Trapeze

…as Harry Houdini; Carol Reed’s Trapeze (1956), as an Italian aerialist; and Sweet Smell of Success (1957), as an unprincipled press agent. In The Defiant Ones (1958), set in the racially segregated South, his portrayal of an escaped white prisoner chained to an African American convict (played by Sidney Poitier)…

…but Dangerous) and Carol Reed’s Trapeze (1956). She starred with Anthony Quinn in Notre-dame de Paris (1956; The Hunchback of Notre Dame) and with Yul Brynner in King Vidor’s Solomon and Sheba (1959). In 1961 Lollobrigida appeared with Rock Hudson in the romantic comedy Come September. She later