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 ...

BOSTONBOSTON — The Massachusetts man who as a 12-year-old boy appeared in an iconic television commercial for Prince spaghetti running through the streets of Boston’s Italian North End has died. The ...

Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti day. That tag line to the iconic TV commercial that featured an Italian-American boy named Anthony Martignetti running through the streets of Boston’s North End after ...

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 ...

FILE - This Oct. 15, 1999, file photo shows Anthony Martignetti in Boston. Martignetti, who gained fame as the little boy running home to his mother in the 1969 "Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day" ...

Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti day. That tag line to the iconic TV commercial that featured an Italian-American boy named Anthony Martignetti running through the streets of Boston’s North End after ...

BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts man who as a 12-year-old boy appeared in an iconic television commercial for Prince spaghetti running through the streets of Boston’s Italian North End has died. The ...