In 1969, Prince Pasta debuted a TV commercial set in Boston's Little Italy. Fifty years later, the ad is iconic in Boston, and helped launch Italian Americans and their food into America's homes. That ...

Mary Fiumara, best known as the mother who called for her son to come home for dinner in a classic Prince pasta television commercial of the 1960s, has died at age 88.Her son confirmed Wednesday that ...

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In 1969, a TV commercial for spaghetti started airing in the eastern United States. It began like this. That is Mary Fiumara leaning out of a window in Boston's Little Italy, calling to her TV son ...