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Lina Wertmüller
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Director, Screenwriter Born: August 14, 1928 in Rome, Italy Biography:The daughter of an aristocratic Swiss family, "Lina Wertmuller" harbored dreams of becoming a lawyer, but this notion fell by the wayside when she entered the Academy of Theatre in Rome in 1947. Thanks to a few valuable connections--one of her school chums was the wife of actor "Marcello Mastroianni"--Wertmuller found work as a performer/writer with Maria Signorelli's Puppet Troupe. She went on to function as actress, writer, set designer and publicist in a variety of theatrical and broadcast endeavors, entering films in 1962 as "Federico Fellini"'s assistant on the set of 8 1/2. She made her directorial debut the following year with "The Lizards". With actor "Giancarlo Giannini", a friend and co-worker from her theater days, Wertmuller formed Liberty Films, turning out a series of fascinating, iconoclastic feature films, with Giannini-invariably cast as a "Chaplinesque" loser--starring in all but... Full Biography
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