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Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit. Along with Dino De Laurentiis, he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing Italian cinema post-World War II, producing some of the country's most acclaimed and financially-successful films of the 1950s and 1960s.
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entertainment · Italian film producer (1912–2007) · film producer · screenwriter · film director · also Carlo Ponti, Carlo Ponti, Sr., Ponti
Born 11 December 1912 · Died 10 January 2007 · Q299419
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Of all my past passions, of all the varied tendencies, of all the colorful fixations, of all the eclectic manias, I will speak of everything except the most comprehensive and complete art, the art I have always cultivated and adored, but which I have always vilified and mistreated: 'Mother Architecture'.
It is the handles that open the doors of my environments to dreams.
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“Of all my past passions, of all the varied tendencies, of all the colorful fixations, of all the eclectic manias, I will speak of everything except the most comprehensive and complete art, the art I have always cultivated and adored, but which I have always vilified and mistreated: 'Mother Architecture'.”
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“It is the handles that open the doors of my environments to dreams.”
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Released album “Scheherazade, Capriccio espagnol, Neapolitan Song”.
Released album “Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on the Bare Mountain”.
Died 2007-01-10.
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Another pope painting by Bacon, sold by Ponti in 1991, was sold in a private deal brokered by Acquavella Galleries in New York for more than £15 million
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Two Bacon paintings that had previously been in the Ponti collection were exhibited in an exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in London
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Was appointed as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
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Regained possession of 230 confiscated paintings
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For smuggling money and works of art abroad, fined 22 billion lire, and sentenced to four years in prison
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The Bacon paintings, then valued at an estimated $6
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Including one involving an attack on his car with gunfire
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Zabriskie Point in 1970 and The Passenger in 1974
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Giuliana Ponti divorced her husband, allowing Ponti to marry Loren in 1966 in a civil wedding in Sèvres
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Had the marriage annulled, after which Ponti arranged with his first wife, Giuliana, that the three of them move to France (which at that time allowed divorce) and become French citizens
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And Loren returned to Italy and, when summoned to court, denied being married
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Awarded Academy Award for Best International Feature Film for La Strada (1957).
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Ponti had his greatest artistic success with the production of Federico Fellini's La strada
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His friend Goffredo Lombardo, head of production at Titanus, changed Lazzaro's name to Sophia Loren
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Ponti met a minor actress named Sofia Lazzaro (real name Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone)
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Married Giuliana Fiastri with whom he had a daughter, Guendalina, in 1951, and a son, Alex, in 1953
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And produced Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico there, starring Alida Valli, in her first notable role
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Born 1912-12-11.
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“All architecture is geometry, in dreaming, in thinking, in representation, in translation, in realization, in completion.”
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