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Cesare Zavattini
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Screenwriter Born: September 29, 1902 in Luzzara, Italy Death: October 13, 1989 in Rome, Italy Biography:Italian screenwriter and film theorist "Cesare Zavattini" started as a writer of traditionalist, commonplace short stories and novels. His first screenplay, "Daro un Milione" (1935), fell so comfortably into formula that it was easily adapted into the Hollywood film "I'll Give a Million" (1938). His sensibilities toughened by the war, Zavattini began formulating the theories which helped launch the Italian neorealist movement of the postwar era. Zavattini's script for The Children Are Watching Us (1943) was the first of 23 collaborations with director "Vittorio De Sica", the most internationally famous of which included "Shoeshine" (1943), "The Bicycle Thief" (1948), and "Umberto D" (1952). When De Sica decided that neorealism was becoming a cliché, and thus went on to such sentimental, box-office-safe comedies as "The Gold of Naples" (1954) and "Marriage Italian Style" (1964), Zavattini obligingly... Full Biography
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