Word: dino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which Tula Ellice Finklea, Doris Kappelhoff, Archie Leach, Frederick Austerlitz, Norma Jeane Baker, Dino Crecetti and Roy Fitzgerald became household names, though not their own (see SHOW BUSINESS...
...drawing room, is assuredly no Fairbanks. The Clansmen loaf kiddingly through their parts, acquiring suntans. No one, of course, bothers to look bothered as the hostiles approach. Such expressions as are evident reflect the sudsy affability of a pipe fitters' picnic (Hey, get a load of Dino on a horse...
...Dino de Laurentiis smiles indulgently at such Hollywood efforts as George Stevens' The Greatest Story Ever Told (scheduled for production this spring and summer), which will run a scant three hours. The Bible, which will go before the cameras next year, will be shown to audiences in three segments, two for the Old Testament, one for the New. Roughly a dozen directors will work on the picture. None are signed yet, but De Laurentiis thinks Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita) might get things off to a rousing start with the Creation. He is saving Ingmar Bergman for the Apocalypse...
With a tradesy eye on his congregation, Dino is going to make the film in English, dubbing it in Italian. Who will the actors be? "Everybody," says Dino. It is easy to imagine Van Johnson munching an apple offered him by Anita Ekberg, Frank Sinatra slinging stones at Jackie Gleason, Claudia Cardinale holding Laurence Olivier's head on a platter. No one has actually been cast yet, but two are all but certain to appear: Anthony Quinn, who has done some of his best work in De Laurentiis films (La Strada), and beautiful, languorous Silvana Mangano, who married Dino...
...Word. A middle-sized man behind heavy black glasses, Dino de Laurentiis, 42, is an unlikely figure for the duce of Italian cinema. At 16 he won a scholarship at a motion picture school, ducked out of his family's prosperous spaghetti-making business, and came to Rome. With Dino's success, the whole family has since abandoned spaghetti for films. De Laurentiis served a lighthearted war, demobilized himself as soon as the Americans landed, and went back to making movies with black-market film. In 1953 he and Co-Producer Carlo Ponti (who achieved added fame...