Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit. Along with

Dino De Laurentiis Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiis (; 8 August 1919 – 10 November 2010) was an Italian film producer and businessman who held both Italian and American citizenship. Following a brief acting career in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he moved into f ...

, he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing

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post-World War II, producing some of the country's most acclaimed and financially-successful films of the 1950s and 1960s. Ponti worked with many of the most important directors of Italian cinema of the era, including

Federico Fellini Federico Fellini (; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and ...

Michelangelo Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni ( ; ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents", ''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and '' ...

, and

Vittorio De Sica Vittorio De Sica ( , ; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Widely considered one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, four of the fil ...

, as well as many international directors such as

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and

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. He helped launch the career of his wife, international film star

Sophia Loren Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (; born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren ( , ), is an Italian actress, active in her native country and the United States. With a career spanning over 70 years, she is one of the ...

. He won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film for ''

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'' (1954) and was nominated for Best Picture for producing ''Doctor Zhivago'' (1965). In 1996, he was appointed as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Early life

Ponti was born in

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, where his grandfather had been mayor of the city. Ponti studied law at the

University of Milan The University of Milan (; ), officially abbreviated as UNIMI, or colloquially referred to as La Statale ("the State niversity), is a public university, public research university in Milan, Italy. It is one of the largest universities in Eu ...

. He joined his father's law firm in

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and became involved in the film business through negotiating contracts.

Career

Early films

Ponti attempted to establish a film industry in Milan in 1940 and produced

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's '' Piccolo mondo antico'' there, starring

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, in her first notable role. The film dealt with the Italian struggle against the Austrians for the inclusion of northeastern Italy into the

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during the

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. The film was successful, because it was easy to see "the Austrians as Germans" during World War II. As a result, Ponti was briefly jailed for undermining relations with

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. Ponti accepted an offer from Riccardo Gualino's Lux Film in

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in 1941. He made '' Giacomo the Idealist'' (1943), '' A Yank in Rome'' (1946), '' To Live in Peace'' (1947), '' The White Primrose'' (1948), '' Prelude to Madness'' (1948) and '' Hey Boy'' (1948). Ponti produced some films starring

Gina Lollobrigida Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida (4 July 1927 – 16 January 2023) was an Italian actress, model, photojournalist, and sculptor. She was one of the highest-profile European actresses of the 1950s and 1960s, a period in which she was an international ...

: '' Alarm Bells'' (1949), '' The White Line'' (1950), '' A Dog's Life'' (1950). '' Her Favourite Husband'' (1950) was a British-Italian co production with Jean Kent. He made a number of comedies including '' Figaro Here, Figaro There'' (1950), '' Toto the Third Man'' (1951) and '' Toto in Color'' (1952), with

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, plus '' The Knight Has Arrived!'' (1951), '' The Piano Tuner Has Arrived'' (1952) and '' The Steamship Owner'' (1951) with

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. Ponti alternated this with more serious material such as '' Europe '51'' (1952) from

Roberto Rossellini Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement with films such a ...

, ''

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'' (1952), '' Lieutenant Giorgio'' (1953), and '' Easy Years'' (1953). '' The Unfaithfuls'' (1953) reunited Ponti with Lollobrigida, while '' Neapolitan Carousel'' (1954) won the International Prize at Cannes.

International breakthrough and Sophia Loren

In 1954 Ponti had his greatest artistic success with the production of

's ''

La strada ''La Strada'', also translated into English as ''The Road'', is a 1954 Italian Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Federico Fellini and co-written by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano. The film tells the story of Gelsomin ...

''. However, Fellini denied Ponti's role in its success and said that "''La Strada'' was made in spite of Ponti and De Laurentiis". Along with a Toto comedy ''

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'' (1954) he and de Laurentiis produced an international film, ''

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'' (1954) directed by Robert Rossen. There was '' An American in Rome'' (1955) with

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and '' The Gold of Naples'' (1954) with a young Sophia Loren. Loren was the female lead in Ponti's ''

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'' (1954), a biopic of Attila the Hun with Anthony Quinn that became a big box office success. Loren was in '' The Miller's Beautiful Wife'' (1955), a comedy. Ponti and de Laurentiis made the epic war film ''

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'' (1956). In June 1956 his partnership with De Laurentiis ended after more than eighty films over six years. Ponti continued to produce smaller movies for the Italian market such as ''

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'' (1956), and '' Guendalina'' (1957), but his focus was increasingly on bigger budgeted films aimed at the international market starring Loren: '' The Black Orchid'' (1959) with Anthony Quinn, '' That Kind of Woman'' (1959) with Tab Hunter, '' Heller in Pink Tights'' (1960) with Quinn again, '' A Breath of Scandal'' (1960) with John Gavin. '' Two Women'' (1960), starring Loren and directed by Vittorio de Sica, was a huge success, winning Loren the Oscar.

French films

Ponti produced a series of movies in France: '' Lola'' (1961) starred Anouk Aimee, '' A Woman Is a Woman'' (1961) directed by

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, '' Léon Morin, Priest'' (1961) from

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starring Jean Paul Belmondo, '' Cléo from 5 to 7'' (1962) from

, '' Le Doulos'' (1962) with Belmondo, '' Landru'' (1962), plus '' The Carabineers'' (1963) and ''

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'' (1963) from Godard. Ponti continued to make movies in Italy, notably ''

Boccaccio '70 ''Boccaccio '70'' is a 1962 comedy anthology film directed by Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli and Luchino Visconti from an idea by Cesare Zavattini. It consists of four episodes, each by one of the directors, all about ...

'' (1962), '' Redhead'' (1962), '' The Empty Canvas'' (1962), '' Break Up'' (1965) and two with Loren, ''

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ''Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow'' () is a 1963 comedy anthology film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, the film consists of three short stories about couples in different parts of Italy. The film won t ...

'' (1963) and ''

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'' (1964).

MGM

Ponti produced his most popular and financially successful film, '' Doctor Zhivago,'' in 1965; the movie was directed by

and made by MGM. Also for MGM Ponti produced ''

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'' (1965), a war film with Loren, '' The Girl and the General'' (1967) with Rod Steiger, '' Ghosts – Italian Style'' (1967), and three notable films with

, ''

Blowup ''Blowup'' (also styled ''Blow-Up'') is a 1966 Psychological thriller, psychological Mystery film, mystery film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, co-written by Antonioni, Tonino Guerra and Edward Bond and produced by Carlo Ponti. It is Antoni ...

'' in 1966, '' Zabriskie Point'' in 1970 and '' The Passenger'' in 1974. He made '' The 10th Victim'' (1965), and some films for Paramount, ''

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'' (1967) '' Diamonds for Breakfast'' (1968).

Later career

Ponti's later movies included '' The Priest's Wife'' (1970) with Loren, '' What?'' (1972) from Roman Polanski, ''

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'' (1973), ''

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'' (1973) a gallo with Suzy Kendall, '' Dirty Weekend'' (1973) with Oliver Reed, '' Mr. Hercules Against Karate'' (1973), '' Flesh for Frankenstein'' (1974), '' The Voyage'' (1974) with Loren, '' Sex Pot'' (1975) with Loren and Mastroinanni, '' L'Infermiera'' (1975) with Ursula Andress, and '' Down and Dirty'' (1977), His final credits included '' The Cassandra Crossing'' (1977), an international co production starring Loren, and '' A Special Day'' (1977) with Mastroianni and Loren.

Personal life

Marriages

In 1946, he married Giuliana Fiastri with whom he had a daughter, Guendalina, in 1951, and a son, Alex, in 1953. While serving as a judge in a beauty contest in 1951, Ponti met a minor actress named Sofia Lazzaro (real name Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone). He subsequently cast her in films such as '' Anna'' (1951). In 1952, his friend Goffredo Lombardo, head of production at

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, changed Lazzaro's name to

. Five years later, Ponti obtained a

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from his first wife and married Sophia Loren by proxy. Divorce was still forbidden in Italy, and he was informed that were he to return there, he would be charged with bigamy, and Loren would be charged with "

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". Ponti co-produced several films in Hollywood starring Loren, establishing her fame. In 1960, he and Loren returned to Italy and when summoned to court, denied being married. In 1962, they had the marriage annulled, after which Ponti arranged with his first wife, Giuliana, that the three of them move to France (which at that time allowed divorce) and become French citizens. In 1965, Giuliana Ponti divorced her husband, allowing Ponti to marry Loren in 1966 in a civil wedding in

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. They later became French citizens after their application was approved by then-French Prime Minister

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. Ponti and Loren had two sons: * Carlo Ponti Jr. (born 29 December 1968) * Edoardo Ponti (born 6 January 1973) Their daughters-in-law are Sasha Alexander and Andrea Meszaros. They have four grandchildren. Loren remained married to Ponti until his death on 10 January 2007 of pulmonary complications.

Kidnapping attempts

Two unsuccessful attempts were made to kidnap Ponti in 1975, including one involving an attack on his car with gunfire.

Smuggling charges

He was tried ''in absentia'' in 1979 for smuggling money and works of art abroad, fined 22 billion lire, and sentenced to four years in prison. Ponti did not attend the hearing, as his French nationality made him immune from extradition. He was finally cleared of the charges in 1990.

Art collection

Ponti owned works by, among others,

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Georges Braque Georges Braque ( ; ; 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century List of French artists, French painter, Collage, collagist, Drawing, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with ...

, Renoir,

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(including his ''Lumière du pole'' from 1927),

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(including his ''Figure'' from 1933), Barbara Hepworth,

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and

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. His collection was renowned for containing ten works by

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. These included examples from his early Van Gogh series, triptychs, self-portraits and pope paintings, which were rarely publicised or lent to public exhibitions. In 1977 the Bacon paintings, then valued at an estimated $6.7 million, were seized and turned over by the Italian government to the

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in Milan; thirty-three sketches by

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went to a museum in

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. When Ponti reached a deal with the Italian government and was cleared of the charges brought against him in 1990, he regained possession of 230 confiscated paintings. At some point, the collection is said to have been split between Ponti and Loren.Colin Gleadell (January 30, 2007)
Art sales: Sophia Loren's slice of Bacon
''

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''. Over the years, several works have been sold privately. In 2006 two Bacon paintings that had previously been in the Ponti collection were exhibited in an exhibition at the

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in London. One, a vertical composition of four self-portraits, had already been sold to the American collector Steven A. Cohen. In 2007 another pope painting by Bacon, sold by Ponti in 1991, was sold in a private deal brokered by

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in New York for more than £15 million. That same year, ''Study for Portrait II'' (1956) was consigned by Loren at

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; it was auctioned for the record price of £14.2 million ($27.5 million).

Death

Carlo Ponti Sr died on January 10th, 2007 in

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, Switzerland, after being hospitalized for 10 days for pulmonary complications. Carlo Ponti Sr was 94 years old. He was survived by his daughter Guendalina (b. 1951), and his son Alessandro (b. 1953) from his first marriage; and by his second wife, Sophia Loren, and their sons Carlo (b. 1968) and Edoardo Ponti (b. 1973). His body rests in the family tomb in

Filmography

*'' Piccolo mondo antico'' (1940) * '' Giacomo the Idealist'' (1943) *'' A Yank in Rome'' (1946) * '' To Live in Peace'' (1947) * '' The White Primrose'' (1947) * '' Prelude to Madness'' (1948) *'' Hey Boy'' (1948) * '' Alarm Bells'' (1949) *'' The White Line'' (1950) * '' Her Favourite Husband'' (1950) * '' Figaro Here, Figaro There'' (1950) *'' A Dog's Life'' (1950) * '' The Knight Has Arrived!'' (1950) *'' Toto the Third Man'' (1951) * '' The Steamship Owner'' (1951) *'' Europa '51'' (1952) * ''

'' (1952) * '' The Piano Tuner Has Arrived'' (1952) * '' Toto in Color'' (1952) * '' Lieutenant Giorgio'' (1952) *'' Easy Years'' (1953) *'' Le infedeli'' (1953) *'' Carosello napoletano'' (1954) *''

'' (1954) * ''

'' (1954) *''

'' (1954) *'' Un americano a Roma'' (1954) *''

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'' (1954) *''

'' (1954) *'' The Miller's Beautiful Wife'' (1955) *''

'' (1956) *'' Il ferroviere'' (1956) *'' Guendalina'' (1957) *'' The Black Orchid'' (1958) *'' That Kind of Woman'' (1959) *'' Heller in Pink Tights'' (1960) *'' A Breath of Scandal'' (1960) *'' Two Women'' (1960) *'' Lola'' (1961) *'' A Woman Is a Woman'' (1961) *'' Léon Morin, prêtre'' (1961) *'' Cléo from 5 to 7'' (1962) *''

'' (1962) *'' Le Doulos'' (1962) *'' L'isola di Arturo'' (1962) *'' Redhead'' (1962) *'' The Empty Canvas'' (1963) *'' Landru'' (1963) *'' Les Carabiniers'' (1963) *''

'' (1963) *''

'' (1964) *'' Break Up'' (1965) *''

'' (1965) *'' The 10th Victim'' (1965) *'' Doctor Zhivago'' (1965) *'' Closely Watched Trains'' (1965, uncredited) *''

'' (1966) *'' The Firemen's Ball'' (1967, uncredited) *''

'' (1967, uncredited) *'' La Ragazza e il Generale'' (1967) *'' Ghosts – Italian Style'' (1968) *'' Diamonds for Breakfast'' (1968) *'' Zabriskie Point'' (1970) *'' The Priest's Wife'' (1971) *'' Oasis of Fear'' (1971) *'' What?'' (1972) *''

'' (1973) *''

'' (1973) *'' Dirty Weekend'' (1973) *'' Mr. Hercules Against Karate'' (1973) *'' Flesh for Frankenstein'' (1973) *'' Gawain and the Green Knight'' (1973) *'' The Voyage'' (1974) *'' The Passenger'' (1974) *'' Sex Pot'' (1975) *'' L'infermiera'' (1975) *'' Brutti, sporchi e cattivi'' (1976) *'' The Cassandra Crossing'' (1976) *'' A Special Day'' (1977)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ponti, Carlo Sr. 1912 births 2007 deaths People from Magenta, Lombardy Italian emigrants to France Italian film producers Naturalized citizens of France David di Donatello winners Nastro d'Argento winners University of Milan alumni Golden Globe Award–winning producers Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Loren–Ponti family