Lilia Silvi

Italian film actress (1922–2013)

Lilia Silvi
Silvi in Lively Teresa (1943)
Born	Silvana Musitelli (1922-12-23)23 December 1922 Rome, Lazio Italy
Died	27 July 2013(2013-07-27) (aged 90) Nettuno, Lazio Italy
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1930–2011

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

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

^ De Grazia p.131
^ 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.