The stunningly gorgeous Silvana Mangano floats dreamily throughout Visconti's masterpiece "Death in Venice" (1971) -- without a single line of dialog. Thanks for posting!
She had a gigantic hit record with the sinuous song "Anna," which no one could get out of their heads. Much later, but on the same record label, M-G-M Records, Connie Francis did a terrific remake.
Tyne & Tim are no relation to John Charles Daly, who was born in South Africa; their father is the Emmy Award-winning American actor James Daly, who co-starred with Chad Everett on "Medical Center" in the '70s.
@tranurse Tyne & Tim are no relation to John Charles Daly, who was born in South Africa; their father is the Emmy Award-winning American actor James Daly, who co-starred with Chad Everett on "Medical Center" in the '70s.
ah love how they wrote Sylvana instead of Silvana...
and anyway, she's quite well known in Europe and popular in Italy now..but you don't have to forget the fascination of european stars at that time, especially of Cinecittà (Rome)..as Lewis said, all big foreign motion picture stars seemed to be italian in those years and the panel certainly knew her very well.
ROFL at Arlene's "All italian are famous for various measurements" *giggle*
Hum! I take it most everyone writing here is youngish? Silvana was quite famous all over the world. Before Loren and Lollo. In fact she was an international star by 1949 with her hit Bitter Rice. Sophia and Gina were both still working bit parts at a national level only. She may not be as well known in US today because of her choice to semi retire once she married. At the time this program was filmed she was a hot and famous property known even in the states. Lollo and Loren had just arrived.
Maybe at the time this was filmed she was well known to American audiences but having been born in the early 1950's and following all forms of culture- I've never heard of this "broad".
They didn't need blindfolds for her. What were the producers thinking?
@bigred997 Well, if you have never heard of "Riso amaro" ("Bitter rice"), which is one of the best known examples of italian neorealism (Giuseppe De Santis - 1950) then I daresay that you haven't followed "all forms of culture".
@lospazio hey, it's an acquired taste, i guess. i remember yawning thru the Bicycle Thief in a college film course close to 40 years ago. Although I did get the essence of Bergman's Wild Strawberries and Last Year at Marienbad.
Most interesting clip. About the only film that I think she did that I can recall was the Italian made "Anna." If it's the same film I'm thinking of, the main theme became a popular song with bands and orchestras during the 1950s and early 1960s. Which American movies did she make?
She never became the international "name" as Loren, and Lollabridgida did. But she was very big in Italy. She was also the wife of director Dino de Laurentis and the grandmother of cooking show hostess Giada de Laurentis
Gil Fates wrote that he believed WML gave the showbiz jargon term OWL its meaning ("Who?? LOL), and here is an owl for sure. If she were really a famous Italian actress they wouldn't have to put up a title "famous Italian actress" I do not recall them needing to put up a "famous Italian actress" title for Sophia Loren or Gina Lolabrigida.
She surely wasn't as big a star as Loren or Lollobrigida. But she had become really quite famous for her role in Riso amaro (Bitter Rice). Lucille Ball, so I understand, even produced a spoof of this in an episode of her "I Love Lucy Show." And the panel in the end didn't have much problem in ascertaining her identity once they'd worked out she was an Italian actress. BTW, despite her answer, her "measurements" were actually nothing to sneeze at: 36-25-35. And I think she was utterly gorgeous!
She surely wasn't as big a star as Loren or Lollobrigida. But she had become really quite famous for her role in Riso amaro (Bitter Rice). Lucille Ball, so I understand, even produced a spoof of this in an episode of her "I Love Lucy Show." And the panel in the end didn't have much problem in ascertaining her identity once they'd worked out she was an Italian actress. BTW, despite her answer, "measurements" were actually nothing to sneeze at: 36-25-35. And I think she was utterly gorgeous!
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No. It's just most movies are American movies because only a very tiny amount of foreign films are any good, especially regarding the early 1960's. If that weren't so the market would say otherwise. And it didn't then, and it doesn't now.
1) The discussion revolved around the possible fame of Silvana Mangano and not the relative merits of the movies made in the U.S. and other nations. My point was really very simple: It is completely possible to be a famous Italian actress and yet remain almost completely unknown in the U.S. The fact is that this actress had achieved quite a measure of fame in the U.S. (see above).
5) Contrary to what you suggest, "foreign" movies had reached their apex in the 1950s and 1960s both in terms of financial success and quality. I am thinking in particular of the industries in Italy, France and the UK
6) You prove my point perfectly about insularity and provincialism.
American films are the most popular films internationally, by far and the only films to play in every international market. Films are an industry and a product and the audience will dictate what is good and not good. Not some small group of failed writers eeking out a living as film critiques. Bollywood has the same significance as Cinecitta. Certainly influential and successful, without a doubt, but always in the shadow of Hollywood and never any threat at all. Merely a curious footnote.
Once again you have managed to completely misunderstand every single point I made. Like most people with little education and less intelligence, you obviously enjoy having conversations with yourself. I'll allow you to continue spewing your semi-literate claptrap without any further interruption from me.
LOL! Apart from the fact you have been arguing with yourself (where did anyone say previously that American movies were not the most popular?) and failed to answer or even see the only substantive point in the discussion, you have been making the most nonsensical statements. An example: "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) was a financial flop when it was first released. Now, according to your mad logic, that movie only became "good" when it also became popular years later after being shown on TV.
The "market" cannot say otherwise because of language barriers, and because film distribution has been (politically) driven by the Americans since after World War 2.
Agressive marketing has nothing to do with quality, otherwise McDonald and Microsoft Windows would be high quality cooking and computer software !
Of the thousands and thousands of American products that are sold world wide you slyly selected only those that would fit your argument. Unlike you, I won't blame any particular country or continent on your lack of the truth. I think I'll hang that all on you.
Of course you must hang everything on me. USA produce absolute masterpieces in every field,but also a lot of crap sold worldwide through agressive marketing. The same thing holds for cinema.Hollywood can impose crap, whereas it is extremely difficult for an excellent non-USA film to find a place. I enjoy USA cinema A LOT, especially the classics of the 30s, but I can't stand any more its pathetic "comedies". Besides, do you realise today Hollywood is living on REMAKES of foreign films?
I hear the remake argument a lot. But most of those so-called "foreign films" were based on American films to begin. I don't expect you to know that off hand because not even those that remake the foreign versions are always of it. I remember when Paramount bought the rights to make THREE MEN A BABY from the French film not realizing that the French film was based on a Jerry Lewis that in turn was a reworking of an old 1940's U.S. film....both by Paramount!
AMAZING acress, amazing woman. I think "Bitter Rice" is something of extraordinary, i cried and cried at the end. <3
BerlinBoy1996 2 months ago
Beautiful actress, but never scaled the heights of her contemporaries Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida.
franklindavid 2 months ago
aww just found out she is the grandmother off giada de laurentiis
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The stunningly gorgeous Silvana Mangano floats dreamily throughout Visconti's masterpiece "Death in Venice" (1971) -- without a single line of dialog. Thanks for posting!
MikeIdy6000 5 months ago
not pretty at all. Not a beautiful actress at all. her grand-daughter looks like her, a little better looking.
mismestera 5 months ago
not pretty at all. Not a beautiful actress at all.
mismestera 5 months ago
i love her. beautiful!!
knoxtn 8 months ago
She had a gigantic hit record with the sinuous song "Anna," which no one could get out of their heads. Much later, but on the same record label, M-G-M Records, Connie Francis did a terrific remake.
waynebrasler 1 year ago
her beauty is perfection!
archierice333 1 year ago
Tyne & Tim are no relation to John Charles Daly, who was born in South Africa; their father is the Emmy Award-winning American actor James Daly, who co-starred with Chad Everett on "Medical Center" in the '70s.
geroguy0472 1 year ago
is the host tyne daly and tim daly's father??
tranurse 1 year ago
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@tranurse Tyne & Tim are no relation to John Charles Daly, who was born in South Africa; their father is the Emmy Award-winning American actor James Daly, who co-starred with Chad Everett on "Medical Center" in the '70s.
geroguy0472 1 year ago
She seemed to be concentrate hard to understand the English.
pepsibookcat 2 years ago
ah love how they wrote Sylvana instead of Silvana...
and anyway, she's quite well known in Europe and popular in Italy now..but you don't have to forget the fascination of european stars at that time, especially of Cinecittà (Rome)..as Lewis said, all big foreign motion picture stars seemed to be italian in those years and the panel certainly knew her very well.
ROFL at Arlene's "All italian are famous for various measurements" *giggle*
classilyette 2 years ago
Her granddaughter is Giada De Laurentiis, host of Everyday Italian on the Food Network
sherrilu 2 years ago
@sherrilu
How true! Both of them are/were delightful dishes themselves. Hubba hubba to the max, daddy-o! Thanks for your comment! :)
JubalCalif 1 year ago
@sherrilu
Speaking of culinary delights, Silvana & Gina are both tasty lookin' dishes too !!!
Strictly from hubbahubbasville, daddy-o !!! :-)
JubalCalif 1 year ago
@JubalCalif SHE WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ITALIAN ACTRESS
siempremarisol 1 year ago
Anyway, the players and the host of this show are absolutely adorable :o)
ChiudiLaPorta 2 years ago
Hum! I take it most everyone writing here is youngish? Silvana was quite famous all over the world. Before Loren and Lollo. In fact she was an international star by 1949 with her hit Bitter Rice. Sophia and Gina were both still working bit parts at a national level only. She may not be as well known in US today because of her choice to semi retire once she married. At the time this program was filmed she was a hot and famous property known even in the states. Lollo and Loren had just arrived.
cricrisan 3 years ago 9
Bitter Rice (1949) was a pretty big hit for her. I know her from the Kirk Douglas Ulysses film.
hkk321 3 years ago 2
Maybe at the time this was filmed she was well known to American audiences but having been born in the early 1950's and following all forms of culture- I've never heard of this "broad".
They didn't need blindfolds for her. What were the producers thinking?
bigred997 3 years ago
@bigred997 Well, if you have never heard of "Riso amaro" ("Bitter rice"), which is one of the best known examples of italian neorealism (Giuseppe De Santis - 1950) then I daresay that you haven't followed "all forms of culture".
lospazio 1 year ago
@lospazio hey, it's an acquired taste, i guess. i remember yawning thru the Bicycle Thief in a college film course close to 40 years ago. Although I did get the essence of Bergman's Wild Strawberries and Last Year at Marienbad.
bigred997 1 year ago
Most interesting clip. About the only film that I think she did that I can recall was the Italian made "Anna." If it's the same film I'm thinking of, the main theme became a popular song with bands and orchestras during the 1950s and early 1960s. Which American movies did she make?
PatinPDXOR 3 years ago
She never became the international "name" as Loren, and Lollabridgida did. But she was very big in Italy. She was also the wife of director Dino de Laurentis and the grandmother of cooking show hostess Giada de Laurentis
JTPolo101 3 years ago
Gil Fates wrote that he believed WML gave the showbiz jargon term OWL its meaning ("Who?? LOL), and here is an owl for sure. If she were really a famous Italian actress they wouldn't have to put up a title "famous Italian actress" I do not recall them needing to put up a "famous Italian actress" title for Sophia Loren or Gina Lolabrigida.
soulierinvestments 3 years ago
There are many people who are famous outside of America. Americans have always tended to be incredibly insular and provincial about such matters.
Fenhalls 3 years ago 2
I discover that she starred in Death in Venice, which I have seen.
soulierinvestments 3 years ago
She surely wasn't as big a star as Loren or Lollobrigida. But she had become really quite famous for her role in Riso amaro (Bitter Rice). Lucille Ball, so I understand, even produced a spoof of this in an episode of her "I Love Lucy Show." And the panel in the end didn't have much problem in ascertaining her identity once they'd worked out she was an Italian actress. BTW, despite her answer, her "measurements" were actually nothing to sneeze at: 36-25-35. And I think she was utterly gorgeous!
Fenhalls 3 years ago
She surely wasn't as big a star as Loren or Lollobrigida. But she had become really quite famous for her role in Riso amaro (Bitter Rice). Lucille Ball, so I understand, even produced a spoof of this in an episode of her "I Love Lucy Show." And the panel in the end didn't have much problem in ascertaining her identity once they'd worked out she was an Italian actress. BTW, despite her answer, "measurements" were actually nothing to sneeze at: 36-25-35. And I think she was utterly gorgeous!
Fenhalls 3 years ago
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No. It's just most movies are American movies because only a very tiny amount of foreign films are any good, especially regarding the early 1960's. If that weren't so the market would say otherwise. And it didn't then, and it doesn't now.
MalubaySyecado 3 years ago
MalubaySyecado,
1) The discussion revolved around the possible fame of Silvana Mangano and not the relative merits of the movies made in the U.S. and other nations. My point was really very simple: It is completely possible to be a famous Italian actress and yet remain almost completely unknown in the U.S. The fact is that this actress had achieved quite a measure of fame in the U.S. (see above).
Fenhalls 3 years ago
2) It is not true that one can automatically equate commercial success with excellence here. You are confusing what "you like" with what is "good".
3) Most movies are not made in America. You are confusing commercial success with numbers of films produced. Ever hear of Bollywood?
4) This clip was from 1956 and not the early 1960s as you imply.
Fenhalls 3 years ago
5) Contrary to what you suggest, "foreign" movies had reached their apex in the 1950s and 1960s both in terms of financial success and quality. I am thinking in particular of the industries in Italy, France and the UK
6) You prove my point perfectly about insularity and provincialism.
Fenhalls 3 years ago
American films are the most popular films internationally, by far and the only films to play in every international market. Films are an industry and a product and the audience will dictate what is good and not good. Not some small group of failed writers eeking out a living as film critiques. Bollywood has the same significance as Cinecitta. Certainly influential and successful, without a doubt, but always in the shadow of Hollywood and never any threat at all. Merely a curious footnote.
MalubaySyecado 3 years ago
Once again you have managed to completely misunderstand every single point I made. Like most people with little education and less intelligence, you obviously enjoy having conversations with yourself. I'll allow you to continue spewing your semi-literate claptrap without any further interruption from me.
Fenhalls 3 years ago
You are wrong on every thing you stated.
MalubaySyecado 3 years ago
LOL! Apart from the fact you have been arguing with yourself (where did anyone say previously that American movies were not the most popular?) and failed to answer or even see the only substantive point in the discussion, you have been making the most nonsensical statements. An example: "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) was a financial flop when it was first released. Now, according to your mad logic, that movie only became "good" when it also became popular years later after being shown on TV.
Fenhalls 3 years ago
Your argument only supports my statement. Mainly that American films are better than foreign films. Even our old stuff is better.
MalubaySyecado 3 years ago
MalubaySyecado, I couldn't find any better synthesis of American imperialism and ethnocentrism than your comment.
ChiudiLaPorta 2 years ago 4
commie
Gnillob802 2 years ago
Gnillo, you speak like Silvio Berlusconi !
ChiudiLaPorta 2 years ago
The "market" cannot say otherwise because of language barriers, and because film distribution has been (politically) driven by the Americans since after World War 2.
Agressive marketing has nothing to do with quality, otherwise McDonald and Microsoft Windows would be high quality cooking and computer software !
ChiudiLaPorta 2 years ago
Of the thousands and thousands of American products that are sold world wide you slyly selected only those that would fit your argument. Unlike you, I won't blame any particular country or continent on your lack of the truth. I think I'll hang that all on you.
MalubaySyecado 2 years ago
Of course you must hang everything on me. USA produce absolute masterpieces in every field,but also a lot of crap sold worldwide through agressive marketing. The same thing holds for cinema.Hollywood can impose crap, whereas it is extremely difficult for an excellent non-USA film to find a place. I enjoy USA cinema A LOT, especially the classics of the 30s, but I can't stand any more its pathetic "comedies". Besides, do you realise today Hollywood is living on REMAKES of foreign films?
ChiudiLaPorta 2 years ago
I hear the remake argument a lot. But most of those so-called "foreign films" were based on American films to begin. I don't expect you to know that off hand because not even those that remake the foreign versions are always of it. I remember when Paramount bought the rights to make THREE MEN A BABY from the French film not realizing that the French film was based on a Jerry Lewis that in turn was a reworking of an old 1940's U.S. film....both by Paramount!
MalubaySyecado 2 years ago