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...film bursts along by following a few days in the life of a rather active chanteuse (Silvano Pampanini) who climbs the rungs of the civil service hierarchy faster than anyone of the opposite sex has been able to climb. After seducing the prosecutor assigned to throw her out of town for risque performances she continues with an austere provincial judge, and then "The Minister" in Paris. These four leading parts are all neatly cast, as are the many juicy minor roles in which such European films abound. The judge's wife is a coy hippopotamus; his maid is a laughing...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Mlle. Gobette | 10/23/1956 | See Source »

...Caracas, Venezuela, for the weekend. Since bosomy Italian Actress Silvana Pampanini was occupying the Hotel Tamanaco's luxurious presidential suite, Peron made do with lesser quarters and jovially met the press on the terrace. What about Nelly? the reporters asked. "I'm too old for politics, war or women," joked 60-year-old Juan Peron. What did he think of Argentina's new president, General Eduardo Lonardi? "Lonardi is like the man who leaped from the roof of a twelve-story building and yelled as he passed the fourth floor, 'I'm doing well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Unemployed Traveler | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...Europe's shapeliest stars, Italian Cinemactress Silvana Pampanini (37-23-36), flew from Rome to the U.S. for a week of personal appearances in Denver's "Festival of Italy." "It isn't true," La Pampanini loudly cried, "that I think American men are lousy lovers. All the Americans I've met," she murmered, in a graceful non sequitur, "have been very fine and admirable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 26, 1955 | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...girl in a green dress, the proper piropo is "If you're like this green, what you'll be when you're ripe!" As for the phantasmagoric girl who is already ripe, the boys draw on their memories-of Italian movies, and say: "What a Pampanini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: The Cocacolos | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...Silvana Pampanini (37, 24, 36") plays the sort of part Yvonne de Carlo does for Hollywood. The 25-year-old daughter of a Roman typesetter, she stands 5 ft. 8^ in., weighs close to 140, has black hair and green eyes and runs heavily to chest. In 1946 she came in second in the Miss Italy contest. She gets the heaviest fan mail of any Italian actress. Her main complaint: producers always want her to do scenes in the near-nude, "as if I were some kind of prize pig." ¶ Eleonora Rossi-Drago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood on the Tiber | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

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