VITTORIO DE SICA - SHOW BILL SIGNED - HFSID 78300

VITTORIO de SICA
Vittorio de Sica signs a "Show bill" for the 1959 film, General della Rovera, directed by Roberto Rossellini, showing at The Paris Theatre in New York.
Program signed: "Vittorio de Sica" on cover photo, 18p, 6½x9. "Show bill" for the 1959 film, General della Rovera, directed by Roberto Rossellini, showing at The Paris Theatre in New York. The film, in Italian with English subtitles, starred de Sica as Bardone (Grimaldi), considered to be one of his finest roles. Brief biography of de Sica on page 12. Italian actor, director, producer and screenwriter Vittorio de Sica (1902-1974) was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role as Major Alessandro Rinaldi in A Farewell to Arms (1957). By that time, he had received special Oscars for two of his films, Shoeshine (1946) and The Bicycle Thief (1948), before the Best Foreign Language film category was introduced. De Sica, who had made his acting debut in silents while he was still in his teens, joined a stage company in 1923, and he was a matinee idol in the Italian theatre by the late 1920s. De Sica would repeat his success in films, starring opposite such Italian sex goddesses as Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren. After making his directorial debut in 1940, de Sica became the pivotal figure in the neorealism movement. Lightly creased, worn and soiled. Mid-vertical fold touches the first "t" in Vittorio. Chipped at upper right blank edge of front cover.