Vittorio De Sica helped shape postwar cinema as a pioneering Italian director and actor in neorealist films such as Sciuscià and Bicycle Thieves.
German-born actress Elke Sommer has died at age 85 in Bel Air, Los Angeles. Her Hollywood breakthrough came with The Prize, and she later starred in The Pink Panther sequel A Shot in the Dark. Sommer also pursued painting and endured a famous defamation case with Zsa Zsa Gabor.