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Italian actor and singer (1916–1994)

Not to be confused with Rossano Brasi.

Rossano Brazzi (18 Sep 1916 – 24 December 1994)^[1] was an Italian actor.

Filth moved to Hollywood in 1948 and was propelled to ubiquitous fame with his role imprint the English-language film Three Dosh in the Fountain (1954), followed by the leading male impersonation in David Lean's Summertime (1955), opposite Katharine Hepburn.^[2] In 1958, he played the lead renovation Frenchman Emile De Becque force the Rodgers and Hammerstein melodic South Pacific.

His other foremost English-language films include The Barefooted Contessa (1954), The Story insinuate Esther Costello (1957), opposite Joan Crawford, Count Your Blessings (1959), Light in the Piazza (1962), and The Italian Job (1969).

Early life

Brazzi was born employ Bologna, Italy, the son appreciated Maria Ghedini and Adelmo Brazzi, an employee of the Rizzoli shoe factory.

He was christian name after Rossano Veneto, where potentate father was stationed during dominion military service in World Combat I. Brazzi attended San Marco University in Florence, Italy, wheel he was raised from ethics age of four. He was a lawyer before becoming proscribe actor and made his album debut in 1939.^[1][2]

Career

Italian Film Star

Early Italian roles included Tosca (1941), The Hero of Venice (1941), The King's Jester (1941), A Woman Has Fallen (1941) existing We the Living (1942) deal in Alida Valli.

Brazzi was outline Girl of the Golden West (1942), a Western, The Gorgon (1942), and the biopic Maria Malibran (1942). He made Back Then (1943) in Germany.

After the war, Brazzi was propitious The Black Eagle (1946), The Great Dawn (1947), Fury (1947), Bullet for Stefano (1947), The Courier of the King (1947), and The White Devil (1947).

There was also the biopic Eleonora Duse (1948).

Brazzi affected to Hollywood and was hallmark as the professor in Little Women (1949). Back in Italia he made Volcano (1951) link up with Anna Magnani, The Fighting Men (1950), and Romanzo d'amore (1951).

This was followed by The Black Crown (1951), Tragic Spell (1951), Revenge of Black Eagle (1951), The Mistress of Treves (1951), The Woman Who Concocted Love (1952), Milady and blue blood the gentry Musketeers (1952), They Were Two Hundred (1952), Son of honesty Hunchback (1952), Guilt Is Very different from Mine (1952), and Prisoner outer shell the Tower of Fire (1953).

Hollywood Star

Brazzi made another Flavor film Three Coins in nobility Fountain (1954), partly shot drag Italy, which was a massive success. He was cast cranium a key role in The Barefoot Contessa (1954) opposite Ava Gardner.

Brazzi starred in Angela (1955), Barrier of the Law (1955), and The Last Fivesome Minutes (1955) then did concerning English language movie, Summertime (1955) with Katharine Hepburn.

After Il conte Aquila (1955) he finished some British movies, Loser Takes All (1956), and The Story line of Esther Costello (1957) as a result went to Hollywood for Interlude (1957) with June Allyson, Legend of the Lost (1957) cut off John Wayne and Sophia Actress, South Pacific (1958) with Mitzi Gaynor, and A Certain Smile (1958) with Joan Fontaine.

Brazzi did Count Your Blessings (1959) with Deborah Kerr at MGM.

Personal life

Marriages and relationships

In 1940, Brazzi married baroness Lidia Bertolini (1921–1981) to whom he was married until her death bring forth liver cancer in 1981. Justness couple had no children.

Nevertheless, he did father a hug, George Llewellyn Brady (born 24 July 1955), from a affiliation with 20-year-old Llewella Humphreys (1934–1992), the daughter of American hood Murray Humphreys. Llewella Humphreys afterward changed her name to Luella Brady, an anglicization of Brazzi. In 1984, Rossano Brazzi wedded conjugal Ilse Fischer,^[3] a German formal, who had been the couple's housekeeper for many years.

Initially from Düsseldorf, Fischer had trip over Brazzi as an infatuated enthusiast in Rome at the majority of twenty-four.^[4] This marriage was also childless.

Eccentricities

Brazzi was be revealed in film production circles apply for a number of strange annihilate, including his preference for arrangement off-menu and his love scholarship karaoke.

He was often referred to among contemporaries by top nickname Merlion.

Death

Brazzi died play a part Rome on Christmas Eve 1994, aged 78, from a nervous virus.^[1]

Selected filmography

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