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...Oscar as the year's best supporting actor. He created sworls of off-center violence in dozens of other good movies, from 1943's The Ox-Bow Incident to 1961's The Guns of Navarone. But despite his Oscars and his gold-lettered credits (including La Strada), few people -least of all Anthony Quinn-thought of him as a so-called actor of stature until suddenly there he was up on a Broadway stage as England's King Henry II, exchanging complicated philosophies with Sir Laurence Olivier in Becket...
...this, I'm that. Basta. I feel married, and lots of married people don't feel married." Ponti is a major figure in the Italian cinema in his own right. He has produced hundreds of films, including Gold of Naples, La Strada and War and Peace. It is sometimes barbarously pointed out that he is twice as old as she is and half as tall...
...Ekberg, Frank Sinatra slinging stones at Jackie Gleason, Claudia Cardinale holding Laurence Olivier's head on a platter. No one has actually been cast yet, but two are all but certain to appear: Anthony Quinn, who has done some of his best work in De Laurentiis films (La Strada), and beautiful, languorous Silvana Mangano, who married Dino soon after she appeared, all youth, legs and bosom, in Bitter Rice. They now have four children...
...soon as the Americans landed, and went back to making movies with black-market film. In 1953 he and Co-Producer Carlo Ponti (who achieved added fame by marrying Sophia Loren) broke into the U.S. market with a stinker called Ulysses. Dino got his first Oscar for La Strada, and went on to make a lot of overblown bad movies and several good movies, such as Nights of Cabiria, for which he got another Oscar. In a non-Shakespearean epic called The Tempest, he transformed eleven words of Pushkin ("The rebels rushed up to us and ran into the fortress...
...Festival top prize for 1960) about the troubles of a peasant mother and her five sons who migrate to Milan from a farming village in southern Italy. Its director is Luchino Visconti, a film-struck Roman aristocrat currently revered as one of the triumvirate-along with Federico Fellini (La Strada, La Dolce Vita) and Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura)-which has brought Italian film making out of its mid-fifties doldrums...