Island, New York, New York, USA-) is an American actress. 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. as Dawn Wiener. In 1946, at 16, Mangano won the Miss Rome beauty pageant. Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) .. She was born in Rome, Italy. Trained as a dancer, she was supporting herself as a model. as Bethany.

Silvana Mangano (April 21, 1930 - December 16, 1989) was the most sexy actress of Italy's neo-realistic period. Townies (1996) .. aka Hurricane Streets (1997) (USA). .. as Ashley