Francesca Braggiotti

Francesca Braggiotti (October 17, 1902 – February 25, 1998) was an Italian dancer, actress, dubber, and first lady of Connecticut.

Writer Alden Hatch wrote: "Two polyglot strikingly attractive and talented sisters, call Berthe and Francesca Braggiotti, were the biggest event of the Bostonian Society since Mrs. Jack Gardner smoked a cigarette in public and built Fenway Court ".

She starred in Rasputin and the Empress (1932), Little Women (1933), Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937), and Tonight at Eleven (1938).

She also dubbed the Swedish actress in Inspiration (Yvonne), Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise), Grand Hotel (Grusinskaya), As You Desire Me (Zadar / Countess Maria Varelli).

After her husband's entry into politics, she withdrew from artistic life; he was a Republican politician, U.S. Representative from 1947 to 1951, governor of Connecticut from 1951 to 1955 and diplomatic ambassador to Spain, Argentina and Switzerland.

Francesca and Bertha Braggiotti