Belgian-Italian actress Catherine Spaak, muse of post-war Italian comedy, died on Sunday at the age of 77, the Rai television channel of which she was a popular face reported on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Victim in 2020 of a cerebral hemorrhage, she died in a Roman clinic, according to Italian media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daughter of Belgian screenwriter Charles Spaak and French actress Claudie Cl\u00e8ves, niece of former Belgian Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, one of Europe’s “founding fathers”, Catherine Spaak was born on April 3, 1945 in Boulogne, France. -Billancourt, in the western suburbs of Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She toured with Jacques Becker (“Le trou”) before leaving for Italy where she became an actress and star presenter both in cinema and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I didn’t want to be an actress but a classical dancer, unfortunately I was too tall at the time. But doing this job saved me,” she said after her hemorrhage in one of her last interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She appears in “The Fanfaron” by Dino Risi, “The nine-tailed cat” by Dario Argento, “Week-end \u00e0 Zuydcoote” by Henri Verneuil or even “Scandale secret” by Monica Vitti. In total, she will shoot in 80 feature films for cinema and television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Singer, she notably recorded in 1963 “Quelli della mia et\u00e0”, an adaptation of “Tous les Gar\u00e7ons et les Filles” by Fran\u00e7oise Hardy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the 1980s she devoted herself to television as a host \/ presenter and participated in the 2000s in reality TV shows. From 1988 to 2002, she hosted a “talk show” for women on Rai 3, where she received, among others, Catherine Deneuve, Monica Bellucci, Isabel Allende and Ornella Muti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Farewell to sensuality and rebellion,” the major daily La Repubblica reacted on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Twitter, the president of the Cannes festival Pierre Lescure paid tribute to her “youthful and free beauty” while the writer Henry-Jean Servat hailed “the eternal adolescent of Italian cinema”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Heroine of tangy comedies where her wild charm and her chubby pouts worked wonders, she embodies with pep the sparkling epic of the Dolce vita”, he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Italy, the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini spoke of “an eclectic, cultured and elegant artist who had found in our country a home that welcomed and loved her”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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