ROSSANO BRAZZI

Rossano Brazzi was an Italian singer and actor from the 1930s to the 1990s. Most Americans know him solely as the star of the movie version of "South Pacific" in 1958, but he appeared in Italian movies for ten years beginning in 1938, and then made American movies from 1948, and was a respected stage director in Italy as well! Some of his other movies include: The Italian Job, The Final Conflict, The Barefoot Contessa, and Summertime. He passed away in 1994 at the age of 78.