Word: vittorio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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General della Rovere (in Italian). Roberto Rossellini's first topflight film since Paisan (1946) tells the almost unbearably moving story of a petty larcenist, skillfully played by Vittorio De Sica, who through wartime suffering becomes the hero he was forced to impersonate...
...once a queen but never a princess, only smiled mysteriously. When Romano Mussolini was a boy, his father, Italy's Dictator Benito Mussolini, who sawed passably on a violin, banned jazz in the country because it was "an expression of an inferior race." Romano and his older brother Vittorio soon became clandestine jazz buffs. Vittorio smuggled U.S. jazz records into the Mussolini household throughout the Fascist era, and on occasion Papa Mussolini would grudgingly admit that some of the disks had merit in a decadent way. But the Duce did not live to see the day when Romano...
...Started in Naples. A Neapolitan holiday that is pleasurable enough, with Clark Gable, Sophia Loren and Vittorio De Sica, becomes occasionally hilarious, thanks to a scene-thieving nine-year-old called Marietto...
...Started in Naples. Clark Gable occasionally gets upstaged by a somewhat younger performer, Marietto, 9, in a rowdy, frequently funny Neapolitan holiday also boasting Sophia Loren and Vittorio De Sica...
...which his own voice is an essential one; and every actor can be validly judged only when that entire complex is presented inviolate. Otherwise, as Stanley Kauffman put it in his letter of protest, "I would never have heard the voices of Louis Jouvet, Edwige Feuillere, Takashi Shimura, Vittorio De Sica and Victor Sjostrom. These are only a few of the actors about whom I would know much less if Mr. Crowther had had his way." And I myself still recall the disconcerting experience of looking at even such light-weight stuff as a Bob Hope comedy in a Paris...