La Strada

No one wanted to finance this movie about a young girl sold to a traveling circus performer who ends up dying. I wonder why. It took the international success of I Vitelloni for Fellini to find the money. He cast his wife, Giulietta Masina, as Gelsomina, the simple girl sold to Zampano, played by Anthony Quinn, who worked concurrently on two productions at once (the other was Atilla) and Richard Basehart as the Fool. Taking advantage of the common Italian post-war practice of not capturing...