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Silvana Mangano (April 21, 1930 - December 16,
1989) was the most sexy actress of Italy's
neo-realistic period. She was born in Rome, Italy.
Trained as a dancer, she was supporting herself as
a model. 

In 1946, at 16,  Mangano won the Miss Rome beauty
pageant. One year later she was one of the girls
in the Miss Italia contest. Potential actress
Lucia Bose became "The Queen", among Mangano and
some other future stars of Italian cinema like as 
Gina Lollobrigida, Eleonora Rossi Drago and Gianna
Maria Canale. 

Mangano's earliest connection with filmmaking
occurred through her romantic relationship with
actor Marcello Mastroianni. This led her to a
movie contract, though it would take sometime for
Mangano to ascend to international stardom with
her stunning performance in Bitter Rice (Riso
Amaro, Giuseppe De Santis, 1949). 

Though she never scaled the heights of her
contemporaries Sophia Loren and Lollobrigida,
Mangano remained a favorite star between the 1950s
and 1970s, appearing 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), and Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia,
Luchino Visconti, 1971).

Married to Bitter Rice producer Dino De
Laurentiis, Mangano had four children, one of
whom, daughter Raffaela, coproduced with his
father the Mangano's next-to-last film Dune (David
Lynch, 1984). 

Silvana Mangano died of lung cancer in Madrid,
Spain, at 59 years of age.

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