Word: rosanna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon gave in. That night, Baby called for champagne, slipped a jeweled ring on Ana's finger. Then Baby flew off to Rome. The gossip that bounced back might have shaken a less eternal love: Baby arm in arm with Princess Doris Pignatelli. Baby dating Actress Rosanna Schiaffino. Baby dispatching red roses to former Queen Soraya of Iran. Baby dancing with his ex-wife Mimosa. Back in Rio, Baby found Ana Maria full of doubts, but he smothered her in flowers and loving attention. Last week Baby even set a wedding date of sorts-some time...
...immigrant whose wife has died, and who goes back to Italy to fetch her sister (Magnani) to bed and board. The new wife soon finds out that he is still in love with the old, that he does not want her to be herself, but only to be "like Rosanna." Impossible. Rosanna was a yes woman; Gioia is one of those passionate natures that take time by the forelock and life by the throat. "You look like a slob!" her husband roars. "Why don' you be like Rosanna?" And Gioia tells him fiercely...
Things come to a head at a party. Falling down drunk, the husband tries to make up to Gioia by proposing a toast which he begins with a disastrous slip of the tongue: "To my wife Rosanna!" Gioia locks him out of their room. "Go sleep with the dead!" she rages. He takes a trip. Desperate to be loved, and loved for what she is, she gives herself to her husband's adopted son (Anthony Franciosa...
...somewhere else at the time) or a changeling-the adopted daughter of gypsies (her favorite fantasy, which psychologists will recognize). Was Francisco Montes, the famous bullfighter, her father? (He denied it.) Was she born in Turkey? India? Her real name was Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, and she came from Limerick. At all events, she liked to wear black, was on the stage, had tiny feet and enormous eyes. Her whole life was as absurd as a Verdi opera plot adapted for the wide screen...
Sailing into Manhattan, Italian Cinemactress Rosanna Podesta (35, 21, 33) inhaled expertly to register pleasure at her first glimpse of the U.S. Fresh from playing the coveted title role in Warner Bros.' Italian-filmed Helen of Troy, robustious Rosanna (who muffed her lines in 36 takes of a scene during Helen's early launching) was herself a thinly veiled suggestion of why the movie was converted from a simple love story into a thundrous spectacle...