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- Wertmüller graduated from the Academy of Theatre in Rome in 1951 and then held various jobs as a puppeteer, actress, stage manager, and writer. She was an assistant to the director Federico Fellini, notably working on the classic Otto e mezzo (1963; 8 1/2. She then wrote and directed her first film, I basilischi (1963; The Lizards).
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1960s. After her years spent touring with an avant-garde puppet group, Wertmüller began to pursue a career in film. In the early 1960s, Flora Carabella, a school friend, introduced Wertmüller to her husband, the actor Marcello Mastroianni, who in turn introduced her to the film director Federico Fellini, who became her mentor. [20]
Aug 10, 2024 · Wertmüller achieved international fame with her fifth film, Mimi metallurgico ferito nell’onore (1972; variously entitled The Seduction of Mimi or Mimi the Metalworker, Wounded in Honour), a satire on sexual hypocrisy and changing social mores.
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Dec 10, 2021 · The other is that Lina Wertmüller became a celebrity in America after the one-two successes of “Swept Away” and “Seven Beauties.” Laraine Newman used to do impressions of her on “Saturday Night Live.”
Dec 10, 2021 · She herself got to be a celebrity, parodied on “Saturday Night Live,” as the image of the feisty Italian auteur barking out pensées in her trademark white glasses became as iconic as anything...
Jan 27, 2024 · Born Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich (seriously) in Rome in 1928, Lina Wertmüller was an unlikely candidate to become a socialist arthouse darling.
Feb 28, 2018 · The Italian director burst onto the international scene in the ’70s with such films as “The Seduction of Mimi,” “Swept Away” and “Seven Beauties,” the Holocaust drama that earned her the...
Dec 9, 2021 · CNN — Lina Wertmüller, a central figure of Italian cinema and the first woman to be nominated for an Academy Award in the best director category, died this week, Italy’s Ministry of Culture...
