Lucia Bosè
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Lucia Bosè | |
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.jpg) Bosè as Stefania Rocca in It Happened at the Police Station (1954) | |
| Born | Lucia Borloni 28 January 1931 Milan, Italy |
| Died | 23 March 2020 (aged 89) Segovia, Spain |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1950–2007 |
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| Children | Miguel Bosé Lucía Dominguín Paola Dominguín |
Lucia Bosè (born Lucia Borloni; 28 January 1931 – 23 March 2020) was an Italian actress, who was at the height of her fame during the period of Italian Neorealism, the 1950s. She was the mother of Spanish singer Miguel Bosé.
Life and career
Bosè was born in Milan, Italy, the daughter of Francesca Bosè and Domenico Borloni.[1] After a number of years working in a bakery, Pasticceria Galli, in her native city, in 1947 she won the second edition of the Miss Italia beauty contest.[2] Later, she acted in Dino Risi’s short The Five Days of Milan, then in 1950, she made her big screen debut in Giuseppe De Santis’ Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi (No Peace Under the Olive Tree). The same year, she gave a performance as Paola Molon in Antonioni's Cronaca di un amore. In 1953, Michelangelo Antonioni asked her to play Clara Manni in La signora senza camelie and Juan Antonio Bardem cast her in the lead of Muerte de un ciclista (1955). She also appeared in the 1955 film Gli Sbandati and played the main female role in Luis Buñuel's Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1956).
Her career flourished until 1955, when she fell in love with Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín during the filming of Muerte de un ciclista,[3] and gave up acting to marry and raise a family. [4] The couple married twice, first on 1 March 1955 in Las Vegas and then on 19 October of that year, in a Catholic ceremony at the family estate or finca. [5] Dominguín returned to the bullfighting arena abroad, and their first child, Miguel Bosé, was born in Panama on 3 April 1956. Their second child, Lucia, was born in 1957 and their third, Paola, was born in 1960. Lucia and her husband were married until 1968, but their differences were accentuated over time, especially her lack of interest in bullfighting. She never became close to the "Dominguín" clan, and his marital infidelities also took their toll. [6]
In 1960, she took a small uncredited role in Jean Cocteau's film Le testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi!. Then, after divorcing Dominguin, she returned full-time to the screen, appearing in Fellini's Fellini Satyricon (1969) and starring in the Taviani Brothers' Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969), Mario Colucci's Something Creeping in The Dark (1971), Liliana Cavani's L'ospite (1972), Giulio Questi's Arcana (1972), Marguerite Duras' Nathalie Granger (1972), Beni Montresor's La messe dorée (1975), Jeanne Moreau's Lumière (1976) and Daniel Schmid's Violanta (1976). She continued to be active in both Italian and Spanish films, appearing in Francesco Rosi's Cronaca di una morte annunciata (1987), Agustí Villaronga's El niño de la luna (1989), Ferzan Özpetek's Harem Suare (1999) and Roberto Faenza's I Viceré (2007).
Death
Bosè died at the General Hospital of Segovia on 23 March 2020 at the age of 89 from pneumonia complicated by COVID-19 during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Spain.[7][8][9]
Selected filmography
- No Peace Under the Olive Tree (1950)
- Story of a Love Affair (1950)
- Paris Is Always Paris (1951)
- È l'amor che mi rovina (1951)
- Three Girls from Rome (1952)
- The Temptress (1952)
- Rome 11:00 (1952)
- The Lady Without Camelias (1953)
- Of Life and Love (1954)
- It Happened at the Police Station (1954)
- Era lei che lo voleva! (1954)
- Concert of Intrigue (1954)
- Symphony of Love (1954)
- Magic Village (1955)
- Abandoned (1955)
- Death of a Cyclist (1955)
- Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1956)
- Testament of Orpheus (1960)
- Nocturne 29 (1968)
- The Picasso Summer (1969)
- Fellini Satyricon (1969)
- Love and Other Solitudes (1969)
- Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969)
- Metello (1970)
- So Long Gulliver (1970)
- Something Creeping in The Dark (1971)
- L'ospite (1972)
- The House of the Doves (1972)
- Nathalie Granger (1972)
- Down the Ancient Stairs (1975)
- Violanta (1976)
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)
- The Miser (1990)
- Harem Suare (1999)
- I Viceré (2007)
References
- ^ "Coronavirus, morta l'attrice Lucia Bosè". www.ilgiorno.it. 23 March 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
- ^ "Lucia Borloni". Archivio Flavio Beninati (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
- ^ "La Revista: Nosotros los Bosé". El Mundo (in Spanish). No. 124. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
- ^ Herrero, Nieves (8 October 2015). Como si no hubiera un mañana: La pasión de Ava Gardner y Luis Miguel Dominguín. La Esfera de los Libros. p. 666. ISBN 9788490605158.
- ^ Piñeiro, Raquel (2 March 2019). "Las dos bodas de Lucía Bosé y Dominguín: en Las Vegas y en la finca familiar". Vanity Fair (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 September 2019.
- ^ Vargas, Manuel Ríos (2012). Antología del baile flamenco. Signatura Ediciones. p. 111. ISBN 9788495122490.
- ^ È morta Lucia Bosé. Aveva contratto il coronavirus (in Italian)
- ^ "Lucia Bosè, Italian beauty who starred in films of the 1950s and married the philandering bullfighter Luis Dominguin – obituary". Telegraph.co.uk. 2020-03-27. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
- ^ Daniel E. Slotnik. "Lucia Bosé, Whose Acting Was Interrupted by Marriage, Dies at 89 - The New York Times". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
External links
- Lucia Bosè at IMDb
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