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 ...

Iconic Italian actress Claudia Cardinale, a prominent figure in 20th-century cinema, died Tuesday at 87. Cardinale died in Nemours, France, on Sept. 23, according to her agent, France 24 reported.

A sex symbol with girl-next-door appeal, she rose to fame in the 1960s and starred in more than 150 films, including the Oscar-winning ‘8½’ and ‘The Leopard.’ Claudia Cardinale in an undated photo.

SDIFF began because of a wonderful man named Victor Laruccia. He imagined it not just as a festival to showcase Italian films but what he liked to call an Italian perspective. Another element of the ...