During this period, Moira's elephant presentations made her a legend, while Walter became an excellent lion and tiger trainer. It was easily the most sophisticated circus-on-ice show ever undertaken it had both a circus ring and a skating rink, and the show included elaborate set changes, a huge variety of costumes, and an international cast of circus and variety megastars. Moira and Walter launched the monumental Circo sul Ghiaccio ("Circus on Ice") in 1969. Moira and Walter went on to create their own Circo Moira Orfei, which quickly drew attention, both for the elegance of its productions and its infrastructures and, above all, for the high quality of its acts. A year after that, the Orfeis and the Swobodas parted ways. A year later, they formed a company with the Austrian Swoboda sisters (of the Medrano Swoboda circus) and began a long career as circus owners and directors. In 1961, she married the acrobat Walter Nones (1934-2016), the son of Giuseppe Nones and Adele Medini. Ultimately, she appeared in nearly forty films, including popular Italian comedies and a host of internationally successful Italian productions based on mythological themes, such as the Hercules, Ursus, and Samson series. In 1960-without ever leaving the circus-she began a movie career. As a child, Moira was trained in all the basic circus disciplines. The daughter of Riccardo Orfei and Violetta Arata, she was born in the family's living trailer on Decemin Codriopo, Italy. But it was also due to the quality of her circus. Much of her reputation was due to her long movie career, which coincided with the golden age of Italian cinema. She was undoubtedly the only circus owner in the world who could get away (for forty years, no less!) with advertising her circus using posters that prominently displayed only her head shot and her first name. A member of Italy's most famous circus family, she could compete in fame with any Italian music or movie legend. The artist was still under medical care when she died nine years later from natural causes on 15 November 2015 in Brescia, Italy.Moira Orfei and her elephantsMoira Orfei (born Miranda Orfei, 1931-2015) was an Italian pop-culture icon. On 4 August 2006, Moira Orfei suffered an ischemic stroke during a show in Gioiosa Ionica. She married Walter Nones in 1961, and they had two children Stefano Orfei and Lara Orfei. Her parents were Riccardo Orfei, who was the clown Bigolon, and Violetta Arata. She also became a film actress, acting in over forty films, from comedies to sword and sandal films (among which were many Italian crime films). Promotional billboards were carpeted with this picture in every city that the circus stopped. From then on, her face became an effigy of unchanging characteristics: heavy make-up with eyes coated with eyeliner, bright lipstick, an accentuated mole above the lip, hair tied in a turban. It was Dino De Laurentiis who suggested that she change her name from Miranda to Moira. Her excessively garish image mirrors her eccentric and exuberant personality. She was photographed in various scenes as a rider, trapeze artist, acrobat, dominatrice of elephants and trainer of doves. The Circus Moira Orfei itself was founded in 1960. Raised in a family who owned the circus company Circus Orfei, Moira became the symbol of circus in Italy and attained international fame. ( November 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification.
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