Career Highlights: The Seven Little Foys, Hannibal, Missiles from Hell
First Major Screen Credit: La Sepolta Viva (1949)
Biography
The daughter of an Italian orchestra leader, Milly Vitale studied at Lycee Chateaubriand before going on the stage. Vitale began her film career in Europe in 1948. In the early 1950s, she enjoyed brief popularity in such English-language productions as The Juggler (1953), War and Peace (1955, as Lise), Seven Little Foys (1955), appearing in the latter as the wife of Eddie Foy Sr. (Bob Hope). After 1960, Milly Vitale concentrated upon stage and TV work. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Camilla "Milly" Vitale (6 May 1932, Rome – 2 November 2006), daughter of conductor Riccardo Vitale and choreographer Natasha Shidlowski, was an Italian actress.
She appeared in numerous post-war Italian films. She also appeared in a few Hollywood movies but never achieved star status like her contemporaries Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida.
In her most notable U.S. role, she appeared with Bob Hope as "Madeleine Morundo Foy" in The Seven Little Foys (1955).
She married Vincent Hillyer in 1960; the marriage produced two sons, but ended in divorce in the late 1960s.