Silvana Mangano Biography, Husband, Death and Movies

Silvana Mangano Biography

Silvana Mangano was an Italian actress born on 21 April 1930 in Rome, Italy. She was born to an Italian father and an English mother.

Mangano trained as a dancer and worked as a model before winning a “Miss Rome” beauty pageant in 1946 at age 16. This led to work in films;she got a role in a Mario Costa film. she became famous for playing a role in Bitter Rice (1949) and continued working in films for almost four more decades.

Mangano also appeared in Anna (Alberto Lattuada, 1951), The Gold of Naples (L’oro di Napoli, Vittorio De Sica, 1954), Mambo (Robert Rossen, 1955), Theorem (Teorema, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968), Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia, Luchino Visconti, 1971), and The Scientific Cardplayer (1972).

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Silvana Mangano Cause Of Death

Silvana Mangano died on 16 December 1989 at age 59 of lung cancer in Madrid, Spain,

Silvana Mangano Husband and Children

She was married to a film producer Dino De Laurentiis in 1949. They had four children: Veronica, Raffaella, Francesca, and Federico. The couple divorced in 1988. Veronica’s daughter Giada De Laurentiis is the host of Everyday Italian and Giada at Home on the Food Network.

Silvana Mangano Dune

In the year 10191, a spice called melange is the most valuable substance known in the universe, and its only source is the desert planet Arrakis. A royal decree awards Arrakis to Duke Leto Atreides and ousts his bitter enemies, the Harkonnens. However, when the Harkonnens violently seize back their fiefdom, it is up to Paul (Kyle MacLachlan), Leto’s son, to lead the Fremen, the natives of Arrakis, in a battle for control of the planet and its spice. Based on Frank Herbert’s epic novel.

Initial release: 14 December 1984 (USA)
Director: David Lynch
Budget: 45 million USD
Producer: Raffaella De Laurentiis
Adapted from: Dune

Silvana Mangano Death In Venice

Haunting adaptation of Thomas Mann’s classic about a composer, paralysed by ennui and repressed emotion, who discovers a last vestige of beauty and emotion during a visit to Venice at the turn of the century. Believing himself lost to the muse, he becomes obsessed by a beautiful young boy holidaying with his mother in the city.

Initial release: 1 March 1971 (Russia)
Director: Luchino Visconti
Music composed by: Gustav Mahler, Ludwig van Beethoven, Modest Mussorgsky
Featured songs: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor, MORE
Awards: David di Donatello for Best Director, MORE

Silvana Mangano Anna

A novice nun’s steamy past catches up to her when a former lover is admitted to the hospital where she works.

Initial release: 20 December 1951 (Italy)
Director: Alberto Lattuada
Production company: Lux Film
Music composed by: Nino Rota, Armando Trovajoli, Franco Ferrara
Screenplay: Dino Risi, Franco Brusati, Giuseppe Berto, Ivo Perilli, Rodolfo Sonego

Silvana Mangano Movies

• Bitter Rice (1949) – Silvana
• Anna (1951) – Anna
• Ulysses (1954) – Circe / Penelope
• This Angry Age (1958) – Suzanne
• The Great War (1959) – Costantina
• Five Branded Women (1960) – Jovanka
• Barabbas (1961) – Rachel
• The flying saucer (1964) – Vittoria Laconiglia
• Edipo re (1967) – Jocasta
• Teorema (1968) – Lucia (the mother)
• Death in Venice (1971) – Tadzio’s mother
• Family group in an interior (1974) – Marchesa Bianca Brumonti
• Dune (1984) – Rev. Mother Ramallo
• Leisure time (1987)

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Silvana Mangano Death

Silvana Mangano, the Italian film actress who created a sensation as a passionately earthy peasant in ”Bitter Rice” in 1948 and shaped increasingly compelling characterizations in later movies, died yesterday in Madrid. She was 59 years old and had been hospitalized in a coma for several days.

Representatives of the Luz Hospital in Madrid told The Associated Press that the actress had suffered a heart attack there during surgery for a tumor between her lungs. She had been suffering from cancer for several years.

Miss Mangano’s three daughters, Veronica, Rafaella and Francesca, flew to Madrid to be with her, the Spanish National Radio reported. Federico, the actress’s only son, died in a plane crash in 1981 while making a film in Alaska, prompting her to go into seclusion for several years.

Their father is Dino De Laurentiis, the producer whom Miss Mangano married in 1949 soon after the release of ”Bitter Rice,” his first international success. They avoided publicity in their private lives and seemed happy, but they separated in 1983 and began divorce proceedings last year. Made 30 Films

The actress worked with many of Italy’s leading directors, including Alberto Lattuada, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Luchino Visconti, but she made only 30 films, preferring to spend time with her family.

Her roles included a sensitive prostitute in ”Gold of Naples” (1954), a loveless movie goddess in ”The Witches” (1967), a cool aristocrat in ”Death in Venice” (1971) and the wealthy, rejected wife of Marcello Mastroianni in ”Dark Eyes” (1987). Other films were ”Ulysses” (as both Penelope and Circe, 1954), ”Barabbas” (1961), ”Oedipus Rex” (1967), ”Ludwig” (1973) and ”Conversation Piece” (1975).

Miss Mangano was born in Rome on April 21, 1930, one of four children of Amedeo Mangano, a railroad employee, and an Englishwoman, the former Ivy Webb. She studied dancing, won the title Miss Rome 1946 in a beauty contest, modeled and got minor parts in several movies before gaining the leading role in ”Bitter Rice” as a lustful rice harvester in the Po Valley. Contrast to Private Life

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times reflected international approval in hailing her as a sensation. He said she embodied ”Anna Magnani minus 15 years, Ingrid Bergman with a Latin disposition and Rita Hayworth plus 25 pounds.”

David Thomson, the film historian and critic, said in recalling ”Bitter Rice” that its social comment ”was swamped by its popular elements, chief of which was Mangano, her skirts tucked up, standing in the rice fields and leaving no doubts in the viewer’s mind.”

Miss Mangano’s sensual film image contrasted with her private life, in which she wore conservative clothes and no makeup. In her maturity, she was a cool, sculptured, high-fashion beauty whose penchants included tennis, horseback riding and well-prepared food.

Besides her children, survivors include two sisters, Patrizia and Natasha.

The hospital gave no information regarding funeral or memorial services. The Spanish national news agency EFE quoted a family representative as saying Miss Mangano’s body would be cremated today and the remains sent to New York to be placed next to those of her son.