Word: mastroiannis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. Tears, belly laughs and earthy morality are shrewdly blended by Director Vittorio De Sica, turning for his theme to the 20-year sex battle between a Neapolitan pastryman (Marcello Mastroianni) and a triumphant tart (Sophia Loren...
MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni pour all their charm into a hilarious old tearjerker about a home-loving harlot who parlays a few crumbs of love into a wedding feast...
...Lingering Look. Perhaps it is, but Marcello Mastroianni falls into a Neapolitan reverie at the very mention of her name (". . . her childish, pouty lips, that slightly devastated look, her tiny, Japanese hands . . ."), and film directors all over the world have to struggle to praise her enough. "She can be elemental or elegant, warm or astringent-in fact, anything she chooses," says Orson Welles. England's Tony Richardson calls her "more informed, committed and passionate" than any actress he knows: "She is totally involved in the seriousness and importance of movies as distinct from the money and glamour." India...
...Ciao!" cried Italy's Marcello Mastroianni, 40, when he spied Gina Lollobrigida, 36, at New York's Kennedy Airport, and Gina offered a luscious cheek for him to kiss. When Mastroianni flew on to Hollywood, he discovered Adulation American Style, which is no dolce vita. Shrieking females mobbed him at the airport, including one pretty creature, who pursued him, hallooing "Marcello, I love you!" She was there again next day when he cemented his footprints outside Graumann's Chinese Theater and this time he obligingly kissed her (she fainted). But he balked when another horde tried...
Surprisingly, the trattoria prospers, bringing unexpected fringe benefits. Signoret finds that she can still feel prudish about free love with a ne'er-do-well used-car salesman (Marcello Mastroianni). A neurotic colleague (Emmanuelle Riva) brings her son home to live for the first time. Another girl (Gina Rovere) meets a local construction man willing to help her build a new life. Then, inescapably, the past looms up to destroy all hope for a better future...