Marcello Mastroianni uncredited extra in "Marionette" (1939) when he was fourteen, and made intermittent minor film appearances until landing his first big role in "Atto d'accusa" (1951). Within a decade he became a major international celebrity, starring in "Big Deal on Madonna Street" (1958); and in Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" opposite Anita Ekberg in 1960, where he played a disillusioned and self-loathing tabloid columnist who spends his days and nights exploring Rome's high society. Mastroianni followed "La Dolce Vita" with another signature role, that of a film director who, amidst self-doubt and troubled love affairs, finds himself in a creative block
The Apartment In 2002, a poll of film directors conducted by "Sight and Sound" magazine listed the film as the 14th greatest film of all time (tied with "La Dolce Vita"). In 2006, "Premiere" voted this film as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time". American Film Institute J. D. Sheldrake: "But when you've been married to a woman for twelve years, you don't just sit down at the breakfast table and say 'Pass the sugar and I want a divorce.'" The Apartment The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy film, produced and directed by Billy Wilder from a