Claudia Cardinale Tribute

Here is a wonderful song by the great Italian singer Edda Dell'Orso, chosen to illustrate the beauty of legendary actress Claudia Cardinale.
Claudia Cardinale (born in 1938) was born in Tunis, Tunisia. One of Europe's iconic movie stars and among the most versatile, Claudia Cardinale was born Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale, her mother was French, father was Italian (Sicilian). She had her break in films after winning a Tunisian beauty contest in 1957. She made her film debut in Goha (1958) and later that year had a role in the major international success "I soliti ignoti". Her early career was largely managed by producer Franco Cristaldi. Throughout the 1960's she appeared in some of the best Italian and European films including Luchino Visconti's "Il Gattopardo" ("The Leopard", 1963), "Rocco e i suoi fratelli" (1963), Philippe de Broca's "Cartouche" (1963), Federico Fellini's "8½" (1963) and Sergio Leone's epic "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968). Cardinale never made a real attempt to break into the American market since she was not interested in leaving Europe for extended periods of time. But her many Hollywood films include "The Pink Panther" (1963), "Circus World" (1964), "Blindfold" (1965) and opposite Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster in "The Professionals" (1966). Her performance in Visconti's "Sandra/Of A Thousand Delights" is regarded as mesmerizing, playing a Holocaust survivor with an incestuous relationship with her brother. In Comencini's "La storia" (from Elsa Morante's novel), Cardinale plays a widow raising a son during World War II and gave another well-received performance. Other memorable performances include Valerio Zurlini's "Girl With a Suitcase" and Mauro Bolognini's "Libera". Cardinale remains active in European cinema, her later films including "Qui comincia l'avventura" (1975), "Fitzcarraldo" (1982), "Un homme amoureux" (1987), "Mayrig" (1991), and "And now... Ladies and Gentlemen" (2002). The actress has been UNESCO good will ambassador for the Defense of Women's Rights since 1999. In 2006 (World Water Year) she symbolically extended such a role for the Defense of the Rights of the Absolute Woman: Mother Earth while declaring her support for Powerstock, a sustainable electronic music festival that proposes a "water-consciousness" for youth culture and seeks to make sustainability an integral part of mainstream culture. She is involved in many humanitarian causes and currently lives in Paris.
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[hobgoblin76]

I love Claudia. Great song by Edda Dell'Orso. What's the name of the tune?

[johnxxx20000]

"Una Signora per Bene"

[1400deadwood]

Gorgeous!!

[furaskin]

La + bella attrice italiana era Claudia, non la Loren.

[rspen461]

she was as beautiful as anyone in the history of film, and it would be hard to find anyone today to match what the 60s had and maybe even the 70s.

[EricandDish]

Can you believe at one point in the late-1960's Claudia Cardinale did a photo shoot (likely for Playboy or Esquire) that was called "Claudia in Bed" in which she was seen naked under covers in a brass bed...outside? I can't imagine if she allowed men to make love to her-her behind would had been filled with so much fluid (if you know what I mean) from those guys!

[bloodboa59]

@cloudidogz thank you, thank you, thank you it was Claudine Auger.

[cloudidogz]

@FrancisGalton She is Italian but like many Sicilians in Tunisia, were under French rule so she learned French as her first language and some Arabic and Sicilian. She didn't speak Italian until she started making movies. So she's more comfortable in French and regards Tunisia and Paris (where she lives) more like home.

[cloudidogz]

@bloodboa59 That must have been either Luciana Paluzzi (also Italian) or Claudine Auger (former Miss France who looked a bit like CC).

[ilary861]

@pgergely13

yes, i'm totally agree with you!!

[Gamersquid1]

This woman is so fine i'd've licked her crack clean!

[bloodboa59]

My brother and I were in love with Claudia.......when we first saw in the James Bond film Thunderball.

[pgergely13]

Claudia the best example of mixing the exotix latin nations: she give elegance from the French side, and pure lust from Italian side!