Marla Landi Profile

Marla Landi

	(Marcella Teresa Maria Scarafia)
c. 33	is born in Torino, Italy, one of two daughters of Marcello Cesare Scarafia, an engineer
?	marries Giuseppe Sportoletti Baduel in Italy. Her husband is with an aluminum firm.
c. 54	follows Baduel to London, England
?	models for Italian designers Simonetta, Fontana, Faluani, and Pucci, and Morton, Cavanagh, Amics and Hartnell in London
?	is one of the top four international models
24 November 55	as Marcella Sportoletti Baduel, she arrives in New York from Jamaica, accompanied by Jack Fry
August 57	is claimed to be the favorite international model of Princess Margaret and noted wearing a Montego Original during her visit to New York City
57	Rod Steiger suggests her to replaces Barbara Bates, who has fallen ill, in Across the Bridge
?	is included in photographer Baron’s ranking of the ten most beautiful women
Spring 58	guests at Film Review’s Film Star’s Brain Trust at the Dorchester, London
December 59	at Christmas she’s given a fur piece by her husband
31 March 60	attends a Royal Film Performance at the Odeon Theater, Leicester Square London. Among the guests are Leslie Caron, Mylene Demongeot, Nancy Kwan, Carole Lesley, Kenneth More.
?	becomes Cavaliere Della Republica Italiana
71	marries Jack Frye in Chelsea, London
?	becomes the widow of Frye
24 September 77	marries Sir Francis John Vernon Hereward Dashwood, 11th Baronet, son of Sir John Lindsay Dashwood, 10th Bt. and Helen Moira Eaton. He has four children by his first marriage to Victoria Ann Elizabeth Gwynne Foley.
9 March 00	becomes the widow of Sir Francis, who dies at age 74
03	as Marcella Dashwood, she lives 2003 at Sawmill House, Wes Wycombe Park, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England

Sources: The Hammond Times, Mansfield News-Journal, Film Review, www.Ancestry.com, www.thepeerage.com, www.britishpathe.com
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