Lea Padovani Overview:

Actress, Lea Padovani, was born on Jul 28, 1920 in Montalto di Castro, Italy. Padovani died at the age of 70 on Jun 23, 1991 in Rome, Italy .

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Mother: Giuseppe, Giuseppe. Do you think I kept you in school all these years for this piece of paper? Do you think it didn't break my heart to see you, a grown man, among school boys? But at least I knew where you were, a place to go every day where the Sisters could look after you. Now - what will I do with you? What will you do with yourself?


Mother: Your father was a wonderful man to love - but not to live with.


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Sultry Italian leading lady of post-WWII continental filming.

Orson Welles originally cast Lea as Desdemona in his 1952 film production of Othello back in 1948. After Welles began the filming in Venice, producer Montatori Scalera informed Welles that he wanted to make Verdi's opera, not the Shakespearean play, so the money ran out and the movie was shelved. By the time the movie was made years later Lea had been replaced by Suzanne Cloutier.

In the late 1940s, she was briefly engaged to Orson Welles - who was extremely uncomplimentary about her decades later in the biography of him written by Barbara Leaming.

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