Pulp International - La+nipote+del+prete

Sep 20 2013

She looks calm now but you never know what crazy thing she's about to do.

We're usually pretty good at guessing when screen performers are using pseudonyms, but this time we were fooled. We figured Italian actress Crippy Yocard's name was so bizarre it had to be real. We were wrong, though. Her real name is Cristina Amodei. Her pseudonym is memorable, but looking at the photo above, do you think she's in any way forgettable? Yocard was one of the least inhibited actresses of her era, but never really got her career into high gear, appearing in only five films, among them 1976's La nipote del prete, and the 1977 blaxploitation flick Mr. Mean. The above shot is undated, but probably from 1977.

Italy La nipote del prete Mr. Mean Crippy Yocard Cristina Amodei blaxploitation

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

2003—Hope Dies

Film legend Bob Hope dies of pneumonia two months after celebrating his 100th birthday.

1945—Churchill Given the Sack

In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives.

1952—Evita Peron Dies

Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974.

1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945.

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