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Acting Ambivalent – Marcello Mastroianni In Down The Ancient Stairs | The Great Acting Blog

27.07.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Mastroianni plays Dr. Bonaccorsi, a psychiatrist whose life is spent working with patients at a hospital in Tuscany - his dream is to eradicate mental illness entirely. He is also a prolific ladies man, and is engaged in affairs with at least three of the...

The Great Acting Blog: “Do What You Want To Do”

13.04.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

In Italian cinema during the 1950s, film actors' voices were dubbed with those of theatre actors. There was nothing wrong with the way they spoke, they were dubbed because film acting at that time was not considered to be respectable, and film actors were...