Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit. Along with Dino De Laurentiis, he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing Italian cinema post-World War II, producing some of the country's most acclaimed and financially-successful films of the 1950s and 1960s.
Ponti worked with many of the most important directors of Italian cinema of the era, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Vittorio De Sica, as well as many international directors such as Agnès Varda and David Lean. He helped launch the career of his wife, international film star Sophia Loren. He won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film for La Strada (1954) and was nominated for Best Picture for producing Doctor Zhivago (1965). In 1996, he was appointed as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Read more...The December 11, 1912 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 345 day of the year. President of the United States was William Howard Taft.
If you were born on this day, you are 112 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 271 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, December 11, 2025, in 93 days. You have lived for 41,179 days, or about 988,302 hours, or about 59,298,137 minutes, or about 3,557,888,220 seconds.
Date: 12 December 1912
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times
Marconi Wireless
Churchill admits asking for removal of Lord Adm Sir F Bridgeman
Date: 12 December 1912
Special to The New York Times
Birmingham News ed F P Glass accuses Bryan of having tried to the last to sidetrack Wilson, Atlanta
Date: 12 December 1912
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES
men may go free because of insufficient evidence
Date: 12 December 1912
Reorgn plan eliminates all depts and their heads
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Idaho Sup Ct rules Boise Capital-News (pub) eds must explain why they should not be punished for publicizing Roosevelt views on ct decision which kept Roosevelt electors off ballot
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Date: 11 December 1912
Australian playwright C H Chambers int, NYC
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Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Date: 11 December 1912
arrive NYC; he tells reporters murder was error committed by 2 drunken gunmen; says Becker wanted Rosenthal bribed or scared off; McIntyre hopes raised; sees new trial for Becker; Rose says Webber is lying; Webber calls Whitman to deny he gave statement to reporters; Lubans say high police official offered them money not to testify; Ferrick trial set
Date: 11 December 1912
Special to The New York Times
conf officially opens; Roosevelt s on various issues; again outlines his 4-yr plan of campaigns; endorses Flinn, Perkins and Munsey; they speak; Addams offers detailed program by which party propaganda should be carried on; others speeches noted; conf nominates Roosevelt for Pres of US in '16