Birth Anniversary: Alberto Lattuada — November 13, 1914

Alberto Lattuada was born in Milan on 13 November 1914. He came to directing through the writing rooms of the literary adaptations of those years, and his own first film, Giacomo l’idealista, came out in 1943 — an elegant, bookish debut in the manner critics later called calligrafismo.

A note on this date. Treccani's entry was written in his lifetime and carries no date of death; the day, 3 July 2005, comes from a single record. We publish it with the warning rather than leave the page out, and if you can point us to a register or an archive that carries it we will confirm or correct it.

Dates verified on Treccani, Enciclopedia del Cinema, for the birth; the Library of Congress Name Authority File for the year of death.