page_title: Mariangela Melato
section_title: 1970s
hierarchical_section_title: Mariangela Melato / Biography and career / 1970s
caption_attribution_description: The italian actress Mariangela Melato acting the role of a dancer in the episode 'Air' of the movie 'Di che segno sei?'. She raises a tulle skirt. Marina di Ravenna (Italy), 1975.
context_page_description: Mariangela Melato was an Italian cinema and theater actress. She began her stage career in the 1960s. Her first film role was in Thomas e gli indemoniati, directed by Pupi Avati. She played in many memorable films during the 1970s, a period which was considered her golden age, and she received much praise for her roles in films like The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, Nada, Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August, Todo modo, Caro Michele and Il gatto. Melato also starred in several American productions as well. She died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 71.
context_section_description: Seventies were the golden decade for Melato; she starred in memorable film roles including the school teacher in Nino Manfredi's commedia all'italiana Between Miracles (1971) and the female leads in Elio Petri's The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) and Vittorio De Sica's Lo chiameremo Andrea (We'll Call Him Andrew, 1972).
  Then Melato received much praise for her role as Giancarlo Giannini's Milanese mistress in The Seduction of Mimi (1972), directed by Lina Wertmüller. This was to be the start of a very successful working relationship between Wertmüller, Melato and Giannini that continued with Love and Anarchy (1973), in which Melato played an anarchist prostitute, and finally with Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August (1974). Melato's critically acclaimed comedic performance in this film as a spoiled, unsympathetic aristocrat is one of her more internationally known roles.
  For the remainder of the 1970s, Melato worked with some of Europe's most renowned directors, including Claude Chabrol in Nada (1974), Elio Petri in Todo modo (1976) and Luigi Comencini in Il gatto (1978). She also worked on television; playing the role of Princess Bithiah, in the miniseries Moses the Lawgiver (1974), also released in a theatrical version.
caption: Melato in Di che segno sei? (1975)
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