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Lilia Silvi

Lilia Silvi

Italian film actress (1922–2013)

Lilia Silvi (22 December 1922 – 27 July 2013) was an Italian film actress. Silvi was one of several young actresses presented as an Italian equivalent to the Canadian-born Hollywood star Deanna Durbin.[1] She appeared opposite Amedeo Nazzari, the most popular Italian star of the era, in five films.[2]

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Selected filmography

Silvi with Renato Rascel in Napoleon (1951)

References

  1. [1]
    De Grazia p.131
  2. [2]
    Gundle p.191

Bibliography

  • De Grazia, Victoria. How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945. University of California Press, 1992.
  • Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.


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