Laura Betti (May 1, 1927 - July 31, 2004) was an Italianactress. May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 153 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...
Betti made her film debut in Fellini's La Dolce Vita. She was a close friend of the director Pier Paolo Pasolini, for whom she made a documentary after his death. Federico Fellini (January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993) was a famous Italian film-maker and director. ... La Dolce Vita (1960) (translation The Sweet Life) is a film directed by Federico Fellini and usually cited as the film that signals the split between his earlier neo-realist films and his later symbolist period. ... Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922, Bologna-November 2, 1975, Ostia, Rome) was an Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. ...
The Italian actor and cabaret performer LauraBetti, who has died aged 70, was the driving force behind the Pasolini Foundation, which she set up in Rome after the death of the poet and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.
Laura was the temperamen tal star playing the Madonna, who was seen in the tableau vivant inspired by Pontormo's painting of the Deposition.
Laura returned to the theatre in 1968, in a revival of Giordano Bruno's heretical Candlemaker, and then appeared, under Pasolini's direction in a Turin art gallery, in his verse drama Orgia.