Suso Cecchi d'Amico

Giovanna Cecchi (21 July 1914 – 31 July 2010), known professionally as Suso Cecchi d'Amico, was an Italian screenwriter and actress. She was one of the first female Italian screenwriters and helped pioneer the Italian neorealist movement. Though her screenwriting career spanned sixty years, she won the 1980 David di Donatello Award for lifetime career as well as the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 1994 Venice Film Festival. Cecchi d'Amico worked with virtually all of the most celebrated post-war Italian film directors, and wrote or co-wrote many award-winning films—among them: Franco Zeffirelli: The Taming of the Shrew, Brother Sun, Sister MoonLuchino Visconti: Bellissima, Rocco and His Brothers, Senso, Ludwig, The ..."> ()