Claudia Cardinale dismissed Marcello Mastroianni who was mad about her

Sacred “beauty queen” 18, by Italian Tunis, Claudia Cardinale, who co-presents with Stéphane Bern party Evening in Venice (20 December, on France2), has turned the heads of men. Cult status thanks to GUEPAR d, Luchino Visconti film with Alain Delon, in 1963, the Cardinal has become a subject of fantasies. But the elected were few … Focus on the male encounters that marked his life.

Claudia Cardinale began her career in 1955. All those who will cross her during her more than sixty years of career will fall a little in love with her. About her, the English actor David Niven will have this formula a macho nothing: “After the spaghetti, Claudia Cardinale is the most beautiful Italian invention! ”
Marcello Mastroianni . Together they run The pigeon , Le bel Antonio and Eight and a half . Marcello has a crush on the beautiful Claudia. One night on the set of Bel Antonio , he invites her to dance and makes him a statement. She bursts out laughing. He is vexed. Several times he’ll talk about it to this story and repeat it: ” I was in love with you, why do you never believe me? ” . Claudia Cardinale must be one of the few to have refused the sexy Marcello.
Luchino Visconti. As had been the assistant to Renoir, the director of the Cheetah spoke to him in French. He called her Claudine. On the set, it did not laugh, yet he also knew how to show affectionate and funny. He told her she was like a little pussy that you could caress in the living room but you had to be wary because she could turn into a tigress and devour her tamer. He had caught her perfectly! Claudia Cardinale often travels with him, meets Nureyev, Helmut Berger … In the small group, she is often the only woman.
Roberto Benigni . One evening, at her house in Paris, the telephone rang. At the other end of the line, someone yells “Claudia, Claudia …”. Claudia Cardinale takes him for a madman and hangs up to him in the nose. In reality it is the director of Life is beautiful with whom she is about to turn the son of the Pink Panther , she plays her mother in the film. Benigni recalls unleashed and shouts into the phone: ” I’m having the best mom in the world! ”
Alain Delon . The first time, she crossed it on a gondola in Venice, and said to herself, “What a beautiful man! “. They find themselves a few years later to turn Rocco and His Brothers (1959). The beauty of the actor is stunning, yet between Claudia Cardinale and him there will be no idyll, nothing, just a deep friendship that binds them still today.
Jean- Paul Belmondo . It makes him crack with his ways of garner. It makes her laugh especially. With him, Claudia Cardinale makes the four hundred blows. They all look the viaccia , cartridge and Bad luck. The production of the latter held a very couscous evening chic . The production of the latter had organized a very couscous evening with the Parisian gratin. All evening Claudia and Jean-Paul spend the evening under the table to throw semolina balls on the guests!
Federico Fellini . With him, on the set, it is always the souk. No scenario, just the mess, life what! Claudia Cardinale and he adored each other. They make friendly walks in the Roman countryside. She thinks he has the art of enchanting everyday life. She will remain close to the couple that he forms with Giulietta Masina.
Vittorio Gassman . She made her debut with the sublime Italian player in the pigeon . Brilliant, hyper seductive, the latter likes to invite him to organize big tables, but, for her, it is only on stage that he takes all his (de) measure. Claudia Cardinale said of him that he is ” single “.
Pasquale Squitieri . When they meet nothing can suggest that he will become the father of his daughter Claudia! Between them, it starts badly: it is production that imposes Claudia Cardinale on the set of I guappi . Director Squitieri does not want her. It is aggressive, it balance ” Look, there’s the diva! “. In fact, it is a strategy. Pasquale understood that this savage turned her back on all those who courted her. He shows himself cold, distant, and Claudia falls in the panel. She cracks. At the end of the shoot, she comes to meet him in Paris. They meet in front of the church of Saint-Germain-des-Près. Their story begins there. They will have a daughter named Claudia.