Lilia Silvi

Lilia Silvi
Silvi with Renato Rascel in Napoleon (1951)
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 (1922–2013) 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]

Selected filmography

References

  1. De Grazia p.131
  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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