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MASSIMO BOLDI BIOGRAPHY :
Massimo Antonio Boldi (born 23 July 1945) is an Italian stand-up comedian and actor. Boldi was born in Luino on 23 July 1945. In 1955 his family moved to Milan, where he joined evening classes and began working as a window-dresser and then as a door-to-door salesman for a pastry company. In 1968 he started performing in cabaret. In the 1970s he did not perform, but managed a bar-latteria in Milan. On 29 September 1973 he married Marisa Selo (cousin of Formula One driver Michele Alboreto). Their marriage lasted until Selo’s death on 8 April 2004.
CHRISTIAN DE SICA BIOGRAPHY :
Christian De Sica (born 5 January 1951) is an Italian actor and film director. De Sica was born in Rome the second son of Italian director Vittorio De Sica and Spanish actress María Mercader. His first cousin once removed was Ramón Mercader, the murderer of Leon Trotsky. After attending Liceo classico in Rome, where he had Carlo Verdone as his deskmate, De Sica worked in a hotel in Venezuela, where he began his career as an artist. He enrolled in “Lettere” (Literature and Arts) at La Sapienza university (1970), but did not graduate. He was attracted to music, and participated in the Sanremo Festival singing “Mondo mio” (“My world”) (1973). However, the results convinced him to follow in his father’s footsteps and devote himself to acting. De Sica developed his own style of comedy and entertainment also in Rai television shows, such as Bambole, non c’è una lira which gave him a large success in 1978.
