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Vincenzo Ferdinandi
Vincenzo Ferdinandi (29 November 1920 - 22 April 1990) was an Italian designer among the founders of Italian haute couture. Biography Born in the United States, he moved to Italy in the early 1950s to open an atelier in Rome in the fashionable Via Veneto. He was among the first great haute couture designers to compete with the French in the international arena. In 1949 he was in Paris, called by Christian Dior for a stylistic collaboration with the French maison. After that experience, London also called him to design a line of shoes that he completed with creativity and all-Italian creativity Together with other names of the Italian fashion of the time such as Roberto Capucci, the Sartoria Antonelli, the atelier Carosa, Giovannelli-Sciarra, Germana Marucelli, Polinober, the Sartoria Vanna and Jole Veneziani, he participated in 1952 in the first historical parade at the Sala Bianca in Palazzo Pitti in Florence. A very young Oriana Fallaci sent by the weekly ''Epoca'' tol ...
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Newark, New Jersey
Newark ( , ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County and the second largest city within the New York metropolitan area.New Jersey County Map
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The city had a population of 311,549 as of the , and was calculated at 307,220 by the

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Castel Sant'Angelo
The Mausoleum of Hadrian, usually known as Castel Sant'Angelo (; English: ''Castle of the Holy Angel''), is a towering cylindrical building in Parco Adriano, Rome, Italy. It was initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family. The building was later used by the popes as a fortress and castle, and is now a museum. The structure was once the tallest building in Rome. Hadrian's tomb The tomb of the Roman emperor Hadrian, also called Hadrian's mole, was erected on the right bank of the Tiber, between AD 134 and 139. Originally the mausoleum was a decorated cylinder, with a garden top and golden quadriga. Hadrian's ashes were placed here a year after his death in Baiae in 138, together with those of his wife Sabina, and his first adopted son, Lucius Aelius, who died in 138. Following this, the remains of succeeding emperors were also placed here, the last recorded deposition being Caracalla in 217. The urns containing these ashes w ...
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1920 Births
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Elsa Martinelli
Elsa Martinelli (born Elisa Tia; 30 January 1935 – 8 July 2017) was an Italian actress and fashion model. Life and career Born Elisa Tia in Grosseto, Tuscany, she moved to Rome with her family. In 1953, she was discovered by Roberto Capucci who introduced her to the world of fashion. She became a model and began playing small roles in films. She appeared in Claude Autant-Lara's ''Le Rouge et le Noir'' (1954), but her first important film role came the following year with '' The Indian Fighter'' opposite Kirk Douglas, who claimed to have spotted her on a magazine cover and hired her for his production company, Bryna Productions. Douglas subsequently signed her to a two pictures a year for two years non-exclusive contract with Bryna Productions in February 1956. She was loaned out from Bryna Productions to Universal-International Pictures in March 1956 for the film '' Four Girls in Town''. In 1956, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 6th Berlin International F ...
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Ivy Nicholson
Ivy Nicholson (February 22, 1933 – October 25, 2021) was an American model and actress. Early life Nicholson grew up in Cypress Hills, New York. ''World'' magazine reported that she was "born to a humble working-class family". She started working as a model at 16. She first modeled in a Brooklyn department store, after winning a beauty contest."Wild Grows the Ivy," ''Look'', May 10, 1960, pp. 91–93 In her teens she settled in Greenwich Village and worked in the Garment District. Model She appeared on the covers of major fashion magazines such as ''Vogue'' '' Harper's Bazaar'',"Armimondi's work on display at S.F. Main Library," Sam Whiting, Chronicle Staff Writer, December 12, 2009 ''Life'', ''Mademoiselle'' and ''Elle''. In the mid-Fifties she was romantically linked with Colin Tennant, son of the second Baron Glenconnor. Nicholson moved to Italy and worked for fashion designers such as Irene Galitzine, Fernanda Gattinoni, the Sorelle Fontana, Simonetta, Alberto ...
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Lucia Bosè
Lucia Bosè (28 January 1931 – 23 March 2020) was an Italian actress. Life and career Lucia Bosè was born in Milan to Francesca Borloni and Domenico Bosè. After a number of years working in a bakery, Pasticceria Galli, in her native city, in 1947 she won the second edition of the Miss Italia beauty contest. Later, she acted in Dino Risi’s short ''The Five Days of Milan'', then in 1950, she made her big-screen debut in Giuseppe De Santis’ ''Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi'' (''No Peace Under the Olive Tree''). The same year, she gave a performance as Paola Molon in Antonioni's '' Cronaca di un amore''. In 1953, Michelangelo Antonioni asked her to play "Clara Manni" in '' La signora senza camelie'' and Juan Antonio Bardem cast her in the lead of '' Muerte de un ciclista'' (1955). She also appeared in the 1955 film '' Gli Sbandati'' and played the main female role in Luis Buñuel's ''Cela s'appelle l'aurore'' (1956). Her career flourished until 1955 when she fell in love ...
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Eloisa Cianni
Eloisa Cianni (born 21 June 1932) is an Italian actress, model and beauty pageant winner. Ciani was born in Rome as Aloisa Stukin, with the surname derived from her Polish adoptive father Stanislaus Stukin, who had married her mother Ida Furnace. In 1952 she won the Miss Italia beauty contest, and one year later she was elected Miss Europe. She subsequently started a career as model and actress, debuting in the Gianni Franciolini's 1953 comedy film ''Villa Borghese Villa Borghese or Villa Borghese Pinciana ('Borghese family{{!Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill') is the villa built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio (and, after his death, finished by his assistant Giovanni Vasanzio), developing sketches by Scip ...''. References External links * 1932 births Living people Actresses from Rome Italian film actresses 20th-century Italian actresses Italian beauty pageant winners Italian female models Miss Europe winners Models from Rome {{Italy-film-actor-stub ...
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Isabella Albonico
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Sylva Koscina
Sylva Koscina (; born Silvija Košćina, ; 22 August 1933 – 26 December 1994) was a Yugoslav-born Italian actress, maybe best remembered for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules (Steve Reeves) in ''Hercules'' (1958) and ''Hercules Unchained'' (1960). She also played Paul Newman's romantic interest in '' The Secret War of Harry Frigg'' (1968). Early life She was born Silvija Košćina ( el, label=Greek, Σύλβα Κοσκινού, Sýlva Koskinoú) to a Greek father, who had a hotel in the "West Coast" section of Split, Dalmatia, and a Polish mother. During World War II, in her preadolescence, Košćina was brought to Italy to live with her older sister, who had married an Italian citizen. After winning beauty contests as a teenager, she was offered modelling work. In 1954, while studying physics at the University of Naples, and living in a boarding school of nuns, she was asked to be ''Miss di Tappa'' ("Stage Miss"), who presents flowers to the winner of a stage of th ...
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Virna Lisi
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May Britt
May Britt (born May Britt Wilkens; 22 March 1934) is a Swedish actress who had a brief career in the 1950s in Italy and later in the United States. She was married to American entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. from 1960 to 1968. Career Britt was discovered as a teenager by Italian filmmakers Carlo Ponti and Mario Soldati in 1951. She was then an assistant to a Stockholm photographer. The two filmmakers were in Sweden to cast a young blonde for the title role in ''Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair''. They came to the studio where she worked to view photographs of models. After meeting her, they offered her the part. May Britt, as she was renamed professionally, moved to Rome. As expected, she made her movie debut as the leading actress in ''Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair'' (1952). (Gary Fishgall, in ''Gonna Do Great Things: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr.'', wrote of Britt, "... she made her film debut in ''Le Infideli'' in 1952.") In the following years she worke ...
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Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones (born Phylis Lee Isley; March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009), also known as Jennifer Jones Simon, was an American actress and mental health advocate. Over the course of her career that spanned over five decades, she was nominated for the Oscar five times, including one win for Best Actress, as well as a Golden Globe Award win for Best Actress in a Drama. A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Jones worked as a model in her youth before transitioning to acting, appearing in two serial films in 1939. Her third role was a lead part as Bernadette Soubirous in '' The Song of Bernadette'' (1943), which earned her the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Actress. She went on to star in several films that garnered her significant critical acclaim and a further three Academy Award nominations in the mid-1940s, including ''Since You Went Away'' (1944), ''Love Letters'' (1945), and '' Duel in the Sun'' (1946). In 1949, Jones married film producer David O. Selznick, and appear ...
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