Milly Vitale
Milly Vitale | |
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Born |
Camilla Vitale 16 July 1933 Rome, Italy |
Died |
2 November 2006 74) Rome, Italy | (aged
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1947-1972 |
Spouse(s) | Vincent Hillyer (1960-1966) |
Children |
Edoardo Hillyer (b. 1961) Vincent Hillyer Jr. (b. 1964)[1] |
Parent(s) |
Riccardo Vitale Natasha Shidlowski |
Camilla "Milly" Vitale (16 July 1933, Rome, Italy – 2 November 2006, Rome, Italy) was an Italian actress. She was the daughter of Riccardo Vitale ( Rome Opera House Director , deceased 1979) and choreographer Natasha Shidlowski Vitale ( deceased 1994).
She appeared in numerous post-war Italian films. She appeared in a few Hollywood movies but never achieved star status like her contemporaries Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida. In her most notable U.S. role, she appeared with Bob Hope as "Madeleine Morundo Foy" in The Seven Little Foys (1956). The Juggler co-starring with Kirk Douglas ( 1953) . War and Peace (1957).
Personal life
She married Vincent Hillyer, a United States citizen, in 1960; the marriage produced two sons, Edoardo Hillyer and Vincent Jr. Hillyer . The couple divorced in the late 1960s. Vitale retired from acting in the 1970s, after a career of more than 47 films.
Selected filmography
- The Brothers Karamazov (1947)
- Difficult Years (1948)
- Hearts at Sea (1950)
- The Fighting Men (1950)
- The Lion of Amalfi (1950)
- Trieste mia! (1951)
- Revenge of the Pirates (1951)
- Il Caimano del Piave (1951)
- Il Tenente Giorgio (1952)
- Son of the Hunchback (1952)
- Prisoner in the Tower of Fire (1952)
- At Sword's Edge (1952)
- If You Won a Hundred Million (1953)
- For You I Have Sinned (1953)
- La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi (1953)
- The Juggler (1953)
- Nero and the Burning of Rome (1953)
- The Two Orphans (1954)
- Loves of Three Queens (1954)
- Rasputin (1954)
- The Seven Little Foys (1955)
- The Song of the Heart (1955)
- Vendicata! (1955)
- War and Peace (1956)
- The Flesh Is Weak (1957)
- The Black Devil (1957)
- Battle of the V-1 (1958)
- Hannibal (1959)
- Ten Ready Rifles (1959)
- Revak the Rebel (1960)
- A Breath of Scandal (1960)
- Days of Fire (1968)
- Let's Have a Riot (1970)
References
External links
- Milly Vitale at the Internet Movie Database
- Milly Vitale's page on Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen