Ninety-eight year young, internationally acclaimed actress and journalist, Argentina Brunetti takes you on her theatrical family’s incredible journey around the world in 155 years, all the while sharing her recollections and encounters with many of the famous and some infamous people of their time:

Emperor and Queens
Presidents & Kings
Henry Miller
Al Capone

Guglielmo Marconi
Pancho Villa
Pope John Paul II


And many motion picture stars from Hollywood’s Golden Era, as well as many of today’s box office sensations.

Argentina will also share with you her secrets of longevity consisting of special diets, exercises and philosophy.

All in all, thirty fascinating chapters, that once you begin, you will not rest until you have read the whole book.
A collection of images of Argentina starting with her attendance at Boarding School until the present day,  to include a link to her weblog appropriately named "Argentina Brunetti's Hollywood Stories"


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Argentina Brunetti was  born in Buenos Aires, on 31 August 1907. She began her show business career at the age of three with a walk-on-role in the play, Cavalleria Rusticana and followed her mother’s footsteps in the theater performing on stages throughout Europe & South America. In 1937, she was placed under contract to MGM pictures and began dubbing the voices of Jeanette MacDonald and Norma Shearer in Italian. Next she extended her career as the narrator of the Voice of America, interviewing famous American movie stars for broadcast in Italy. At the same time she made her movie debut in the classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life”. Throughout her varied career she has also performed numerous plays in English and Italian throughout the world, written and performed in daily radio shows, authored books, wrote music and acted in over sixty television programs and ninety-five movies, mainly portraying multi ethnic roles, the most notable being Dean Martin’s mother in “The Caddy”, in which Dean sang the now classic song, “That’s Amore” to her. Argentina is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS), Hollywood Foreign Press (HFPA), Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA).  She recently completed a television special on her life for the Italian State Radio and Television Service, RAI International, as well as five radio interviews to be broadcast worldwide. Now living  in Rome, Italy with her son and daughter-in-law , she still keeps active, writing, teaching  and even has a weekly weblog on the Internet called  Argentina Brunetti’s Hollywood Stories”.
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