Marcello Mastroianni

On August 30, 2018, he was honored with a day of his film work during the TCM Summer Under The Stars.

Since 1998, a "Marcello Mastroianni Award" is given to the best "first time" young actor/actress at the Venice Film Festival.

During the last decade of his life he worked with directors, like Theodoros Angelopoulos, Bertrand Blier and Raoul Ruiz, who gave him three excellent parts in Three Lives and Only One Death (1996).

In 1976, estranged wife Flora Carabella reportedly offered to adopt Chiara Mastroianni because Deneuve's career kept her away so often.

Made five movies with Catherine Deneuve: It Only Happens to Others (1971), Liza (1972), L'événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la Lune (1973), Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974), One Hundred and One Nights (1995).

From 1970 to 1974 he had an intense relationship with french actress Catherine Deneuve. She was at his bedside when he died, along with their daughter, Chiara Mastroianni.

Lived with Faye Dunaway from 1968 to 1970. Dunaway wanted Mastroianni to give her a child but only under the condition that he divorce Flora Carabella first. He refused, so she broke up with him.

Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Rome, 27 December 1967), Grand-Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Rome, 27 April 1987), Knight of Grand-Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Rome, 16 March 1994).

By 1964 Marcello and Flora Carabella informally separated. The separation was formal by 1970, but they never divorced.

He would again work with Fellini in several major films, like the exquisite 8½ (1963) (as a movie director who finds himself at a point of crisis) and the touching Ginger and Fred (1986) (as an old entertainer who appears in a TV show).

Shares a birthday with A Very Private Affair (1962) co-star Brigitte Bardot.

He also appeared as a tired novelist with marital problems in Michelangelo Antonioni's La Notte (1961), as an impotent young man in Mauro Bolognini's Bell' Antonio (1960) , as an exiled prince in John Boorman's Leo the Last (1970), as a traitor in Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Allonsanfan (1974) and as a sensitive homosexual in love with a housewife in Ettore Scola's A Special Day (1977).

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times, for Divorce Italian Style (1961), A Special Day (1977), and Dark Eyes (1987).

But his real breakthrough came in 1960, when Federico Fellini cast him as an attractive, weary-eyed journalist of the Rome jet-set in La Dolce Vita (1960); that film was the genesis of his "Latin lover" persona, which Mastroianni himself often denied by accepting parts of passive and sensitive men.

In 1957 Visconti gave him the starring part in his Fyodor Dostoevsky adaptation Le Notti Bianche (1957) and in 1958 he was fine as a little thief in Mario Monicelli's comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958).

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 a drama club, where he was discovered by director Luchino Visconti.

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.