1956

She films and releases the second of her projects with her own production company, Ruby Romanesca, co-starring Rock Hudson. The scandal sheets have a field day reporting on her love affair with Hudson. She wins her fourth Academy Award, "Best Actress in a Controversial Silent Film," for Mary Magdalene. She travels the world in a nightclub act to raise funds for her charity. In conjunction, she releases an album of cha-cha's and mambos, which goes platinum in a matter of weeks. While in Los Angeles, she appears in an episode of the top-rated American sit-com, "I Love Lucy." She remains unmarried throughout the year.

1958

While searching for a treatment for her own production company's third film project, she agrees to star in another opera film, Anna Bolena, after singer and close friend Maria Callas turns down the offer but recommends Miss Linguine in her stead. The project is aborted due to the producer's financial indiscretions. Also this year, Miss Linguine marries Shah Omar of Djibouti for a brief time, investing in several gemstone mines in the process.

1959

Miss Linguine is awarded the title "Commendatore of the Italian Republic" for her work as an actress, singer and humanitarian. Almost immediately, former Abbondanza rival and disgruntled servant Annetta Funicella accuses her of collaboration during the war years. Though the claims are largely disproved, the scandal is enormous. Miss Linguine retires accompanied by her physical fitness trainer, Jocko LaLaini, to Villa dell'Abbondanza for a large part of the year. She emerges only at the invitation of close friend and U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, who persuades her to serve as go-between with Fidel Castro in an attempt to keep the casinos in Havana from closing. Later in the year she marries long-time friend and colleague, actor Dante Giovanniello. Fans worldwide predict this marriage will last.

1960

Miss Linguine begins filming her third self-written and produced opus, Scarola Amara (Bitter Escarole), destined to be hailed a masterpiece. During filming she discovers inconsistencies in Mr. Giovanniello's financial statements and divorces him, citing irreconcilable differences. He remains co-star of Scarola. Later this year scandal sheets simultaneously report love affairs with both JFK and Nikita Kruschev. Inspired by her mediation experience in Cuba, she launches a campaign through the Fondazione Linguine Primavera, endorsed by the United Nations and heavily underwritten by industrialists, for "World Peace Through Proper Accessorizing." The Soviet Union suddenly lifts the ban on her films.

1961

She travels extensively on behalf of her campaign also using the tour as pre-opening publicity for Scarola. At the Academy Awards ceremonies she is snubbed in public by Marilyn Monroe. Soon after, she marries Scarola director, Calvino LeCaon.

1962

Miss Linguine accepts the first soon-to-be-desired "Fabu Award" given to her by her own foundation at a revival showing of her 1947 Academy Award-winning role in Wretched Paisans. At a dramatic press conference in the Roman Forum, Miss Linguine announces her retirement from films effective immediately following the opening of Bitter Escarole. She details plans to devote her life to charitable and business interests, hobbies, and to be a "good wife" to Mr. LeCaon. Fans worldwide go into profound morning. Her palazzo in Rome is besieged by mobs. Miss Linguine withdraws from the public eye on a world cruise aboard the luxurious yacht Christina with her husband and other jet setters including Princess Grace and Prince Rainier, accompanied by host Aristotle Onassis.