Virna Lisi

Virna Lisi (born 8 November 1936 in Ancona, dead 18 Dicember 2014) is a Cannes and César award-winning Italian film actress.
She was born in Ancona, Marche, as Virna Lisa Pieralisi.

Virna Lisi began her film career in her teens. She was discovered in Paris by two Neapolitan producers, Antonio Ferrigno and Ettore Pesce. Her debut was in La corda d acciaio (The line of steel , 1953).
Initially, she did musical films, like in E Napoli canta (Napoli sings , 1953) and the successful Questa è la vita (1954, with the popular Totò).
Nonetheless, her beauty was more valued than her talent, as in Le diciottenni and Lo scapolo films of 1955. Yet she filled demanding roles, particularly in La Donna del Giorno (1956), Eva (1962).
Lisi also promoted a toothpaste brand on television with a slogan that would become a catchphrase among Italians: "con quella bocca può dire ciò che vuole" (with such a mouth, she can say whatever she wants).
Hollywood producers sought a new Marilyn Monroe, and so Lisi debuted in Hollywood comedy as a blue-eyed blonde temptress opposite Jack Lemmon in How to Murder Your Wife (1965) and appeared with Tony Curtis in Not with My Wife, You Don t! (1966).
Lisi then starred with Frank Sinatra , in Assault on a Queen (1966), in La Ragazza e il Generale , co-starring with Rod Steiger , and in two films with Anthony Quinn , The Secret of Santa Vittoria , directed by Stanley Kramer , and the war drama The 25th Hour .