Graziella Granata (born 16 March 1941) is an Italian retired film and stage actress.
After graduating at the
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
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The centre is the oldest film school in ...
, and after some secondary roles in adventure films and comedies, thanks to a film contract with
Angelo Rizzoli
Angelo Rizzoli, OML (; 31 October 1889 – 24 September 1970) was an Italian publisher and film producer.
Early life
Rizzoli was born in Milan on 31 October 1889. Orphaned at a young age and raised in poverty, he rose to prosperity. He appren ...
film production Graziella Granata from the mid-sixties obtained good roles in films of a certain importance. She worked with, among others,
Pasquale Festa Campanile
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Life and career
Born at Melfi, in the province ...
,
Massimo Franciosa
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,
Mario Camerini
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The cousin of Augusto Genina, he made the most well-known films in Italy during the 1930s, most of them comedies starring Vittorio De Sica. H ...
,
Luigi Comencini
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and especially Alessandro Blasetti, who provided her some important roles, including the leading role in the 1967
commedia all'italiana
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Best Actress
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with
Silvana Mangano
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. To horror movie fans, she will always be remembered as the beautiful victim of a vampire in the 1962 film ''
Slaughter of the Vampires
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''.
Despite this, however, she failed to launch her career, and after some Spaghetti Westerns and
poliziotteschi
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, Granata, at the beginning of the seventies, dedicated herself to the theater and shortly after retired from showbiz.