Franca Bettoia

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Franca Bettoia or Bettoja born 14 May 1936 is an Italian actress Born in Rome she made her first film appearance in Un palco allopera 1955 by Siro Marcellini The following year she appeared in Los amantes del desierto Desert Warrior a SpanishItalian desert epic starring Ricardo Montalban Carmen Sevilla and Gino Cervi She next appeared opposite Pietro Germi in Luomo di paglia 1958 and opposite Macha Méril and Jacques Charrier in the French production La main chaude 1960 by Gérard Oury She appeared as a nun in Apocalisse sul Fiume Giallo The Dam on the Yellow River 1960 an antiCommunist propaganda film which portrays the victory of Mao Zedongs Peoples Liberation Army as seen through the eyes of an American journalist Georges Marchal reporting from the side of the nationalists In 1961 she starred opposite Alan Ladd in Orazi e Curiazi Duel of the Champions a sword and sandals adventure set in ancient Rome In 1964 Bettoia costarred with Vincent Price in the horrorscience fiction film The Last Man on Earth 1964 by Ubaldo Ragone and Sidney Salkow the first screen adaptation of Richard Mathesons novel I Am Legend She then played a princess in the adventure films Sandokan alla riscossa 1964 and Sandokan contro il leopardo di Sarawak 1964 In 1967 she appeared as Ugo Tognazzis lover in the comedy Il fischio al naso The Seventh Floor 1967 Bettoia and Tognazzi married in 1972 They had a had a daughter film director Maria Sole Tognazzi Bettoia acted in only three more films after Il fischio al naso In the comedy Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare lamico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa 1968 by Ettore Scola she starred alongside Alberto Sordi and Bernard Blier In Touche pas à la femme blanche Dont Touch the White Woman directed by Marco Ferreri in 1974 she starred alongside Catherine Deneuve Marcello Mastroianni and Michel Piccoli Her last film Teste rasate 1993 is a drama about skinheads in which her son Gianmarco Tognazzi plays the lead role Description above from the Wikipedia article Franca Bettoia licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia