


#ARGENTO GLITTERATO TV#
Argento then directed the TV drama La porta sul buio: Testimone oculare (1973) and the historical TV drama Le cinque giornate (1973).
#ARGENTO GLITTERATO MOVIE#
Argento wanted to direct the movie himself because he did not want any other director messing up the production and his screenplay.Īfter "The Bird With the Crystal Plumage" became an international hit, Argento followed up with two more thrillers, Il gatto a nove code (1971), starring 'Karl Madlen' (qv" and 'James Fransiscus', and 4 mosche di velluto grigio (1971) ("Four Flies On Black Velvet"), both backed by his father Salvatore. It's a loose adoption on Fredric Brown's novel "The Screaming Mimi", which was made for his father's film company. After its release Argento wrote and directed his first movie, L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo (1970), which starred Tony Musante and and British actress Suzy Kendall. Inspired by the movies, he later found work as a screenwriter and wrote several screenplays for a number of films, but the most important were his western collaborations, which included Une corde un Colt. After graduation, instead of going to college, Argento took a job as a columnist for the Rome daily newspaper "Paese Sera". Argento started his career writing for various film journal magazines while still in his teens attending a Catholic high school. Along with tales spun by his aunt, Argento was impressed by stories from The Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen and Edgar Allan Poe. Argento based most of his thriller movies on childhood trauma, yet his own-according to him-was a normal one. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk tales told by his parents and other family members, including an aunt who told him frighting bedtime stories. Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo.
