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Dino and Martha De Laurentiis Honored at SCA
April 2, 2012
The Legendary Producers Install an Endowed Professorship
Everyone who met larger-than-life producer Dino De Laurentiis has a story to tell and, on April 1st, the USC School of Cinematic Arts hosted a panel including producer and widow Martha De Laurentiis, producer and daughter Raffaella De Laurentiis, director Michael Mann, director Jonathan Mostow and former Governor of California and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger to honor the producing couple, and to share stories from Dino’s life.
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The evening was also a celebration of the Dino and Martha De Laurentiis Endowed Professorship in which SCA’s Mary Sweeney was installed. Martha De Laurentiis shared her wish that Dino’s legacy be continued at SCA, particularly his desire to work with young people.
“The thrust of what Dino always wanted to say was to embrace youth,” said Martha De Laurentiis. “Embrace the young blood. Take chances on creative minds. It’s so appropriate with what we are doing with USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. It’s so wonderful that Dino’s legacy
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“He never feared failure, and this is the only way you can be successful in life. I learned that from Dino.” So said Arnold Schwarzenegger at the funeral of the Italian film producer Agostino ‘Dino’ de Laurentiis. Dino’s C.V. reads like a surrealist notebook, timeless masterpieces like La Strada, Serpico and Blue Velvet cheek-by-jowl with flamboyant catastrophes. An ingenious financier and talent spotter, as well as an adventurous anti-snob, he was instrumental in the careers of neorealist icon Silvana Mangano (whom he later married), Al Pacino, David Lynch and Schwarzenegger, as enlightened and audacious an operator in post-war Italy as in eighties Hollywood. De Laurentiis was born in the Neapolitan seaside region of Torre Annunziata in 1919. After early work as a truck driver and a travelling salesman for his father’s pasta company, he applied to the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, initially as an actor, though not for long: “I see my face in the mirror and I said, ‘No, my ambition is not to be an actor’.” Army service during world war II delayed his film career, but on his return to Italy he took a producing job at Lux studios. Buoyed by the success of his 1949 film Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice), which starred his future wife, Mangano, he formed his own company