Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 31, 1907, Argentina Brunetti began her show business career at the age of three with a walk-on role in the opera “Cavelaria Rusticana””, and followed her famous mother Mimi Aguglia’s footsteps in the theater, performing supporting roles on stages throughout Europe and South America. In 1937 she was placed under contract to MGM Pictures and began dubbing the voices of Jeanette MacDonald and Norma Shearer into Italian. Next she became a narrator for the Voice of America, interviewing American movie stars for broadcast in Italy. At the same time she began her movie career, debuting in the classic It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), as “”Mrs. Martini””. Throughout her career she also wrote and performed in daily radio shows, became a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association–writing numerous articles on Hollywood personalities–authored books, wrote music and acted in over 57 television programs and 68 movies in which she mainly played multi- ethnic roles.”
Argentina Brunetti
Movies
Fatso
Dominick DiNapoli has always been a big kid who loved eating. It was his favorite thing. Then his cousin dies from health complications due to a lack of exercise and improper diet. Antoinette, Dominick’s sister, makes him promise to see a diet doctor and lose some weight. This is very…
Fun Facts
but his wife insisted she should be called Mimi.
For The Tall Men (1955)
Quotes
[on Broken Arrow (1950)] Jeff Chandler was always extremely nice to me throughout the filming. We were on location for over two months. The weather during the filming was often a problem. One time it hailed so hard we stopped in the middle of a scene and all the cast and crew ran into the nearby tepees, built for the scene, for shelter. During this picture we had over 500 real American Indians with us. I was so well made up as Cochise's wife they all thought I was one of them and kept speaking to me in their language. I just smiled at them and bowed my head.
I went to Steve McQueen's house to interview him and was surprised with all the security systems he had around, because, at the time, they were almost unheard of. It took me about half an hour to finally gain access to his house. I remember he had a big Harley Davidson motorcycle parked in the driveway.
I was once invited to Chuck Connors' beautiful home high on a hill off of Mulholland Drive in L.A. with a swimming pool built on stilts hanging over a cliff. His wife invited me to go swimming with her. I politely refused as I was afraid the whole pool would collapse and topple over the hill. Chuck assured me he swam in the pool daily, as part of his exercise routine. But I still wasn't convinced.
My mother [Mimi Aguglia] was actually born on the stage during the last act of William Shakespeare's 'Othello' in Palermo, Sicily, on December 23, 1884. Her mother was also an actress and was playing Desdemona. During the last act, while Othello was supposed to be choking her to death, she started to scream. She was actually having her baby on the stage. My grandfather jumped out of the prompter's box and yelled, "My son is born!"" and was a bit disappointed when he found out it was a girl instead. He wanted to call her Gerolema like his grandfather