Juliet of the Spirits
1965
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Award-winning Italian actress who earned international recognition for her portrayal of Gelsomina in La Strada .
Giulia Anna “Giulietta” Masina, born on February 22, 1921, in San Giorgio di Piano, Italy, was a renowned Italian actress. She was the daughter of Gaetano Masina, a violinist and music professor, and Angela Flavia Pasqualini, a teacher.
Mar 24, 1994 · Giulietta Masina, the waiflike actress who became one of Italy's best-known movie stars, died today in a Rome hospital less than five months after the death of her husband, the director Federico...
With this breakthrough film, Federico Fellini launched both himself and his wife and collaborator Giulietta Masina to international stardom, breaking with the neorealism of his early career in favor of a personal, poetic vision of life as a bittersweet carnival.
Giulietta Masina, who played the haunting waif in "La Strada" and other leading films directed by her husband, Federico Fellini, died Wednesday. She was 73. Masina was being treated for lung...
Mar 23, 1994 · Giulietta Masina (22 February 1921 – 23 March 1994) was an Italian film and stage actress. She starred in La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, in 1956 and 1957, respectively. Masina won the Best Actress award at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival for the later film.
Cinema’s great husband-and-wife carnival act, Italian maestro Federico Fellini and actress Giulietta Masina gave birth to a new form of filmic expression that blended earthy realism with extravagant flights of surrealist fancy.
