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Coppola family matriarch. Italia Pennino Coppola was the wife of Carmine Coppola and the mother of academic August Coppola, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, as well as the maternal grandmother of actors Jason Schwartzman, Robert Carmine and writer Matthew Shire, and the paternal aunt of talent manager Anthony Pennino, and ...
Both sides of Francis Coppola's family come from the south of Italy. The Penninos are from Naples, the cultural center of southern Italy. Humbert was a fellow musician of Carmine Coppola, Francis' father.
"I got married. My wife was named Italia Pennino. She was the daughter of a famous Neapolitan folk music composer and publisher. He had nothing but boys, boys, boys, and he said if he ever had a girl he would name her after his country. Italia and I went to Detroit, where I conducted the 'Ford Hour' on the radio for four or five years.
Italia Pennino Coppola ( Nueva York, 12 de diciembre de 1912 - Los Ángeles, 21 de enero de 2004) fue la matriarca de la familia Coppola. Biografía. Nacida en la ciudad de Nueva York, fue una de los seis hijos de Anna (de soltera Giaquinto) (1879-?) y el compositor Francesco Pennino (1880-1952), ambos de Nápoles, Italia.
Carmine Valentino Coppola. 1910–1991 • Male. Italia Pennino. 1912–2004 • Female. Marriage. 1934 Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States. Children (1) August Floyd Coppola. 1934–2009 • Male. Parents and Siblings. Francesco Pennino. 1880–1952 • Male. Anna Giaquinto.
Su esposa, Italia Pennino Coppola, murió en 2004 en Los Ángeles, California. Por su parte, Coppola murió en Northridge , California, a los 80 años de edad. Después de su muerte, su nieto, Robert Schwartzman , cambió su apellido por el de 'Carmine' como homenaje a su abuelo.
Italia Pennino, the wife of flutist and composer Carmine Coppola, was a "figlia d'arte" as we would say in Italian. Her father, Neapolitan Francesco Pennino (1880-1952), was a composer of Italian songs, an importer of Italian movies and a movie theater owner. The Pennino family lived in an apartment over the family's Empire Theater in Brooklyn, NY.