Fulvia Franco

Fulvia Franco

Born: May 21, 1931
Died: May 15, 1988
in Trieste - Friuli-Venezia Giulia - Italy
From Wikipedia

Fulvia Franco (21 May 1931 - 15 May 1988) was an Italian

actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder.

Born in Trieste, the daughter of a businessman, Franco won

the third edition of the Miss Italia beauty contest held in 1948 in Stresa. As

a part of the contest that provided for the winner a role in a movie soon to be

realized with Totò, a member of the jury, Franco appeared in a bib part in Totò

al giro d'Italia. Thanks to the success of the film, Franco continued her film

career, even appearing in leading roles; her most significant and critically

apprecciated role was the sensual widow in L’avventura di un soldato, the

directorial debut of Nino Manfredi which was part of the anthology film L'amore

difficile.

Franco was married to the actor and boxer Tiberio Mitri for

about twenty years, and she starred with him on several fotoromanzi.

Movies for Fulvia Franco...

Trieste, Un ring sull'Adriatico
Title: Trieste, Un ring sull'Adriatico
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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Virgin Merchants
Title: Virgin Merchants
Released: March 22, 1969
Type: Movie
A man who sells counterfeit drugs decides to become a marriage counselor. Having barely started this business, he finds himself in serious trouble, threatening him with mortal danger...
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Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza
Title: Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza
Character: Duchessa Madre
Released: August 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having read an adventure book too many sets out on his own adventures with his servant Sancho Panza.
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Brutti di notte
Title: Brutti di notte
Character: Signora Ananas
Released: March 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Franco consults a psychoanalyst due to a series of nightmares that constantly haunt him. The doctor prescribes a very special treatment for the patient: an intense love life. The man's wife, aware that she is part of the problem, decides to get a facial and to meet her husband in disguise.
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The Magnificent Texan
Title: The Magnificent Texan
Character: Estella
Released: July 28, 1967
Type: Movie
A gang of bandits burn down the Red House belonging to Pablo Lopez. The whole Lopez family is murdered except ten year old Manuel, who is scarred for life by the horrifying sight of his dead parents and burning home. Fifteen years later, Manuel has grown up. After living through many adventures he returns to his village in disguise. Two things are on his mind: to find his long-loved Evelyn and to take revenge on those responsible for the slaughter at the Red House.
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Two Sons of Ringo
Title: Two Sons of Ringo
Character: Margaret
Released: December 7, 1966
Type: Movie
Another spoof from the Franco and Ciccio team in which the boys, who are running a scam pretending to be bounty hunters, are 'persuaded' to help a real bounty hunter discover a treasure by claiming to be the heirs of a deceased lawman.
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For Love and Gold
Title: For Love and Gold
Character: Luida
Released: April 7, 1966
Type: Movie
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.
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Lone and Angry Man
Title: Lone and Angry Man
Character: Lulu Belle
Released: December 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Shenandoah (Steffen) works his way into a band of highwaymen led by Rojo (Armando Calvo). His initiation consists of hunting down and killing a member of the gang who has 12 bullets while he is only given 2 bullets. When the bandits attempt to rob a wealthy rancher, whom Shenandoah knows, he warns him. The outlaws begin to suspect they were betrayed and commence to rough Shenandoah up. Shenandoah then reveals his true reason for joining the gang; one of them killed his wife and he is there for retribution.
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Letti sbagliati
Title: Letti sbagliati
Character: Fulvia (Segment "00-Sexy missione bionda platino")
Released: April 8, 1965
Type: Movie
Four episodes: a traveler is enticed by train per bet; a professional wants to be alone with a woman he likes; a lawyer becomes the lover of an adversary; a man discovers his wife's infidelity after ten years.
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Conquerors of Arkansas
Title: Conquerors of Arkansas
Character: Ilona
Released: November 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker, the film, set entirely in the state of Arkansas, tells of the conflict of interests between the local townspeople and homesteaders on the surrounding land, miners arriving during the gold rush, cowboys and cattle thieves who cause problems in the area, and the native tribes of the region. Two adventurers arrive in town and try to restore peace to it and its inhabitants.
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Queste pazze, pazze donne
Title: Queste pazze, pazze donne
Character: The Lady ('Pochi ma buoni')
Released: May 22, 1964
Type: Movie
Four episodes preceded with a narrator in the role of psychiatrist who tells some cases of female madness.
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High Infidelity
Title: High Infidelity
Character: Raffaella
Released: January 22, 1964
Type: Movie
Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.
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Hercules, Samson & Ulysses
Title: Hercules, Samson & Ulysses
Character: Ithaca Queen
Released: December 20, 1963
Type: Movie
Two strongmen set out to hunt down a murderous sea monster. Their ship is wrecked and they end up in the Holy Land where Hercules is assumed to be Samson who is a wanted man. The two team up to survive.
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Obiettivo ragazze
Title: Obiettivo ragazze
Released: August 5, 1963
Type: Movie
Four former soldiers meet and reminisce about the time they were in active service: a parachutist mistaking his sergeants house for a brothel, a hypnotized sailor who thinks he has changed his sex, two GIs captured by an African tribe.
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Sex Can Be Difficult
Title: Sex Can Be Difficult
Character: La vedova (segment "L'avventura di un soldato")
Released: December 24, 1962
Type: Movie
A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.
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Beauties on Motor Scooters
Title: Beauties on Motor Scooters
Character: Marcella
Released: October 15, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Black Archer
Title: The Black Archer
Character: la zingarella
Released: August 14, 1959
Type: Movie
A mysterious archer who dresses in black is out for revenge against the bandits who killed his father.
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Hercules Unchained
Title: Hercules Unchained
Character: Anticlea
Released: February 14, 1959
Type: Movie
En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.
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Tempest
Title: Tempest
Character: Palaska
Released: December 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel, the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. Soon after he arrives at his new post, a revolt by the local Cossacks breaks out and the fort is besieged by the rebels. The young officer is astonished to find out that the leader of the rebellious Cossacks is none other than the stranger whose life he had saved during the storm.
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Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Title: Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Character: Caterina
Released: December 23, 1957
Type: Movie
The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards Spillone finds her with her husband who he believes to be her lover.
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Peppino, le modelle e... chella llà
Title: Peppino, le modelle e... chella llà
Character: Lucia
Released: April 28, 1957
Type: Movie
Young painter Teddy is successful with women but not very clever about selling pictures. He is in love with Elisabetta but cannot marry her because he is penniless. The couple asks for help from Peppino, a retired clerk who often uses Teddy's painting, pretending that they are his so he can impress the women he likes.
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Onore e sangue
Title: Onore e sangue
Released: April 27, 1957
Type: Movie
A humble clerk is forced to take on debts to cure his mother.
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Il cavaliere dalla spada nera
Title: Il cavaliere dalla spada nera
Character: Livia
Released: October 13, 1956
Type: Movie
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Scapricciatiello
Title: Scapricciatiello
Character: Carmela
Released: December 28, 1955
Type: Movie
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La moglie è uguale per tutti
Title: La moglie è uguale per tutti
Character: Agatina Cuccurullo
Released: October 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.
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La rossa
Title: La rossa
Character: Amelia - detta 'La Rossa'
Released: September 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Amelia, a beautiful and irrepressible girl known as "La Rossa", returns from Paris to her country, a small seaside town in southern Italy, where her father is the lighthouse keeper. To her father and her fellow villagers, she gives the impression that she is married to a rich gentleman. In reality she is only the friend of Pierre Dupont, an elegant Parisian bandit. Dupont, however, actually gives the girl a certain economic comfort. Later Pierre arrives in the country incognito, being wanted for a large theft of jewels in Paris, and Amelia, her lover and accomplice, helps him to hide.
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Caravan of songs
Title: Caravan of songs
Released: April 2, 1955
Type: Movie
In a luxury hotel in Miramare, a competition is organized between pop music singers. Famous celebrities and famous singers are invited.
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Totò all'inferno
Title: Totò all'inferno
Character: Una moglie
Released: March 16, 1955
Type: Movie
After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell.
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Sins of Casanova
Title: Sins of Casanova
Character: Bettina, la fantesca
Released: December 22, 1954
Type: Movie
1760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they single, engaged, or even married.
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Bertoldo, Bertoldino and Cacasenno
Title: Bertoldo, Bertoldino and Cacasenno
Character: Ortensia
Released: September 4, 1954
Type: Movie
A poor farmer is invited to the King's court and tries to prevent the princess' marriage to a villanious knight.
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Tripoli, bel suol d'amore
Title: Tripoli, bel suol d'amore
Character: Nadia
Released: August 19, 1954
Type: Movie
The young Alberto Ruotolo leave the country cottage to go for the sharpshooter. But the command does not pull good air, three riflemen arrogant and unruly bear much disorder as anger Marshal Nero.
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Finalmente libero
Title: Finalmente libero
Character: Anna
Released: November 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Enrico Rossi is accused of polygamy for having married six different women over the years.
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Il romanzo della mia vita
Title: Il romanzo della mia vita
Character: Clara
Released: December 18, 1952
Type: Movie
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Totó in color
Title: Totó in color
Character: Poppy
Released: April 8, 1952
Type: Movie
In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
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Romanticismo
Title: Romanticismo
Character: Mrs. Pochini
Released: December 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Drama set in Milan in 1858. Dr. Antonio Ansperti from Como, implicated in the clandestine activities of the Young Italy revolutionary movement, is arrested by the Austrian authorities. After a trial he is sentenced to death and executed, in spite of efforts by his countryman Count Lamberti to intervene on his behalf with the Governor of Milan.
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Toto Tours Italy
Title: Toto Tours Italy
Character: Miss Italia
Released: December 30, 1948
Type: Movie
A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant. In order to get the girl he must win the "Tour of Italy", so professor sells his soul to the devil to get the winning and the girl.