Draft:Mary Puccini
Mary Puccini (born Carla Maria Puccini in Gondar in 1941 Italian Ethiopia) is a retired Italian actress.
Life[edit]
Carla Maria Puccini was born in Gondar near Italian occupied Addis Ababa in 1941 and moved to Italy when she was five years old. Since then she has always lived in Rome, where is nicknamed "Mary". She was an active member of the Italians of Ethiopia association in Italy when was young in the late 1950s.
She started her career as actress in a tv miniseries called "Vivere insieme".
After being in 1965 in the cast of the television miniseries La donna di fiori, with lieutenant Sheridan (Ubaldo Lay), Mary presented the following year the Sanremo Festival together with Mike Bongiorno and Paola Penni in 1966[1]. In the Sanremo kermesse she became the protagonist of a bizarre episode: during the live broadcast of the last evening she suddenly fainted on the stage in front of everyone but Mike Bongiorno, who had understood that Puccini had faked the fainting to attract attention on himself, did not lose his composure and continued with the presentation of the singing competition. She pretended nothing had happened.[2]
Later she become a famous actress and did some movies, the most famous was Questi nostri figli[3] (done in 1967 by Mario Landi)[4].
Another internationally known movie was:
- "Red Roses for the Fuhrer", done in 1968. It is also known as "Code Name, Red Roses"[5].
Private life[edit]
She married in 1990 (with Romano Mussolini and had her only daughter (Rachele) the next year. She widowed 16 years later and retired to private life.
Mary has successfully followed the political career of her daughter, who is in the Fratelli d'Italia party governing Italy since 2021. She personally did an expensive campaign in order to make re-elected her daughter in the City Council of Rome in 2023.[6].
References[edit]
- ^ Marcello Giannotti, San Remo 1966: lo svenimento di Maria Puccini
- ^ M.Bongiorno. "La versione di Mike", Sanremo chapter
- ^ Questi nostri figli (in italian)
- ^ Cast of the movie
- ^ Code Name, Red Roses
- ^ Elected again in Rome the daughter of Mary Puccini
Bibliography[edit]
- Michael Bongiorno, Nicolò Bongiorno. La versione di Mike. Edizioni Mondadori. Milano, 2010. ISBN 8852012052, 9788852012051
- Marcello Giannotti. L'Enciclopedia di Sanremo 1951-2006, "Tutto il Festival dalla A alla Z", Anno 1966. Gremese Editore. Milano, 2007
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