Italy celebrates the centenary of the birth of one of the greatest names in world cinema, Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996), with several tributes throughout the country.
Marcello Domenico Vincenzo Mastroianni, Sophia Loren's great partner in classics such as “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” (1963), “Marriage Italian Style” (1964) and “Sunflowers of Russia” (1970), all by Vittorio De Sica, was actually born on September 26, 1924, in Fontana Liri, in the Lazio region, but was registered on the 28th.
The star also shone in one of the greatest successes of Italian cinema of all time, "La Dolce Vita" (1960), a masterpiece by Federico Fellini. Alongside Swedish actress Anita Ekberg, the actor immortalized one of the most famous scenes on the big screen, filmed at the Trevi Fountain in Rome, when Ekberg invites him to join her for a swim in the fountain.
Mastroianni, who dreamed of acting since childhood, made his stage and film debut in 1948, accumulating almost 150 roles in his career. In 1962, the American magazine Time listed him as “the most beloved foreign star in the United States”.
However, Mastroianni never accepted the labels of “Latin lover” and “star”. He loved his family, especially his two daughters, Barbara and Chiara; he said he was lazy, but he loved life on the set, which made him go from one film to the next.
He never divorced his wife, Flora Carabella, whom he met in the theater and married in 1950, but he had many loves throughout his life, such as the American actress Faye Dunaway and the French actress Catherine Deneuve, who gave him his daughter Chiara and convinced him to move to Paris, France, a place that became his second home.
The star died in 1996, at the age of 72, in Paris, from pancreatic cancer. At his side were his lover, the Italian filmmaker Anna Maria Tatò, and his daughter Chiara. (HANDLE)
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