iBorn 7 Jul 1901
Vittorio De Sica was a matinee idol of 1930s Italian comedies before he turned to directing in the early 1940s. Shoeshine (1946), Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Umberto D. (1952) made him a central figure of neorealism, and he kept taking acting work for the rest of his life partly to fund the films he…