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Mike Bongiorno in Totò lascia o raddoppia

Italian postcard.

 

Michael Nicholas Salvatore Bongiorno, better known as Mike Bongiorno, was born 26 May 1924 in New York and died 8 September 2009 in Monte Carlo, Monaco. He was an Italo-American journalist and television host. For the history of Italian television he has been an institution as Italy’s famous quiz master between the 1950s to the 1980s. As such heplayed himself in various films too. Even if he lived in Italy for most of his life, he kept his American nationality until he turned 79.

 

 

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