|
|
Article: Obituary: Marcello Mastroianni
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 20, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
Inconceivable as it may now appear - particularly to a
cine-illiterate generation of Hollywood-fixated moviegoers for whom
film history was born more or less when they themselves were and
for whom, finally, the masterpieces of those dim, now unknowable
decades, the Thirties, Forties, Fifties and Sixties, constitute not
only the cinema's history but its prehistory, not its Golden Age
but its Dark Ages - Marcello Mastroianni was the most sheerly
indispensable film star of the entire post-war period.
Though he made his first appearance on screen as an adolescent
in 1939, in Carmine Gallone's Marionette, and could be glimpsed in
scores of films (sometimes as little more than an extra) before he ...