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09 August 2020Rai Cultura remembers the great actress Franca Valeri with a dedicated program. Already tonight, Sunday 9 August, on Rai5 will be broadcast at 9.15 pm, "In Scena - Franca Valeri", a documentary made in recent months by Rai Cultura and broadcast a few days ago on Rai5 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great actress . An all-round portrait that in a creative and exclusive montage brings together sixty years of interviews given by the actress to Rai and testimonies of many artists, giving life to a narrative polyphony of the most innovative forms of documentary storytelling. From childhood to success in the early 1950s with the company of the Teatro dei Gobbi, passing through the hell of racial laws and the Second World War, and the inexplicable rejection of the Academy of Dramatic Art. From there Franca Valeri took off: actress of the new theater; protagonist of the Italian comedy; sublime monologue of the great television varieties; cultured and refined playwright and writer; melomaniac and director of operas; and then the woman, her loves and affections, a person endowed with an extraordinary class, elegance, lightness and grace. Alongside her, there are also the stories of some traveling companions who shared the stage, tours or film sets with her. A multi-voiced dialogue that revolves around the extraordinary personality, on stage and in life, of Franca Valeri, the absolute protagonist of our culture.   

Rai Storia, on the other hand, will broadcast tonight at 20.40, "Biografie - Franca Valeri. La Signorina Snob", a special by Pierluigi Castellano that shows the most famous and important facets of the great artist, her sketches, her sarcastic and ironic jokes, the his intelligent comedy, in a long excursus through important television broadcasts: from "Poltronissima" in 1957 to "Le Divine" in 1959, up to the sixties and seventies with "Eva and I", "Sabato Sera", "Studio Uno", "A thousand lights", "Special for us".