Liliana Betti | |
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Born | 1937 Nigoline, Province of Brescia |
Died | 19 August 1998 (aged 60–61) |
Other names | Liliane Betti |
Occupation | Screenwriter and director |
Liliana Betti (1937 – 19 August 1998) was an Italian screenwriter and director. She was sometimes credited as Liliane Betti.
Born in Nigoline, Province of Brescia, Betti in 1957 moved to Rome, where she became a real life friend of Federico Fellini. Fellini referred to her as "her boss" and as "the little goddess of ideas", and Betti was a collaborator, a casting director, a script supervisor and a second unit director for many of his films until 1980. As a screenwriter, she also often collaborated with Marco Ferreri and Enrico Oldoini. In 1991 she was nominated at the David di Donatello Award for best screenplay for Ferreri's The House of Smiles.