Silvana Mangano
Silvana Mangano (born April 21, 1930 in Rome , † December 16, 1989 in Madrid ) was an Italian actress .
Life
Mangano was born in Rome to an Italian father and an English mother (Ivy Webb from Croydon ). The family was impoverished by World War II . Silvana learned to dance and worked as a photo model. At the age of sixteen she was voted “Miss Rome” in 1946 and got a role in Mario Costa's film L'Elisir d'amore .
In 1947, Silvana Mangano took part in the legendary “Miss Italia” beauty contest , in which Gina Lollobrigida , Eleonora Rossi Drago , Gianna Maria Canale and the later winner Lucia Bosè stood for election.
Her breakthrough came in 1949 with the film Bitter Rice . Since then, she has been one of the great female film stars in Italy. She became internationally known for her role as Penelope / Circe in The Voyages of Ulysses alongside Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn .
Silvana Mangano married the film producer Dino De Laurentiis in 1949 , and from 1983 the couple lived separately. However, the marriage, which resulted in four children, never ended in divorce.
Silvana Mangano suffered from lung cancer . After an operation on December 4, 1989, she fell into a coma. She died without regaining consciousness on the night of December 15-16 in a hospital in Madrid .
Filmography (selection)
- 1945: Le jugement dernier - Director: René Chanas
- 1946: L'Elisir d'amore - Director: Mario Costa
- 1947: The crime of Giovanni Episcopo (Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo) - directed by Alberto Lattuada
- 1948: Gli uomini sono nemici - Director: Ettore Giannini
- 1949: bitter rice (Riso amaro)
- 1949: Count Cagliostro (Black Magic) - directed by Gregory Ratoff
- 1949: The Wolf of the Sila Mountains (Il lupo della Sila) - Director: Duilio Coletti
- 1950: Freiwild (Il brigante Musolino) - Director: Mario Camerini
- 1951: Anna
- 1953: Il più comico spettacolo del mondo - Director: Mario Mattoli
- 1954: Mambo - Director: Robert Rossen
- 1954: The Gold of Naples (L'oro di Napoli)
- 1954: The journeys of Odysseus (Ulisse)
- 1956: Women and Wolves (Uomini e lupi) - Director: Giuseppe De Santis
- 1958: This Angry Age - Directed by René Clément
- 1958: Storm in the East (La tempesta) - Director: Alberto Lattuada
- 1959: It was called the great war (La grande guerra)
- 1960: Jovanka and the Others (Five Branded Women) - Director: Martin Ritt
- 1961: Life is difficult (Una vita difficile)
- 1961: The corpse is in the wrong suitcase (Crimen) - Director: Mario Camerini
- 1961: The Last Judgment does not take place (Il giudizio universale)
- 1961: Barabbas (Barrabà)
- 1963: Il processo di Verona - Director: Carlo Lizzani
- 1964: Il disco volante - Director: Tinto Brass
- 1965: Io, io, io… e gli altri - Director: Alessandro Blasetti
- 1967: Witches of Today (Le streghe)
- 1967: Edipo Re - Bed of Violence (Edipo Re)
- 1968: Teorema - Geometry of Love (Teorema)
- 1971: Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia)
- 1971: Decameron (Il decameron)
- 1972: Devilish Game (Lo scopone scientifico) - Director: Luigi Comencini
- 1972: Ludwig II. (Ludwig)
- 1974: Violence and Passion (Gruppo di famiglia in un interno)
- 1984: The Desert Planet (Dune)
- 1987: Black eyes (Oci ciornie)
Awards
- 1963: Best actress for Il processo di Verona ( together with Gina Lollobrigida for Imperial Venus )
- 1967: Best Actress for Today's Witches
- 1973: Best Actress (Migliore Attrice) for Teuflisches Spiel ( together with Florinda Bolkan for Dear Parents )
- 1988: Nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Migliore Attrice non Protagonista) for Black Eyes
- Golden Cup (Italian Film Award)
- 1963: Best actress for Il processo di Verona
- 1967: Best Actress for Today's Witches
- 1955: Best Actress (Migliore Attrice Protagonista) for The Gold of Naples
- 1958: Nominated for Best Actress for Women and Wolves and for Hot Coast
- 1964: Best actress for Il processo di Verona
- 1972: Best supporting actress for Morte a Venezia ( together with Marina Berti for La califfa )
- 1974: Nominated as best supporting actress for Ludwig II.
- 1975: Nominated as best actress (Migliore Attrice Protagonista) for violence and passion
- 1988: Nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Migliore Attrice Non Protagonista) for Black Eyes
Individual evidence
Web links
- Silvana Mangano in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mangano, Silvana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1989 |
| Place of death | Madrid , Spain |