Best Claudia Cardinale Early Movie Themes
Added on Thursday, January 02, 2020 Posted by Philippe Mouchon
Disques CinéMusique presents a digital compilation of the best themes from the early movies featuring Claudia Cardinale. This album is part of a series which includes other great international actresses abd actors like Audrey Hepburn, John Wayne, Lana Turner, Grace Kelly, Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Danielle Darrieux and Jean Marais.
Disques CinéMusique presents a digital compilation of the best themes from the early movies featuring Claudia Cardinale. This album is part of a series which includes other great international actresses abd actors like Audrey Hepburn, John Wayne, Lana Turner, Grace Kelly, Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Danielle Darrieux and Jean Marais.
Claudia Cardinale (born in 1938) is an Italian Tunisian film actress who appeared in some of the most acclaimed European films of the 1960s and 1970s, mainly Italian or French, but also in many English-language films. She won the 'Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia' competition in 1957, the prize being a trip to Italy, which quickly led to film contracts, due above all to the involvement of Franco Cristaldi, who acted as her mentor for a number of years and later married her.
After making her debut in a minor role with Omar Sharif in Goha (1958), Cardinale became one of the best-known actresses in Italy after roles in films such as Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Girl with a Suitcase (1961), Cartouche (1962),The Leopard (1963), and Fellini's 8½ (1963).[a] From 1963, Cardinale became known in the United States and Britain following her role in The Pink Panther opposite David Niven. For several years, she appeared in Hollywood films such as Blindfold (1965), Lost Command (1966), The Professionals (1966), The Hell with Heroes (1968), and the Sergio Leone epic Western Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), a joint US-Italian production, in which she was praised for her role as a former prostitute opposite Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, and Henry Fonda.
Jaded with the Hollywood film industry and not wanting to become a cliché, Cardinale returned to Italian and French cinema, and garnered the David di Donatello for Best Actress award for her roles in Il giorno della civetta (1968) and as a prostitute alongside Alberto Sordi in A Girl in Australia (1971). In 1974, Cardinale met director Pasquale Squitieri, who would become her husband, and she frequently featured in his films, including I guappi (1974), Corleone (1978) and Claretta (1984), the last of which won her the Nastro d'Argento Award for Best Actress.
In 1982, she starred in Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo as the love interest of Klaus Kinski, who raises the funds to buy a steamship in Peru. In 2010, Cardinale received the Best Actress Award at the 47th Antalya 'Golden Orange' International Film Festival for her performance as an elderly Italian woman who takes in a young Turkish exchange student in Signora Enrica.
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