Word: ponti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miller's 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...
Gold of Naples (Ponti-De Laurentiis; DCA). Once there was an aging nobleman (Vittorio De Sica) who, having gambled away the better part of his estate, was registered incompetent and placed in the legal guardianship of his wife. The lady, of course, cut off her husband's funds at once, and his fever for the tables raged in impotence. Every day, when he went for his walk, the count would bully the doorman, who, fearing for his job, would force his son (Piero Bilancioni), a boy about ten years old, to play cards with...
Woman of Rome (Ponti-DeLaurentiis; D.C.A.). In the novel by Italy's Alberto Moravia, the most important thing about La Romana is that she is a dark beauty who loves men and money. In the movie version, the most important thing about her is that she is played by Gina Lollobrigida. Gina's mother, an impoverished ex-model, leads her daughter into her old profession, hoping that it will lead Gina into an older and more profitable one. Mother proudly proclaims that "there was not a figure like [Gina's] in all Rome." As the movie opens...
...known to read a book since. As a child, Sophia was called stecchetta (little stick) because she was so frail. But at 14 she blossomed into something approaching her present contours, entered a beauty contest, won third prize and was off to Rome. Two years later Italian Producer Carlo Ponti met her and launched her in the movies. In the next four years, she ground out 20 films, nine in 1953 alone. Mostly, they were a tribute to matter over mind. But Sophia developed. Among other things, she learned to speak Italian without a Neapolitan accent...
...four-cornered race to film Leo Tolstoy's classic, War and Peace, is over, and the Italian producers, Ponti-de Laurentis (American associate: Paramount), are left with a clear field; Producer Mike Todd has dropped his project, despite a finished script by Playwright Robert E. Sherwood and months of preparatory work put in by Director Fred (High Noon) Zinnemann. (MGM and Producer David O. Selznick quit the race months ago.) The Ponti-de Laurentis movie version of the great Russian novel is being shot in Italy and Yugoslavia, with Audrey Hepburn starring...