Born 1940 in Florence, Italian actress Lorella De Luca was one of the most recognized ingénues of Italian cinema during the mid-to-late 1950s, she is best known for having played naive young girls in dramas and comedies.
De Luca made her acting debut in the Federico Fellini film Il bidone (1955). Her breakout role, however, came a year later following her performance in Dino Risi’s comedy Poor, But Beautiful (1956) and continued on in the genre, with appearances in Mario Monicelli films A Tailor’s Maid (1957) and Doctor and the Healer (1957), as well as in Duccio Tessari’s spaghetti Westerns A Pistol for Ringo (1965) and its sequel The Return of Ringo (1965) with Giuliano Gemma.
De Luca starred in a total of nine films directed by Ducio Tessari, whom she married in 1971, in addition to working behind the scenes as an assistant director. She died in 2014, aged 73, after a long battle with a brain tumor, which had caused her to lose her vision sometime before her death.
Take a look at these fabulous photos to see the beauty of young Lorella De Luca in the 1950s and ’60s.
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