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Lelia Goldoni obituary
Actor who starred in John Cassavetes’s Shadows and gave Michael Caine the plans for the heist in The Italian JobThe lacerating 1959 drama Shadows, a pinnacle of US independent film-making, heralded two striking new talents: the director John Cassavetes and the actor Lelia Goldoni, who was just 20 when she gave a guileless performance combining…
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Lelia Goldoni, star of John Cassavetes’ Shadows, dies aged 86
Italian American actor won herself iconic status with the 1959 film where she played a woman ‘passing’ as whiteLelia Goldoni, the actor best known as the female lead in John Cassavetes’ groundbreaking film Shadows, has died aged 86. The news was first reported by the Wrap, who said that her manager Jd Sobol announced that…