1963 Carroll Baker “baby doll”

In this photograph that I shoot in 1963 to American fim actress Carroll Baker in her London home while caring for her plants, is what is left after my best shots showing her face and blonde hair near red roses, made for an Italian magazine cover went lost in the paraphernalia of Milan photographic agencies, but I remember as if now, her black velvet dress leaving uncovered the beauty of her arms and her decolletè . She became a legendary beauty of Hollywood after starring in the film “Baby Doll” directed by Elia Kazan in 1956, and LIFE , POST and other international magazines dedicated her many covers.

milan, italy. january 27 2010. movie actors stefano accorsi (left) and vittoria puccini (right) with film director gabriele muccino (center), at photocall of film "baciami ancora" ("kiss me again").

paris, france, summer 1962. from left to right: film director renè claire, actor and singer charles aznavour, and actress leslie caron, on set of film "les deux pigeons".

66th INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF VENICE

palazzo del cinema at lido di venezia

…many Film Festivals upon a time….

Second World War just over. US Army occupation was on in my home island Lido di Venezia. Dad worked with Americans in 1945 in the projection room at the Palazzo del Cinema, he turned movies, and sketched with charcoal and varnish on packing paper posters (missing from USA) of Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Cow Boys with guns and Indians with arrows, to update military men about films that were going on.
Years and the sparks of Festivals went by for films as “The Kentuckyan”, “Moulin Rouge”, “Marcelino Pan y Vino” and filmstars as Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Ingrid Bergman, tycoons of that time , and kings, exhibiting in Lido’s Gran Viale, showing brand new American cars or Bentleys and Rolls, at Hotel Des Bains, Hotel Excelsior, or suntanning in their deluxe reserved beaches....