Well, he may only have been famous in Boston or New England, but my goodness, his commercial is imprinted on everyone I grew up with. Anthony Martignetti. The Anthony from the Prince Spaghetti commercial. Worth clicking on it if you've never seen the commercial.
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2020/08/24/anthony-martignetti-death-prince-spaghetti-commercialIn it, Martingnetti is seen running through the streets of the North End, rushing home for his Wednesday night pasta dinner as his television mother calls, “Anthony! Anthony!”
“Anthony Martignetti lives in Boston, on Prince Street in the Italian North End, the home for more than 50 years of Prince Spaghetti Company,” the narrator tells viewers. “Anthony knows a lot about local Italian customs. And he knows a lot about Prince, because that’s a local custom, too. Prince is more than just authentic. It’s something that grows you. With wheat germ energy other pastas leave out. Most days, Anthony takes his time going home, but not today. Today is Wednesday. And as every family in the North End of Boston will tell you, Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti day.”
When I worked briefly as a CPA, one of my clients was Prince. By that time, they had opened a nice factory up in Lowell. Great little company restaurant, the Prince Grotto. They were a weird company in that they were vertically integrated. They owned the box company for the pasta, the corrugated company for the boxes, the trucking company, maybe a sauce company too, in addition to the primary pasta company. They supplied a number of house brands, including Kroeger. I think eventually Mueller bought them out.
