Mario Monicelli, 95, was considered one of the fathers of 1940s-60s Italian comedy and worked with actors including Marcello Mastroianni and Toto. By Eric J. Lyman, Martina Riva SAN SEBASTIAN ...

Mario Monicelli, an enormously popular director and screenwriter whose bittersweet films, notably “Big Deal on Madonna Street” and “The Great War,” blended humor and tragedy to create a ...

ROME (AP) — Deftly mixing comedy with tragedy, director Mario Monicelli laid bare Italy's flaws and sins for a half-century on the screen. In his final script of his own life, he chose a ...

Mario Monicelli, a four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and master of Italian comedy, died Monday night after he fell from the balcony of San Giovanni hospital in an apparent suicide. The Italian ...

Mario Monicelli was born on May 15 1915 at Viareggio, a seaside town in Tuscany. The son of a journalist, he began his career as a film critic and amateur film-maker, making his first short in ...

But people die in it, there’s no happy ending. Italian comedy, the kind I make, always has this component—Mario Monicelli Film director Mario Monicelli, who, together with Luigi Comencini ...

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Oscar-nommed Italo scribe-helmer Mario Monicelli died Nov. 29 after falling from his fifth-story hospital window in Rome. The 95-year-old had been admitted with pancreatic problems, according to ...

So when Mario Bonicelli, 85, called me up, I readily agreed to stop by his Los Altos home. Ostensibly, Bonicelli wanted to talk about his work at the old Del Monte cannery on Auzerais Avenue ...

IL MARCHESE DEL GRILLO al TEATRO SISTINA LA SIMPATIA E LA INDIMENTICABILE VERVE DI ALBERTO SORDI RIVIVONO NELLA COMMEDIA MUSICALE TRATTA DAL CELEBRE FILM DI MARIO MONICELLI. IN SCENA FINO AL 20 ...