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Vittorio De Sica Domenico Gaetano Stanislaus Sorano
Sora, 7 July 1901 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 13 November 1974
Was born on 7 July 1901 at Sora, a town in the province of Terra di Lavoro (from 1927 to the newly-annexed province of Frosinone), via Cittadella, in the District of the same name, by Umberto De Sica, an official of the Bank of Italy Cagliari origins bells, and Teresa Manfredi, a Roman housewife. In the Church of San Giovanni Battista, located just in front of the family home, received baptism with the names of Vittorio, Dominic, Stanislaus, Gaetano, Sorano: the last name is that of the eponymous God of the city of Sora's alleged. The father Umberto, used in the local branch of the Bank of Italy, he worked under the name of Caside for a local monthly magazine, The voice of the Liri, published from 1909 to 1915. Vittorio had with his father, a very nice and sharp, and he will dedicate his film Umberto D. As Vittorio said, her family lived in "tragic and aristocratic poverty". Later, in 1914, he moved with his family to Naples and again, after the outbreak of World War I, in Florence. Vittorio, just 15 years old, he began to perform as an amateur actor in small shows organized for military hospitals. Then came the final transfer to Rome. During her studies in accountancy, thanks to the intercession of the family friend Edoardo Bencivenga, gets a small role (a waiter) in a silent film directed by Giancarlo Saccon, Il processo Clemenceau of 1917.
Prefer to continue his studies but then, after obtaining the diploma in accounting, accept in 1923 a playwriting from generic in the company directed by the prestigious actress Tatiana Pavlova, with whom he stayed for two years. In the spring of 1925 was second brilliant actor in the company of Italy Almirante, famous star of silent, then in 1927 switches to qualify as second young actor in the company of Luigi Almirante, Sergio Tofano and Judith Rissone. In 1930 came the first actor level, next to Guido Salvini, and there he was noticed by Mario Mattòli, at that time owner of the Troupe Za-Bum (the first serious Italian theatrical experiment to mix comedy actors of variety to the drama of the actors of prose), which, including its brilliant qualities, the writing immediately and put him alongside Umberto Melnati, with whom he formed a comic relief pair for its time, with gags and catchphrases that made them famous innational level. Especially the song so sweet as a fig Ozarks and many radio sketch : to quote on all the Tough minga, dura no resumed later in the 1950 in a carousel advertising from Ernesto Calindri and Franco Volpi.
In 1933 he founded his own company with Giuditta Rissone and Sergio Tofano, with representations especially comical. In the immediate postwar period, when it began to be known as a film director, together with Paolo Stoppa and Vivi Gioi from 1944 brought also staged dramas of considerable value as Chains of Langdon Martin. In the season 1945-1946 participated in two shows directed by Alessandro Blasetti, time and family Conway by John Boynton Priestley and But it's not serious of Luigi Pirandello.
In the 1946-1947 season he worked with Luchino Visconti, along with Vivi Gioi and Nino Besozzi in the marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais, in addition to the magazine Ah ... here we go again! "written by Oreste Biancoli. Finally, in the 1948-1949 season, participated two news days of the life of William Saroyan and the magnificent Cuckold by Fernand Crommelynck, directed by Mario Chiari. That was his last appearance on the stage: as a result, more and more absorbed by film and television commitments, there came back. It is estimated that De Sica, between 1923 and 1949, he took part, including comedies, dramas and magazine shows in prose, to over 120 performances.
Movie actor
On the big screen, after two other investments in silent films directed by Mario Almirante in 1927-1928, became a star among the most popular (on par with Amedeo Nazzari, Gino Cervi and Fosco Giachetti) since 1932, with a suave and pleasing comedies interpreted with Lia Franca and Assia Noris and all directed by Mario Camerini: among these we remember men, that Rascal ... of 1932, in which launches the very famous song Tell me about love Mariù, his battle cry for the rest of his career, then I'll give a million of 1935, where he met Cesare Zavattini, Mr. Max of 1937 and the great warehouses of 1939. Even once its prestigious task as Director, he seems to say: appeared in a hundred films, even in short boundary roles, winning a Silver Ribbon in 1948 and garnering several awards in the following years in various festivals. In the early 1950s he caught as a performer an extraordinary public success with two films directed by Alessandro Blasetti and Luigi Comencini, and in which he starred alongside Gina Lollobrigida: Altri tempi (1952), in the episode On trial of Phryne, where in a memorable speech on the part of defense counsel of grace of a commoner invented the term proverbial plus physics, then in bread, love and dreams (1953), where she played the feisty Marshal Canning, engaged in wooing a lovely midwife, and that will have three sequels. Memorable, poignant and even funny her performance alongside Totò in the two marshals (1961). He also had a fruitful relationship with Alberto Sordi, who attempted to launch in 1951 producing and directing anonymously Mamma mia, what impression! and with whom he performed in several films, among which include the count Max, the moralist and the traffic policeman. The highest result of the combination is probably an underrated film directed by the deaf, An Italian in America (1967), where she played an incisive and melancholy role of a United States of America, immigrated to the impecunious idler that takes advantage of participation in a television programme to meet the son she had not seen for some time and that is believe to be rich. Very intense even his dramatic interpretations, above all that of General of Rovere, by Roberto Rossellini (1959), or the participation in the remake of a farewell to arms of Charles Vidor (1957). In the final part of his artistic career he found himself playing supporting roles in films even very far from his image, as in the case of Dracula looking blood of a Virgin ... and died of thirst by Paul Morrissey (1974).
De Sica Director
De Sica made his debut behind the camera in 1939 under the auspices of a powerful producer of the time, Joseph Abboud, who debuted in the comedy Red Roses. Until 1942 his production as a Director does not differ greatly from the measured and polite comedies like Mario Camerini: Maddalena, zero in condotta with Carla Del Poggio and Irasema Dilián, and Teresa Venerdì with Adriana Benetti and Anna Magnani. Starting in 1943, with the children are watching us ( Italian novel of Julius Caesar) began, along with Zavattini exploring the themes Neorealist. After a religious film made in Vatican City during the occupation of the capital, the gate of heaven, Director signature, one behind the other, four great master pieces of world cinema: Sciuscià, The bicycle thief, taken from the novel by Luigi Bartolini, Miracolo a Milano, based on the novel Totò il buono of the same Zavattini and Umberto D., the cornerstones of Italian neorealism. The first two will get the Oscar for best foreign film and the Silver Ribbon for Best Director.Nevertheless, presentation of Sciuscià in a movie theater in Milan, the Director was accused by a spectator present to make a bad image of Italy. After this unique egypt, De Sica signed other works very important: the gold of Naples, adapted from a collection of short stories by Giuseppe Marotta, the roof that is considered to be his farewell to neorealism step, then the acclaimed La ciociara, 1960, based on the novel by Alberto Moravia, which boasts a vibrant interpretation of Sophia Loren, who won all possible Awards: Silver Ribbon, David di Donatello, Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for best actress. With Loren also worked in famous episode the raffle inserted in the collective film Boccaccio ' 70 , then teamed with Marcello Mastroianni in Yesterday, today and tomorrow , three unforgettable portraits offemale (the commoner, the snob and the fashionable) and her third Oscar, Matrimonio all'italiana, transposition of Filumena Marturano by Eduardo De Filippo, and Sunflowers .
In 1972 he obtained a fourth Academy Award with filmic transposition of the novel by Giorgio Bassani, Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini, dramatic story of persecution of a Jewish family in Ferrara during fascism; This work also gets the Golden bear at the Berlin Film Festival of 1971.
The last movie he directed is the reduction of a novella by Luigi Pirandello, the journey (1974), played again by Sophia Loren, alongside Richard Burton.
The Neapolitan song
During 1911, at a time when the authorities had forbidden her to eat figs. While getting, because he was helping his mother were cheap, small Vittorio while shopping vendors. De Sica in this case acted as a pole to give the alarm upon arrival of the law. On one occasion, when two policemen appeared, he intoned Torna a Surriento. The soldiers loved it and asked him to continue; De Sica was so to interpret all the Neapolitan Repertory known to him. In the following years, become actor, recorded several versions of the classic Neapolitan. Too modern for the tastes of the time, it was quickly realized. Ernesto Murolo failed him exclaiming during one of her concerts: " Tene sulo nu wire ' and voice". In addition, alluding to its thinness, added:
"Pare nu mieza consumptive". I appreciate, however, Enzo Lucio Murolo, the inventor of the skit. Said Dino Falconi, author of magazines: "Nobody better than me can ensure that Vittorio De Sica was singing as only a Neapolitan can sing". In maturity, he recorded young lady by Bovio. Made in Studio a tv Duet with Mina in Love when it rains. For necklace Recital devoted albums to Salvatore Di Giacomo, Ernesto Murolo and Michele Galdieri, playing songs and recited poems. In 1968 he participated as an author at a Festival in Naples. Its tell me that tuorne to mme!, set to music by his son Manuel, in the Festival of Naples 1968 was played by Nunzio Gallo and Luciano Tomei, but failed to finish.
Several times he planned to take home a Posillipo: De Sica believed that "nu boor and fora" as he called himself--can love Naples more than a Neapolitan. He recorded the last album in 1971: De Sica thirties, made the arrangements of his son Manuel. His most famous interpretation, however, remains that of marechiare.
On television
De Sica, in Alassio, on the set of "the children are watching us very active even on the small screen, though not loved him very much, he participated in several u.s. and Italian broadcast light entertainment as The Moustafa, Studio One, Soundtrack , Saturday night with Corrado, Delia Scala Story, Gina Lollobrigida Tonight Vh1 with Corrado e Raffaella Carrà (1970-71) and Now music, as well as in the role of the judge called upon to process the Pinocchio puppet in penned the adventures of Pinocchio by Luigi Comencin.
In 1971 he directed two documentaries, also many intellectuals dedicated several honorific documentaries.
Private life
It was his great passion for the game, for which he was sometimes to lose huge sums too, and that probably explains his participation in films not at his level. A passion that never hid and not reported, with great irony, in several of his film characters, such as He's telling Max, Naples Gold. Married since 1937 with Giuditta Rissone, whom he met 10 years earlier and the following year he had the daughter Emilia, in 1942, on the set of the film A garibaldino at the convent Catalan actress Maria Mercader, with whom he went later to live with. After the divorce from Rissone, obtained in Mexico in 1954, joined the Catalan actress in a first marriage in 1959, again in Mexico but the Union was deemed "nothing" because it is not recognized by the Italian law; in 1968 he obtained French citizenship and married Mercader in Paris.
She had meanwhile had two children: Manuel in 1949, musician and Christian in 1951, which will follow in his footsteps as an actor and Director. Although divorced, De Sica never knew her first family. Thus began a double ménage, with double lunches at parties and considerable stress. It is said that on the eve and new year's Eve put the clock forward by two hours at home of Mercader to toast at midnight. The first wife agrees to keep up a facade rather than remove her daughter's wedding the father figure. Vittorio De Sica died at 73 years after surgery to treat lung cancer from which he suffered, to a hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris; in the same year, Ettore Scola dedicated his masterpiece c'eravamo tanto amati.
As he recalled his son Christian during an interview in the barbarian invasions, Vittorio De Sica was a Communist and that fact, combined with the aforementioned double events, of course prevented him from receiving a particularly lavish funeral. Thirty-five years later, Annarosa Morri and Mario Canale have dedicated the documentary Vittorio D., presented at 66 ª Mostra internazionale d'Arte cinematografica di Venezia and subsequently broadcast by LA7.
His body rests in the Verano cemetery in Rome.
Filmography Actor
1917/ The Clemenceau Trial, directed by Edoardo Bencivenga
1927/ The beauty of the world, directed by Mario Almirante
1928/ The Company of Fools , directed by Mario Almirante
1932/ Two happy hearts, directed by Baldassarre Negroni
1932/ Men, you rascals ..., directed by Mario Camerini
1932/ The Secretary for All, directed by Amleto Palermi
1932/ The Old Lady, directed by Amleto Palermi
1933/ The Lord desires?, directed by Gennaro Righelli
1933/ Bad subject, directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
1933/ The Song of the Sun, directed by Max Neufeld (he stars too the German version Das Lied der Sonne)
1933/ Paprika, directed by Carl Boese
1933/ Lisetta, directed by Carl Boese
1934/ Maximum time, directed by Mario Mattoli
1935/ I love you alone, directed by Mario Mattoli
1935/ I'll give a million, directed by Mario Camerini
1936/ I don't know you anymore, directed by Nunzio Malasomma
1936/ Lohengrin, by Nunzio Malasomma
1936/ But it's not serious, directed by Mario Camerini
1936/ Man smiling, directed by Mario Mattoli
1937/ These guys, directed byMario Mattoli
1937/ He signor Max, directed by Mario Camerini
1937/ Naples of the past, directed by Amleto Palermi
1938/ Daddy's mazurka, directed by Oreste Biancoli
1938/ They kidnapped a man, directed by Gennaro Righelli
1938/ Leave, directed by Amleto Palermi
1938/ The two mothers, directed by Amleto Palermi
1938/ The cuckoo clock, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque
1939/ At your orders, Madame ..., directed by Mario Mattoli
1939/ Castles in the air, directed by Augusto Genina (he stars too the German version Ins blaue Leben)
1939/ Department stores, by Mario Camerini
1939/ Always ends up so, directed by Enrique Susini
1940/ Manon Lescaut, directed by Carmine Gallone
1940/ Overjoyed, directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
1940/ Scarlet Roses, directed by Giuseppe Amato and Vittorio De Sica
1940/ The Sinner, directed by Amleto Palermi
1940/ Madeleine, zero in conduct, directed by Vittorio De Sica
1941/ The Adventurer Upstairs, directed by Raffaello Matarazzo (script too, not credited)
1941/ Theresa Friday, directed by Vittorio De Sica
1942/ A garibaldino at the convent, directed by Vittorio De Sica
1942/ The bodyguard, directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (script too)
1942/ If I were honest, directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (script too)
1943/ Our dreams, directed by Vittorio Cottafavi (script too)
1943/ Not superstitious ... but!, directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (script too)
1943/ The children are watching us, directed by Vittorio De Sica
1943/ No one goes back, directed by Alessandro Blasetti
1945/ The hippocampus, directed by Gian Paolo Rosmino
1945/ The mistake of being alive, directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
1945/ The world wants it this way directed by Giorgio Bianchi
1946/ Down with the wealth!, directed by Gennaro Righelli (story and screenplay)
1946/ Rome free city, directed by Marcello Pagliero
1947/ Lost in the dark, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque
1947/ Christmas at Camp 119, directed by Pietro Francisci
1947/ The Stranger of San Marino, directed by Michał Waszyński and Vittorio Cottafavi
1948/ Heart, directed by Duilio Coletti (producer and script too)
1950/ Tomorrow is too late, directed by Léonide Moguy
1951/ Waitress beautiful presence offers you , directed by Giorgio Pàstina
1952/ Good morning, elephant!, directed by Gianni Franciolini (producer)
1952/ Other times-Zibaldone n. 1, episode the trial of Phryne, directed by Alessandro Blasetti
1953/ The earrings of madame de ..., directed by Max Ophüls
1953/ Bread, love and fantasy, by Luigi Comencini
1953/ Villa Borghese, episode incident at Villa Borghese, by Gianni Franciolini
1954/ One Hundred Years of Love, episode Pendolin, directed by Lionello De Felice
1954/ The wedding, episode the bear, directed by Antonio Petrucci
1954/ Our-Zibaldone Times n. 2, episodes outdoor scene and Don Corradino, directed by Alessandro Blasetti
1954/ Great variety, directed by Domenico Paolella, episode The end elocutionist )
1954/ Allegro Squadron, directed by Paolo Moffa
1954 Modern Virgin, directed by Marcello Pagliero
1954/ Players, episode of l'oro di Napoli, by Vittorio De Sica
1954/ Bread, love and jealousy, by Luigi Comencini
1954/ Too bad she's a rogue, directed by Alessandro Blasetti
1954/ The bed ( Secrets of alcove ), episode divorce, by Gianni Franciolini
1955/ The Sign of Venus, by Dino Risi
1955/ The last five minutes, by Giuseppe Amato
1955/ The Beautiful Miller, by Mario Camerini
1955/ Roman tales by Gianni Franciolini
1955/ Bread, love and...., by Dino Risi
1955/ The bigamist, directed by Luciano Emmer
1956/ The best days, by Mario Mattoli
1956/ My son Nero by Steno
1956/ Holiday time, by Antonio Racioppi
1956/ Montecarlo, directed by Sam Taylor and Giulio Macchi (also artistic supervision Director)
1956/ We are the columns, directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico
1957/ Fathers and sons, directed by Mario Monicelli
1957/ The culprits, directed by Turi Vasile
1957/ Souvenir d'Italie, directed by Antonio Pietrangeli
1957/ Love and chatter, by Alessandro Blasetti
1957/ It tells Max, directed by Giorgio Bianchi
1957/ The Woman Who Came From the Sea, by Francesco De Robertis
1957/ Holidays in Ischia, by Mario Camerini
1957/ Doctor and the healer, by Mario Monicelli
1957/ Toto, Vittorio and The Doctor, by Camillo Mastrocinque
1957/ A farewell to arms, directed by Charles Vidor
1958/ Casino de Paris, directed by André Hunebelle
1958/ Sunday is always Sunday, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque
1958/ Anna of Brooklyn, directed by Reginald Denham and Carlo Lastricati (Director Director)
1958/ Dancer and Good God by Antonio Leonviola
1958/ Piece, piece and captain, by Wolfgang Staudte
1958/ The spinsters, by Giorgio Bianchi
1958/ The Girl from St. Peter's Square, directed by Piero Costa
1958/ Bread, Love and Andalusia, directed by Javier Setó (producer and supervising Director)
1959/ The first night, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
1959/ Nel blu dipinto di blu, by Piero Tellini
1959/ Men and noblemen, directed by Giorgio Bianchi
1959/ Polycarp, writing officer, directed by Mario Soldati
1959/ My wife's enemy, directed by Gianni Puccini
1959/ Winter holidays, directed by Camillo Mastrocinque
1959/ The world of miracles, directed by Luigi Capuano
1959/ The moralist, directed by Giorgio Bianchi
1959/ General Della Rovere directed by Roberto Rossellini
1959/ Ferdinand The Kings of Naples, by Gianni Franciolini
1960/ Gladstone, directed by Mario Bonnard
1960/ The Beautiful Bride, by Nunnally Johnson and Mario Russo
1960/ The Colonel's three et cetera, by Claude Boissol
1960/ Hercules pills by Luciano Salce
1960/ Napoleone ad Austerlitz, by Abel Gance
1960/ The traffic policeman, directed by Luigi Zampa
1960/ A love in Rome, by Dino Risi
1960/ It started in Naples, directed by Melville Shavelson
1960/ The Millionairess ( The Millionairess ), directed by Anthony Asquith
1961/ The uncensored, by Francesco Giaculli
1961/ The Honored Society, by Riccardo Pazzaglia
1961/ The wonders of Alladino, by Mario Bava edHenry Levin
1961/ The famous amori di Enrico IV, by Claude Autant-Lara
1961/ The last judgement, by Vittorio De Sica
1961/ Yeomen, directed by Giorgio Bianchi
1961/ The two marshals, directed by Sergio Corbucci
1962/ La Fayette, a sword for two flags, directed by Jean Dréville
1962/ Eva, directed by Joseph Losey and Guidarino Guidi
1965/ The adventures and loves of Moll Flanders, directed by Terence Young
1966/ Me, I, I ... and others, directed by Alessandro Blasetti
1966/ Other, others ... and we, by Maurizio Arena
1966/ Fox hunting, by Vittorio De Sica
1967/ An Italian in America, by Alberto Sordi
1968/ Big shot at the Neapolitan by Ken Annakin
1968/ Caroline chérie, directed by Denys de La Patellière
1968/ The man from the Kremlin, directed by Michael Anderson
1969/ If it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium, directed by Mel Stuart
1969/ One out of 13, by Nicholas Gessner and Luciano Lucignani
1971/ Things about Cosa Nostra, by Steno
1971/ either I don't see, you don't talk, he doesn't hear,, by Mario Camerini
1971/ Trastevere, by Fausto Tozzi
1971/ We are all on bail, by Manlio Scarpelli
1972/ Ettore lo fusto, by Enzo g. Castellari
1972/ The adventures of Pinocchio, by Luigi Comencini (film and tv versions)
1972/ Grande slalom for a robbery, directed by George Englund
1973/ History of brothers and de cortelli directed by Mario Amendola
1973/ The smell of wild beasts, directed by Richard Balducci
1973/ The Matteotti crime by Florestano Vancini
1973/ Travels, girl, traveling, you have the musical veins, directed by Pasquale Squitieri
1974/ Small miracles to Milan, TV film, directed by Jeannot Szwar
1974/ Dracula seeks virgin's blood... and died of thirst!, directed by Paul Morrissey and Antonio Margheriti
1974/ We loved each other so much, directed by Ettore Scola
1974/ Around, short film, directed by Manuel De Sica
T1974/ he hero, telefilm, directed by Manuel De Sica
(Note: many sources it is mentioned a participation of De Sica films Fontana di Trevi by Carlo Campogalliani (1960) and Royal Jelly by Robert Thomas (1964), but the vision of the films the actor does not appear at all.)
Director Filmography
1939/ Rose scarlatte (co-director Giuseppe Amato, also actor)
1940/ Madeleine, zero in conduct ( even writing dialogues and actor)
1941/ Theresa Friday ( also screenplay and actor )
1942/ A garibaldino at the convent (also screenplay and actor)
1943/ The hippocampus of Gian Paolo Rosmino ( supervising Director, not credited )
1943/ The children are watching us ( also screenplay )
1944/ The gate of heaven ( also screenplay )
1946/ Sciuscià ( producer )
1947/ Christmas at Camp 119 by Pietro Francisci ( supervising Director, not credited )
1948/ The bicycle thief ( producer and script too )
1949/Tomorrow is too late, directed by Léonide Moguy ( technical advisor to Director, not credited )
1950 / Miracle in Milan ( producer and script too )
1951/ Mamma mia, what impression! Roberto Savarese directed by almost all sequences, uncredited, producer and script too )
1952/ Umberto D. ( Producer )
1953/ Station Terms
1955/ The gold of Naples ( also screenplay and actor ) (1954) the roof ( producer )
1956/ Montecarlo, directed byTaylor and Giulio Macchi ( artistic supervision Director )
1957/ Bread, Love and Andalusia, directed by Javier Setó (supervising Director)
1958/ Anna of Brooklyn, directed by Reginald Denham and Carlo Lastricati (supervising Director)
1959/ The moralist, directed by Giorgio Bianchi (Director of many sequences, uncredited)
1960/ The Ciociara
1961/ The last judgement (also actor)
1962/ Boccaccio ' 70, episode The raffle
1962/ The condemned of Altona
1963/ The boom
1963/ Yesterday, today, tomorrow
1964/ Italian wedding
1965/ A new world
1966/ Fox hunting
1967/ Witches, episode one evening as the other
1967/ Woman times seven
1968/ Lovers
1970/ Sunflowers
1970/ The garden of finzi-Contini
1970/ Couples, episode the lion
1972/ We'll call him Andrea
1973/ A short break
1974/ The trip
Television Director
1971/ The referendum on the Constitution, which is the Birth of the Republic on June 2, documentary
1971/ The Knights of Malta, documentary
Screenwriting
1943/ The Hippocampus, by Gian Paolo Rosmino Writer together with Daisy sweater, Sergio Pugliese, Cesare Zavattini, Adolfo Franci. In the film De Sica also plays the lead role.
1943/ The children are watching us, Vittorio De Sica
1944/ The gate of heaven, Vittorio De Sica
1945/ The poor husband, Gaetano Amata, Originally supposed to be directed in 1943 by Mario Soldati and starring Vittorio De Sica, appearing however as a screenwriter.
1948/ Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio De Sica
1951/ Miracle in Milan, by Vittorio De Sica
1954/ The gold of Naples, Vittorio De Sica
Television appearances
1958/ Meet De Sica, by Charles De Reisner, American television
1959-1960/ The Four Just Men, British television series
1961/ Vittorio De Sica tells ... by Fernanda Turvani, series of 22 fairy tales he narrated
Television documentaries on De Sica
1958/ Portrait of actor: Vittorio De Sica, by Zadian Di Giammatteo
1964/ Vittorio De Sica self-portrait, by Giulio Macchi
1974/ Vittorio De Sica-Director, actor, man, to Peter Dragadze
1974/ Vittorio De Sica, the father of neorealism, Michel Random
1983/ Viva De Sica! by Manuel De Sica
1991/ Tell me about love Mariù The life and work of Vittorio De Sica, broadcast in seven episodes of Giancarlo Governments
2009/ Vittorio D., of Annarosa Morri and Mario Canale
Filmography
Christmas fairy, by Ugo Betti, with Vittorio De Sica, Rina Morelli, Carlo Romano, directed by Anton Giulio Majano 19 January 1948.
Bibliography
Maria Mercader, My life with Vittorio De Sica, editions Mondadori, 1978
EMI De Sica, Letters from the set, editions SugarCo
Luigi Gulia, Michele Ferri, Luciano Lille (a cura di), Vittorio De Sica. Images of life, Written by Maria De Sica, Luigi Gulia, Emi De Sica, Orio Caldiron, Angel with harp and a chronology of Ahmad Farooq, Sora, Centro di Studi Sorani "v. Patriarch", 1984
Luigi Gulia, Cesare Baronio and Vittorio De Sica: two sorani in "Church of the poor" to thermos Antoninianas, in the Ciociaria between writers and filmmakers, editions by Franco Zangrilli, Pesaro, Metauro Edizioni S.r.l., 193-205 2004, pp.
Gualtiero De Santi, Vittorio De Sica, Il Castoro Cinema # 213, editions Il Castoro, 2008, ISBN 978-88-8033-259-6
Giancarlo Governments, Parlami d'amore Mariù. The life and work of Vittorio De Sica, editions Nuova Eri, 1991
Manuel De Sica, The gate of heaven-memories 1901-1952, editions Avagliano, 2005 13 Oar d'acierno, "De Sica, Gill and or Zampugnaro nnammurato", editions La Collina (AV) 2007