Word: gassman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie set in Rome saw some off-camera soap opera when high-strung Cinemactress Shelley (A Place in the Sun) Winters, in the midst of a scene, spotted her estranged husband, Cinemactor Vittorio (Rhapsody) Gassman on the set with the other woman, Italian Actress Anna Maria Ferrero. Shelley tossed a hand mirror at Gassman, clawed his face, was aiming a roundhouse right at Anna Maria when Actress Winters' coworkers corralled her long enough for Gassman and friend to escape...
...spoiled rich witch (Elizabeth Taylor) loves a young European musical genius (Vittorio Gassman). Proof of Gassman's genius: a head of hair proportionately longer than that of less talented musicians. Elizabeth moves him into her apartment, but she keeps getting in his hair when he wants to practice, and pretty soon he walks out. On the rebound, she marries an American piano student (John Ericson) whose childishness, interpreted by the script as glowing Americanism, illuminates dark old Europe about as effectively as a ten-watt bulb...
...picture's musical score of popular classics is interpreted with spirit on the sound track by Pianist Claudio Arrau and Violinist Michael Rabin. There are also some Alps in the background, Technicolor and plenty of overdecorated interiors. Elizabeth Taylor wears beautiful clothes, and Vittorio Gassman, when he plays the fiddle in a ski suit, is the most dashing thing of the kind since the lovesick violinist in the perfume...
...Prodigal (M-G-M), with Ava Gardner and Vittorio Gassman...
Sombrero (M-G-M), an excessively picturesque romantic drama with a Mexican setting, seems to have just about everything in it except Quetzalcoatl and Pancho Villa. Among its ingredients: three love stories involving three sets of dashing caballeros (Ricardo Montalban, Vittorio Gassman, Rick Jason) and beautiful señoritas (Pier Angeli, Yvonne de Carlo, Cyd Charisse), a bullfight, a cockfight, a feud between two villages, bastardy, incurable illness, a fiesta, a beauty contest, a contested will, gypsy witchcraft...