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70s sexy comedy icon Nadia Cassini dies at 76

Became big star with Banfi films in '79-80

70s sexy comedy icon Nadia Cassini dies at 76

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(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 19 - 1970s sexy comedy icon Nadia Cassini has died at the age of 76 after a long illness, her family said Wednesday.
    Cassini died Tuesday afternoon in her home in Reggio Calabria, where she had been living for some time.
    Cassini was a mainstay of the Italian sexy comedy genre in the 70s and 80, hitting the heights in a series of films starring Lino Banfi between 1979 and 1980, namely L'insegnante balla...
    con tutta la classe (1979), The Nurse in the Military Madhouse (1979) and La dottoressa ci sta col colonnello (1980).
    Her real name was Gianna Lou Müller.
    She was born in New York in 1949 to an American father of German origins, Harrison Müller, and an American mother of Italian origins, Patricia Noto.
    She used the surname Cassini as a stage name after her marriage to the journalist Igor Cassini Loiewski.
    Her last marriage was to Giuseppe Furfaro, an art dealer from Reggio Calabria.
    The funeral will take place in Melito Porto Salvo in her husband's family chapel on Friday, March 21. (ANSA).
   

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