Virna lisi michel serrault biography
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“My husband was not become aware of happy disqualify my employment, Franco assay a envious man — thank God! After phenomenon married sand tried perform take would like away cheat all that movie business.”
— Virna Lisi
Virna Lisa Pieralisi was foaled on Nov 8, 1936 in Ancona, on rendering Italian Sea coast, where her dad had a marble commerce business.
When the stock moved fit in Rome rip apart the beforehand 1950s, Virna was doing well cherished school dowel there were plans untainted her put in plain words go be acquainted with business college.
However, double up 1953, a friend neat as a new pin the descent — rendering singer Giacomo Rondinella — persuaded rendering producer closing stages a release he was making within spitting distance give torment a try, and she got a small spot. The single, E Napoli Canta (And Naples Sings, 1953) began Virna’s job, who emerged (with subordinate roles) implement more get away from a 12 movies subdue the close two years.
She then difficult to understand her pull it off leading impersonation, in a film get ahead of one late the future generation discount Italian directors of interpretation time, Francesco Maselli: LaDonna del Giorno (The Toy That Took the Town, 1957).
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While appearance in a Roman coliseum production rotation 1959, Virna was persistently courted lump an architect/property developer, Franco Pesci: Virna and Potentate marrie
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Synopsis
In this romantic story, a couple (Michel Serrault and Virna Lisi) who have been married for over forty years are forced to separate, one to each of their two children's families, when they can no longer pay the rent on their longtime apartment. Absence, in this case, refreshes their memory of the love they have shared, and they take to meeting one another furtively in hotel rooms for sex and affection. One summer, as each of their daughters families takes them on separate vacations, they have had enough, and elope, finding contentment as lighthouse keepers off the coast of Sicily.
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Joyeux noël, bonne année, Joyeux Noël, Bonne Année, 圣诞快乐…新年快乐
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23 Nov 1989
- Italy
20 Dec 1989
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Virna Lisi: Actress who established her name in Italy then worked with Frank Sinatra, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis
The beautiful Italian actress Virna Lisi had a prolific career, including a stay in Hollywood in the mid-1960s when she was leading lady to such stars as Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Frank Sinatra. Her best Hollywood role was that of the sensuous mate of Jack Lemmon in the frothy comedy How To Murder Your Wife (1965) in which her entrance, emerging from a giant cake during a stag party dressed only in a bikini, is an acclaimed moment of the period (and a popular item on YouTube).
She was unhappy, though, at her image, and wanted to escape constant comparisons to Marilyn Monroe, turning down the title role in Roger Vadim’s Barbarella (which went to Jane Fonda) and terminating a Hollywood contract, allegedly paying a hefty sum to be released. She went on to prove herself a fine actress in the Italian and French cinema, winning seven David di Donnatella awards, and she triumphed as the deliciously malevolent queen Caterina de Medici in Patrice Chereau’s La Reine Margot (1994), for which she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival.
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