This work is perhaps De Sica's masterpiece and one of the most important works in Italian cinema.

In 1961 Sophia Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a woman who is raped in World War II, along with her adolescent daughter, in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women.

In May 2010, Loach told Tom Lamont in an interview about the three films that have influenced him most: Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ), Milos Forman's Loves of a Blonde ( 1965 ) and Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ).

De Sica's film had a particularly profound effect on Loach.

Ironically, for an artist considered one of the Italian cinema's greatest and most influential directors, De Sica's sole Academy Award nomination was for acting, when he received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop.

She was the first actress of the talkie era to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance, for her portrayal of Cesira in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women.

In 1961, she starred in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women, a stark, gritty story of a mother who is raped while trying to protect her daughter in war-torn Italy.

Among Loren's best-known films of this period are Samuel Bronston's epic production of El Cid ( 1961 ) with Charlton Heston, The Millionairess ( 1960 ) with Peter Sellers, It Started in Naples ( 1960 ) with Clark Gable, Vittorio De Sica's triptych Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ( 1963 ) with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov's Lady L ( 1965 ) with Paul Newman, the 1966 classic Arabesque with Gregory Peck, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ) with Marlon Brando.

Vittorio De Sica's 1948 film Bicycle Thieves is also representative of the genre, with non-professional actors, and a story that details the hardships of working-class life after the war.

It also influenced several Indian film directors including Bimal Roy, who made Do Bigha Zameen ( 1955 ), after watching Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ).

In addition to the threat of television, there was also increasing competition from foreign films, such as Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ), the Swedish film Hon dansade en sommar ( English title: One Summer of Happiness ) ( 1951 ), and Ingmar Bergman's Sommaren med Monika ( Summer with Monika ) ( 1953 ).

( For De Sica's film, there was a censorship controversy when the MPAA demanded a scene where the lead characters talk to the prostitutes of a brothel be removed, regardless of the fact that there was no sexual or provocative activity.

Inspired by Italian neo-realistic cinema, Bimal Roy made Do Bigha Zameen after watching, Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ).

Satyajit Ray cited Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ) and French filmmaker Jean Renoir's The River ( 1951 ), which he assisted, as influences on his debut film Pather Panchali ( 1955 ).

Bimal Roy's Two Acres of Land ( 1953 ) was also influenced by De Sica's Bicycle Thieves and in turn paved the way for the Indian New Wave, which began around the same time as the French New Wave and the Japanese New Wave.

The screenplay is in English, by Neil Simon and De Sica's longtime collaborator Cesare Zavattini.

De Sica's interest in the project surprised Simon, who at first dismissed it as a way for the director to support his gambling habit.

Yet After The Fox does touch on themes found in De Sica's earlier work, namely disillusionment and dignity.

He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice: in 1946 for Iris and the Lieutenant () ( part of an eleven-way tie ), and in 1951 for his film Miss Julie () ( an adaption of the August Strindberg's play which tied with Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan ).

The film's final shot of Antonio and Bruno walking away from the camera into the distance is an homage to many Charlie Chaplin films, who was De Sica's favorite filmmaker.

He wrote, " Again the Italians have sent us a brilliant and devastating film in Vittorio De Sica's rueful drama of modern city life, The Bicycle Thief.

They bring a grave dignity to De Sica's unblinking view of post-war Italy.

It is impossible to imagine this story in any other form than De Sica's.

Perhaps the best example of this was in Vittorio De Sica's 1952 film Umberto D ...

Within eight weeks after his death, to provide an income for the family, Beatrice opened an acting workshop in her home, the Henry C. De Mille School for Girls.

Galen's theory of the physiology of the circulatory system endured until 1628, when William Harvey published his treatise entitled De motu cordis, in which he established that blood circulates, with the heart acting as a pump.

" Actor Robert De Niro called him a " master of a new kind of psychological and behavioral faith in acting.

Although the film did poorly at the box office, some reviewers praised De Niro's acting.

De Groot points out, in spite of the fact that epinephrine levels and catecholamine excretion are actually not elevated, propranolol ( it is presumed, acting by inhibition of alpha-adrenergic sympathetic activity ) reduces anxiety and tremor in a very useful manner, indicating some of the central nervous system irritability is a manifestation of elevated sensitivity to circulating epinephrine.

Stella Adler, an actress and acting teacher whose fame was cemented by the success of her students Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro, also broke with Strasberg after she studied with Stanislavski himself, the only Group Theatre teacher to do so, after he had modified many of his early ideas about acting.

Willis ' acting role models are Gary Cooper, Robert De Niro, Steve McQueen, and John Wayne.

De Havilland continued acting on film until the late 1970s, afterward continuing her career on television until the late 1980s, highlighted by her winning a Golden Globe and earning a Emmy Award nomination for her performance as the Dowager Empress Maria in the 1986 miniseries Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna.

Following a four-year break from acting, Khan made his comeback playing the title role in the historical drama Mangal Pandey: The Rising ( 2005 ), and later won a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for his role in Rang De Basanti ( 2006 ).

Being a vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress since 1954, she was elected acting executive chairman of it on 30 November 1976 replacing Zhu De, who died on 6 July.

During World War II, Maréchal Philippe Pétain assumed power and held the supreme authority in Vichy France, while Général Charles De Gaulle, acting on behalf of the previous regime, founded the Free French Forces, upon which he held supreme authority all through the war.

Reports said that Ramos and De Venecia " had been engaged in shady dealings in both Libya and Iraq involving construction contracts for his firm, and had tried to " repay " his Libyan benefactors by acting as their front man and errand boy.

According to an interview with Lewis in the February 7, 1983 edition of People Magazine, he claimed that Scorsese and De Niro employed method acting tricks, including making a slew of anti-Semitic epithets during the filming in order to " pump up Lewis's anger.

De Niro's ' bravura ' acting in Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and New York, New York collapsed into ' anti-acting ' after he started turning himself into repugnant flesh eggies of soulless characters ..... Pupkin is a nothing.

Also in 1995 the band was given a shot at acting when they co-starred with Comedian / TV Host Joey De Leon of " Eat Bulaga " in a comedy film produced By GMA Network's Cinemax Studios ( now GMA Films ), " Run Barbi Run ".

De López Roda named supporters of Rydén who were acting in defiance of the directives of the 1995 Notification by the Holy See: Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, and Fathers René Laurentin, Emiliano Tardif and Guido Sommavilla.

Although he never received an Oscar nomination, wrote Bruce Fretts, he " was the walking embodiment of the aphorism acting is reacting, providing the perfect counterbalance to his recurring co-stars, the more emotionally volatile Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.

When the latter became ill, De With functioned as commandeur, acting captain, of the Gelderland during convoy duty in the Baltic.

The Dutch squadron however, sailing to the northwest, was in a rough defensive leeward line formation, with the Frisian acting Rear-Admiral Joris Pieterszoon van den Broeck commanding the van, De Ruyter himself commanding the centre and Hollandic Rear-Admiral Jan Aertsen Verhoeff commanding the rear.

In addition to Lilley and O ' Keefe, other performers on the show included improvisational comedian Rebecca De Unamuno, experimental theatre star Melissa Madden Gray ( now known internationally for her cabaret character ' Meow Meow '), Kate McCartney ( who would go on to success as an award-winning animator ), Richard Pyros ( today a member of The Sydney Theatre Company's ' Residents ' acting ensemble ) and Jake Stone, now lead singer of popular Australian funk pop rock band Bluejuice.

He began acting at the age of five and in 1932 formed a theater company with his brother Peppino and sister Titina, called compagnia del Teatro Umoristico I De Filippo.

De Geer firmly believed the main control on varve sedimentation was solar radiation acting on glacier meltwater production, and that consequently, varved sediments represented a ".. gigantic, natural self-registering thermograph " ( De Geer 1926 ) and varve curves ( varve thickness plotted against varve number or year ), which he often referred to as ' solar curves ', a reliable proxy for past changes in solar radiation.