Lilia Silvi

Lilia Silvi
Silvi in Lively Teresa (1943)
Born	Silvana Musitelli (1922-12-23)23 December 1922 Rome, Lazio Italy
Died	27 July 2013(2013-07-27) (aged 90) Nettuno, Lazio Italy
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1930–2011

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]

• Il signor Max (1937)
• Departure (1938)
• Unjustified Absence (1939)
• Then We'll Get a Divorce (1940)
• Big Shoes (1940)
• The Secret of Villa Paradiso (1940)
• The Jester's Supper (1941)
• Scampolo (1941)
• Happy Days (1942)
• The Taming of the Shrew (1942)
• Violets in Their Hair (1942)
• Lively Teresa (1943)
• The Devil Goes to Boarding School (1944)
• Biraghin (1946)
• Napoleon (1951)

• 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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• Lilia Silvi at IMDb

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