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- PEOPLE, Page 60An Actress By Any Other Name . . .
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- By Emily Mitchell
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- The cheekbones and slanting green eyes are familiar. So is
- the name. Actress Alessandra Mussolini, 24, is the niece of
- Sophia Loren and the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini. While
- the former connection may be a career asset, the latter isn't.
- Five years ago, objections from the Italian Jewish community
- forced her to give up a role as a Jewish woman. Now she is at
- work on a film in Israel, and again she is playing a Jew -- an
- Israeli soldier, no less. But so far, reports il Duce's
- descendant, "people have been friendly." At Jerusalem's Western
- Wall, it was her limbs, not her lineage that caused a stir: she
- was handed a shawl to cover her well-exposed legs.
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