Claudia Cardinale
 

I saw that there was a tribute to actress Claudia Cardinale at the Telluride Film Festival last week.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/toddmccar...n_of_telluride

And that inspired me to finally sit down and watch Once Upon a Time in the West. With all the tight close-ups of Cardinale in the movie, I was struck by how much she looked like... who?

Now it's like a melody that's stuck in my head, and I want to sing it to anyone who will listen so that they might tell me the name of the song.

http://surlezinc.blogs.com/photos/un...dinale_opt.jpg
http://www.westernposterpage.com/Cardinale2%2011x14.jpg
http://ferdyonfilms.com/West%205.jpg

What contemporary female (who's name can't I think of) looks just like CC in those pictures?

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My jaw hit the floor the first time I saw her in Once Upon A Time In The West. Just gorgeous!

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She looks better than any of them, even though anachronistic lashes and whatnot helped the equation.

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ditto. She makes Monica Bellucci look like an average gal...

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Nobody makes Monica Bellucci look average, not even the beautiful Claudia.

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:rolleyes: Dude...

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Trust me, I know. I love Bellucci's work, and the fact that she's married to Cassel makes them an awesome powerhouse of acting as well.

But Cardinale, man.....she's something else.

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http://www.gossipnews.it/cinema/non_...inale_aa08.jpg

You got that right.

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Aaaaaaah!!!!

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:wacko:


I meant when she was relevant....and hot.

On a serious note: Bellucci is a better actress than Cardinale. Cardinale when she was younger was hotter than Bellucci.

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Agree to disagree. :thumbsup:

Apples to melons. :shrug:

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Jesus...that pic you chose really shows off her rack. I almost want to say that CC's is bigger than MB's?

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With melons like those, we all win!

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Not exactly contemporary, but Christina Ricci c. Anything Else + Reese Witherspoon c. Freeway ≈ Claudia Cardinale c. Girl with a Suitcase

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britney spears in her prime?

http://www.judiciaryreport.com/image...pears-2003.jpg

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Probably the most beautiful woman to ever appear onscreen IMO. Beat it like it owed me money.

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Monica bellucci at any age was hotter than Claudia at any age. It's fact!

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My apology that she's not really "contemporary", but this is who I was thinking of:

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I can see it in your 1st comparison. The 2nd one...not so much.

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I was working with what I could find on Google Image search and I wanted to stick to Cardinale pics from OUATITW.
The resemblance is about the pouty mouth and shape of the chin, and you really got a lot of that with Leone's straight ahead close-ups in the film, but I thought there was a good nose match in the b/w pics.
But Alicia is who I was thinking of. I realized it today when I saw Paul Rudd in EW.

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.....how does Paul Rudd correlate to Alicia Silverstone?

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He was in Clueless;

I would say she's like a mix of Kate Mara and Jessica Simpson. But Silverstone does look like her in that first pic.

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I never saw her appeal.

Bridgette Bardot
Marilyn Monroe
Ingrid Bergman
Ava Gardner
Veronica Lake

all far more attractive.

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I've always been more of a Gina Lollobrigida fan myself:

http://www.yourdrum.com/yourdrum/ima...llobrigida.jpg

http://www.handjiveuk.com/images/gin...llobrigida.jpg

And a recent picture (don't know how recent, but she's 83 now!)--better than Claudia if you ask me:
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/20..._300x426,0.jpg

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Cardinale looked best in 8 1/2. It's the absolute peak of her beauty.