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• 1 2018-04-30T12:32:12-07:00 Italians in Hollywood 17 visual_path 2018-05-11T01:22:20-07:00      The rise of the motion picture industry in the United States occurred simultaneously with the immigration of millions of Italians to America. Italian immigrants played an important role in the development of Hollywood both behind the camera and on screen. Today, Italian Americans are among the industry’s most noteworthy talents.
  
    Actors and actresses such as Al Pacino, John Travolta, Stanley Tucci, Marisa Tomei, Anabella Sciorra, Sylvester Stallone, and Frank Sinatra are all of Italian ancestry and have all made significant impacts in their roles in Hollywood. 
  
    These actors and actresses have become symbolic with their roles, and have made impacts on Italian-American culture.  Italian immigrants often faced negative stereotypes, horrible living conditions, and had to deal with the question of assimilation.  For decades Italians were looked down on and there were not many Italian figures to look up to.  These actors and actresses changed that.  They appeared in roles that made viewers proud to be Italian, or people wishing that they were Italian.  These actors strengthened the ethnic identities for Italian-Americans.  This book will illustrate the lives of 7 of the most influential and important Italian-American actors and actresses.  I will share their life, the roles that helped make them famous, and how they left an impact on the Italian-American community
  
  
  
  
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  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/what-is-the-godfather-effect-83473971/
  https://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/reichl10/content/saturday-night-fevers-reflection-italian-american-youth/index.html
  Saturday Night Fever - Thomas Ferraro
  https://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/reichl10/content/saturday-night-fevers-reflection-italian-american-youth/index.html
  Big Night - Thomas Ferraro
  http://www.italoamericano.org/story/2013-9-16/Big-Night
  https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/stanley-tucci-not-all-new-york-italians-are-mafiosi-9227144.html
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  https://www.biography.com/people/frank-sinatra-9484810