Thursday, June 30, 2022

Clint Eastwood:The Spaghetti Western Star Who Defined a Generation

 AMMO.com

By Sam Jacobs

 

There are few American actors more iconic than Clint Eastwood. His iconic “Man With No Name” character is the face of the American West for a generation of men. Dirty Harry is perhaps the most recognizable fictional police officer in American history. And the man who played them? Well, he spent some time as a small-town mayor in California.

A Star Is Born

Clint Eastwood was born in San Francisco, California in 1930. The nurses quickly took to calling him “Samson” because he was over 11 pounds at birth. The Mayflower-descended family moved around California, settling first in Sacramento, then in Piedmont. The family was comfortable because Eastwood’s father was a manufacturing executive and his mother worked as clerical support at IBM.

It’s unclear if Eastwood ever graduated high school. Records are sealed, contemporary reports from friends are unclear and Eastwood has never commented on the subject. We do, however, know that he was expelled from school for obscene graffiti and burning an effigy on top of the school. He then transferred to a technical high school, which was his final formal schooling whether he graduated or not.

After leaving high school, Eastwood worked a number of odd jobs, including a stint in the United States Army during the Korean War, though he did not serve in combat. Eastwood survived a plane crash back from a rendezvous with an officer’s wife and paddled to shore on a life raft.

Clint Eastwood in Hollywood

After the Army, Eastwood bummed around some more before going to Hollywood and becoming as close to an instant star as exists. Eastwood claimed that he was discovered by an assistant and brought to meet a casting director. While they were not terribly impressed with his acting, they were very impressed by the fact that he was 6’4” tall.

So they sent him to acting class, where they hoped to break him of his wooden movements and habit of talking through his teeth. Despite the fact that these are big “no nos” in the world of acting, they soon became Eastwood’s trademark. Eastwood floundered about in small and sometimes uncredited roles before landing the role that would make him famous: playing Rowdy Yates on CBS’ Rawhide.

Eastwood was a breakout character, though he disliked the role, believing himself too old to play the character. He directed some of the trailers for the series but was never able to successfully command an entire episode. In 1958, when he started the show, he was paid $750 an episode. When the show was canceled Eastwood was given $119,000 severance pay.

Richard Harrison introduced Sergio Leone to Clint Eastwood after his Rawhide co-star Eric Fleming declined to work with the director. What would result was one of the most fruitful partnerships of Eastwood’s career, making the so-called “Dollars Trilogy”: A Fistful of DollarsFor a Few Dollars More, and The Good The Bad and the Ugly.

The last of these is widely regarded as one of, if not the, greatest film ever made. Eastwood played “The Man With No Name,” a more morally ambiguous character than the one that he played on Rawhide. Along with John Ford’s The Searchers, it touched off a period of much more thoughtful and serious Western films known as “revisionist Westerns.” Eastwood would revisit the character in two of his own films, High Plains Drifter, a gritty, psychedelic take on the character and Pale Rider, a spiritual take on the character. Both Eastwood-directed films put the Man With No Name into the role of the grateful dead.

Eastwood continued to work primarily in the Western idiom for the balance of the 1960s. And while it might be hard to believe now, most people still didn’t know who he was, because the genre was on the decline, appealing to a smaller and smaller niche of the general action film genre. This all changed with Hang ‘Em High, which catapulted Eastwood to international stardom as the lead in United Artists’ biggest opening weekend at the time.

At the dawn of the 1970s, Eastwood starred in his other iconic role, that of Detective Harry Callahan, also known as “Dirty Harry.” The eponymous first film was released in 1971 and followed by Magnum Force in 1973, The Enforcer in 1975, Sudden Impact in 1983, and The Dead Pool in 1988, the last of which features Guns ‘N’ Roses as Jim Carrey’s band.

The character allowed Eastwood to explore his conservative political views on camera. While the leftist media tends to portray Harry as some kind of warning against “killer cops,” the character is a clear endorsement of law and order in a society gone mad.

Eastwood the Director

While virtually every American knows who Clint Eastwood is today, far fewer know that he directs his own films these days. He debuted in Play Misty For Me, an erotic thriller that remains controversial to this day among critics. While Eastwood spent the balance of the 1970s occasionally directing a film, such as High Plains DrifterThe Outlaw Josey Wales, and The Gauntlet, it was not until the 1980s that he leaped into his roles in earnest.

Eastwood’s films have always enjoyed critical acclaim and accolades, but it was not until 1992’s Unforgiven that he began to receive awards as well. It was this year that Eastwood was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director. This is when Eastwood began to be recognized as something other than simply an actor who was getting too big for his britches -- he was a talented director in his own right, whose films look a bit like his acting; terse and wooden but with lots of character.

He was able to win Oscar gold again in 2004 for Billion Dollar Baby, for which he once again received the award for Best Picture and Best Director. He was also nominated for awards for Mystic RiverLetters From Iwo Jima, and American Sniper.

Eastwood the Politician

Clint Eastwood is also something of a politician. He was elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, but this was a largely ceremonial position coming with a “lavish” $200 a month salary, which Eastwood donated to the local youth center. Some of his accomplishments as mayor were helping to pass a new law making it legal to eat ice cream on the streets, public restrooms at the public beach, and a new annex for the city library. After his stint as mayor, he served on the California State Park and Recreation Commission at the appointment of Democratic California Governor Gray Davis.

He has been a member of both the Republican and Libertarian Parties and has been an independent, as well as voting for political candidates from both sides of the aisle.

Clint Eastwood is still around and kicking, continuing to produce films well into his 90s.

 

https://ammo.com/articles/clint-eastwood

50th anniversary of "The Return of Hallelujah"


 Today marks the 50th anniversary of the premier of “The Return of Hallelujah” directed by Anthony Ascott (Giuliano Carmineo) and starring George Hilton, Lincoln Tate and Agata Flori. The film tells the story of a gunman named Hallelujah who, for a reasonable compensation, to provide the revolutionary general Ramirez an Aztec idol, known as "El Niño", the possession of which will attain for him the support of the Indians in the fight against Maximilian and General Miranda. The statue, stolen by a thief, Flora, and his accomplice, the Scotsman Archie, who, ignoring the value and significance, have used it to hide precious jewels in. However, the idol has ended up in the hands of two peons, who have sold it to a pawn shop. Hallelujah is able to retrieve the idol, and then sells it, to a businessman rather than Ramirez. Ferguson is interested in selling it in exchange for significant business benefits to General Miranda. After receiving it, in turn, from the leader of the Indians he realizes that the statue is a fake. Hallelujah, in reality still holds the real one. He then has to deal with Miranda’s henchmen, Ferguson, Flora and Archie. He plays one against the other and eventually brings the idol to Ramirez.

 

Il West ti va stretto, amico... è arrivato Alleluja – Italian title

Alléluia défie l'Ouest – French title

Le far west est trop petit pour toi, mon ami: Alleluja est arrive – French title

Beichtet, Freunde, Halleluja kommt – German title

El West es estrevho para ti, amigo! Ha llegado Alleluja – Filipino title

Alleluja zise ki ase tous allous na fonazoun – Greek title

O Regresso de Aleluia – Portuguese title

Bati sana dar gelecek arkadas – Turkish title

The West is Tough, Amigo… Alleuja’s Here – English title

The West is Very Close, Amigo – English title

Deep West – English title

The Return of Hallelujah – English title

 

A 1972 Italian, French, German co-production [Colosseo Artistica (Rome), France Cinema Productions (Paris), Hermes Synchron (Berlin)]

Producer: Dario Sabatello

Director: Anthony Ascott (Giuliano Carnimeo)

Story: Giovanni Simonelli

Screenplay: Tito Carpi, Ingo Hermes, Giovanni Simonelli

Cinematography: Stelvio Massi [Eastmancolor, Cinemascope]

Music: Stelvio Cipriani

Running time: 100 minutes

 

Cast:

Johnny la Faine/Alleluja/Hallelujah – George Hilton

Archie – Lincoln Tate

Fleurette – Agata Flori

Sam – Raymond Bussières

Zagaya – Riccardo Garrone

Priest – Aldo Barberito

General Ramirez – Roberto Camardiel

Abel – Giovanni Pazzafini

Drake – Paolo Gozlino

Ferguson – Umberto D’Orsi

Mexican officer – Renato Baldini

Ferguson henchman – Paolo Magalotti

Schultz – Peter Berling

Austrian – Adriana Faccheti

Cain – Lars Bloch

Mara/Mary – Mara Krupp

Sheriff with fishes – Fortunato Arena

Laredo deputy – Gianni Pulone

Sheriff – Luigi Antonio Guerra

Sheriff of Laredo – Goffredo Ungar

Claude – Claudio Ruffini

Bartender – Attilio Dottesio

Ferguson’s partner – Nando Sarlo

Tom Ferguson – Alfred Thomas

Ferguson henchman – Sergio Ukmar, Aldo Cecconi, Giulio Mauroni

Lt. Von Steffen – Michael Hinz

Indian chief – Pasquale Fasciano

Lieutenant Von Steffen – Michael Hinz

Stagecoach passenger – Adriana Faccheti 

Church camp women – Margherita Horowitz, Maria de Sisti

Nuts/Nutcraker – Pietro Torrisi

UndertakersVincenzo De Palo, Salvatori Billa

Ramirez soldier - Augusto Funari

Austrian Soldiers – Calogero Azzaretto, Renzo Pevarello, Salvatore Billa, Roberto

     Dell’Acqua, Clemente Ukmar, Raniero Dorascenzi, Maurizio Streccioni, Silvio Klein,

     Giglio Gigli, Michele Branca, Rinaldo Zamperla, Roberto Dell’Acqua, Giancarlo

     Ukmar

Grizzly/Drake henchmen Aldo Pedinotti, Oscar Giustini, Antonio Basile, Sisto Brunetti, Sergio Testori, Sergio Smacchi

Townswoman – Eleonore Morana

With: Martial Bresson, Antonio Guerra, Annemarie Schüler



Special Birthdays

 Hans Mierendorff (actor) would have been 140 today but died in 1955.









Jean Paul Moulinot (actor) would have been 110 today but died in 1989.









Mario Carotenuto (actor) would have been 105 today but died in 1995.









Mario Lanfranchi (director) is 95 today.









Peter Neusser (actor) would have been 90 today but died in 2010.








Jackson Kane (actor) would have been 85 today but died in 2009.



Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Voices of the Spaghetti Western ~ “The Two Sons of Trinity”

 As we know most of the Euro-westerns were co-productions from Italy, Spain, Germany and France which incorporated British and American actors to gain a worldwide audience. The films were shot silent and then dubbed into the various languages where they were sold for distribution. That means Italian, Spanish, German, French and English voice actors were hired to dub the films. Even actors from the countries where the film was to be shown were often dubbed by voice actors for various reasons such as the actors were already busy making another film, they wanted to be paid additional salaries for dubbing their voices, the actor’s voice didn’t fit the character they were playing, accidents to the actors and in some cases even death before the film could be dubbed.

I’ll list a Euro-western and the (I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German and (F) French, (E) English voices that I can find and once in a while a bio on a specific voice actor as in Europe these actors are as well-known as the actors they voiced.









Today we’ll cover – “The Two Sons of Trinity”

[(I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German, (F) French, (E) English]

 

Franco Trinita – Franco Franchi (I) Franco Franchi, (G) Erich Ebert

Ciccio Trinita – Ciccio Ingrassia (I) Ciccio Ingrassia, (G) Christian Marschall

Lola – Lucretia Love (I) Vittoria Febbi, (G) Rose-Marie Kirstein

Requiem – Remo Capitani (I) Gianni Marzocchi, (G) Arnold Marquis

Father Superior – Freddy Unger (I) Sergio Grazioni

Alex Armstrong - Franco Ressel (I) Pino Colizzi, (G) Niels Clausnitzer








Erich Ebert  (1922 – 2000)

Erich Ebert was born in Cologne, Germany on November 9, 1922. Ebert was active in German film dubbing from the 1950s onward, often in the ZDF and ARD TV dubs of older Hollywood movies. He dubbed frequent Laurel and Hardy foil Charlie Hall, Italian comedian Franco Franchi, Humphrey Bogart in Black LegionJohn McEnery in Amok, and a variety of roles in the Charlie Chan movies (from William Demarest to a talking parrot).

Ebert was heard on the German children's series Kli-Kla-Klawitter, supplying narration and voicing an assortment of finger puppets in story segments, as well as the puppet clown Augustin. For dubbed cartoons, he voiced Daffy Duck, the Inspector and Crazylegs Crane on The Pink Panther Show, guest characters on Vicki the Viking, and speaking parts in Tom and Jerry shorts. TV dub roles included Ray Walston on My Favorite Martian and Herbert Anderson on Dennis the Menace. Ebert died in Munich, Bavaria Germany on November 25, 2000.

Who Are Those Gals? ~ Mary C. Cumani

 

Maria Clementina Cumani was born in Milan, Lombardy, Italy on May 20, 1908. She was active as a dancer from the mid -thirties and was a student of Jia Ruskaja. Author of her own original choreographies, she decided very early to dance interpreting only compositions of her own creation.

In June 1936 she met the poet Salvatore Quasimodo [1901-1968], who fell in love with both her elegant beauty and her lively artistic talent. They had a son, Alessandro  [1939- ]. After troubled and alternating events, Cumani married the poet in 1948. Cumani was essentially the poet’s muse, and above all a precious collaborator: she would have helped Quasimodo in the translation of the Greek lyrics but above all of Neruda’s poems. After a complex and torturous married life, the two legally separated in 1960. His son Alessandro, then twenty-one, was entrusted to his mother.


She was also very active as a film actress where she participated in films such as Giulietta degli spiriti (1965), Federico Fellini , Medea (1969), Pier Paolo Pasolini , The Tenant of the Upper Floor (1978) by Ferdinando Baldi , and other important films directed by directors such as Lina Wertmüller, the Taviani brothers and Roberto Rossellini. Although she was long separated from her husband, she used the surname Quasimodo in many cases.


In 1981 she published a critical essay on dance, followed by a collection of poems Improvviso un vento. After a long artistic break, in which she devoted herself to teaching, Cumani returned to dancing: in 1986 she was the first dancer in the opera Fedora by Umberto Giordano, staged by Giancarlo Cobelli at the Verona Philharmonic Theater .


In 1995, a few months before her death, a volume was published by Spirali that collects diary pages, letters addressed to Quasimodo and poems by Cumani with the title The Art of Silence. Dance. Poetry. The Picture. Finally, in 2003, thanks to her son Alessandro, a collection of her poems was published posthumously by the publisher Nicolodi, entitled O Perhaps Everything Has Not Been.

CUMANI, Mary C. (aka Maria Quasimodo) (Maria Clementina Cumani) [5/20/1908, Milan Lombardy, Italy – 11/22/1995, Milan, Lombardy, Italy] – dancer, theater, film, TV actress, author, poet. married to poet Salvatore Quasimodo [1901-1968] (1948–1960) mother of actor Alessandro Quasimodo [1939-    ].

I Do Not Forgive... I Kill! – 1967 (Maria)

Special Birthdays

 Georg Marischka (director, screenwriter) would have been 100 today but died in 1999.









Tony Vogel (actor) would have been 80 today but died in 2015.









Amanda Donohoe (actress) is 60 today.



 

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

RIP Cüneyt Arkın

 


RIP Cüneyt Arkın. World famous Turkish actor Cüneyt Arkın has died in Istanbul at the age of 85 from a cardiac arrest on June 28. He died in a private hospital after he was taken there for emergency treatment and treated at a private hospital in the Ulus neighborhood in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul. Cüneyt Arkın, whose real name was Fahrettin Cüreklibatır was born on September 8, 1937, in the Alpu district of Eskişehir province. He graduated from Istanbul Medical School in 1961. After he completed his military service, he worked as a physician in and around the Adana province. In 1963, with the offer from Halit Refiğ, he started working as an actor and acted in at least 30 films over the next two years. Arkin left his mark on many blockbusters of Turkish cinema and starred in hundreds of films and won many awards. Arkin appeared in one Euro-western: 1972’s “Cowboy Kid” as Keskin. He also appeared as the Ringo Kid in the Turkish western Kanunzuz kahraman – Ringo Kid in 1967 and as Kartal in 1987's "Asilacak adam".

New Hotel Construction at Fort Bravo

 


Fort Bravo/Texas Hollywood announced that a new hotel for visitors is under construction.

True to the purest western style, you will have the exclusivity to enjoy in their suites overlooking the main square. Vintage furniture and decor available and star piece, large wooden bathtub.

We will update on opening and booking.

Texas Hollywood has a wide range of deals for the stay and tour. Vacation packages are offered for you to stop dreaming and start planning. Now is the right time for you to set off on this journey, as you will have multiple options to choose from. If you want the nearest place to crash in, Camping Fort Bravo is the best option since it is also 0.004 miles from Texas Hollywood, and it is a great place for kids. At the present time cabins are available for overnight guests.



5 Sergio Leone Trademarks In The Dollars Trilogy

 

SCREEN RANT

By Ben Sherlock

6/19/202

Sergio Leone pioneered the spaghetti western with the stylized violence, morally ambiguous antihero, and Morricone music of the Dollars trilogy.

In any discussion of the greatest western directors of all time, Sergio Leone’s name is bound to come up alongside fellow icons like John Ford and Sam Peckinpah. With four bona fide masterpieces (and three other very solid movies) under his belt, Leone is a filmmaking legend. Leone has influenced countless filmmakers over the years, from Martin Scorsese to Quentin Tarantino to his own go-to leading man, Clint Eastwood. Leone was never recognized by the Academy, but he did receive a David di Donatello Award for Duck, You Sucker!, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Once Upon a Time in America.

With the triple whammy of A Fistful of DollarsFor a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Leone pioneered a brand-new vision of the Old West – a decidedly darker, grislier, more violent vision than audiences were used to – and created the spaghetti western subgenre. This trio of groundbreaking westerns (dubbed the Dollars trilogy) exhibits many stylistic hallmarks of Leone’s filmmaking, from blood-soaked violence to music by Ennio Morricone to the juxtaposition of gorgeous wide shots against intense close-ups.

5 Stylized Violence


Hollywood westerns like Shane and The Searchers usually tone down their violence with tame fist fights and bloodless gunshot wounds. Leone and his spaghetti western cronies went the other way, dialing up the violence with stylized bloodshed and relentless brutality.

That stylish, uncompromising violence is on full display in all three Dollars movies. In A Fistful of Dollars, a man is beaten and choked, and two guys are crushed by a barrel. For a Few Dollars More has a man being stabbed right through the abdomen and a mother and baby are implied to be shot dead off-screen. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly has a train robbery with death by rock-bashing and a gruesome interrogation scene with torture by eye-gouging.

4 A Grisly Vision Of The Old West

With the Dollars trilogy (and a handful of other westerns), Leone helped to pioneer the spaghetti western subgenre alongside a fellow filmmaking Sergio, Corbucci. Technically, the term “spaghetti western” refers to an Italian-made western, but the subgenre is defined by Leone and Corbucci’s uniquely grisly vision of the Old West.

With movies like A Fistful of Dollars and Django, the Sergios challenged Hollywood’s depiction of the West with a much more gruesome vision of the era. Their protagonists weren’t noble lawmen dedicated to protecting the peace; they were bounty hunters who killed people for money.

3 Music By Ennio Morricone

From A Fistful of Dollars onward, Ennio Morricone composed the score for every single Sergio Leone movie. Morricone is one of the most renowned film composers who ever lived, sitting comfortably alongside John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, and Danny Elfman on the metaphorical Mount Rushmore of movie musicians. His grand, operatic compositions revolutionized the music of the western genre, which had traditionally been low-key and folksy, and paired beautifully with Leone’s equally grand, equally operatic visuals.

Morricone’s music from the Dollars trilogy – particularly his score for The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – contains some of the most iconic compositions in film history. Tracks like “The Trio” and “The Ecstasy of Gold” are as universally recognizable as Williams’ Star Wars theme or Herrmann’s “The Murder” from Psycho. Despite composing some of the greatest movie scores of all time, Morricone didn’t win an Oscar for Best Original Score until he scored Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight in 2015.

2 Contrasting Wide Shots With Extreme Close-Ups

One of the most recognizable characteristics of Leone’s visual style is cutting between glorious wide shots encompassing the entire scene and extreme close-ups of his actors’ faces. In the hands of a filmmaker with less command of the craft, these cuts could come off as jarring. But in Leone’s hands, there’s a real sense of clarity. This juxtaposition encapsulates Leone’s storytelling: large-scale epics with an intimate focus on character.

The most iconic example of this is the climactic showdown in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. The titular trio arrives at the site of the buried Confederate gold. This gun-toting standoff has been praised as one of the best-edited sequences in cinema history. Leone and his editors Nino Baragli and Eugenio Alabiso gradually cut closer and closer to the actors’ faces, getting tighter and tighter, until they’re just on the icy stare in their eyes, before cutting back to a wide shot when they all draw their weapons.

1 Antihero

Traditional Hollywood westerns presented black-and-white morals with steadfastly good-hearted heroes taking down irredeemably evil bad guys. Spaghetti westerns shook up the genre by exploring an ethical gray area. Life in the Old West was much darker and more complicated than the standard good-versus-evil westerns would have audiences believe. Thanks to Leone and Corbucci, the whitewashing of frontier life on the big screen came to a swift end.

Movies like The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – as the title would suggest – presented audiences with characters that lie somewhere between the categories of “hero” and “villain.” The Dollars trilogy’s softly spoken “Man with No Name,” played with smoldering intensity by Clint Eastwood, is one of the most iconic antiheroes in film history.


Special Birthdays

 Tony Young (actor) would have been 85 today but died in 2002.







Alfredo Cerruti (actor) is 80 today.


Monday, June 27, 2022

Spaghetti Western Location ~ “Red Sun” / “Blindman”

 The Tucumcari train station we first see in “For a Few Dollars” was often used in other Spaghetti westerns and here we see it show up in “Red Sun”

It also pops up in “Blindman that same year.



European Western Comic Books ~ Albi dell’Intrepidezza

 







Albi dell’Intrepidezza

This comic book series had a total of 232 from September 1946 to November 18, 1955. It contains stories on various characters to who are referred to.Franca by Carlo Cossio, Miriam Peverelli, Leo Veri and Vittorio Cossio. Mirko by C. Cossio, L. Vera and Lupen and V. Cassio. Dix and Tornado Roy by Pini Segna: Kocis; The Lonely Knight, Nik, the Little Policeman and The Knight of the North by Antonio Chiomenti and Vincenzo Chiomenti; Albo Tris, with Mowgli by Roberto Renzi and Augusto Pedrazza and Panter Blak by A. Chiomenti and V. Chiomenti. The series was published in 1946 with #1 coming out in September and ended with #232 on November 18, 1955. It was published by MTO in Milan, Italy.

Special Birthdays

 Robin Clarke (actor) is 80 today.



Sunday, June 26, 2022

Who Are Those Singers & Musicians ~ Adriano Celentano

 


Adriano Celentano was born in Milan, Lombardy, Italy on January 6, 1938. He was heavily influenced by Elvis Presley and the 1950s rock 'n' roll scene as well as by American actor Jerry Lewis. Celentano started playing in a rock and roll band with Giorgio Gaber and Enzo Jannacci. With Gaber and Jannacci he was spotted by Jolly Records A&R Executive Ezio Leoni, who signed him to his first recording contract and co-authored with Celentano some of his greatest early hits, including "24.000 Baci", "Il Tuo Bacio e' Come un Rock", and "Si e' Spento il Sole". He first appeared on screen in Ragazzi del Juke-Box, a 1959 Italian musical film directed by Lucio Fulci with music by Ezio Leoni. In 1960, Federico Fellini cast him as a rock and roll singer in his film La Dolce Vita.

In 1962, Celentano founded the Italian record label Clan Celentano (which is still active) with many performers such as Don BackyOla & the JanglersRicky GiancoKatty LineGino SantercoleFred Bongusto and his wife Claudia Mori.

Celentano has retained his popularity in Italy for over 50 years, selling millions of records and appearing in numerous TV shows and movies. As part of his TV and movie work, he created a comic genre, with a characteristic walk and facial expressions. For the most part, his films were commercially successful; indeed, in the 1970s and part of the 1980s, his low-budget movies were top of Italian box office rankings. As an actor, critics point to Serafino (1968), directed by Pietro Germi, as his best performance.

 

CELENTANO, Adriano [1/6/1938, Milan, Lombardy, Italy -     ] – producer, director, writer, composer, film editor, actor, singer, married to producer, actress, singer Claudia Mori (Claudia Moroni) [1944-    ] (1964-    ) father of actress Rosita Celentano [1965-    ], actor, singer Giacomo Celentano [1966-    ], actress Rosalinda Celentano [1968-    ], founded Clan Celentano Records [1962].

A Fistful of Songs – 1966 [sings: “Ringo”]


This additional newspaper clipping was submitted by Michael Ferguson