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Farewell, My Beautiful Lady (Italian: Addio mia bella signora) is a 1954 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Fernando Cerchio and starring Gino Cervi, Alba Arnova and Armando Francioli. [1] It presents a love triangle between a Colonel of the Bersaglieri , his wife and his young student set against the backdrop of Italy's entry into ...
Her performance in The World's Most Beautiful Woman (also known as Beautiful But Dangerous, 1955) led to her receiving the first David di Donatello for Best Actress award. [9] In this movie Lollobrigida played Italian soprano Lina Cavalieri and sang all the songs in the movie, including arias from Tosca, in her own voice. [15]
On 10 June 1940, in the small Sicilian town of Castelcutò, a teenage boy named Renato experiences three major events: Italy enters World War II; he receives a new bike; and he first sees the beautiful and sensual Malèna, who is the most desired young woman in town. Her husband is in the armed forces fighting the British in Africa, and she ...
Beautiful but Dangerous (Italian: La donna più bella del mondo, lit. 'The World's Most Beautiful Woman'; French: La belle des belles) is a 1955 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. It is a biographical film about Italian opera soprano Lina Cavalieri. [1] The film is a co-production between Italy and France. [2]
The Most Beautiful Wife (Italian: La moglie più bella) is a 1970 Italian film directed by Damiano Damiani, based on the 1965 case of Franca Viola, who challenged the still frequent southern Italian custom of kidnapping and raping a prospective bride for refusing to marry her abductor. [1] [2] It was the debut film for the then 14-year-old ...
[2] [12] It became a loanword to English language in 1584, [13] defining as "an idealized virtuous and beautiful woman" (Oxford Dictionary of English, 1998). [2] Previously, in vernacular Italian communities of the Middle Ages, such as northern Italian dialects, Madonna meant variously, including a high-born lady, a spouse's mother and the ...
In the same year, she is, for the Italian version of Vanity Fair, the 4th woman most beautiful in 2010. [23] She has been also on 2010 the 7th most beautiful woman for Maxim and in top 50 for DT Spain magazine. [24] Thanks to Clooney, she gained a contract as spokesmodel for Pantene. [25] In The Netherlands, she is a spokesperson for Auping. [26]
[59] (Italian: Prese Lionardo a fare per Francesco del Giocondo il ritratto di mona Lisa sua moglie.) [60] The portrait's Italian name La Gioconda is the feminine form of her married name. In French it is known by the variant La Joconde. Although it is derived from Lisa's married name, there is the added significance that the name derives from ...