Allegra Kent Allegra Kent Allegra Kent (born August 11, 1937) is an American ballet dancer, actress, children's book author and columnist. Iris Margo Cohen was born to Jewish parents, Harry Herschel and Shirley (née Weissman) Cohen, and later changed her name to Allegra Kent. Kent grew up in what she later described as a dysfunctional environment. In "Once a Dancer: An Autobiography", she describes her Texan father – "who liked to substitute 'Cowboy' for Herschel" – as having "a gambler's soul and a restless nature". She describes her Wisznice-born immigrant mother as feeling "neither European nor American; she was ashamed of her
Salvatore Allegra composed a number of musical scores for films, among which "Amori e veleni" (1950) with Amedeo Nazzari and directed by Giorgio Simonelli. He died in Florence. Salvatore Allegra Salvatore Allegra (1898–1993) was an Italian composer. Allegra was born in Palermo. He composed a number of operettas in the 1920s, including "Il gatto in cantina" (1930), which is still performed sometimes, passing then to operas, such as the dark "verista" drama "Ave Maria", which was first staged at La Scala in 1934, which was followed by "I Viandanti" (1936), "Il Medico suo malgrado" (1938) and "Romulus" (1952). He completed and edited