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Franca Bettoia, the Italian actress who starred opposite Vincent Price in the cult sci-fi film The Last Man on Earth, has died in Rome, her family told the Italian news agency Adnkronos. She was

Bettoia was married to Italian actor Ugo Tognazzi — he starred in the movie La Cage aux Folles in the part played by Robin Williams in Mike Nichols’ adaptation The Birdcage — from until his death from a cerebral hemorrhage in at age

In The Last Man on Earth, directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, Bettoia portrays Ruth, a woman who, with the help of Price’s Dr.

Robert Morgan, is fending off the effects of a plague that has turned humans into vampiric creatures.

Filmed in Rome, produced by Robert L. Lippert and distributed by American International Pictures, the movie was based on Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend. The author then co-wrote the screenplay credited as Logan Swanson.

(Will Smith starred in the adaptation directed by Francis Lawrence.)

Born in Rome on May 14, , Bettoia made her film debut in and had her breakout role as “the other woman” in Pietro Germi’s Man of Straw (), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

She also starred with Alan Ladd in Duel of Champions (), co-directed by Terence Young; in Day by Day, Desperately (), directed by Alfredo Giannetti; in Will Our Heroes Succeed in Finding Their Friend Who Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (); and in Don&#;t Touch the White Woman ().

Her last film was Teste rasate (), in which she played the mother of her real-life son, Gianmarco Tognazzi.

Survivors also include her daughter, Maria Sole Tognazzi, a director.