Barbarella Producer Dead at 91
Legendary Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis died on Wednesday night at his Beverly Hills home. He was 91.
The man who brought us an alien-loving Jane Fonda in a plastic bustier was also a the producer of Academy Award-winning foreign films La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, both directed by Federico Fellini. His prolific career spanned over six decades and was wildly varied in nature, from early Italian New Wave to big-budget blockbusters. Some of his better known titles include David Lynch’s Blue Velvet starring Isabella Rossellini and Dennis Hopper, Three Days of the Condor with Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway, Ulysses, starring Kirk Douglas, and Hannibal with Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore.
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