Sperantza Vrana
Sperantza Vrana was a Greek actress and writer.
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Fascinating as she was beautiful
A goddess, Esperance Vrana was Greece's answer to and cross between Sophia Loren and Anita Ekberg. As an entertainer on the stage she was famous and infamous for her wasp waist and perfectly long legs that reached her eyebrows. She was famous for her rhythm and bravado in dancing capabilities. Vrana was charismatic in the cinema when she appeared in the "The Counterfeit Lire", answering to Fotopoulos as a lady of the night she gave some of the most famous "attacks" or answers in cinematic history and she made everything as believeable as Mae West's retorts but more natural in thier delivery. She was as fascinating as she was beautiful and talented. Vrana was distinctive in all that she did: whether penning her autobiography; or speaking so passionately about her astrological chart. She was a woman who represented love and that was conveyed in all that she accomplished. No one since her comes anywhere near her volcanic sexuality and her cerebral responses. She was, and is, incomparable. I think Vrana would have liked that. As Esperance crosses the river Styx, I am certain the ferry boatman is charmed and waives the fee of a coin. Esperance smiles her fantastic Virgoan smile and finds peace. That line about life is so true:"life is like a can" she once said twirling her handbag "empty it out and you have tin".
Elizabeth V, Canada - 03 October 2009
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Original, beautiful and truthful
Esperance Vrana who died a couple of days ago was the greatest sex symbol Greece has ever produced. When I first saw her on screen, I was confounded by her measurements and her capable retorts to one and all. Sperantza was an entertainer with the composer Mouzakis and it was standing room only to have seen her perform. In interviews in these later years, her high intelligent quotient was revealed along for her love of astrology. In her autobiography "I Dare", she definitively revealed all; especially her ethics on sexuality, and life in cinema and theater. Greeks have come out from far and wide to say how original, beautiful and truthful she was. They have said how they do not make gals like this anymore. But I like to remember orphaned Esperance as the gal who traveled to India and did not ask if she would become rich; she queried to a bewildered Swami when she would find true love and when she would die. Esperance believed what the Swami revealed and had warned us all that the end was near as he proved correct in his revelations. Her humour, ability to converse and all that she did on screen and stage will be missed as they have marked an epoch in time that will not return. Esperance you made us laugh and you made us think and you made us take out our tape measures. May that final journey give you what this life did not. Adieu dear heart.
Anita, Canada - 03 October 2009