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  Giulietta Masina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An Italian actress, Giulietta Masina (born February 22, 1921 in Bologna; died March 23, 1994 in Rome) was married to Italian director Federico Fellini from 1943 until his death, and starred in several of his films.
Giulietta degli Spiriti (1965) Juliet of the Spirits Masina plays a woman who believes that her husband is cheating on her, and her search for the truth leads her on a path to self-discovery.
Masina's comic talent was considered by many to rival that of Charlie Chaplin.
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 Giulietta Masina Forum @ Filmbug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Called the "female Chaplin" in her day, Giulietta Masina combined an almost spiritual radiance and ability to communicate pathos and comedy in one instant.
Masina became a mercurial presence in cinema after this towering triumph; in Europe and especially Italy, she was regarded as an almost mythical being -- such had been her effect upon audiences.
One 'Giulietta Masina Film Festival' in San Francisco turned out to be one of the most successful ever of its kind.
www.filmbug.com /db/171343-8   (560 words)

  
 Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Giulietta Masina carries the show with a profoundly moving, funny and thorny performance.
The entire range of human emotions registers on Masina's face and in her childlike eyes during the course of this film.
He also discusses working with Giulietta Masina, producer Dino De Laurentiis, and with Pier Paolo Pasolini, who served as a technical assistant on the film and was responsible for making the prostitution aspect of the film more believable.
www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=4579&PID=10047457&Tab=reviews&CID=18   (590 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Juliet Of The Spirits [1965]: Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Juliet of the Spirits is about a woman, played by Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina, who is on the brink of being abandoned by her husband.
Giulietta Masina carries off her part with a quiet dignity, but even she cannot save this film.
It is a deeply moving and profound film which traces the abandonment of Giulietta by her husband and her search for a new meaning in life.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000059YU5   (621 words)

  
 MTV.com - Movies - Giulietta Masina
Best known in conjunction with her work under the direction of husband Federico Fellini, Giulietta Masina was among the most acclaimed international actresses of the postwar era; a skilled, button-eyed comedienne equally capable of delivering poignant, emotionally charged dramatic performances, her accomplishments were often overshadowed by the groundbreaking achievements of her more celebrated spouse.
Under Rossellini, Masina next appeared opposite Ingrid Bergman in Europa 51, but her international breakthrough came in the 1954 Fellini classic La Strada; cast as the brutalized lover of a violent circus strongman (Anthony Quinn), her much-acclaimed, star-making performance helped spur the film to a Best Foreign Language Academy Award.
In 1969, Masina finally made her English-language debut in the Katherine Hepburn vehicle The Madwoman of Chaillot.
www.mtv.com /movies/person/40757/bio.jhtml   (462 words)

  
 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Juliet of the Spirits: The Criterion Collection
This typically episodic Fellini film concerns Giulietta (Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina), a staid housewife with an unexciting life whose husband (Mario Pisu) is a Fellini-like character surrounded by a carnivalesque crowd of models, gay hustlers, débutantes, Americans, psychics, socialites, and so on.
Meanwhile, she is haunted by crude sexual and religious visions, the thrust of the story being toward Giulietta freeing herself of the visions, and of her limited life as a housewife.
By the time Masina vacates the premises à la Ibsen, the viewer doesn't care because of the vagueness of the problems she is leaving behind and the ethereal nature of the destination before her.
www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/j/julietofthespirits_cc.q.shtml   (588 words)

  
 Giulietta Masina --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Masina began acting in student theatre productions when she was in her teens.
March 23, 1994, Rome, Italy), was artistic muse, adviser, and frequent leading lady for her husband of 50 years, the acclaimed filmmaker Federico Fellini, who dedicated his body of work to her.
Masina worked as a stage and radio actress while attending the University of Rome...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9106434?tocId=9106434   (420 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Video: Ginger and Fred [IMPORT]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Tonino Guerra's screenplay is matchless; Giulietta Masina's performance is the most sublime of her career (better than La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, Juliette of the Spirits, etc.) owing to Marcello Mastroianni's equally moving counterpoint; and Fellini's mise-en-scene is even better for laughs here than in 8 1/2.
Still, of all the wondrous images brought to the screen by Fellini during the many years of his career, the greatest of all was irrefutably Giulietta Masina.
Giulietta and Marcello are always a thrill to watch, but even they can't save this Fellini clunker.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6301969979   (1432 words)

  
 Giulietta Masina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Jaunty, wide-eyed Italian screen star, most typically cast as naive, hopeful waifs, best known for her roles in films by husband Federico Fellini.
Masina's almost Chaplinesque ability to combine pathos and comedy was put to brilliant use as the strongman's devoted if simpleminded assistant in "La Strada" (1954), and as the optimistic prostitute in "Nights of Cabiria" (1957).
She was also superb as the bored Roman housewife whose escape to the world of fantasy is the subject of Fellini's "Juliet of the Spirits" (1965).
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 Cinema Arts Centre - Huntington, NY
Giulietta Masina, star of La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, gives a tour-de-force performance in Federico Fellini’s phantasmagorical film about a middle-aged woman confronting her life when her husband leaves her for another woman.
The stunning images are masterfully utilized to develop the story of a woman’s struggle to confront her past life and her place in the world.
In traditional terms Giulietta is a “success” — her prominent husband is rich, she has a beautiful home and children plus servants to attend to her every want and need.
www.cinemaartscentre.org /juliet_spirits.htm   (275 words)

  
 Strada, La - Films on DVD and Video - MovieMail UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Starring Fellini's wife Giulietta Massina in an amazingly moving performance as the simple, kind-hearted woman roped along to help Zampano's strong man act, it is one of his most abiding masterpieces.
Masina (Fellini's wife until his death) is astonishing in the central role and the evocative Nina Rota score and Otello Martelli's ravishing photography make La Strada unforgettable.
The film’s title — ‘The Road’ — reflects the picaresque, endearingly ramshackle and non-linear structure employed by Fellini to chronicle the story of Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina) who is sold into virtual slavery by her mother to play clown to brash strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn).
www.moviemail-online.co.uk /films/5352   (785 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Nights of Cabiria - Criterion Collection (1957): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Giulietta Masina stars as Cabiria, a gentle soul at heart who manages to maintain a positive outlook even in the face of adversity.
Highlighted by the performance of Giulietta Masina, this is a film that begs to be embraced, one that will stay with you long after the last shadow has passed from the screen into darkness.
Massina is not a good actress by any stretch of the imagination, too overreliant on volume and exaggeration for much of the film, but she is ultimately an affecting one when she stops yeling and just lets her face tell the story.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000IOKV?v=glance   (2592 words)

  
 MovieWeb Search Results: Giulietta Masina
Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu, Valentina Cortese, Sylva Koscina, Lou Gilbert, Caterina Boratto, Alba Cancellieri, Rosella De Sepio, Luisa Della Noce
Giulietta Masina, Amedeo Nazzari, Francois Perier, Dorian Gray, Pina Gualandri, Franca Marzi, Mario Passante, Aldo Silvani
Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bova, Ernesto Almirante, Lilia Landi, Enzo Maggio, Leopoldo Trieste, Fanny Marchio, Gina Mascetti
movieweb.com /movies/search.php?name=Giulietta+Masina   (135 words)

  
 Giulietta degli Spiriti - Films on DVD and Video - MovieMail UK
However, he had already shot his segment of portmanteau film Boccaccio ‘70 (1961) in colour and had decided that despite his misgivings, his new project would be shot the same way.
As with La Strada (1954) and Le Notti di Cabiria (1957), Giulietta degli spiriti was written and conceived especially for Fellini's wife Giulietta Masina.
Much like the five young men in Fellini’s bleakly comic chronicle of middle-class male ennui I Vitelloni (1953), Giulietta is a character longing for a sense of purpose and direction.
www.moviemail-online.co.uk /films/7430   (470 words)

  
 Intelliflix: Rent La Strada (Special Edition) on DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Zampano (Anthony Quinn), a performer in a traveling carnival outside of Rome, purchases the young, poor Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina) to be his wife and assistant.
Although she shows genuine enthusiasm as an assistant, putting on a fabulous clown act akin to Charlie Chaplin, nobody seems to appreciate her; she quietly endures a life of emotional coldness and cruelty.
Anthony Quinn and Guilietta Masina splendid as Zampano and Gelsomina.
www.intelliflix.com /movie_view.dvd?id=29568   (256 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Video: Juliet of the Spirits [IMPORT]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
First, Giulietta, the actress, must have been a bit off to have done this apparently semi-real story abouat a middle aged woman married to a famous director who she suspects is having an affair.
Giulietta Masina is a very great actress, it is just that there wasn't much material for her to work with.
It is too bad she hitched her wagon to husband Fellini's star her entire career, because if she were just in a few movies with plots, character development and finely crafted dialogue, we could have discovered the full range of her talent.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6301224698   (1274 words)

  
 Fellini's La Strada
Giulietta Masina (Gelsomina), Anthony Quinn (Zampano), Richard Baseheart (The Fool), Aldo Silvani, Marcello Revere, Liva Venturini
Yet there's a historical authenticity in the milieu and a metaphor in the story of players in the world rather than in the theatre.
Masina plays Chaplin into her character rather obviously, but it's undeniably effective in supporting Fellini's stated intention of creating an innocent betrayed.
www.culturecourt.com /F/Fellini/LaStrada.htm   (836 words)

  
 Federico Fellini: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
Masina was an actress who insisted on building her characters "from within," and she brought to the mix a certain grounding in internal motivation that gave her characters more resonance than one finds in many of Fellini's other characters.
For Masina, Fellini created essentially two personae: the clown-like "waif" and the "deceived wife." The author focuses on the former.
The qualities for which Masina is best known are the externally expressive ones of her "live face" and her body movement - qualities most associated with the art of mime."
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/fellini.html   (7047 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Nights Of Cabiria [1956]: Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A year after his international breakthrough film La Strada, Federico Fellini and his leading lady/wife Giulietta Masina collaborated on another masterpiece, a magical mix of neorealism and romantic optimism set on the streets of Rome.
Masina's moon-faced and bright-eyed Cabiria is a passionate streetwalker with a heart as big as Italy and the emotional spontaneity of a child, a woman with a hearty passion for life whose constant weakness is falling in love with mercenary creeps.
For a couple of hours we share the dreams and disillusionments of Cabiria as she rattles around Rome before once again losing her heart.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CJN2   (525 words)

  
 La Strada movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Simple-minded girl, played by Fellini's wife, Masina, is sold to a brutal, coarse circus strong-man and she falls in love wit
Cast: Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani; DIRECTED BY: Federico Fellini; WRITTEN BY: Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi, Tullio Pinelli, Federico Fellini; MUSIC BY: Nino Rota.
Review: Simple-minded girl, played by Fellini's wife, Masina, is sold to a brutal, coarse circus strong-man and she falls in love with him despite his abuse.
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 Biography for Giulietta Masina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Giuletta died less than 5 months after her husband.
Described by "The New York Times" as "film's eternal waif," Masina is best known for the plucky, in- domitable performances she gave in the films of her husband, Federico Fellini.
She acted with a drama group at the Uni- versity of Rome and later met Fellini when she performed in a radio program he wrote about a young married couple.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0556399/bio   (338 words)

  
 Giulietta Degli Spiriti [SE 5-Disc Box] DVD | dir.: Federico Fellini | cast: Giulietta Masina, Frederick Ledebur, ...
cast: Giulietta Masina, Frederick Ledebur, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu
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Giulietta Masina, Frederick Ledebur, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu.
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 Juliet of the Spirits - a film by Federico Fellini - DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Giulietta Masina, Mario Pisu, Sandra Milo and many more
The most lushly beautiful and haunting of all of Fellini's films, the climax of Federico Fellini's artistic collaboration with his life-long partner, actress Giulietta Masina, an experience that can never be forgotten, Juliet of the Spirits is now available on DVD from the Criterion Collection!
She is open to the life of the spirit world, and by being so is able to come to terms with her existence.
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 DVDBeaver.com - DVD Review - Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria Criterion - Region 0 - NTSC Federico Fellini le Notti ...
Cabiria (Giulietta Masina) is a prostitute - protecting herself whilst eking out an existence in the gutters of Rome.
For me, it literally transcends cinema itself, as each time I view it I feel there is nothing more I need to see...
It is films like this that have helped make Criterion's reputation what it is. Fellini's absolute best, Masina's finest performance - a true work of cinematic art.
www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReviews8/nightsofcabiria.htm   (551 words)

  
 GoneMovie.com ->La strada starring Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina. Directed by Federico Fellini
La strada starring Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina.
Itinerant carnival strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn) buys the weak-minded Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina) from her mother, even though an older sister left with him before and died.
Zampanò makes a living by drawing a crowd to a square, expanding his chest to break a chain, and then passing the hat.
www.gonemovies.com /WWW/Drama/Drama/EnglischStrada.asp   (423 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Giulietta Masina
MSN Encarta - Search Results - Giulietta Masina
Masina was born near Bologna, Italy, and started acting while she was a student.
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 Giulietta Masina Movies @ Filmbug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Movies on DVD with or related to Giulietta Masina.
With Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina and Richard Basehart
Click here for region 2 encoded Giulietta Masina DVDs (Europe, Japan, Middle East and South Africa).
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 Salon Entertainment | The little tramp
It's a cube built out of something like stucco, with a curtain of beads hanging like a shimmer of fake rain in front of its simple door -- part jazzed-up fairy-tale cottage, part Spartan make-do dwelling.
For its owner, the love-starved yet emotionally self-sufficient prostitute Cabiria, played by Giulietta Masina, in the role of her career, the house represents security and pride, a place to return to that's all her own, like the tiny studio apartment of any city working girl.
But is the house meant to signify isolation as a protective measure, or the sense of feeling truly at home with oneself?
www.salon.com /ent/movies/reviews/1998/08/06reviewa.html   (424 words)

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