Lucia Bosè

Lucia Bosè
Bosè in the movie It Happened at the Police Station (1954)
Born
Lucia Bosè

(1931-01-28)28 January 1931
Milan, Kingdom of Italy
Died23 March 2020(2020-03-23) (aged 89)
Segovia, Castile and León, Spain
OccupationActress
Years active1950–2007
Spouse
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(m. 1955; div. 1967)​
ChildrenMiguel Bosé
Lucía Dominguín
Paola Dominguín

Lucia Bosè (28 January 1931 – 23 March 2020) was an Italian actress.

Life and career

Lucia Bosè was born in Milan to Francesca Borloni and Domenico Bosè.[1] After a number of years working in a bakery, Pasticceria Galli, in her native city, in 1947 she won the second edition of the Miss Italia beauty contest.[2]

She earned a role in Dino Risi's short film, 1848 (1948), before making her feature film debut in the 1950 film, Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi (No Peace Under the Olive Tree) directed by Giuseppe De Santis, who later directed her again in 1952's Roma, ore 11 (Rome 11:00). That same year, she starred in Antonioni's Cronaca di un amore (Story of a Love Affair) and in 1953, she reunited with him for La signora senza camelie (The Lady Without Camelias). In 1955, she appeared in the films Gli Sbandati (Abandoned) and Muerte de un ciclista (Death of a Cyclist). The following year, she played the main female role in Cela s'appelle l'aurore (This is Called Dawn).[citation needed]

Her career flourished until 1955, when she fell in love with Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín during the filming of Muerte de un ciclista,[3] and gave up acting to marry and raise a family.[4] The couple married twice, first on 1 March 1955 in Las Vegas and then on 19 October of that year, in a Catholic ceremony at the family estate or finca.[5]

Dominguín returned to the bullfighting arena abroad, and their first child, Miguel Bosé, was born in Panama on 3 April 1956. Their second child, Lucia, was born in 1957 and their third, Paola, was born in 1960. Lucia and her husband were married until 1968, but their differences were accentuated over time, especially her lack of interest in bullfighting. She never became close to the "Dominguín" clan, and his marital infidelities also took their toll.[6]

In 1960, she took a small uncredited role in Le Testament d'Orphée (Testament of Orpheus). Then, after divorcing Dominguín, she returned full-time to the screen, appearing in such films as Fellini Satyricon (1969), Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969), Something Creeping in The Dark (1971), L'ospite (1972), Arcana (1972), Nathalie Granger (1972), La messe dorée (1975), Lumière (1976), and Violanta (1976). She continued to be active in both Italian cinema and Spanish films, appearing in Cronaca di una morte annunciata (Chronicle of a Death Foretold, 1987), El niño de la luna (Moon Child, 1989), Harem Suare (1999), and I Viceré (2007).

Death

Bosè in 2010

Bosè died at the General Hospital of Segovia on 23 March 2020, at the age of 89, from pneumonia during the COVID-19 pandemic.[7][8][9]

Partial filmography

References

  1. ^ "Lucia Bosè Birth Certificate". Roberto Liberatori. 11 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Lucia Borloni". Archivio Flavio Beninati (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  3. ^ "La Revista: Nosotros los Bosé". El Mundo (in Spanish). No. 124. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  4. ^ Herrero, Nieves (8 October 2015). Como si no hubiera un mañana: La pasión de Ava Gardner y Luis Miguel Dominguín (in Spanish). La Esfera de los Libros. p. 666. ISBN 9788490605158.
  5. ^ Piñeiro, Raquel (2 March 2019). "Las dos bodas de Lucía Bosé y Dominguín: en Las Vegas y en la finca familiar". Vanity Fair (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 15 March 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  6. ^ Vargas, Manuel Ríos (2012). Antología del baile flamenco. Signatura Ediciones. p. 111. ISBN 9788495122490.
  7. ^ "È morta Lucia Bosé. Aveva contratto il coronavirus" (in Italian). 23 March 2020. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  8. ^ Obituaries, Telegraph (27 March 2020). "Lucia Bosè, Italian Beauty Who Starred in Films of the 1950s and Married the Philandering Bullfighter Luis Dominguin Obituary". The Telegraph. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  9. ^ Daniel E. Slotnik (27 March 2020). "Lucia Bosé, Whose Acting Was Interrupted by Marriage, Dies at 89". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
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Awards and achievements
Preceded by Miss Italia
1947 		Succeeded by