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Federico Fellini has signed me to star in his next film for Dino De Laurentiis. Not too bad for a young "starlet."
"It was like A Thousand and One Nights," wrote one awed critic. He was dazzled by the floodlights, befurred lovelies and police cordons restraining the spectators outside Milan's Teatro Nuovo, where Producer Dino de Laurentiis was premiering Three Faces of a Woman, starring his latter-day Scheherazade, Princess...
It is the Bible, and all the more incredible for being so. When De Laurentiis first embarked on his epic, he envisioned a ten-hour film, costing $25 million and depicting nearly all the still waters and flaming furnaces, from Creation to Gethsemane. When he actually started shooting the picture...
Eve was originally a languorous Italian brunette, but De Laurentiis promoted an international newspaper straw vote to find out whether the world thought of Eve as blonde or dark, and a few thousand Western Europeans in effect declared that they could not see how the mother of mankind could have...
"The picture won't be like DeMille's," says one of De Laurentiis' assistants. "DeMille would take the 40 years of Moses' life not covered by the Bible and he would create a motion picture story. We have tried faithfully to reproduce and annotate the text...