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...star's latest film, Claretta, directed by Cardinale's constant companion, Pasquale Squitieri. The comely Cardinale plays Mussolini's mistress, and some think the movie is too soft on II Duce. "The film is not about Mussolini," counters Producer Giacomo Pezzali. "It is about Claretta Petacci and her family. We've concentrated on the love story between Claretta and Mussolini. All we wanted to do was a film about this woman who was so very much like a character in a Greek tragedy...
Stiff" and shy in crowds, she could be slyly witty in private. When her husband was contemplating the propriety of their having dinner in a Rome restaurant that was once the villa of Mussolini's mistress Carla Petacci, Mrs. Truman settled the matter: "Well, after all, she won't be there." Bess endured thousands of teas, receptions and galas. Mobbed by delegates and newsmen at the 1944 Democratic Convention that nominated Truman for Vice President, she lamented, "Are we going to have to go through this all the rest of our lives?" Eight and a half years later...
...five years before the union was made legal in 1915. During Il Duce's rise and reign from 1922 to 1943, Donna Rachele remained at home, keeping house and rearing their five children. After the dictator was shot by partisans and hanged by the heels along with Claretta Petacci, his best-known mistress, his destitute widow returned to her native Forli. There she battled successfully for her right to a government pension, the Christian burial of Mussolini's remains and the return of many former possessions. She also ran a restaurant-inn for the past 15 years. Said...
...half of the proceeds from the sale of their Holmby Hills, Calif., home. -Died. Walter Audisio, 64, World War II Italian Communist partisan leader who claimed credit for gunning down Benito Mussolini in April 1945 as the Fascist dictator attempted to escape into Switzerland with his mistress Claretta Petacci along a country road in northern Italy; of a heart attack; in Rome...
Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, were gunned down by a partisan and strung by their heels, in a gruesome outpouring of hate. These vengeful murders and two other events in Fascism's twilight-Mussolini's ouster as Premier by his own Grand Council, and Italy's switch to the Allied side-ensured that il Duce would be remembered with a certain sympathy. Today Italians refer quite easily to Mussolini, not by name but as "quello" (that one) or "lui" (he), and the references are often flattering...