Silvana Mangano

Silvana Mangano (Italian pronunciation: [silˈvaːna ˈmaŋɡano]; 21 April 1930 – 16 December 1989) was an Italian actress.

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 a notable success in Bitter Rice (1949) and continued working in films for almost four more decades.

Early life

Born in Rome to an Italian father and an English mother (Ivy Webb from Croydon), Mangano lived in poverty caused by the Second World War. Trained for seven years as a dancer, she was supporting 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. One year later, she became a contestant in the Miss Italia contest. Potential actress Lucia Bosé became "The Queen", among Mangano and several other future stars of Italian cinema such as Gina Lollobrigida, Eleonora Rossi Drago and Gianna Maria Canale.

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Silvana Mangano

Born: 1930-04-21

Died: 1989-12-16

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The Daily Mail 06 Jan 2024
Barbra Streisand revealed that she was once 'addicted' to gambling on the stock market ... I like gambling ... It was fun ... She added. 'Besides, I liked long noses… the Italian actress Silvana Mangano had one, and everyone seemed to think she was beautiful.' ... .

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The Daily Mail 05 Dec 2023
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The Daily Mail 06 Nov 2023
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Save this story. Save. Save this story. Save ... He has a complicated relationship with the spotlight ... Vanity Fair ... François Nars ... It’s nice to see her onscreen, as if she’s one of the actresses—Catherine Deneuve, Silvana Mangano—who have been muses for you ... .

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... some great actors, but it's changed [and] the cinema today doesn't inspire me the way it did in previous years.”A still from the film Teorema (1968) by Pier Paolo Pasolini starring Silvana Mangano.

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Buildup but not much payoff

Lebanon Express 15 Jul 2023
JAMES VERNIERE. Boston Herald. MOVIE REVIEW ... Sinclair (Richard E. Grant) ... In Pasolini's film, an impossibly young Terence Stamp plays the male invader and Italian film goddess Silvana Mangano ("Bitter Rice") the sexy mother-wife ... Eliot ... Nor do we ... Or cares.

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Hastings Tribune 10 Jul 2023
Sinclair (Richard E. Grant) ... Sinclair is finishing up his latest bestseller ... In Pasolini’s film an impossibly young Terence Stamp plays the male invader and Italian film goddess Silvana Mangano (“Bitter Rice”) the sexy mother-wife ... Eliot ... Nor do we ... ——— ... .

Buildup, not much payoff from ‘The Lesson’

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Sinclair (Richard E. Grant) ... Sinclair is finishing up his latest bestseller ... In Pasolini’s film an impossibly young Terence Stamp plays the male invader and Italian film goddess Silvana Mangano (“Bitter Rice”) the sexy mother-wife ... S. Eliot ... Rated R.

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