In her prime she was considered the equal of Brigitte Bardot, she is best know for two Pink Panther films and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West.
RIP Claudia Cardinale
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Certo (certainly).
Apart from Blake Edwards and Sergio Leone, she worked with some legendary directors: Federico Fellini (81/2) and Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo) included.
Claudia Cardinale left Hollywood at the end of the 60's, never to return. She made several spaghetti westerns after that, The Ballad of Frenchie King co-starring her frenemy Brigitte Bardot.
That added to her mystique, most people from this side of the ocean not that familiar with her.
It wasn't just her beauty, she was sassy and earthy with a beautiful self assurance in that Italian sort of way.
She didn't allow herself to become caricaturized by Hollywood.
Spaghetti Westerns should more accurately be called Paella Westerns. Almost all of them were filmed in Extremadura Spain...a little chunk of the Sahara in mainland Europe. Spain became dirt poor under Generalissimo Franco, the regime wa desperate for investment. Italians love Westerns, directors saw that they could make them in Spain at 1/4 of the cost of filming in Italy.
Claudia Cardinale made four spaghetti westerns, the bouncing tatas that Richy loves came from the third.
Claudia Cardinale made four spaghetti westerns, the bouncing tatas that Richy loves came from the third.
