Italian actress (1930–1989)
Silvana Mangano (Italian pronunciation: [silˈvaːna ˈmaŋɡano] [ 1] [ 2] neorealist movement, and went on to become a major female star, regarded as a sex symbol for the 1950s and '60s.[ 3] David di Donatello for Best Actress three times – for The Verona Trial The Witches The Scientific Cardplayer Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress twice.
Raised in poverty during World War II , Mangano trained as a dancer and worked as a model before winning a Miss Rome beauty pageant in 1946. This led to work in films; she achieved success in Bitter Rice Pier Paolo Pasolini , Luchino Visconti , Alberto Lattuada , and Vittorio De Sica . Her career continued well into her 50s, with supporting roles in David Lynch 's Dune Nikita Mikhalkov Dark Eyes
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
Born in Rome to an Italian father and an English mother (Ivy Webb from Croydon ), Mangano lived in poverty during World War II. Trained for seven years as a dancer, she supported herself as a model. In 1946, at age 16, Mangano won the Miss Rome beauty pageant, and through this, she obtained a role in a Mario Costa film.[ 2] Lucia Bosé , Mangano, and several other future stars of Italian cinema such as Gina Lollobrigida , Eleonora Rossi Drago and Gianna Maria Canale .
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 .[ 1]
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 The Witches ,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 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 Cinema Paradiso
Personal life
It is claimed that she had an affair with Mohammad Reza Shah of Iran during the late 1940s.[ 4] Dino De Laurentiis from 1949, the couple had four children: Veronica , Raffaella , Francesca, and Federico .[ 2] Giada De Laurentiis is the host of Everyday Italian Giada at Home Food Network . Raffaella co-produced with her father on Mangano's penultimate film, Dune David Lynch , 1984). Federico died in an airplane crash in 1981 in Alaska.[ 2] [ 5]
Death
Following surgery on 4 December 1989 that left her in a coma, Mangano died of lung cancer in Madrid, Spain on 16 December 1989.[ 1]
Legacy
In 2000, the city of Rome named a street in the Vallerano district after Mangano.[ 6]
Filmography
Mangano in Bitter Rice Mangano in This Angry Age Mangano in Conversation Piece
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