Franca Bettoia, Italian actress who starred opposite Vincent Price in the 1964 cult science fiction film last man on earthHer family told Italy’s Adnkronos news agency that she died in Rome. She is 88 years old.
Bettoia’s husband is Italian actor Ugo Tognazzi, who starred in the 1978 film Fowlers Cage Robin Williams in Mike Nichols’ 1996 adaptation birdcage ——From 1972 to 1990, he died of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 68.
exist last man on earthDirected by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salko, Betoia stars as Ruth, a woman who, with the help of Dr. Robert Morgan, played by Price, is fending off a creature that turns humans into vampires. The effects of the plague on women.
The film, based on Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel, was shot in Rome, produced by Robert L. Lippert and distributed by American International Pictures i am legend. Subsequently, the author co-wrote the script and signed it as Logan Swanson. (Will Smith starred in Francis Lawrence’s 2007 film adaptation.)
Franca Bettoia and Vincent Price in 1964’s “The Last Man on Earth.”
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Bettoia was born in Rome on May 14, 1936. She made her film debut in 1955, playing the role of “The Other Woman” in Pietro Germi’s film “The Other Woman”. Breakthrough success. scarecrow (1958), premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
She also starred alongside Alan Ladd Champion showdown (1961), co-directed by Terrence Young; in Day after day, anxious (1961), directed by Alfredo Gianetti; in Will our heroes succeed in finding their friend who has mysteriously disappeared in Africa? (1968); and in Don’t touch white women (1974).
her last film was shave head (1993), in which she played the mother of her real-life son Gianmarco Tognazzi. Survivors also include her daughter, director Maria Sole Tognazzi;
