Word: sica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young seminarian has become wildly infatuated with her, and is about to give up his studies for the priesthood. But Sophia Loren, 28, playing a 14-carat call girl in Vittorio De Sica's afilming trilogy, Yesterday, Today...
...World of Sophia Loren (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Tony Perkins, Anatole Litvak, and Vittorio De Sica are among the on-camera commentators in this nicely assembled film biography. Repeat...
...door. A bit later the number was called out and, implausibly, she was named "Miss Viareggio of 1959." Unsurprisingly, a movie producer who was there offered her a job; incredibly, he really was a movie producer, and within a year she was being directed by Vittorio De Sica...
This little man, whose name is Abby Mann, believes militantly that "a great screenwriter should be given the same consideration as a great playwright." By a great screenwriter he means Abby Mann. Passing through New York, Mann had seen a preview version of the editing job that Director De Sica had applied to the latest Mann screenplay-an adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Condemned of Altona. Mann was displeased. He typed out five single-spaced pages of complaint, leaped aboard a plane for Rome, and told De Sica to change the film or drop the name...
...goes where the story is. A few weeks ago, he got on a freighter in Vera Cruz and rode with seven boring fellow passengers to Houston in preparation for his movie adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools. In Rome, between sessions with De Sica, he popped around to Miss Porter's hotel room to confer with her on the script. In Mexico, he was also collecting impressions for his script of Children of Sanchez. Soon he will be in Georgia and Mississippi soaking up attitudes for his version of MacKinlay Kantor's Anders onville...