La Dolce Vita teenage "Umbrian angel") were shot on location at Passo Oscuro, a small resort town situated on the Italian coast 30 kilometers from Rome. Fellini scrapped a major sequence that would have involved the relationship of Marcello with Dolores, an older writer living in a tower, to be played by 1930s Academy Award-winning actress Luise Rainer. If the director’s dealings with Rainer "who used to involve Fellini in futile discussion" were problematic, biographer Kezich argues that while rewriting the screenplay, the Dolores character grew "hyperbolic" and Fellini decided to jettison "the entire story line." The scene in the Trevi Fountain was
David Rocco's Dolce Vita David Rocco's Dolce Vita David Rocco's Dolce Vita is a television show hosted by David Rocco airing since 2010. The show is shot on location in and around the cities and countrysides of Italy, following the cultural, social, and culinary escapades of Rocco and his friends. Besides cooking, the show explores the Italian ways of life and ways of food in this culture exposé. Rocco and his wife Nina traipse around Florence and Sicily, cooking dinner for friends, checking out local hot spots, and living the sweet life. The recipes that Rocco makes are generally easy to follow, classic Italian