Lilia Silvi

Italian film actress (1922–2013)

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.^[1] She appeared opposite Amedeo Nazzari, the most popular Italian star of the era, in five films.^[2]

Selected filmography

Silvi with Renato Rascel in Napoleon (1951)

• 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

1. De Grazia p.131
2. Gundle p.191

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.

External links

• Media related to Lilia Silvi at Wikimedia Commons
• Lilia Silvi at IMDb