The actress born in Tunis had lived in Paris with children for several years
Claudia Cardinale, one of the most popular actresses of Italian cinema, died on Tuesday 23 September, in Nemours, near Paris, where she had lived for several years. He was 87 years old. And with her there were her children.
with the largest
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Born in Tunis, to Sicilian parents, she was the protagonist of memorable films such as the gotopard of Luchino di Visconti (unforgettable the dance scene with Alain Delon) and eight and a half of Federico Fellini who was the first to want to not dubbed, intuuing the unique strength of his voice, so different, so sincere. His cardinal was “beautiful, young and ancient, child and already woman, authentic, mysterious”. The actress worked in more than 150 films and with the best directors such as Sergio Leone, Bolognini, Monicelli, Germi and actors among these Alain Delon, Marcello Mastroianni, John Wayne, Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Orson Welles.
the prizes
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She was considered the most important Italian actress that emerged in the 1960s and together with Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida she was able to have a great international notoriety. He won three David di Donatello and the three silver tapes, in addition to the golden lion with his career awarded to the Venice Film Festival in 1993 and David, also to his career, from 1997. Claudia Cardinale marked an entire generation of cinephiles with her beauty and intensity.
that beauty contest
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In 1957 the “most beautiful Italian of Tunisia” won the beauty contest, which had been held in Gammarth. The prize? A trip to Venice during the International Film Festival. And on the beach of the Lido, Claudia just eighteen years old, did not go unnoticed in the eyes of directors and producers. His first Italian film was the usual unknown (1958) by Mario Monicelli, but the first important role was in a cursed cheat (1959) by Pietro Germi. In 1960 he participated in five films: the Bell’Antonio by Mauro Bolognini, the International Megproduction Napoleon in Austerlitz by Abel Gance, with Orson Welles and Vittorio De Sica, the audacious blow of the usual unknown people directed by Nanni Loy, the first professional meeting with Luchino Visconti in Rocco and his brothers and dolphins of Citto Masell
made Mastroianni fall in love
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During the filming of Il Bell’Antonio, Marcello Mastroianni fell in love with her who, although attracted by his kind charm, rejected him because he did not take him seriously. The subsequent work with Bolognini, the way, made her meet Jean-Paul Belmondo, with whom he then shot the adventurous cartouche (1962) by Philippe De Broca, the film that made it popular in France and during which he had a love story with Belmondo. Among his most famous films, also the girl with Valrio Zurlini’s suitcase, the girl from Bube (1963) by Luigi Comencini, La Pelle (1981) by Liliana Cavani. It was also Claretta Petacci in Claretta by Pasquale Squitieri, director with whom he was long tied sentimentally
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