Vicky Astori

Vicky Astori
Born
Beatriz Accarini

4 March 1912[1]
Died19 November 1968(1968-11-19) (aged 56)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
NationalityItalian
Occupation(s)Actress and singer

Vicky Astori (née Beatriz Accarini; 4 March 1912 – 19 November 1968), known as Bice or Bicky Astori, was an Italian actress who made her career in Argentina.

Biography

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Astori was born in the Province of Parma in 1912. She travelled to Argentina in 1936, debuting in the Teatro Maipo. Thereafter, she performed operettas and dramas at various venues.[2]

In Argentinian operettas, she worked with directors such as Juan Travé and Giovanni Quaranta, as well as with actors such as Aída Alba, Olga Castagnetta, Ángela Marini, Nené Piantanelli, Leonor Ferrari, Alba Regina, Ester Ribelli and Lydia Rossi, among others. She associated with actors and actresses of the golden age of the Argentinian cinema such as Luis Arata, Cayetano Biondo, Augusto Codecá, Margarita Tops, Irma Córdoba, Norma Giménez, Ricardo Passano, Tito Lusiardo, Rosa Catá, Eduardo Sandrini, Niní Marshall, Juan Pecci, Aída Luz and Jorge Luz, Héctor Quintanilla, Hugo of the Lane, and María Esther Ranges. In some film credits, her names appears as "Bicky".[3]

Astori died 19 November 1968 in Buenos Aires after a long illness. She was buried in the SADAIC pantheon at the Cemetery of the Chacarita. She was 56 years old.[4]

Filmography

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Television

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Theatre

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  • The embrujo of the tango (1952)
  • The mystery of the joy, of the pain and of the glory (Mystery of the Gaudio, of the Dolore and della Gloria) (1958)[4]
  • Stéfano (1967), famous grotesco of Armando Discépolo, beside Carlos Muñoz

References

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  1. ^ a b "Bice Accarini, 1947". Brasil, Cartões de Imigração, 1900-1965.
  2. ^ Petriella, Dionisio (1979). Los italianos en la historia de la cultura argentina (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Asociación Dante Alighieri. p. 263.
  3. ^ Landro & Speroni 2005, p. 128.
  4. ^ a b "ASTORI, BICKY". Acceder - Ministerio de Cultura. Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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