Word: lisi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...class harlot (Moreau) coolly destroys a famous Welsh author (Stanley Baker) who never amounted to much in the first place. The man is a loser whose reputation rests on a novel he stole from his dead brother. By the time the woman finishes with him, his exquisite wife (Virna Lisi) has committed suicide and the writer is reduced to loud talk and low estate as a Venetian tourist guide...
...MURDER YOUR WIFE. Jack Lemmon, Terry-Thomas and Italy's Virna Lisi brighten some nonsense about a bachelor who wakes up married and rues...
...MURDER YOUR WIFE. Uxoricidal impulses, batted around with a slapstick by Jack Lemmon as a reluctant husband, Terry-Thomas as his woman-hating Man Friday, and Italy's Virna Lisi as the superfluous lady...
...that, and did they ever! "I do not think it is more harmful for a young boy to see my striptease than to see the James Bond movies, which exalt violence," pouted Sophia Loren, 30, who cut quite a figure in the bordello scene in Marriage-Italian Style. Virna Lisi, 27, was hardly more penitent: "I have a severe husband, I am a good mother, and yet I absolutely do not feel guilty for having shown a little leg and a little back in a little amusing film...
Since How to Murder, La Lisi has landed three comedy roles, and returns to Hollywood this fall to co-star in Hemingway's Across the River and into the Trees. At the moment in Rome, she is shooting A Virgin for the Prince in a role that involves considerable bed play with Vittorio Gassman. But Virna has decided this is no time to turn coy. "I don't mind being nude under a couple of sheets," she says. "For the moment, I'm only a body, and I don't want to be an actress with...