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Valeria Belletti
author of the letters to Irma, Italian American born and raised in New Jersey, moved to Los Angeles to work as secretary to Hollywood execsaspires to become a screen writer, but ends up marrying an Italian man and becoming a homemaker
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Irma Prina
friend in NJ to whom Valeria sends letters
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Samuel Goldwyn
owner of MGM productions, not well liked, but talented and extremely hard working movie producermarried to Frances Howard
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Frances Marion
renown female screen writer, shows Valeria the ropes of writing for a time Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, The Poor Little Rich Girl, The Big House
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Rudolph Valentino
- Italian actor in America and pop icon/sex symbol of the 1920s (The Sheik, Son of the Sheik)
- -mystery surrounding his death (arsenic poisoning)
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Muschi
Valeria's artist friend...
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Tony Baragona
Italian man, friend of the family in NJ whom Valeria ends up marrying
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