Anna Maria Alberghetti (Italian:[ˈannamaˈriːaalberˈɡetti]; born May 15, 1936) is an Italian-American actress andsoprano. Alberghetti sang in concert from the time she was a child and performed atCarnegie Hall at age 13.

Anna Maria Alberghetti
Anna Maria Alberghetti in 1958
Born	(1936-05-15)May 15, 1936 (age 89) Pesaro,Kingdom of Italy
Occupations	Actress singer
Years active	1942–present
Spouse	Claudio Guzmán ​ ​ (m. 1964;div. 1974)​
Children	2
Relatives	Carla Alberghetti (sister)

Alberghetti began working in American films at age 15 with Frank Capra's 1951 musicalHere Comes the Groom. She continued to act in film throughout the 1950s, before turning her focus to theater in the 1960s. In 1962, she won aTony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance inCarnival! Her stage work also included roles inKismet,West Side Story, andCabaret.

Alberghetti appeared onThe Ed Sullivan Show more than 50 times.

Born May 15, 1936, inPesaro, Marche, in centralItaly, she starred on Broadway and won aTony Award in 1962 as Best Actress (Musical) forCarnival!^[1] (she tied withDiahann Carroll for the musicalNo Strings).

Alberghetti was a child prodigy. Her father was an opera singer and concert master of the Rome Opera Company. Her mother was a pianist. At age six, Anna Maria sang in a concert on the Isle ofRhodes with a 100-piece orchestra. She performed atCarnegie Hall in New York at the age of 13.^[1][2] At 15, she was introduced to American film audiences inFrank Capra's 1951 musicalHere Comes the Groom, which starredBing Crosby. At 16, she wasRed Skelton's opening act during hisSahara Hotel engagement inLas Vegas.

Her family's new life in the U.S. was aided by a Congressional bill, passed in August 1954, sponsored by Nevada senatorPat McCarran—because her father "admitted he had been an 'involuntary fascist'" during WWII.^[3]

Her younger sister,Carla, also became a musical artist, who appeared in many stage productions. She eventually became Anna Maria's replacement in her Tony Award-winning role on Broadway. She has a brother, Paul Alberghetti, who is an entertainment attorney and film producer. He is married to filmmaker Michele Noble.

Alberghetti appeared twice on the cover ofLife magazine.^[4][5] She appeared onThe Ed Sullivan Show more than 50 times.^[6] She guest-starred in 1957 onNBC'sThe Gisele MacKenzie Show.^[7] That same year, she performed in the premiere episode ofThe Pat Boone Chevy Showroom onABC.

Alberghetti co-starred withDean Martin in 1957'sTen Thousand Bedrooms and withJerry Lewis inThe Jazz Singer in 1959, andCinderfella 1960, not long after theMartin and Lewis comedy team parted ways.

Alberghetti also appeared in 1955'sThe Last Command, which starredSterling Hayden, and had the female lead in the WesternDuel at Apache Wells in 1957.

In 1959, the 22-year-old Alberghetti played the lead in "The Conchita Vasquez Story" of NBC'sWagon Train. She was cast as part of a gang ofComancheros who intend to attack the wagon train to steal rifles headed to theUnited States Army. Instead, she decides to leave the Comancheros and move west after she falls in love with scout Flint McCullough, played byRobert Horton. Tragically, as the episode ends, Conchita is killed by a bullet from her own people when they ambush the wagon train.^[8]

On March 1, 1961, she appeared as a guest contestant on the television seriesI've Got a Secret. She guest-starred onThe Andy Williams Show on March 28, 1963 and performed onThe Hollywood Palace variety program's episode of May 2, 1964.

She appeared as a mystery guest onWhat's My Line on November 23, 1958. She appeared for a second mystery-guest appearance on April 30, 1961. In 1965, Alberghetti went on tour and performed on stage with Bob Hope in Okinawa for U.S. servicemen.

She also appeared as herself in an episode of the comedy showFractured Flickers, talking with the hostHans Conreid.

Alberghetti has toured in many theatrical productions and continues with her popular one-woman cabaret act. She had roles in a pair of 2001 films:The Whole Shebang andFriends & Family.

Alberghetti appeared in television commercials for Good Seasons salad dressing during the 1970s and early 1980s, where she was cast as "The Good Seasons Lady".

There are some references to Alberghetti in the novelRosemary's Baby byIra Levin, amongst which, in one of Rosemary's dreams, she is seen, tiny, in the filigree silver ball on thePope's ring. The author describes how Terry Gionoffrio, a fellow tenant in the Bramford, resembles Alberghetti. (Victoria Vetri in the film version).

Alberghetti became a U.S. citizen in 1961.^[9]

She was married to television producer-directorClaudio Guzmán from 1964 to 1974. They had two children: Alexandra (b. 1966) and Pilar (b. 1970).^[10][11]

• Rose-Marie (1960)
• Carnival! (1961)
• Fanny (1963; 1968)
• The Fantasticks (1968)
• West Side Story (1964)
• The Most Happy Fella (1969)
• Cabaret (1970)
• Kismet (1971)
• The Student Prince (1976)
• The Sound of Music (1978; 1985)
• Side by Side by Sondheim (1980)
• Camelot (1981)
• The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies (2000)
• Senior Class (2007)

• Songs By Anna Maria Alberghetti (Mercury Records, 1955)
• I Can't Resist You (Capitol Records, 1957)
• Warm And Willing (Capitol Records, 1960)
• Love Makes The World Go Round (MGM Records, 1962)
• Merry Christmas from Anna Maria Alberghetti And Introducing Reino Moisio (Celebrity House, 1984)

• Jackson, Ursula. "Anna Maria Alberghetti". InItalian Americans on the Twentieth Century, ed. George Carpetto and Diane M. Evanac. Tampa, FL: Loggia Press, 1999, pp. 6–7
• Dye, David.Child and Youth Actors: Filmography of Their Entire Careers, 1914-1985. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1988, p. 4.

• Anna Maria Alberghetti at theInternet Broadway Database 
• Anna Maria Alberghetti atIMDb
• Anna Maria Alberghetti atMSN Movies