Silvana Mangano Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Silvana Mangano (Italian pronunciation: [sil?vana ?ma??ano]; 21 April 1930 – 16 December 1989) was an Italian actress of English descent.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.
She was initially chosen as the leading lady for Under the Olive Tree (1950) (she had signed a contract with Lux Film for the sum of one million lire), but was forced to abandon the project because she was pregnant at the time.
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She was trained as a dancer under Zhia Ruskaya and then worked as a model. She won the Miss Rome beauty pageant in 1946 and from then on toiled in small movie roles until her breakthrough came in Bitter Rice (1949).
She separated from Dino De Laurentiis in 1983 and abandoned her career to live in Paris and Madrid, where she made tapestries. They had not divorced by the time she died of lung cancer in 1989.
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Her most famous role, the earthy Bitter Rice (1949), had her out toiling ever so sexily in the rice fields. Lucille Ball did a hilarious spoof on this movie on her sitcom I Love Lucy (1951). Lucy is spotted by a famous Italian movie director and chosen to play a role in his new movie, "Bitter Grapes", that ends up with her toiling in her now famous grape-stomping vat scene.
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Not having the same kind of drive as her two other Italian sex symbol competitors, Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida, Mangano's career was completely controlled by her husband Dino De Laurentiis.
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Born the daughter of an Italian father and an English mother, she lived in poverty caused by World War II.
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Her son, Federico De Laurentiis, was killed in an Alaska airplane crash on July 15, 1981.
