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Franco Zeffirelli
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Production Designer Born: February 12, 1923 in Florence, Italy Biography:Italian director "Franco Zeffirelli" started out as an actor in the stage productions of "Luchino Visconti", then worked as an assistant on several Visconti-directed films. After World War II, Zeffirelli launched a career designing, costuming, and directing operas, a field of entertainment to which he'd return periodically throughout his life and which led to his first directorial credit, the Swiss-produced filmization "La Boheme" (1965). Zeffirelli's reputation in the 1960s rested on his boisterous, non-traditional movie versions of Shakespeare. He directed "Richard Burton" and "Elizabeth Taylor" in a lusty adaptation of Taming of the Shrew (1967), then became an icon for the Youth Movement by casting 17-year-old "Leonard Whiting" and 15-year-old "Olivia Hussey" in "Romeo and Juliet" (1968). Zeffirelli's eye for visual richness served him well in the opulent "Brother Sun/Sister Moon" (1973), a... Full Biography
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