Claudia Cardinale, the sexy Italian movie star who appeared in classic Italian films including Fellini’s “8½” and Visconti’s “Rocco and His Brothers” and “The Leopard,” Sergio Leone’s spaghetti ...

Italian actor Claudia Cardinale, best known for starring in some of the biggest European films of the 1960s and 1970s, has died, her agent said Wednesday. She was 87. Cardinale died in Nemours, France ...

In 1984 Cardinale starred opposite Mastroianni in Marco Bellocchio ... she did not learn to speak Italian until she had already begun to be cast in Italian films. She made her film debut in 1958’s ...