Maria Fiore(1936-2004)
- Actress
After an impressive debut at the young age of 17 in Castellani's
neo-realistic masterpiece "Due soldi di speranza" (playing Carmela, a
young unemployed man's fiancée) she disappointed art film lovers (but
not the average Italian spectator) in starring - throughout the fifties
and in the early sixties - in a great number of popular flicks, often
musicals set in Naples. She disappeared from the big screen in the
mid-sixties to concentrate on the the dubbing firm she had set up.
Maria Fiore returned to popular success through hit TV mini-series such
as "Quei 36 gradini" (1984),"Little Roma" ('88) and "Pronto Soccorso"
('90-'92). She died of lung cancer aged 68.
