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Inez Palange

{{short description|American actress}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Inez Palange

| image = Inez Palange.jpg

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| birth_name = Antonietta Parillo

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1889|6|13}}

| birth_place = Roccasicura, Italy

| death_date = {{death date and age|1962|10|16|1889|6|13|mf=y}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, United States

| othername = Ines Palange

| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|singer}}

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| yearsactive = 1930–1958

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Inez Palange (June 13, 1889 – October 16, 1962), also written as Ines Palange, was an Italian-born American actress and singer who was best known for her role as Mrs. Camonte in the 1932 film Scarface.{{r|WhiteHaenni2009}}

Early life

She was born in Roccasicura, Italy on June 13, 1889.

Music career

Prior to her film career she was part of Les Iris Palange, a comedy and singing duo with Alberto Palange. At least two of their recordings on Victor records from 1917 are part of the Library of Congress catalogue (and posted to YouTube). They performed in Italian. A bit about her experience as an immigrant along with others is noted in a book on Italian immigrants.

Film career

Palange performed in the first Italian language dialogue film, Sei tu l'amore?, released in 1930.{{cite news |author=Mordaunt Hall |title=THE SCREEN; An Italian Dialogue Film |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F00E1D81E38E433A2575BC1A9679D946194D6CF |work=New York Times |date=November 18, 1930 |access-date=2018-01-21 }}

Palange played the mother of a gangster in Scarface (1932). Her dialogue with the character of her American-born daughter in which she warns against her son's character has been described as portraying two conflicting character traits, her Old World wisdom in seeing through her son's facade but expressed in halting, non-standard English, underlining her status in the New World as an unassimilated and uneducated immigrant, signifying her inability to relate her insights to her daughter.{{cite book |author=Carla Mereu |chapter=Italians in Films |editor=Luc van Doorslaer |title=Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology |year=2016 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company |pages=132–133 | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5CaYCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA133 |isbn= 9789027267719 }}

Palange had a variety of supporting, minor, and bit roles in various Hollywood films.

Personal life

She died October 16, 1962, in Los Angeles, California.

Selected filmography

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References

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{{cite book

| author1 = John White

| author2 = Sabine Haenni

| title = Fifty Key American Films

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=B8uTAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA30

| date = 13 March 2009

| publisher = Routledge

| isbn = 978-1-135-97932-4

| pages = 30–

}}

{{cite book

| author1 = Francis M. Nevins

| author2 = Gary D. Keller

| title = The Cisco Kid: American Hero, Hispanic Roots

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sQgnAQAAIAAJ

| year = 2008

| publisher = Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe

| isbn = 978-1-931010-49-8

| page = 102

}}

{{cite book

| title = The Film Daily Product Guide and Director's Annual

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XHI6AQAAIAAJ

| year = 1937

| publisher = Film Daily

| pages = 465–

}}

}}

External links

  • {{IMDb name|0657366}}
  • [https://www.loc.gov/jukebox/artists/detail/id/783/ Inez Palange] at Library of Congress's National Jukebox
  • {{Findagrave|44066902}}

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Category:Italian emigrants to the United States

Category:American film actresses

Category:1889 births

Category:1962 deaths

Category:20th-century American actresses