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| | Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | The pin-up of protest |
 | | Even though Silvana Mangano has been dead for 14 years, no matter that she was a wife, a mother, a hard-working actress and an admired hostess on the international film scene, still there's only one picture of her that anyone would think of using. |
 | | It's the shot of Mangano, aged 18 or 19, standing in the flooded rice fields of the Po valley, her stockings kept aloft by her rich thighs, her shorts wet and tight, and her expressive breasts thrust towards the camera, full of socialist protest. |
 | | Mangano had another lead role in Robert Rossen's Mambo, shot in Italy, and she played both Penelope and Circe in her husband's lavish production of Ulysses (with Kirk Douglas in the title role). |
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