Posted on 02/04/2016 7:07:39 PM PST by massmike
Edited on 02/04/2016 7:14:15 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Mary Fiumara, the woman who shouted “Anthony! Anthony!†in an iconic Prince pasta commercial, died on February 2 at 88 years old. Fiumara’s son confirmed Fiumara’s passing to The Boston Globe .
Anthony Martignetti—Fiumara’s son in the commercial—was 12 years old when he starred in the “Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day†commercial alongside Fiumara, according to the Globe . In the 1969 advertisement, Martignetti is seen running home for a pasta dinner after Fiumara shouts his name from a Powers Court apartment window. According to Martignetti, even before the commercial gave Fiumara TV recognition, Fiumara was a “legend†of the neighborhood.
I grew up on New York City’s Lower East Side, then a largely Puerto Rican neighborhood with some Italians. My Italian mother used to call me for dinner in much the same way, leaning out the 2nd story window of our tenement screaming my name. I could swear now that I heard her from 4 or 5 blocks away!
Indeed. God rest your soul Mrs. Martinetti.
I saw it in Detroit. ANTHONYYYYYYY
That is very clever.
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When I visited Boston some years ago, the North End struck me as a trap. However, in South Boston, I felt I was experiencing the “real” Boston. Locals spoke with the Boston accent, I could get a “real” Italian sandwich, and I didn’t see anyone who looked like a tourist.
Ahhhhhhh.....the old North End from the 60s. Wonderful. The open market on Saturday. The swordfish fresh off the boat. The excitement. Joe Tecce’s. Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Great times.
A memorable commercial.
“In Boston, Wednesday is Prince spaghetti day.”
Everybody is dying. This is not good.
Aww, I loved that commercial even tho I grew up in the 80’s? I think they had made an updated version.
Sad to hear she won’t be coming down for breakfast.
i was only 8. Asked where Aunt Mary was going. They said to the doctors and the police were taking her lol.
I think she was. I know her sons were.
Frunzi and Franny. Frunzi did three years. She didn’t do any time.
I know they did bad things but they would give you a big hug as a kid and slip you a fifty (that was 1976 and my parents couldn’t afford 100 for all five kids at Christmas).
I had blood money in my hands at eight!!! didn’t know.
Eight years old and you were already connected. :-)
Rofl. I would need those connections later on when I built a vending machine route in Staten Island and Brooklyn. But that’s a story for another day lol. and probably not One For Free Republic. I don’t think Jim would be amused.
Now, THAT sounds like a story!
Heck today, letting a kid that age run around the streets in a big city like that alone, and they’ll take your kid away for neglect.
Forget about it. Just for fun’s sake if i were making it up, let’s say it would involve loan sharks at the door and another guy threatening to throw a vending machine through my front window.
And two sit downs to save my skin.
And just for fun’s sake, there was worse lol.
Can’t tell these here. I’ll write a book 25 years from now in my 70s lol.
RIP.
Heh. I was thinking that he never got the line straight in the multiple takes for the fictional commercial. However, he does get it right in the last take, but the oven door in the background set falls off!
But I do remember the Prince Spaghetti ads, as well!
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