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Within 26 days it would have been Marcello Mastroianni`s (Marcello) 86th birthday.
* September 28, 1924
† December 19, 1996
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Within 27 days it will be Anita Ekberg`s 79th birthday. (September 29, 1931)
(Sylvia)
Trivia
Release date: February 3, 1960
The movie was shot on sets at Cinecitta Studios outside Rome (Italy). The fountain scene was shot at the Trevi fountain in Rome.
The film introduced the term Paparazzo to the language. In Italian it means sparrow.
The film was a big financiel succes. Fellini however did not become a wealthy man as a result. He renounced the percentage of the profits his original contract specified.Source / More (Book)
Annibale Ninchi plays Marcello Mastroianni’s father in this film and in Otto e mezzo (1963).
Many conservative opponents called for censorship of the film, believing it was an attack upon Italian culture in general, while others even suggested that Fellini be arrested for “outrage or derision of the Catholic religion”.Source / More (Book)
Fellini:“ La dolce vita is simply the story of the adventures, by day and by night, of a hack journalist.”
Producer Dino de Laurentiis left the project when director Federico Fellini refused to cast Paul Newman in the lead.
Fellini to Mastroianni: “I have chosen you because you have an everyday face, very normal in a movie-star kind of way”.Source / More (Book)
When Marcello Mastroianni died in 1996 the famous Trevi Fountain, in which he waded with Sylvia, was symbolically switched off and draped in black as a tribute.Source / More (Book)
The encyclopedia on Paparazzo:
A freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines.
Bio
Federico Fellini
In the myth of the cinema, Oscar is the supreme prize
Movie news
This week 56 years ago La Strada premiered (September 6, 1954)
Born:
January 20, 1920
Died:
October 31, 1993
Fellini was born in Rimini, Italy. In 1938 he left for Florence and Rome, where he worked as a writer and cartoonist. 5 years later he wrote a radio serial in which the actress Giulietta Masina appeared. She later became his wife and the star of many of his films. In the years that followed Fellini worked as a screenwriter and assistant director on several films before co directing
Variety Lights (1951). But critical acclaim came in 1953/1954 with
I Vitelloni and
La Strada. Fellini's first full-length color film was
Giulietta
degli spiriti (1965) and the following films would also explore Fellini's wildly imaginative dream life. In the 1970s critics began to accuse Fellini of self-parody and his movies became less successful although
Amarcord (1973) , was universally praised by critics.
Selected Movies:
- La strada (1954)
- 8½ (1963)
- Le notti di cabiria (1957)
- La dolce vita (1960)
- Amarcord (1973)
- I Vitelloni (1953)
- Il bidone (1955)
Academy awards
1993 Honorary Award
1977 Nominated Best Writing for: Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976)
1976 Nominated Best Director for: Amarcord (1973)
1976 Nominated Best Writing for: Amarcord (1973)
1975 Won Best Foreign Language Film for: Amarcord (1973)
1971 Nominated Best Director for: Satyricon (1969)
1964 Nominated Best Director for:
8½ (1963)
1964 Nominated Best Writing for:
8½ (1963)
1964 Won Best Foreign Language Film for
8½
1962 Nominated Best Director for:
La Dolce vita (1960)
1962 Nominated Best Writing for:
La Dolce vita (1960)
1958 Won Best Foreign Language Film for: Le Notti di Cabiria (1957)
1958 Nominated Best Writing for: I Vitelloni (1953)
1957 Nominated Best Writing for:
La Strada (1954)
1957 Won Best Foreign Language Film for:
La Strada (1954)
1950 Nominated Best Writing for: Paisą (1946)
1947 Nominated Best Writing for: Roma, cittą aperta (1945)
Books:
Peter Bondanella and Cristina Degli-Esposti -> Perspectives on Federico Fellini (1993)
Peter Bondanella -> The Cinema of Federico Fellini (1992)
Costanzo Costantini -> Conversations with Fellini (1996)
Federico Fellini -> Fellini on Fellini (1976)
Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni) is a playboy newspaper gossip writer with serious ambitions. He spends every evening in Via Veneto - the venerable hotspot for people who want to be seen - vicariously awaiting the next scandal, party invitation, or sexual proposition. He wanders through
Rome, simultaneously shocked and tolerant about the lack of morals and purpose of the city's upper classes. 
He's an all-night tux-and-gown party animal with no motivation to be anything more. Among Marcello's nighttime assignments are rich playgirl Maddalena (Anouk Aimée) and a US film actress (Anita Ekberg). Too bad it all means nothing. His friend Steiner commits suicide because of the emptiness of his life and his girlfriend tries to do the same thing. Nonetheless
he cannot resist the sweet life of sex and partying.
Love, love and love 
