Monica Vitti appeared with Marcello Mastroianni, Alain Delon, Richard Harris, Terence Stamp, and Dirk Bogarde.
32 Facts About Monica Vitti
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Monica Vitti took her stage name from her mother's maiden name.
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Monica Vitti acted in amateur productions as a teenager, then trained as an actress at Rome's National Academy of Dramatic Arts and at Pittman's College, where she played a teen in a charity performance of Dario Niccodemi's La nemica.
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Monica Vitti toured Germany with an Italian acting troupe, and her first stage appearance in Rome was for a production of Niccolo Machiavelli's La Mandragola.
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Monica Vitti was in Adriana Lecouvreur, the TV series L'alfiere and the TV movies Questi ragazzi and Il tunnel.
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Monica Vitti did an episode of the television series Mont-Oriol and dubbed Rossana Rory's voice in Big Deal on Madonna Street.
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Monica Vitti was in the TV movie Il borghese gentiluomo.
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Monica Vitti played a leading role in Antonioni's internationally praised film L'Avventura as a detached and cool protagonist drifting into a relationship with the lover of her missing girlfriend.
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Monica Vitti received critical praise for her starring roles in the Antonioni film La Notte, with Jeanne Moreau and Marcello Mastroianni.
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Monica Vitti starred in a TV movie Le notti bianche, then did a third with Antonioni, L'Eclisse with Alain Delon.
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Monica Vitti was one of many stars in an anthology movie, Three Fables of Love.
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Monica Vitti had a cameo in Sweet and Sour and played the lead in a comedy for Roger Vadim, Nutty, Naughty Chateau.
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Monica Vitti was then in another anthology film High Infidelity and made a fourth with Antonioni, Il Deserto Rosso, with Richard Harris.
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Monica Vitti starred in a comedy for Tinto Brass, The Flying Saucer, and appeared in the anthology, The Dolls.
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Monica Vitti performed in the anthology movie The Queens, a television series Les fables de La Fontaine, Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold with Jean Sorel, and I Married You for Fun.
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Monica Vitti appeared in On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who.
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Monica Vitti starred with Marcello Mastroianni in Ettore Scola's highly successful romantic comedy, Dramma della gelosia.
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Monica Vitti followed it with Nini Tirabuscio, la donna che invento la mossa, Le coppie with Sordi, The Pacifist, La supertestimone, That's How We Women Are, and Orders Are Orders.
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Monica Vitti was in a version of La Tosca and in several comedies directed by Carlo Di Palma, who was her partner for several years in the 1970s, beginning with Teresa the Thief.
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Monica Vitti made Polvere di stelle, directed by Alberto Sordi, for which she won the 1974 David di Donatello award for Best Actress.
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Monica Vitti played a key part in one of vignettes in Luis Bunuel's The Phantom of Liberty.
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Monica Vitti did two films with Claudia Cardinale, The Immortal Bachelor and Blonde in Black Leather.
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Monica Vitti was in Duck in Orange Sauce, Mimi Bluette.
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Monica Vitti's second English-language film was An Almost Perfect Affair, directed by Michael Ritchie and co-starring Keith Carradine, which was set during the Cannes Film Festival.
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Monica Vitti reunited with Antonioni in The Mystery of Oberwald.
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Monica Vitti followed it with I Don't Understand You Anymore, Camera d'albergo, Tango of Jealousy, I Know That You Know That I Know with Sordi, Scusa se e poco, Flirt, and Francesca e mia.
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In 1989, Monica Vitti tried writing and directing and created Scandalo Segreto, in which she starred alongside Elliott Gould.
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In 1993, Monica Vitti was awarded the Festival Tribute at the Creteil International Women's Film Festival in France.
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Antonioni and Monica Vitti met in the late 1950s, and their relationship grew stronger after L'Avventura was made, because it had shaped both their careers.
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In 2000, Monica Vitti married Roberto Russo, with whom she had been in a relationship since 1973.
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Monica Vitti made her last public appearance in 2002 when she attended the Paris premiere of the stage musical Notre-Dame de Paris.
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Monica Vitti died of complications from Dementia with Lewy bodies disease in Rome on 2 February 2022, at the age of 90.