Valentina Cortese and Lee J. Cobb, "The House on Telegraph Hill" (1951) directed by Robert Wise and co-starring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz's "The Barefoot Contessa" (1954), with Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien. In Europe she starred in Michelangelo Antonioni's "Le Amiche" (1955), Gérard Brach's "The Boat on the Grass" (1971), Terry Gilliam's British film "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988), and in Franco Zeffirelli projects such as the film "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" (1972), the miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth" (1977) and the film "Sparrow" (1993). Her final American film role was in "When Time Ran Out"
Baron Munchausen protagonist of the first animated cartoon series in cinema history, was created by John Randolph Bray in 1913 as an amalgamation of the Baron and Teddy Roosevelt. The Italian director Paolo Azzurri filmed "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" in 1914, and the British director F. Martin Thornton made a short silent film featuring the Baron, "The New Adventures of Baron Munchausen", the following year. In 1940, the Czech director Martin Frič filmed "Baron Prášil", starring the comic actor Vlasta Burian as a 20th-century descendant of the Baron. For the German film studio Ufa's 25th anniversary in 1943, Joseph Goebbels hired