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Monday, February 22, 2021

Guilietta Masina 100 -- February 22, 2021

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Actress Guilietta Masina would have been 100 years old today. She was born near Bologna on 22-February-1921. She met Federico Fellini while appearing on radio shows. He was a writer. They moved on to movies together, and she appeared in many movies written and/or directed by Fellini. They married and stayed together for 50 years.

She is most famous for La Strada and Nights of Cabiria. La Strada breaks my heart.

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Monday, January 20, 2020

DeForest Kelley and Federico Fellini 100 -- January 20, 2020

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I was interested to find that DeForest Kelley, Dr McCoy on Star Trek, and Federico Fellini, director of many great films, were born on the same day.

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Monday, January 12, 2015

Anita Ekberg and Rod Taylor, RIP -- January 12, 2015

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I was sad to learn of the death of sex symbol Anita Ekberg. Men of my father's generation are heartbroken. She was Swedish, but she mostly appeared in Italian movies. The best remembered movie is Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, where she danced in the Trevi Fountain.

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We also lost Rod Taylor. I didn't remember that he was Australian. The only movies of his that I could recall right away were Hitchcock's The Birds and The Time Machine. He was in many other movies, and some were good.