Word: camerini
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...statuesque, but that barely does the young Loren justice; so iconic is her voluptuousness, it would be fairer to call statues Sophiaesque. She was married to producer Carlo Ponti, but she didn't need a patron to get good roles. She was "The Miller's Beautiful Wife," a Mario Camerini comedy co-starring de Sica and a calflike Mastroianni. She appeared in de Sica's "Gold of Naples" with Mangano and the clown Toto...
...Beautiful Wife (Ponti-De Laurentiis; DCA), based on The Three-Cornered Hat, the well-known Spanish comedy of confusion by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, offers somewhat more confusion and rather less comedy than the novel. But the comedy is always pleasant, and the confusion, as Director Mario Camerini merrily confounds it in this Italian translation, has something of the suspense and desperate fascination of a tangle in milady's drawstrings...
...real substance to his role of a stubborn adolescent. Kirk Douglas is more at home in the acrobatics of his part than in its subtleties, and occasionally seems tempted to reach for a Tommy gun instead of a sword. Yet, like the others, he often responds to Director Mario Camerini's neat combination of archaic flavor and modern pace. Technicolor, deft costuming and set decoration help immeasurably in creating the dreamlike quality of mankind's heroic...
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