Marcello Mastroianni

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For more than thirty years Marcello
Mastroianni has been considered the quin-
tessential continental. He is the classically
handsome film star gifted with a voice that
crosses borders even when the words might
not be understood. Unpronounceable as it is
to many, his surname is a bedroom word on
several continents.
For nearly five decades Mastroianni's
film and stage careers have proved him to
be one of the world's most versatile perform-
ers. For every cigarette-wielding sophisticate
he has played, he has portrayed twice as
many priests, plumbers, con men, ra bble
rousers, stodgy policemen, and drug
addicts. On the screen, the fabled lover of
beautiful women has been an impotent cuck-
old, a homosexual, and a wife beater. He
was the first male actor to receive an Oscar
nomination for a non-English-speaking film—
Divorce Italian Style—then received two
more, for A Special Day and Dark Eyes. He
is widely regarded as Europe's preeminent
actor since the end of... Tovább

Fülszöveg

For more than thirty years Marcello
Mastroianni has been considered the quin-
tessential continental. He is the classically
handsome film star gifted with a voice that
crosses borders even when the words might
not be understood. Unpronounceable as it is
to many, his surname is a bedroom word on
several continents.
For nearly five decades Mastroianni's
film and stage careers have proved him to
be one of the world's most versatile perform-
ers. For every cigarette-wielding sophisticate
he has played, he has portrayed twice as
many priests, plumbers, con men, ra bble
rousers, stodgy policemen, and drug
addicts. On the screen, the fabled lover of
beautiful women has been an impotent cuck-
old, a homosexual, and a wife beater. He
was the first male actor to receive an Oscar
nomination for a non-English-speaking film—
Divorce Italian Style—then received two
more, for A Special Day and Dark Eyes. He
is widely regarded as Europe's preeminent
actor since the end of World War II.
While he has remained officially mar-
ried to Flora Carabella for over forty years,
he has had long relationships with such stars
as Faye Dunaway and Catherine Deneuve.
In his romance with Deneuve he even moved
to France to help raise their daughter. With
the exception of Dunaway (with whom he
admits having had a "devastating" relation-
ship), he has never made a secret of endur-
ing friendships with his former lovers while
still maintaining that he has had a successful
marriage.
Th is is the story of Mastroianni's life and
career from his early days as an interpreter
of broad farce to his worldwide recognition
in Fellini's La Dolce Vita to his cluster of stel-
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lar performances in great roles through the
years.
Mastroianni has presented the world
with an indelible image of Milanese afflu-
ence, Roman decadence, Sicilian tradition,
Tuscan enterprise, urban glibness, and his-
torical vanity. No other actor in the western
world has starred in as many films or per-
formed in as many different languages as
Mastroianni.
Donald Dewey has been a professional
writer and editor for twenty-five years. His
published books include the novel
Reasonable Doubts, Bears, and, in 1993,
The Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball
Teams. He has been a recipient of the
Nelson Algren Prize for Short Fiction and
has received awards for both his plays and
as editor of the monthly Attenzione and as
editorial director of East/West Network. A
thirteen-year resident of Europe, he has most
recently been living in New York with his
wife and son. Vissza