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Lorella De Luca (17 September 1940 – 9 January 2014) was an Italian film, television, and voice actress. One of the most recognized ingenues of Italian cinema during the mid-to-late 1950s, she is best known for having played naive young girls in dramas and comedies. She was born in Florence, Italy and, following her "discovery" at age 14, made her acting debut in the Federico Fellini film ''Il bidone'' (1955). De Luca's breakout role, however, came a year later following her performance in Dino Risi's comedy ''Poor, But Beautiful'' (1956) and continued on in the genre, with appearances in Mario Monicelli films ''A Tailor's Maid'' (1957) and ''Doctor and the Healer'' (1957), as well as in Duccio Tessari's Spaghetti Westerns ''A Pistol for Ringo'' (1965) and its sequel ''The Return of Ringo'' (1965) with Giuliano Gemma. ==Biography== Lorella De Luca was born in Florence, Italy on September 17, 1940. "Discovered" at the age of fourteen by a director who followed De Luca home, and convinced her father that she should be in films,〔"Discovery of Lorella De Luca." ''Cosmopolitan''. Sept. 1961: 52+. ("Discovery of Lorella De Luca (left) reads like script: at fourteen, she was spotted by director, who followed her home, convinced father she should be in, films. Now 21, she is a talented actress.")〕 she made her feature film debut in Federico Fellini's ''Il bidone'' (1955) as Patrizia, the young daughter of middle-aged con man Augusto (Broderick Crawford).〔Sadoul, Georges. ''Dictionary of Films''. Trans. Peter Morris. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972. (pg. 32) ISBN 0-520-02152-5〕〔Alpert, Hollis. ''Fellini, a life''. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. (pg. 104) ISBN 0-7432-1309-2〕〔Bondanella, Peter E. ''A History of Italian Cinema''. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2009. (pg. 150) ISBN 1-4411-6069-8〕〔Hughes, Howard. Once Upon a Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 2004. (pg. 20) ISBN 1-85043-896-X〕 She subsequently attended the prestigious "Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia" (Experimental Cinematography Centre) in Rome, and the following year appeared in what would be her breakout role in Dino Risi's ''Poor, But Beautiful'' (1956) alongside other young actors Marisa Allasio, Renato Salvatori and Maurizio Arena.〔Rondi, Gian Luigi. ''Italian Cinema Today, 1952–1965''. New York: Hill and Wang, 1966 (pg. 157).〕〔Cowie, Peter, ed. ''International Film Guide 1983''. London: The Tantivy Press, 1983.〕 The success of the film made De Luca one of the most popular ingenues of Italian cinema; her freshness and grace endeared her to the public. De Luca was one of several women romantically involved with her ''Poor, But Beautiful'' co-star Maurizio Arena.〔Gundle, Stephen. ''Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s''. Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2011. (pg. 227) ISBN 0-85786-049-6〕 She co-starred with Arena in ''Il principe fusto'' (1960), a film which he co-wrote, produced and directed. Their relationship created a minor scandal when it was revealed by the Italian media that Arena, after publicly announcing his intention to wed Anna Maria Pierangeli, was also engaged to De Luca.〔Allen, Jane. ''Pier Angeli: A Fragile Life''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2002. (pp. 159–160); ISBN 0-7864-1392-1 ("The press claimed they were inseparable. However, when Arena publicly announced his intention of marrying Anna Maria Pierangeli, it was revealed that he already had a fiancée, a starlet named Lorella De Luca")〕 She specialized in the character of the naive young girl, a kind of an Italian Sandra Dee, and appeared in a series of hit comedies: ''Fathers and Sons'' (1957)〔Cardullo, Bert. ''Vittorio De Sica: Director, Actor, Screenwriter''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2002. (pg. 120) ISBN 0-7864-1135-X〕 and ''The Doctor and the Sorcerer'' (1957) by Mario Monicelli, the latter starring Vittorio de Sica and Marcello Mastroianni, ''Sunday Is Always Sunday'' (1958) by Camillo Mastrocinque, ''First Love'' (1958) by Mario Camerini,〔Maltin, Leonard. ''Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2001''. New York: Plume, 2000. (pg. 460); ISBN 0-452-28187-3〕 Gianni Franciolini's romantic comedy ''Love on the Riviera'' (1958),〔Blum, Daniel. ''Daniel Blum's Screen World 1965''. Vol. 16. New York: Crown Publishers, 1966. (pg. 185); ISBN 0-8196-0306-6〕 and many others.〔 In 1958, De Luca joined Alessandra Panaro and Mario Riva as a show girl in the popular TV quiz show ''Il Musichiere'' (The Musician). She also had minor roles in "sword-and-sandal" and "muscleman" films, often being cast as a princess or slave girl, such as ''Sheba and the Gladiator'' (1959) and ''Sign of the Gladiator'' (1965).〔 With the beginning of the 1960s, De Luca received more and more roles in commercial films. She had a brief, but memorable, foray into the Spaghetti Western genre. In 1965, under the pseudonym "Hally Hammond", she had supporting roles in ''A Pistol for Ringo''〔Frayling, Christopher. ''Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone''. 2nd ed. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1998. (pg. 263) ISBN 1-86064-200-4〕〔Hughes, Howard. ''Once Upon a Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns''. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2006. (pg. 31); ISBN 1-85043-896-X〕 and its sequel, ''The Return of Ringo'', both directed by her future husband Duccio Tessari. De Luca appeared in nine other films directed by her husband, most notably, ''Una voglia da morire'' (1965) and ''Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang'' (1966),〔Parish, James and Michael Pitts. ''The Great Spy Pictures II''. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1986 (pg. 178); ISBN 0-8108-1913-9〕〔Mavis, Paul. ''The Espionage Filmography: United States Releases, 1898 through 1999''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2001 (pg. 168); ISBN 0-7864-0861-8〕 between 1965 and 1978. After 1967, with the birth of their two daughters Federica and Fiorenza Tessari, in addition to her losing interest as a character actor, she accepted only occasional parts during the next decade. Her last acting roles were in ''The Fifth Commandment'' (1978)〔 and the 1984 television miniseries ''Nata d'amore''. She was actively involved in her husband's later career and was first assistant director in his final film ''There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs'' (1990). De Luca made one last appearance in ''Bonus malus'' (1993) and retired from the film industry after Tessari's death the following year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lorella De Luca」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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