The most beloved women of Marcello Mastroianni. Great love stories: Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni
Chiara Mastroianni, daughter of her parentsWhen Chiara Mastroianni, the Franco-Italian movie star, was asked to take part in the popular French television program Take Off the Masks, she sent everyone to hell without a moment's hesitation. The fact is that the employee of the TV channel had the imprudence to warn: journalists will not fail to ask her a question, does her mother's beauty - Catherine Deneuve, suppress her, and does her father's glory, Marcello Mastroianni, cause envy? ..
FROMA family legend tells: when he first saw the baby, Marcello was amazed at the whiteness of the child’s skin and said: “What a light one!” Chiara means "bright, pure" in Italian.
And one more thing: frutti d'amore - "the fruit of love" - is usually called by Italians late children. When Chiara-Charlotte (that is her full name) was born on May 28, 1971, Marcello Mastroianni was already fifty, and Catherine Deneuve was almost half that. Like a true southerner, the temperamental Marcello staged a real fiesta in Paris: he ordered several boxes of champagne to be pulled out into the street and treated passers-by with a joyful cry: “My daughter was born!” The great actor rejoiced like a child. When one touched French matron asked a very delicate question: “This is probably your first-born, isn’t it?”, He wrinkled his nose mockingly: “Oh, signora, if I knew how many children I have! ..”
In fact, the indefatigable ladies' man Marcello had not only a legal daughter from his official wife, Signora Flora, but also many secret "fruits of love" from alcove intrigues on the side. Mastroianni did not keep in mind the names of numerous offspring, often confused them ... But throughout his life he felt an absolutely amazing attachment to Chiara. When the paparazzi began to extort from him the reason for this passion,
Mastroianni replied: "I adored the mother of this child too much."
Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni met in 1970 on the set of Nadine Trintignant's It Only Happens to Others. Marcello wore "mourning" after breaking up with American star Faye Dunaway, and Catherine, who already had a seven-year-old Christian - the son of the French director of Russian origin Vadim Plemyannikov, better known as Roger Vadim - was painfully experiencing a recent breakup with French director Francois Truffaut. Both, as a sign of pain and detachment from human joys, wore black glasses outside of filming. Seeing Catherine for the first time, Marcello said in Italian: "Another professional beauty." She did not notice him at all: a filming partner, nothing more. They really were different: Marcello - explosive, unpredictable, sociable, Catherine - cold, like an antique statue, secretive.
According to members of the film crew, the strained relationship between the partners, who were to portray the husband and wife who lost their child in the film, changed after Nadine Trintignant went to the director's ploy. To bring the actors closer, she decided to “imprison” them for several days in an empty apartment without a telephone, TV or radio. After spending a day or two in complete isolation, both went out into the world exhausted and feverishly excited. The episode was removed "off the wheels", on the first attempt, but the consequences of this directorial move turned out to be very "long-playing".
Catherine and Marcello became lovers. Soon she moved - with an extensive wardrobe, cosmetics and trinkets - to the pavilion created by the film crew for Mastroianni. The month of heaven has begun! “We have found a new source of strength and energy, which can only be love and nothing but love,” Marcello will later say about that honeymoon. Then there was the second film in which they starred together - "Lisa" by Franco Ferreri. While working on it, Catherine and Marcello already openly acted as lovers.
Mastroianni showered Deneuve with flowers, wrote fiery notes in verse... But he was married, she was married. Moreover, he sought a divorce at any cost, but she was in no hurry at all, she was quite satisfied with the current state of affairs. He tore off contracts, quit filming and, at any opportunity, rushed to Paris to passionately tell her: “I love you! Be my wife!" She did not want to hear about the marriage proposal at all. Katrin did not become more pliable even when she found out that she was expecting a child from Marcello. And Mastroianni rushed to buy vests and toys for his upcoming "fruit of love." He sincerely hoped that now Deneuve's cold heart would be melted once and for all.
When Chiara was born, the honor of taking the first photographs of the newborn went to fashionable British photographer David Bailey, who remained the official husband of Catherine Deneuve. If Bailey philosophically looked at his marriage to a French movie star, with whom, in fact, he never lived together, then Signora Flora Mastroianni said: there will be no divorce! And so it happened. But if outwardly Catherine Deneuve perceived this situation quite calmly, she nevertheless retained her resentment against Marcello for the rest of her life. In conversations with acquaintances, Deneuve called Mastroianni none other than "Chiara's father."
The girl lived between Paris and Rome, but still raised her mother. “She thought that I should not become an actress, because cinema is too hard work,” Chiara says about Catherine Deneuve. - But dad, on the contrary, encouraged me to pursue an artistic career. He said that we have a family of actors.
Mom, - Chiara continues, - involuntarily introduced me to her world. She talked about Bunuel, about Truffaut. But directly about the profession - never. True, I saw how in the evenings she learns the texts of roles. I didn’t want to be left out, and I began to give my mother replicas. So that I would not interfere with her, my mother decided to connect me to the case and entrusted me with male roles - I read the texts for her partners.
According to Chiara, she was always aware that her parents exist in completely different dimensions: self-confident, tough Catherine Deneuve and sentimental, lisping with her daughter on the phone Marcello Mastroianni. Deneuve, to her credit, never forbade the father to see the child. Mastroianni and Chiara walked, ate ice cream, fooled around, and then went to the cinema - to the picture with Catherine Deneuve in the title role.
Catherine often took the children with her to work, so, quite naturally, both of them became people of art (Christian Vadim is a theater actor and director). “I remember Lelouch’s film “For the Two of Us,” Chiara recalls.
When the hero (played by Jacques Dutron) is released from prison, a little girl in a hood throws herself on his neck. I haven't seen the movie since filming, and I don't know if that scene is still in the final version or not.
But I portrayed the girl - my film debut! And I was so offended that I had to shoot in a hood pulled down deeply over my eyes. I wanted everyone to see my face!” Only recently, specifically for the participation of Chiara in the entertainment program of Parisian television, the presenter prepared a video of this film - just the very episode in which little Mastroianni is busy. Finally, she saw that her face was in close-up in the picture, especially her eyes: dark, like two large plums.
“When my mother starred in the film“ I Love You ”, we went to Corsica with her,” Chiara continues. - There I met Serge Gainsbourg and Gerard Depardieu. I called Depardieu "tutti-frutti" and admired his tattoos ... "
A big role in determining Chiara's film biography was played by Andre Techin's film "My Favorite Season", filmed in 1993. Then for the first time her mother became a partner of the young actress. And not without a fight! According to Chiara, Catherine Deneuve was at first resolutely against the invitation of her daughter, and Chiara got her role only thanks to the dexterity of an artistic agent. He arranged the matter in such a way that the episodes with the participation of Chiara were filmed in secret from Catherine. However, after the premiere of the picture, the mother's relationship with Chiara for some reason became strained.
Her daughter even left her home. They reconciled a few years later, after Chiara had Milo, her son.
What is the matter here, one can only guess. Did Mademoiselle Deneuve - that's what everyone calls the actress in France - felt deceived? Did she not want a repetition of her own fate for her daughter? Did she perceive her rapid ascent to the artistic Olympus not without a share of jealousy? .. The search for answers gives rise to all sorts of rumors and gossip. And the last gossip that on the set in France, Deneuve said: Chiara is coming to her! The producer, as expected, reserved a separate room for the superstar's daughter in a luxurious hotel palace, but at the last moment, Catherine, as a loving mother, preferred her daughter to spend the night with her in her personal apartment. In short, the room for Chiara remained empty ... What was the surprise of the director of the picture when the next morning Deneuve demanded that the money that had to be paid to the hotel for the room be transferred to her: after all, Chiara did not settle in a separate room ...
Oh, those evil tongues! What people don’t come up with! .. But the fact is that Catherine Deneuve, who lives in Paris, sent her daughter to the prestigious Fenelon Lyceum with the study of the Russian language and in every possible way set her up for a career ... archaeologist! But it turned out differently. At the Lyceum, Chiara met Melville Pupo, who was fond of cinema and theater (he is also now a famous actor). Young people became accomplices and from the age of sixteen began to secretly prepare for an artistic career. And so that their parents would not interfere with them, they signed up for a diversion from the University of Paris.
When Chiara came to the acting selection before filming one of the pictures of Leo Carax, she was dressed like everyone else - in jeans, sneakers and a stretched, shapeless sweater. She was not only rejected, but also ridiculed: the director was looking for a blue-blooded heroine who could wear elegant evening dresses with gloss, a real hereditary aristocrat! .. This was her first lesson: Mastroianni's daughter realized that acting transformation begins far from the set and that there are no trifles in this difficult craft.
However, all this is in the past. Today, Chiara Mastroianni is filming a lot - 2-3 films a year. The roles are very different: she is both an aspiring journalist, and a prostitute, and a high-society lover with BDSM manners, and a victim of a serial killer ... The actress began to try herself in singing. She is also interested in the computer world. Chiara became the heroine of the new electronic game "Atlantis III: New World". The creators of the game borrowed from Mastroianni's daughter not only the appearance (long hair, milky skin, a characteristic mole on the cheek), but also the voice.
Chiara lives in Paris, but her temperament is Apennine. Her first husband was the famous sculptor Pierre Torreton, from whom the actress has a five-year-old son. After her divorce from a Frenchman in 1998, Chiara lived with Benicio del Toro for several years. This rising Puerto Rican-American actor was crazy about her until - in turn - he was fired. According to the Roman press, since October 2000, Chiara has had a crazy love affair with Italian actor Andrea di Stefano. Every morning Andrea brought Chiara on a motor scooter to the studio; every evening, touchingly waited for her at the cinema pavilion. However, the wayward Franco-Italian this time preferred freedom. But not for long...
In May 2002, there was nowhere for an apple to fall in the mayor's office of the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Chiara Mastroianni was married to the young composer Benjamin Biole, who is a year older than her. The bride preferred a short ivory dress to a long snow-white dress. Catherine Deneuve agreed to be a witness, not like herself - she was all downright glowing with joy. After the solemn ceremony, which was led by the former mayor of Paris, Jean Tiberi, the newlyweds and their guests merrily went to be photographed in the nearby Luxembourg Gardens. But a terrible downpour fell, and the cortege went straight to the banquet - to a restaurant near the Place Saint-Sulpice. “There is a blessing in disguise,” said Catherine Deneuve, who for the first time in her life showed leniency towards journalists and agreed to give a mini-interview. “It’s probably not in vain that people believe: a rainy wedding is a happy one!”
Petr SOLOVICH
Biography
Chiara-Charlotte Mastroianni (fr. Chiara-Charlotte Mastroianni) is a French actress. Daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni.
Childhood
Chiara Mastroianni was born in Paris on May 28, 1972. And two weeks later, the film "Lisa" by Marco Ferreri was released - a film during the filming of which a stormy romance happened between her parents, Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni and French actress Catherine Deneuve. Marcello Mastroianni was already fifty, and Catherine Deneuve was almost half that. Needless to say - Chiara was simply doomed to cinema since childhood. Despite this, she was not a classic "child of actors" - no venues, tours or castings ...
Family tradition tells: when he first saw the baby, Marcello was amazed at the whiteness of the child’s skin and said: “What a light one!” Chiara means "bright, pure" in Italian. The childhood of Chiara-Charlotte (Chiara-Charlotte Mastroianni - this is her full name) passed between Italy and France, since the "star" couple of parents lived separately from each other, and for a long time she did not know at all how famous her parents were.
The girl lived between Paris and Rome, but still raised her mother. “She thought that I should not become an actress, because cinema is too hard work,” Chiara says about Catherine Deneuve. - But dad, on the contrary, encouraged me to pursue an artistic career. He said that we have a family of actors.
Mom, - Chiara continues, - involuntarily introduced me to her world. She talked about Bunuel, about Truffaut. But directly about the profession - never. True, I saw how in the evenings she learns the texts of roles. I didn’t want to be left out, and I began to give my mother replicas. So that I would not interfere with her, my mother decided to connect me to the case and entrusted me with male roles - I read the texts for her partners.
At the age of 16, her mother decided that her daughter should take up archeology, and Chiara obediently entered the Faculty of Archeology at the Sorbonne. But soon the girl nevertheless changed her mind and went to the actress. At the same time, at first she decided not to use the influence of her mother and father, but to pave her own way. Oddly enough, she was very unlucky - the girl "failed" castings and auditions one after another, and soon she still had to enlist parental support.
Film work
She played the first roles as a girl "involuntarily" in order to please her parents. Hence the first experience - with Lelyush (for mom), and then with Nikita Mikhalkov (for dad) - it is impossible to take such "roles" seriously. “I remember Lelouch's film For Two of Us,” recalls Chiara. “When the hero (played by Jacques Dutron) is released from prison, a little girl in a hood throws herself on his neck. I haven't seen the movie since filming, and I don't know if that scene is still in the final version or not. But I portrayed the girl - my film debut! And I was so offended that I had to shoot in a hood pulled down deeply over my eyes. I wanted everyone to see my face!”
Her real acting debut took place in 1993 in André Techiné's film "My Favorite Time of the Year" ("Ma saison preferee"), in which she played the daughter of her heroine along with her mother.
In 1994, she starred with her father in the film "High Fashion" (Pret-a-Porter) by Robert Altman, which shows the passion during the Fashion Week in Paris.
And who knows how long "protection and connections" would have dragged on if it were not for the first completely independent "big" role - the tough and uncompromising Xavier Beauvois "twisted" the gentle and romantic actress in a counter-role, and immediately "turned out".
In 1995, she starred in two films with somewhat consonant names - the film by Xavier Beauvois " Do not forget that you will die soon"(N" oublie pas que tu vas mourir) and the film by Eit de Jong " All men are mortal"(All Men Are Mortal ).
And next year, Greg Araki will enter the life of the actress for a long time, making a "final contribution" to her creative choice. They say that even the usual mother felt uneasy when she saw her daughter dressed in leather as a lesbian SM dominatrix. Chiara grew up, got rid of her "kindred connections" and finally decided: no commerce and cumbersome international projects - extremely modest platforms for directors-authors who are not easy to communicate and understand (regardless of nationality). No romantic images - only the rigidity of life and ultimate realism.
After her career, there were such films as "Time Regained" by Raul Ruiz, "Six" by Alain Berberyan, "Hotel" by Mike Figgis, "All songs are only about love" and "The Beautiful Fig Tree" directed by Christophe Honore, as well as many others. Now Chiara is one of the most fashionable actresses in France, who is removed from such directors as Arnaud Desplechin and Christophe Honoré. Now the heroine of Chiara is a grown-up young woman who is not afraid to say what many are silent about.
By 2009, the actress has played in no less than 35 films, earning herself the fame of one of the most fashionable actresses in Europe. So, Chiara Mastroianni no longer needs parental support - she is willingly invited to shoot by such great directors of our time as Arnaud Desplechin and Christophe Honore. They say that unlike her parents, Chiara is modest and very far from “glamour”.
Chiara Mastroianni shoots a lot - 2-3 films a year. The roles are very different: she is both an aspiring journalist, and a prostitute, and a high-society lover with BDSM manners, and a victim of a serial killer ... The actress began to try herself in singing. She is also interested in the computer world. Chiara became the heroine of the new electronic game "Atlantis III: New World". The creators of the game borrowed from Mastroianni's daughter not only the appearance (long hair, milky skin, a characteristic mole on the cheek), but also the voice.
Personal life
Chiara, as if repeating the fate of her mother, left home at the age of 18. She married the sculptor Pierre Torreton and in 1996 gave birth to his red-haired son Milo, but in 1998 the couple broke up. For several years, the actress met with Benicio del Toro, but this did not lead to anything. A beautiful fairy tale happened to Chiara in May 2002, when she married the musician Benjamin Bioli at the mayor's office of the VI arrondissement of Paris. The ceremony was attended by the closest, and her mother, Catherine Deneuve, was a witness. Married to Benjamin in 2003, her daughter, Anna, was born. Chiara and her husband recorded an album and shot a video, but they could not keep their happiness. At the end of 2007, the couple broke up.
Now Chiara, it seems, is no longer in a hurry to tie the knot again. She raises two children, successfully acts in films and lives in Paris. Chiara considers her work to be a real happiness. “I saw how happy my parents were on the set,” says Chiara Mastroianni, which probably prompted her to also become an actress.
Chiara about mom and dad
Although the glory of mother Deneuve is quite comparable with the glory of Mastroianni's father, Chiara never thought of her mother as a movie star: “We are very attached to each other. when he asked every evening on the phone: “Darling, what’s new?” Here I began to be impudent, like any grown-up daughter: “Marcello, how many times do I have to tell you, I don’t work in the White House, and since yesterday there’s nothing cardinal in my life didn’t happen!” And it’s completely different when I see Marcello in Dolce Vita. I’m dying of pride, I’m no longer a daughter, I’m a fan or some kind of Italian housewife who wets a tear of tenderness at the sight of her favorite TV hero - while lush her chest is heaving with excitement.
Filmography
2016 Saint Amour: The Pleasures of Love / Saint Amour ... La patronne de la baraque à frites
2015 Good Luck Algeria
2014 3 hearts / 3 coeurs ... Sophie Berger
2014 The price of fame / La rançon de la gloire ... Rosa
2013 Good Bastards
2012 Wellington Lines / As Linhas de Torres Vedras (mini-series) ... Hussardo
2012 Wellington Lines Hussardo
Augustine 2012 Constance Charcot
Americano 2011 Claire
2011 Poulet aux prunes ... Lili, adulte
2011 Beloved / Les bien-aimés ... Vera Passer
2010 Man in the bath / Homme au bain ... L "actrice
2009 My girl doesn't want ... / Non ma fille, tu n "iras pas danser ... Léna
2009 Once Upon a Time at Versailles / Bancs publics (Versailles rive droite) ... La mère de Marianne, La cliente aux lunettes
2009 Cat and Mouse / Un chat un chat ... Nathalie, Célimène
2008 Crimes are our business / Le crime est notre affaire ... Emma Charpentier
2008 The Beautiful Fig Tree / La belle personne ... La jeune femme dans le café
2008 A Christmas Tale / Un conte de Noël ... Sylvia Vuillard - Ivan "s wife
2007 Towards zero / L "heure zéro ... Aude Neuville
2007 All songs are only about love / Les chansons d "amour ... Jeanne
Akoibon 2005 Barbara
2003 Easier for a camel / Il est plus facile pour un chameau ... ... Bianca
Carnages 2002 Carlotta
2001 The word of my father / Le parole di mio padre ... Ada
2001 Hotel Nurse
2000 Six-Pack... Marine
2000 Scenarios for drugs / Scénarios sur la drogue (TV series)
1999
For dozens of novels with the most beautiful actresses and for the frenzied temperament, the actor was called both a Latin lover and an Italian fiance, but different blood flowed in Marcello's veins, which probably allowed him to achieve such popularity with the female. It is said that the most famous actresses were on the "list" of his mistresses, for example, Jessica Tandy, Julia Andrews, Shirley MacLaine, Lucia Bose, Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti, Sophia Loren, Stefania Sandrelli, Brigitte Bardot, Ursula Andress, Anouk Aime and other. Rumors or truth - we will not know, since many actresses are no longer alive. One thing is certain: Mastroianni did not leave his women, they always left him. Why this happened to Marcello, no one can judge. Maybe an actor of this magnitude was too complex character. Be that as it may, Mastroianni knew how to love, and at the end of his years he experienced a real love drama.
First and only marriage with Flora Korabela. Flora became the only woman who did not reject Marcello and even agreed to marry him, knowing how hard it would be to live with him. The wedding took place in 1950, when Marcello was already a fairly famous actor, and millions of women went crazy over him. Flora was also an actress and well-connected. Her father is a famous composer who has collaborated with many directors. Marcello then still had nothing and actually lived at the expense of his wife. Actors at that time received little. Perhaps Flora's kind heart and thick purse bribed the young handsome man, since Korabela did not have an ideal figure and beautiful features. Despite the fact that Marcello was a womanizer, marriage to Flora made him happy, and the actor for some time forgot about other women. In marriage, a daughter, Barbara, was born. Soon everything changed. Almost every day, “kind” people began to call Flora and report on the adventures of Mastroianni. Flora was furious and threw up scandals, but this did not help. A little later, she reconciled herself and realized that in any case, Marcello always returns to her. So it was for more than twenty years, until Mastroianni met his last love.
Photo: Marcello Mastroianni and Flora Corabella
Romance with Sophia Loren. More than sixty years have passed since they met, but so far Sophie has not admitted that she and Marcello were connected not only by work in the same films, but also by a stormy romance. Lauren in many interviews said that they worked with Marcello a lot, but he was only a friend for her, living in the neighborhood. The actress believes that she and Mastroianni managed to create the most harmonious and most ideal couple on the screen, but there was no question of romance. Marcello told a completely different story. He met Sophie at the very beginning of his career. Mastroianni never confirmed this novel, but he did not deny it either. When asked by journalists, he always gave out a catchphrase: “I don’t count my women, I just love them! They also give me love, but maybe I give them a little less.” Soon Sophia Loren happily married Carlo Ponti, with whom she lived for many long and happy years.
Photo: Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren
Romance with Faye Dunaway. In the late sixties, Marcello met a young charming actress Faye Dunaway, with whom he starred in the same film. The romance broke out on the very first day, when, according to the script, Faye and Marcello were supposed to kiss. Later, Mastroianni said that the kiss with the American actress was like lightning - he immediately lost his head. Marcello arranged a love relationship with Dunaway - they saw each other infrequently, Faye did not demand anything. It all ended three years later, when the actress set a condition for Marcello: he must divorce Flora. Naturally, the actor did not even think about leaving his wife, who gave him everything! He promised Fay that he would think about it, but he did not dare to tell Flora everything. Faye left him, and a few days later gave a big interview and said that Mastroianni was a sissy, incapable of making decisions. Flora behaved like a true lady and even consoled her husband! Marcello loved the American very much, but was not capable of betrayal in relation to Korabela. However, after a few months, he forgot about his wife, having met a woman whom he loved more than life itself.
The last love of Catherine Deneuve. At the time of meeting the French beauty, Marcello was 46 years old, and Catherine was only 27, but she already had a “big romance” behind her and a seven-year-old son. When Flora found out about this relationship, she began to call Deneuve "this foreigner" and simply hated the actress. Catherine accepted Marcello's advances, but was cold and haughty with him. She could not come on a date and not answer his phone call. Marcello went crazy with her coldness and impregnability, and the newspapers called Catherine "ice." For the first time in many years, Mastroianni dared to divorce and proposed to Deneuve. Deneuve refused. Mastroianni refused to believe that the actress did not love him and even told reporters that she had learned to cook his favorite beans in dozens of ways. In 1972, Catherine gave birth to a daughter, Chiara, from Marcello, but the appearance of the baby did not affect their relationship in any way. By that time, Flora had given the actor a divorce, and Catherine was cold. Mastroianni called his ex-wife and complained that he wanted to die.
Photo: Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve
Relationship with Maria Tato. Catherine left Marcello, headlong into work. For the last twenty years of his life, Mastroianni found solace in the arms of Anna Maria, who, like Deneuve, was a Frenchwoman. About Tato Marcello spoke with special warmth, calling her the most decent, sweet and proud woman. He spent his last birthday with Tato, but on the day of his death, his beloved daughter Chiara and beloved woman Catherine Deneuve were with Mastroianni.
He was the favorite of Federico Fellini, he was forgiven and countless love affairs and three packs of cigarettes a day. On the set, he hugged Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren, and the impregnable Catherine Deneuve gave birth to his daughter. For 20 years now, world cinema has lacked Marcello Mastroianni.
mountain child
Only in the Apennines, where the earth merges with the sky, where the air rings like crystal, could a person be born who was destined not to play, but to live on the screen. To be as natural as these pure, fabulous mountains. 
13 year old Marcello Mastroianni.
Marcello Mastroianni was born into a very poor family, having inherited Jewish industriousness from his mother, and taking Italian temper and optimism from his father. The boy's childhood was full of hardships, but warm relations in the family fully compensated for this shortcoming. When the Mastroiannis moved to Turin, March had a brother, Ruggiero, who later became a cameraman and starred in several films.
Marcello's youthful years fell on the heyday of the power of the cruel dictator Mussolini, and the young man was sent by the Nazis to a special camp where people were turned into dumb animals. But Mastroianni managed to escape, risking his life. The young man's desire for freedom was so strong. This character trait will repeatedly make itself felt in the future, especially in relations with women.
First steps on stage
In what professions did the young man just not try himself before the war. He delivered newspapers, worked at a construction site, was a laborer, an accountant, a draftsman - anything, just to save up money and be able to become an architect. It was his cherished dream... 
Marcello Mastroianni dreamed of becoming an architect.
He entered the construction department of the University of Rome without any problems. While working and getting an education at the same time, Mastroianni attended an amateur student theater, where his outstanding talent as an actor first manifested itself. Tragedy was combined in him with eccentricity, and all this was so natural that it seemed as if not the hero of the play, but March himself lived this life. In the student theater, the young man met Juliet Mazina, the future muse and wife of the great Federico Fellini, which also became a significant event in the life of the future actor. 
Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina and Federico Fellini.
Here, the famous director Luchino Visconti noticed the young talent and invited Mastroianni to his Eliseo theater. In the fourth year, Marcello leaves his former dream of becoming an architect, leaves the University and realizes that his vocation is different - a world ruled by Melpomene.
On the road to glory
The debut in Eliseo was successful. Now Marcello was offered roles in performances as often as any of the novice actors. But the path to glory is difficult and thorny. Yes, he did not pursue fame, he simply loved his craft and played himself. 
Marina Vlady and Marcello Mastroianni.
The pearl of the cinema of that time was the picture "Days of Love", where, along with Mastroianni, the young Marina Vladi played the main role. The actor, with all the passion of an Italian character, fell in love with his stage partner, but even his devilish charm and onslaught could not make the "sorceress" say "yes". Probably, even then she did not waste her feelings in vain in order to give them to Vysotsky in the future ...
A bright work was the role in the film adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel, where Marcello played an intellectual looking for the meaning of life. It should be noted that in the film "White Nights" Visconti for the first time showed his favorite not in the form of a simple guy from the people, but a thinking cosmopolitan. It was the sensation that raised the rating of the young actor and made him popular. 
Marcello Mastroianni in the film *White Nights* (1957).
But fans of Mastroianni's talent did not yet see him as a sex symbol, but considered his heroes as equals to the townsfolk. And they bombarded the future star with letters, asking for advice in a given life situation. Apparently, his characters were so sincerely "their own".
Under the wing of the master 
Federico Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni during the filming of "Eight and a Half"
The great Federico Fellini was not only a cult director, but also a wonderful psychologist. His keen eye always chose such a material, after polishing which, it was possible to obtain a diamond shining with facets. So it happened with his wife, Juliet, who introduced him to her former classmate. And here the intuition did not disappoint the director. He saw in Marcello Mastroianni what he had been looking for for years - his "alter ego". 
Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren have often starred in films together.
Mater offered him a role in the film "Sweet Life", which brought March worldwide fame and made him the most sought-after actor of that time. In 1960, this film won first place at the Cannes Film Festival, and Mastroianni was awarded the title of best actor of the year. 
Mastroianni? Mastroianni!
The fruits of a successful creative union were films that entered the history of cinema: "Eight and a Half", "City of Women", "Interview", "Ginger and Fred". It is difficult to list all the masterpieces in which Fellini shot his favorite actor. It is interesting to note that strict critics and idle paparazzi of that time spoke only positively about these works. 
Marcello Mastroianni and Yvonne Fourneau. A frame from the film "Sweet Life".
Also, Mastroianni was invited to his films by the famous director Vittorio De Sica. Here the roles of Don Juan, heartthrobs and heroes-lovers were offered. It was then that the world found a new sex symbol in the face of Marcello. And now the novels have spun him at the speed of a tornado.
Italian fiance
What kind of nicknames the actor did not receive: both "Latin Don Juan", and "Italian lover", and "the first seducer in Europe." He only grinned and said that he was too lazy to justify these titles. And he commented on dozens of his hobbies like this: "I did not consider my women, I just loved them." 
Marcello Mastroianni and Faye Dunaway rehearse a scene from the movie Lovers
Is it possible to condemn a man after such a revelation?.. Any creative person, be it an artist, a poet or an artist, needs fresh impressions, like a breath of mountain air, otherwise the talent will dry up, like "anchar in the desert, hot in the heat." 
Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in "Italian Marriage".
On the set, Mastroianni warmed in his arms such stars as Brigitte Bardot, Anouk Aimé, Monica Vitti, Jeanne Moreau, Claudia Cardinale, Sophia Loren. With the latter, he is even credited with an affair, but both actors categorically deny this. In an interview, the film star admits that it was so easy to work with Marcello that he almost didn’t have to get used to his role.
And in the life of his wife had to suffer ...
Wise Flora
At the dawn of his artistic career, March married the daughter of the popular Italian composer Flora Carabella. The girl was also an actress, but when she got married, she stopped acting, gave birth to a daughter and devoted herself to her family. As her husband's popularity and infidelity grew, so did the tension in the relationship. 
Marcello Mastroianni with his wife Flora and daughter.
At first, Flora, with her usual Italian fervor, beat the dishes, smashed furniture, and made loud scandals. But over time, I realized that Marcello could not be kept by force in the family stall. It is necessary to let go of the reins, and then, having gained new emotions, he will return home again. Actually, that's what happened. Even, carried away by a new passion, Mastroianni did not forget to send gifts and flowers on holidays to his wife and daughter. 
Marcello Mastroianni with his family.
Flora has always remained the only legal wife of the actor. So they lived for many years: he was sinful and she was faithful, until Mastroianni met Catherine Deneuve on the set.
french dream 
Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve.
The film "It Only Happens to Others" was a life-changing one for the actor. Being in adulthood, wise by life experience of seducing women, Marcello fell in love with Catherine Deneuve, like a boy. The beautiful Frenchwoman seemed to be cold to her partner in the film, but passion raged in her soul. The couple began to secretly meet, and a year later they had a daughter, Chiara, who became the meaning of life for Mastroianni. He loved the child madly; He didn't feel that way with his first child. Who will dispute the truth that happy children are born only from true love... 
Mom, dad, me, but... not family.
Mastroianni repeatedly asked Deneuve's hand, but she categorically refused an official marriage. To conquer "this impregnable bastion of French independence," the actor divorced Flora and again proposed to Catherine. But the actress continued to answer with a cold "no". Despite this, Chiara's rejected father flew in from anywhere in the world at the first request of his daughter. 
Chiara Mastroianni with her father Marcelo Mastroianni.
He showered his favorite with gifts and kisses, took her to all the films with Catherine. And then the girl told her mother how her father cried when he saw her on the screen ...
Man at the window 
Mastroianni's grave in the Verano cemetery in Rome.
For all his fame, Marcello Mastroianni was not a demanding person. He said that to be happy he needed a plate of spaghetti, a bottle of Chianti and true friends nearby, and that his position in life was to observe, not to act. So the actor lived his life, as if peeping out the window for someone else's happiness ...
If a man is a hand-written handsome man, is it any wonder that he has a great many passions? And if this handsome man is also Italian, then he simply must be sentimental.
For Catherine Deneuve, this meeting on the set was unremarkable. Just work, that's all. In addition, sentimentality was never the quality that attracted her in men.
"It only happens to others"
Ironically, that was the name of the film that brought this beautiful couple together. And this happened to them. At the time of their meeting, Catherine had just parted ways with director Francois Truffaut. She was cold and withdrawn. When he first saw her, Marcello thought: "Another professional beauty." He, too, was not in the best mood: at that time he was going through a breakup with actress Faye Dunaway, who, parting, threw a contemptuous “Mama's boy!” in his face.
There were always strong women next to him, but not everyone was ready to become for him not only a lover, but also a mother. Like a true Italian, he subconsciously searched for just such a type of women, until, in the end, he married Flora - his first and only wife. And what this holy woman definitely did not have to do was wisdom, patience and forgiveness.
Flora loved Marcello without memory and in advance accepted and forgave all his betrayals - present and future. She herself was Italian and well understood that hoping for Marcello's loyalty is like trying to hide a sunbeam in her pocket. She didn't even try. She just loved and was his best friend. He confided his love secrets to her, invariably returning to the bosom of the family after the end of the next novel in order to heal a broken heart.
A blond beauty Frenchwoman, whom the whole world knew and fell in love with after the film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg", Catherine was the embodiment of charm and the standard of femininity. After the tragic death of her sister in a car accident, more than anything, she was afraid to experience this pain again - the pain of losing a loved one. And looking at her, always somewhat distant and impassive, almost chaste, it was impossible to imagine that this young woman had many novels behind her shoulders.
So, in the spring of 1970, the set of the movie It Only Happens to Others. She was 27, he turned 49. Mastroianni was warned: no questions about his personal life if he does not want a scandal and disruption of filming, because such questions turn Catherine from an angel with a constant half-smile on her beautiful face into a real fury. The Italian only smiled in response: "Nothing, we will melt it." The hero-lover did not retreat, but Catherine steadfastly held the line.
Everything changed dramatically after shooting one of the episodes. According to the script, Katrin and Marcello played spouses who lost a child. In order for the acting to be convincing, director Nadine Trintignant literally made a fateful decision: she left the actors for several days in an empty, dimly lit apartment with almost no furniture, no telephone, no books and magazines, no TV, and meager food.
They were left alone - a man and a woman. When the forced confinement ended and the two went out into the light of day, it became clear that they did not need any books or a telephone with a TV, and, it seems, they did not even need food.
He lives in Rome, she lives in Paris. He calls every day, comes up with thousands of affectionate names in funny French, seeks meetings, demanding that she cancel the shooting. “I bought bouquets of flowers every day,” Mastroianni recalled, “it doesn’t matter what kind - daisies, daffodils, asters, and, tearing off the petals, wondered: he loves - he doesn’t love.” At night, Marcello had to spray her pillow with her favorite perfume and surrender to the mercy of her imagination. : infrequent dates and stingy caresses of Catherine made her even more desirable, Mastroianni had never had to deal with such a woman before. His previous lovers - all as one temperamental ladies, like Faye Dunaway, flaunted their sensuality. Hidden, inaccessible to someone else's gaze, the passion of Catherine kindled a real fire in his heart.
In the end, unable to bear the constant separation and hating the endless trains, Mastroianni rented an apartment in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Flora by that time had given up on everything and only shouted after: “I hope to see you soon!
Mastroianni, from an excess of gratitude, constantly wanted to pamper Catherine ...
He presented the most important gift to his beloved on the occasion of her birthday. It was a luxurious villa in Nice. Standing near the sea, hidden in the shade of dense greenery, it looked like a small toy castle. Marcello dreamed that this house would become the cradle of their love. Catherine could not hide her sincere admiration, but immediately spoiled Mastroianni's mood by asking reproachfully: "Why did you spend so much?" And when he returned to Paris, Marcello found Catherine's return gift in his yard - a brand new red Jaguar. This is what he always dreamed of: cars were his weakness. Marcello then flashed an unpleasant thought: this gesture is too similar to the desire to pay for the villa ...
And yet in Nice they were happy, forgetting about everyone and belonging only to each other.
In a great mood, in anticipation of near happiness, Mastroianni drives up to their house in Nice. A red jaguar named Catherine glides effortlessly down the scenic road. Marcello whistles a cheerful Italian song, winking at himself in the mirror of the car every now and then. Two cases of expensive champagne jingle in the trunk, flowers in the back seat, a diamond ring in my pocket. As you might guess, Mastroianni is going to make an offer. He had already turned off the main highway, when suddenly he came across a thin old woman cradling a swaddled doll like a living child. Mastroianni's heart felt somehow bad from this picture, he superstitiously tapped the steering wheel three times and cheerfully smiled at himself in the mirror.
Half an hour later, having already said the proper words to Catherine, he watched in complete bewilderment as instead of the expected expression of happiness, first a slight fright appeared on her face, then fear, finally horror !!!, as if he had come not to offer his hand and heart, but to attack her like that drunk reporter..
Half an hour later, Mastroianni threw bouquets one after another into the river and watched through tears as they were carried away by the current. Catherine, without even listening to the end, cut off: "It's impossible", got into the car and left for Paris
However, her refusal only inflamed Marcello's passion, which poor Flora could not comprehend. When her husband first appeared to her, Signora Mastroianni hoped that, having received such a painful click on his nose, he would finally calm down and quiet down at her skirt. Nothing happened. Having barely licked his wounds and healed his shattered heart, Mastroianni rushed to Paris to his Catherine, violating contracts, agreements, disrupting the planned shooting.
And here is the main sensation of the fall of 1971: Catherine Deneuve is carrying Marcello Mastroianni's baby! Giulietta Mazina, barely hearing about the news, said to Fellini: "No other than poor Marcello came up with a last resort to take this impregnable bastion of French independence."
Indeed, Mastroianni simply shone with happiness. But the height of bliss for him was that Catherine also radiated happiness. He had never seen her so joyful, so open before.
Now Deneuve and Mastroianni happily wandered around the children's shops every day and bought everything they liked. Parisian department store employees flocked to watch the famous couple choose booties, undershirts, tiny rompers, rattles, wallpapers and curtains for the nursery.
He did not leave Katrin for a second, accompanying her even to appointments with the doctor. The future father embarrassed the doctors, demanding a detailed report on how the pregnancy was developing ...
Chiara-Charlotte Mastroianni was born on May 28, 1971. The restless Marcello, who has already turned 50, on this occasion arranged a real holiday in Italian: he bought several cases of champagne and treated everyone on the street. "I have a daughter!" - He joyfully shouted to the whole block and added: - I idolize the mother of this child.
He hoped that now Catherine would not be able to refuse him ... They went together to their beloved Nice
Approaching Nice, Mastroianni was well aware that the moment was the most inopportune, but, no longer able to stop himself, he quickly asked: does she agree to become his wife? ..
“Flora, she refused me!” she heard the mournful cry of her husband Signor Mastroianni. “And this despite the fact that you allowed me! I want to die!” Marcello shouted into the phone, ignoring his wife's reasonable advice: instead of transferring money for international calls from Paris, quickly return home to Rome.
After the second resignation, Mastroianni fell into deep despair. At the same time, Katrin does not drive him away at all, they still live together. But he no longer believes in her love. The actor indulges in heavy drinking and increasingly tells his friends that he wants to die. Once he got drunk half to death on a pleasure yacht, and Michel Piccoli barely kept him from jumping into the icy sea.
On the set of the last joint picture "Do not touch the white woman" Mastroianni and Deneuve were already openly quarreling. And when Chiara was a year old, in the bedroom of that same house in Nice, where they had recently been so happy, Catherine said: "Our relationship is over. I no longer want to continue this farce. It's over." Without another word, she packed up and left for Paris. Forever this time.
True, she never forbade Mastroianni to see her daughter. Once Katherine took Chiara to shoot in Los Angeles. Mastroianni, who was in Brazil at that time, having learned about this, immediately broke down to visit his daughter. They went for a walk with the baby, wandered around the city for a long time, and then Marcello took Chiara to the cinema for a film with Catherine Deneuve. Very soon the girl asked: "Daddy, let's get out of here, I feel sorry for you, you cry all the time."
Why did Chiara-Charlotte cause such fireworks of paternal feelings in Mastroianni? Until the death of the actor in December 1996, she remained his favorite. But Marcello not only had a daughter from his legal wife, but also a certain number of other children - illegal, by the way, for some reason always girls. He could hardly remember who was whose child, and constantly confused names. He himself explained the reason for his paternal attachment to Chiara: "I adored the mother of this child."
After Deneuve and Mastroianni parted, the life of each of them returned to normal - Marcello was taken back by the faithful Flora, and Catherine alone and raised two children. While Chiara was little, Mastroianni often secretly visited Paris. Trying not to be seen, he watched the entrance for hours, waiting for them to come out of it, holding hands and chatting animatedly, mother and daughter. He wanted to take another look at the woman who had rejected his love.
Marcello Mastroianni passed away on December 19, 1996. And in a bitter twist of fate, he died in the arms of Catherine and their daughter Chiara. And most likely he took it as the last gift of fate, and not as her evil mockery.
Today Catherine Deneuve lives alone. About herself, she says this: “I always left the first, even from the great ones. These men have never forgiven me for leaving them in the midst of an affair. Maybe they did not realize that in this way I saved myself from unbearable pain. Today my children give me moments of joy. Son and daughter are both artists. Christian is busy in the theater a lot, he is a serious actor. Chiara acts in films. She is very similar to her father, and the name Mastroianni suits her.
And then sadly adds: “Who told you that I am happy? Not at all. I was happy 40 years ago when I starred in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. And now I just love life.
