1. Virna Lisi promoted a toothpaste brand on television with a slogan that would become a catchphrase among Italians: "con quella bocca puo dire cio che vuole".
11 Facts About Virna Lisi
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Virna Lisi then starred with Frank Sinatra, in Assault on a Queen, in The Girl and the General, co-starring with Rod Steiger, and in two films with Anthony Quinn, The Secret of Santa Vittoria, directed by Stanley Kramer, and the war drama The 25th Hour.
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Virna Lisi garnered attention for a photo of her 'shaving' her face that appeared on the March 1965 cover of Esquire magazine.
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Virna Lisi turned down the part played by Jane Fonda in Roger Vadim's Barbarella.
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Virna Lisi starred in The Birds, the Bees and the Italians which shared the Grand Prix with A Man and a Woman at the Cannes Film Festival that year.
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Virna Lisi told The New York Sunday Times that after marrying Franco Pesci, an Italian builder and architect, she briefly retired from acting in the early 1970s to spend more time with her husband and their son, Corrado.
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Nonetheless, Virna Lisi's career underwent a renaissance with a number of projects, including Al di la del bene e del male, Ernesto, and La cicala.
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In 2002, Virna Lisi starred in Il piu bel giorno della mia vita.
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Virna Lisi was married to Franco Pesci, an Italian property developer and architect.
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On 18 December 2014, Virna Lisi died of lung cancer in Rome at age 78.
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Virna Lisi is survived by a son, Corrado Pesci, and three grandchildren.