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Her look was as shocking as it was groundbreaking years later she would be imitated by other artists such as Madonna and Lady Gaga.īut what definitely sealed her success was daring to show one of the smallest and most insignificant areas of the body: the navel. She designed red and orange jumpsuits embroidered with rhinestones and a deep neckline that reached the navel. She devised a wardrobe that allowed her to dance comfortably but also highlighted her toned dancer’s body.

She left behind her dark hair without bangs for her signature hairstyle: platinum blonde with a straight bob cut and bangs. And I want the freedom to decide, to make mistakes, to suffer, to be happy…”.įrom that moment she imposed the Raffaella Carrà style. What To do? To accept the film project with fabulous profits or the RAI program with a miserable salary? She finally decided on television, because “from my point of view, cinema is a prison. They would like to contract in perpetuity.Īt the beginning of the 1970s, she was already an unquestionable show-girl and RAI (Italy’s national public broadcasting company) proposed her to lead the night show La Canzonissima 70.Īt the same time, she received a proposal to star in a film in Paris with Steve McQueen.

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In those three minutes she showed what would later become her trademark: she sang a happy and catchy song but accompanied by a choreography so vital and full of energy that she managed to get the entire audience and the producers to dance. In her country, she was called by the Nino Ferrer program and to accept she had only one condition: to have a small space of her own to do what she wanted. “I don’t drink or do drugs, so Hollywood wasn’t for me,” she said in an interview. I felt like a Martian, very uncomfortable.” She ignored the producers who begged her to stay to make her the new Sophia Loren or Gina Lollobrigida, and she went back to Italy, her place in the world and from where she would conquer the world. “At five in the afternoon they closed the studios and everyone got drunk. La Carrà did not allow herself to be seduced by the lifestyle of the cinema mecca. The road to success was arduous but she Raffaella did not need shortcuts. It is that she noticed that Sinatra “was nice to me, but not to others.” And on the other hand, she didn’t want to become “the boss’s girl”.

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Her co-star was one of the most seductive and powerful actors in Hollywood: nothing more and nothing less than Frank Sinatra, the man who, with his blue eyes and the romanticism of his lyrics, captivated millions and earned millions.Īs soon as Sinatra met her, the serial seducer, began to court her, but she said “no” when everyone said “yes”. But the big challenge came when hse was offered to star in ‘ Von Ryan’s Express’.

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In 1966 Raffaella traveled to the United States to shoot some episodes of the series ‘I Spy’, with Bill Cosby.

American studios went from asking: “Who is that girl?”, to “Let’s hire that girl!”. At age 17 Raffaella got her first big role in ‘La Lunga Notte del ’43’ (The Long Night of 1943), and in 1963 she acted with Marcello Mastroianni in the film ‘I Compagni’ (The Organizer).

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That is why she forced her daughter to alternate school with the dance studio plus her training at the Experimental Cinematography Center. Her mother, Italian through and through, gave her a “German-style” education, that is, strict and rigorous. Raffaella met the requirements and was hired. There they met a film director who was looking for a girl to act in the film ‘Tormento del passatto’ (Torment of the Past). She and her mother traveled to Rome to visit a friend.