She starred in films such as 1960’s “L’Avventura” and 1966’s “Modesty Blaise.”
Monica Vitti, hailed as the “queen of Italian cinema,” has died after a 15-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 90.and 1966’s “Modesty Blaise” — was confirmed Wednesday by Walter Veltroni, a filmmaker and the former mayor of Rome.
“Roberto Russo, her companion in these years, asks me to communicate that Monica Vitti is no more. I do so with great grief, affection, and nostalgia,” VeltroniThe blonde bombshell was the new wave leading lady of movies helmed by the most legendary international filmmakers in the industry: She worked with directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Ettore Scola and Luis Buñuel, often starring alongside the superstar likes of Sir Michael Caine, Terence Stamp and Richard Harris.
When she was 18, her parents and brothers emigrated to the US in search of the American dream, but she stayed in her native country and graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in 1953., according to her IMDB bio. “They said ‘How can you stay alone in Italy?’ But I used their absence to become an actress. That’s how I became Monica Vitti.”
She was a stage and television actress in the 1950s, but for 10 years — from 1957 to 1967 — she achieved international fame as the muse and the companion of her controversial “L’Avventura” director,
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