Franca Faldini
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Franca Faldini was an Italian writer, journalist and actress.
Faldini (right) with Totò
Ben Stahl (artist)
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Benjamin Albert Stahl was an American artist, illustrator and author. He showed precocious talent, winning a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago at age twelve. His artwork appeared in the Inte
Franca Faldini
…in Rome into a middle-class Jewish family, Faldini was forced to flee to Tuscany because of the Fascist racial laws. After the war, she was noticed by Ben Stahl, who pictured her in a painting called "Moment at Villa D'Este" for the magazine Esquire. She later moved to Hollywood, where she won a beauty pageant…
Stahl at work in Florida, 1966
Ben Stahl painting Ben-Hur movie scenes for MGM.