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According to a recent biography, Mastroianni's mother was Ida Idelson, a Jewish immigrant from Belarus. She hid her origins, supposedly revealing them close to her death. Alas, confirmation of that has been impossible to find, so we would have to go with the verified story: his mother was goyishe Ida Irolle from the Italian town of Alpino.
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Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni [a] Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (28 September 1924 – 19 December 1996) was an Italian film actor, regarded as one of his country's most iconic male performers of the 20th century. He played leading roles for many of Italy's top directors in a career spanning 147 films between 1939 and 1996, and garnered ...
Jan 22, 1993 · Used People: Directed by Beeban Kidron. With Shirley MacLaine, Bob Dishy, Emma Tammi, Asia Vieira. At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley MacLaine), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Beeban Kidron
- 1993-01-22
Marcello Mastroianni. Actor: La Dolce Vita. Marcello Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, Italy in 1924, but soon his family moved to Turin and then Rome. During WW2 he was sent to a German prison camp, but he managed to escape and hide in Venice. He debuted in films as an extra in Marionette (1939), then started working for the Italian department of "Eagle Lion Films" in Rome and joined...
- September 28, 1924
- December 19, 1996
Dec 20, 1996 · Marcello Mastroiani, 1924-1996. Roger Ebert December 20, 1996. Tweet. In Rome Thursday night, they turned off the water in the Trevi Fountain and draped the monument in black, in memory of Marcello Mastroianni. The Italian actor, who died early Thursday at his Paris home, made about 120 films, but was best remembered for Federico Fellini's "La ...
Marcello Mastroianni. Actor: La Dolce Vita. Marcello Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, Italy in 1924, but soon his family moved to Turin and then Rome. During WW2 he was sent to a German prison camp, but he managed to escape and hide in Venice.
Dec 16, 1992 · Used People. By Peter Travers. December 16, 1992. From the Fried Green Tomatoes school of indigestible tragicomedies comes this family saga starring Shirley MacLaine as Pearl Berman, a Jewish ...
