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Hollywood, Italian Americans, and the Golden Coast

Laura E. Ruberto

John Fante’s and Richard Quine’s 1956 film, "Full of Life," constructs California Italian culture, one brick at a time.

My Big Break Was a Humble Job in Hollywood.

Darrell Fusaro

People often ask, "How do you break into show biz?" I think I've discovered the answer.

Photographs of Jack Salvatori, the British Valentino

Laura E. Ruberto

On having received an envelope mailed to Berkeley, California from Cornwall, England with photographs of the Italo-British filmmaker and actor, Giovanni “Jack” Salvatori.

The Film Festival of Positive Italian-American Images

Joey Skee

Positive images of Italian-Americans that aren’t.

Plato and Mafia Movies

Tom Verso

“...there is an old quarrel between philosophy and poetry” Plato

Uncredited Extras: Cinecittà’s Refugees and the Italian American Who Filmed Them

Laura E. Ruberto

Jack Salvatori, an almost-forgotten Italian American director, made a film about Cinecittà’s role as a camp for WWII refugees.

Italian American Romance in the Era Before Roe v. Wade

Laura E. Ruberto

The 1963 film Love with the Proper Stranger dealt with the limited choices faced by an Italian American woman a decade before abortion was legalized in the U.S.

Of Miracles and Men

Stanislao Pugliese*

Spike Lee's controversial movie "The Miracle at St. Anna"

Garment Workers and Union Activists in Tinsel Town

Laura E. Ruberto

My random encounter with a Hollywood Italian American labor activist.

Dana Scully and the Agonies of Being Catholic

Marc Edward DiPaolo

The movie X-Files: I Want to Believe is secretly about the difficulty of being Roman Catholic in this day-and-age, while ostensibly being your usual dumb popcorn thriller.

Linking the Diaspora Cinematically

Joey Skee

Australia’s Federation of Italian Migrant Workers and their Families holds its “The Weird Mob 2: The Italian Invasion” Film Festival.

Italians in Hollywood

Joey Skee

Anna Magnani's and Raf Vallone's portrayals of Italian-Americans seen anew in New York.

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