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Sep 27, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Pasquale Iannone Lists |Pasquale Iannone |Tom Jones |Anton Bitel

‘The King of Europe’ – this is how actor Faye Dunaway describes him in the recent HBO documentary on her life and career, Faye (2024). The man she’s talking about – her former partner Marcello Mastroianni – would undoubtedly have shrugged off this kind of (affectionate) hyperbole, just as he would roll his eyes when the press continued to refer to him as Italy’s ‘Latin lover’ in the wake of his starring role as an elegantly jaded journalist in Federico Fellini’s La dolce vita (1960).

Sep 20, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Pasquale Iannone |Omar Ahmed |David Morrison |Pasquale Iannone Lists

Anna Magnani, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano, Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti… Italy has certainly produced more than its fair share of world-class female stars. Towering above them all – in terms of longevity, but especially in terms of international renown – is Sophia Loren. From her humble beginnings in Naples, Loren rose rapidly from local beauty queen to national icon to major Hollywood star.