Franca Bettoia
Franca Bettoia ( born May 14, 1936 in Rome) is an Italian actress.
Life
Born in a prestigious Roman family Bettoja attended the Art School and then studied classical dance at the " Teatro dell'Opera ", where they in their spare time in two films took smaller roles, including her feature film debut in 1955 in Siro Marcellinis Un palco all'opera. As a promising talent of Italian cinema landscape Bettoja could succeed for several years in successful and reasonably challenging (and also in French ) films: Two years after her debut, she played in the Italian- Spanish co-production The Son of the Sheik on the side of Ricardo Montalbán, Carmen Sevilla and Gino Cervi. By the director Pietro Germi, she received the opportunity to play in the L' uomo di paglia the main role of a highly sensitive and fragile young woman, which led to her breakthrough; again two years later, she starred alongside Macha Méril in the Italian-French co-production La main chaude. In the same year she starred alongside Anita Ekberg in the war film Hell on the Yellow River. In 1961 she had with Alan Ladd as the female lead in Terence Young's sandal film The Lost Legion. With her sweet girl in Alfredo Giannetti Giorno per giorno disperatamente in 1961 began her star in the mass of the produced in the 1960s pseudo- mythological materials and adventure films to sink. In 1964, she starred opposite Vincent Price in the first film adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend, which later became known as The Omega Man and I Am Legend filmed much more successful. Then she played Princess Samoa in two on the fictional character of Sandokan Emilio Salgari based adventure films. In the published 1967 Italian comedy Il fischio al naso she played the lover of lead actor Ugo Tognazzi, who also worked as a film director and producer on the film. In the same year she gave birth to their first child together Tognazzi, Gianmarco. Only in 1972, after the birth of their daughter Maria Sole they married, the marriage lasted until death Tognazzis 1990. During their marriage Bettoia turned only a single film, Do not touch the white woman in which her husband was involved. Your date last film appearance was in 1993 in rasate action film tests, in which her son Gianmarco Tognazzi played the lead role.