Word: sica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story, written by Novelist Alberto Moravia, is a cheerful bit of babble, a tolerant spoof of the great game of guardie e ladri (cops and robbers), which many Italians play with a good-natured gusto all their lives. Sophia, the daughter of a prominent pickpocket (Vittorio De Sica), conies hippety-hipping up to a taxi one day with a couple of boy friends. They ask the driver (Roberto Mastroianni) to head for the beach. On the way, Sophia keeps breathing down the cabby's neck and crooning Bongo Bongo Bongo in his ear. At the beach he waits while...
Umberto D. A man walks the plank of old age, and the Italian realist cinema dies with a gentle curse ;Vittorio De Sica's most careful film (TIME...
Umberto D. A man walks the plank of old age, and the Italian realist cinema dies with a gentle curse; Vittorio De Sica's most careful film (TIME...
...estimators were kind enough to suggest that perhaps she had earned $128.000 in all. Actress Sophia Loren guessed that she earned $13,000; the tax collector guessed she earned $40,000; according to industry figures, she may have made as much as $480,000. Veteran Actor Vittorio de Sica guessed his income at $48,000, which was just half of what the tax collector guessed, which may in turn be as little as one-seventh of what he actually made...
Umberto D. A man walks the plank of old age, and the Italian realist cinema dies with a gentle curse; Vittorio De Sica's most careful film (TIME...