Italian model, singer and actress Anna
Ranalli died on February 14th. She was 84. Born Anna Maria Ranalli
in San Benedetto del Tronto, Marche, Italy on January 21, 1942, she was Miss
Italy in 1959, Miss Beirut in and Miss Europe in 1960. Ranalli - who in 1958
had interrupted her studies to enroll at the Experimental Center of
Cinematography - was hired by Italian directors and made 7 films. The best
known was "The Magnificent Three" in 1961 with Walter Chiari, Ugo
Tognazzi and Raimondo Vianello. After achieving popularity, she studied singing
with the masters Francesco Ferrari and Bruno Zambrini, recorded some records
and participated in the television program "Tempo di musica". She
left the cinema to devote herself to her family after marrying Gianfranco
Battelli, a rally driver who had abandoned racing for her. He followed him to
manage two hotels in Chianciano Terme. In recent years she had retired to
private life between San Benedetto and Martinsicuro, unforgotten. Rinalli
played Dolores in the 1961 Euro-western “The Magnificent Three”.
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