Silvana Mangano

Silvana Mangano was an Italian film actress who rose out of the neorealist movement. She became famous with Bitter Rice (1949) and was a major sex symbol of the 1950s and 1960s. Silvana Mangano has a nude scene in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Oedipus Rex from 1967. She was born on April 21, 1930, in Rome, Italy, and died on December 16, 1989. She won the David di Donatello for Best Actress for The Verona Trial, The Witches and The Scientific Cardplayer. She also worked with directors such as Luchino Visconti, Alberto Lattuada and Vittorio De Sica. Later she took supporting parts in David Lynch's Dune (1984) and Nikita Mikhalkov's Dark Eyes (1987). She was married to film producer Dino De Laurentiis.