While preparing Nights of Cabiria in spring 1956, Fellini learned of his father ’ s death by cardiac arrest at the age of 62.

* Nights of Cabiria ( 1957 )

Italian director Federico Fellini won the first foreign language film Academy Award with La strada and garnered another Academy Award with Nights of Cabiria.

The film came close to winning the Academy Award but lost to Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria by a single vote.

: This article is about Giovanni Pastrone's 1914 silent film ; for the Federico Fellini film, see The Nights of Cabiria.

It is based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria.

In the early years, De Laurentiis produced neorealist films such as Bitter Rice ( 1946 ) and the Fellini classics La Strada ( 1954 ) and Nights of Cabiria ( 1956 ), often in collaboration with producer Carlo Ponti.

In the 1950s, some of the well-known films with artistic sensibilities include La Strada ( 1954 ), a film about a young woman who is forced to go to work for a cruel and inhumane circus performer in order to support her family and eventually coming to terms with her situation, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Ordet ( 1956 ), centering around family with a lack of faith amongst it but with a son who believes that he is Jesus Christ and convinced that he is capable of performing miracles, Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria ( 1957 ), which deals with a prostitute's failed attempts to find love, and her suffering and rejections, and Wild Strawberries ( 1957 ), by Ingmar Bergman, whose narrative concerns an elderly medical doctor and professor whose nightmares lead him to re-evaluate his life, and The 400 Blows ( 1959 ) by François Truffaut, whose main character is a young man trying to come of age despite the abuse from his parents, schoolteachers, and society in general.

She starred in La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, in 1956 and 1957, respectively.

In 1957, she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her portrayal of the title role in Fellini's Nights of Cabiria.

** Best Actress: Nights of Cabiria ( 1957 ), Ginger and Fred ( 1986 )

* Cannes Film Festival Best actress award, by Nights of Cabiria ( 1957 ).

* San Sebastián film festival Best actress award, by Nights of Cabiria ( 1957 ).

* Nights of Cabiria ( 1957 )

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* Nights of Cabiria ( Le notti di Cabiria ) ( 1957 ), directed by Federico Fellini

Screenshot of main character in film: Nights of Cabiria.

* 1956 DeSoto Fireflite Convertible in the 1957 Federico Fellini film Le Notti di Cabiria ( Nights of Cabiria ).

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

The earliest known example of a detective story was The Three Apples, one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ).

1929 was a watershed year: William Wellman with Chinatown Nights and The Man I Love, Rouben Mamoulian with Applause, Alfred Hitchcock with Blackmail ( Britain's first sound feature ), were among the directors to bring greater fluidity to talkies and experiment with the expressive use of sound ( Eyman, 1997 ).

In the 1970s, a harp was common in popular music, and can be heard in such hits as Cher's " Dark Lady ", the intro of " Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves ", and " Boogie Nights " by Heatwave.

One Thousand and One Nights was the first erotic animated feature film, and at 130 minutes, it remains one of the longest animated films.

In a tradition from the Arabian Nights, a collection of myths and folk tales, Muhammad was said to have warned his followers against staring at youth because of their beauty: " Be careful, do not gaze at beardless youth, for they have eyes more tempting than the houris.

Sessions with Davis and Evans in 1962 resulted in the album Quiet Nights, a short collection of bossa novas that was released against the wishes of both artists: Evans stated it was only half an album, and blamed the record company ; Davis blamed producer Teo Macero, whom he didn't speak to for more than two years.

Nights was developed by Sonic Team, with Yuji Naka as producer and lead programmer, and Naoto Ōshima as the character designer and director.

Reala was responsible for Nights ' imprisonment in the Ideya Palace.

However this line was not translated to English upon release, therefore it was thought he said, " There is no Nights!

An expanded version of the A-life system was included in Nights: Journey of Dreams.

The optional 3D controller that came packaged with Nights into Dreams .... ( US / EU version shown ; the Japanese pad was white.

Nights into Dreams was introduced alongside an optional game controller, included with most copies of the game, called the Saturn 3D controller.

At the time of its release, Nights into Dreams was the top-selling game for the Saturn, and was the 21st highest selling game in Japan for the year 1996.

A Nights handheld electronic game was released by Tiger Electronics, and a port of it was later released for Tiger's short lived R-Zone console.

Following a successful fan campaign by nightsintodreams. com, Nights was integrated into Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing as the flagman, and Nights and Reala appear as playable characters in Sega Superstars Tennis.

* Video games: Secret of Mana and its successor Secret of Evermore ( where the menu was used to accelerate the pacing of combat ), Seiken Densetsu 3, America's Army 3, Habitat, Beyond Good & Evil, Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, Neverwinter Nights, Normality, The Sims, Perfect Dark, Planescape: Torment, Sacrifice, Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Second Life, Battlefield 2, Freedom Fighters, Ratchet & Clank, Silver, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Crysis, Mass Effect, Warzone 2100, Halo Wars, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, Max Payne 3, Trauma Center, Brütal Legend, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Dragon Age: Origins, Prototype, Cortex Command, Imperium Romanum

Lovecraft was obsessed with the Arabian Nights and had no doubt read the Fitzgerald translation-the couplet follows Fitzgerald's metre and rhyme pattern for the first half of a Khayyam quatrain.

Archie Comics adapted Nights into Dreams ... into a three-issue comic book miniseries to test whether or not a Nights comic would sell well in North America.

Freely adapted from One Thousand and One Nights, it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Bagdad.

Seven have been adapted to films, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John, The Last Song, and most recently The Lucky One.

In 2002, Nicholas Sparks published the book Nights in Rodanthe that was later adapted into a movie.

Russell also illustrated the first story in Gaiman's later Sandman graphic novel, Endless Nights, and adapted both Gaiman's short story " Murder Mysteries " and his children's book Coraline into comics form.

Today, this short and the other two Popeye Color Specials, Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves, and Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp ( both of which were also adapted from a story featured in One Thousand and One Nights ) are in the public domain, and are widely available on home video and DVD.

Today, this short and the other two Popeye Color Specials, Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor, and Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp ( both of which were also adapted from a story featured in One Thousand and One Nights ), are in the public domain.

Today, this short and the other two Popeye Color Specials, Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor and Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves ( both of which were also adapted from a story featured in One Thousand and One Nights ), are in the public domain, and are widely available on home video and DVD.

* Barbarous Nights, by Sam Creely, adapted from the works of Federico Garcia Lorca, Helen Wayne Rauh Studio Theatre, November 10-12, 2010