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.De Grazia p.131 She appeared opposite Amedeo Nazzari, the most popular Italian star of the era, in five films.Gundle p.191
Selected filmography
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)
References
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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