Virna Pieralisi ( Italian: Ã, ['virna pjera'li: zi] ; 8 November 1936 - December 18, 2014), better known as Virna Lisi ['virna' li: zi] , is an Italian actress. Her movie appearances include How to Kill Your Wife (1965), Not with My Wife, You Do not! (1966), Beyond Good and Evil i> (1977), and Follow Your Heart (1996). For the 1994 film La Reine Margot , she won Best Actress at Cannes and the Caesar Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Lisi who was born in Ancona began her film career in her teenage years. Found in Rome by two Neapolitan producers, Antonio Ferrigno and Ettore Pesce, he debuted at La corda d'acciaio The Steel Rope , 1953). Initially, he performed musical films, such as E Napoli canta ( Napoli Sings , 1953) and successful Questa ÃÆ'¨ la vita Love and Love , 1954, with popular TotÃÆ'²). Nevertheless, her beauty is more appreciated than her talents, as seen in
In the late 1950s, Lisi performed a theater at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano at I giacobini by Federico Zardi under the direction of Giorgio Strehler. During the 1960s, Lisi performed comedy and participated in television dramas widely seen in Italy. Lisi also promoted the toothpaste brand on television with a slogan that would become a slogan among Italians: " con quella bocca puÃÆ'² dire ciÃÆ'² che vuole " ( with that mouth, she can say anything he wants ).
Hollywood Career
Hollywood producers are looking for the new Marilyn Monroe and so, Lisi made her debut in the Hollywood comedy as a blue-eyed blonde teaser before Jack Lemmon in How to Kill Your Wife (1965) and appeared with Tony Curtis at Not with My Wife, You Do not! (1966). Lisi then starred with Frank Sinatra, in Assault on a Queen (1966), in The Girl and the General, starring Rod Steiger, and in two films with Anthony Quinn , The Secret of Santa Vittoria , directed by Stanley Kramer, and The 25th Hour war drama. She gathered attention for a photo of her "shaved" face that appeared on the cover of Esquire magazine in March 1965.
Renaissance career in Europe
To overcome the typecasting that the teaser plays, Lisi looks for a new kind of role, a bad woman or a lover in a different age relationship eg. In those years he participated in the production of Italy, at Casanova 70 and Le bambole (1965), Arabella (1967), and < i> Le dolci signore (1968). Lisi also starred in The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1965) who shared the Palme d'Or at Cannes that year.
In the early 1970s, he took a temporary break from acting to spend more time with her husband Franco Pesci and their son, Corrado. Nevertheless, Lisi's career has been renaissance with a number of projects, including Al in lÃÆ' del bene e del male (1977), Ernesto (1979), and La cicala (1980). For the film La Reine Margot (1994), Lisi's portrayal of Catherine de 'Medici won the CÃ © Â © sar and Cannes Film Festival, along with the Silver Band for Best Supporting Artists. In 2002, Lisi starred in Il piÃÆ'¹ bel giorno della mia vita .
Virna Lisi then participated in many sitcoms and TV series. His final film is in the Italian Latin drama Latin Lover in 2014, shortly before his death.
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Death
On December 18, 2014, Lisi died of lung cancer in Rome at the age of 78 years.
Legacy
The band Argentina Sumo (led by Luca Prodan) made a song for him, "TV Caliente aka Virna Lisi" (1986), made by Luca Prodan, whose brother, actor Andrea Prodan, appeared with him in the movie I Ragazzi di via Panisperna (1988). The rock band from Brazil named Virna Lisi (1989-1997) was named after him. Meilland International SA named the rose after it in 1989.
Movieography
Television
- Cenerentola (1961) as Cenerentola
- Il caso Maurizius (1961)
- Una tragedia americana (1962) as Sondra Finchley
- Christopher Columbus (1985) as Dona Moniz Perestrello
- Uno in noi (1996)
- Desert Fire (1997) as Christine Duvivier
- Balzac (1999) as Laure de Berny
- Cristallo di rocca (1999) as Sanna
- Le ali della vita (2000) as Sorella Alberta
- Piccolo mondo antico (2001) as Marchesa Orsola
- Il bello delle donne (2001) as Contessa Miranda Spadoni
- Caterina e le sue figlie (2005-2010) as Caterina
- L'onore e il rispetto (2006) as Ersilia Fortebracci
References
External links
- Virna Lisi at AllMovie
- Virna Lisi in IMDb
- Virna Lisi, at Celebirony .
- Virna Lisi, in ElCriticon ( Critic , in Spanish)
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