Argentina: Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 31 August 1907. She began her show business career at the age of three with a walk on role in the opera, Cavalleria Rusticana and followed her mother'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, Norma Shearer in Italian. Next she began her career as the narrator of the Voice of America, interviewing famous Hollywood movie stars for broadcast in Italy. At the same time she began her movie debut in the classic "It's a Wonderful Life", as Mrs. Martini. Throughout her varied career she has also written and performed in daily radio shows, authored books, wrote music and acted in over 60 television programs & 95 movies (see Filmography) in which she mainly played multi- ethnic roles, the most notable being Dean Martin's mother in "The Caddy", during which Dean sang the now classic song, "That's Amore" to her. During her last year with us, Argentina lived in Rome Italy with her son and daughter-in-law still keeping active, writing, teaching Italian and working on a book spanning three generations of her show business family, called "In Sicilian Company"... Argentina was a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association ("Golden Globes" Awards presenters), The Screen Actors Guild (SAG), American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (AFTRA) and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) (presenters of the "Oscars")... Argentina passed away at 98 years of age on 20 December 2005, the same day and month as her first major film, "It's a Wonderful Life" was released...And what a wonderful life it was...To find out more, read her bio novel, "In Sicilian Company", now available at book stores across America or on line at amazon.com
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