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Argentina Brunetti (August 31, 1907 – December 20, 2005)^[1] was an Argentine stage and film actress and writer.

Biography

Brunetti was born Argentina Ferrau in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Italian parents; her mother was the Sicilian actress Mimi Aguglia.^[2] She began her show-business career at the age of three with a walk-on role in the opera Cavalleria Rusticana and followed in the footsteps of her mother, performing supporting roles on stage throughout Europe and South America.^[1]

In 1937, she was placed under contract to MGM and began dubbing the voices of Jeanette MacDonald and Norma Shearer into Italian. She became a narrator for the Voice of America, interviewing American movie stars for broadcast in Italy. At the same time, she made her movie debut in the classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946) as Mrs. Maria Martini.^[3]

Brunetti wrote and performed in daily radio shows; she became a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, writing numerous articles on Hollywood personalities; she authored books, wrote music, and appeared in nearly 60 television programmes and almost 70 films.^[3] She hosted a weekly weblog on the Internet called Argentina Brunetti's Hollywood Stories, which her son plans to continue running, and wrote a biographical novel called In Sicilian Company. She continued to act into her nineties, most notably as a relative from the Old World who visits and stays with the (wrong) Barone family in a 1999 episode of Everybody Loves Raymond; her last role was in 2002.

Marriage

She wed Miro Brunetti, a foreign correspondent in Hollywood. The two helped to co-found the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The couple had one son, Mario. Miro Brunetti died in 1966. Argentina Brunetti never remarried.

Last years/death

She moved to Rome in 2004 to be with her family and died there from natural causes on December 20, 2005, aged 98.

Filmography

References

1. ^¹{{cite news|title=Argentina Brunetti|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/argentina-brunetti-6112836.html|accessdate=1 November 2017|work=Independent|date=January 2, 2006|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171101025328/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/argentina-brunetti-6112836.html|archivedate=1 November 2017}}
2. ^{{cite book|last1=Estavan|first1=Lawrence|title=The Italian Theatre in San Francisco|date=1991|publisher=Wildside Press LLC|isbn=9780893704643|page=99|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FZiUg_Xz2I0C&pg=PA77&dq=%22Argentina+Ferrau%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizs-zirJzXAhWSKVAKHUvJACoQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=%22Argentina%20Ferrau%22&f=false|accessdate=1 November 2017|language=en}}
3. ^¹{{cite book|last1=Martone|first1=Eric|title=Italian Americans: The History and Culture of a People|date=2016|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781610699952|page=288|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MHJ1DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA288&dq=%22Argentina+Ferrau%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizs-zirJzXAhWSKVAKHUvJACoQ6AEIMjAC#v=onepage&q=%22Argentina%20Ferrau%22&f=false|accessdate=1 November 2017|language=en}}

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