Matt Cimber
| Matt Cimber | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Thomas Vitale Ottaviano 1936 |
| Spouse(s) | Jane Baldera (1954–1963) Jayne Mansfield (1964–1966) Christy Hanak (1967–?) Lynn Fero (?-present) |
| Children | 3 |
Matt Cimber (born Thomas Vitale Ottaviano in 1936) is an Italian–American film producer, director and screenwriter. He was the last husband of Jayne Mansfield. Cimber directed her on stage and in one movie, Single Room Furnished (1968). They divorced the year before her death in a car crash.
Cimber married his first wife Jane Baldera in 1954, and together they have two children, Katie and Venicio. They divorced in 1963. Cimber married his second wife Jayne Mansfield the following year, and have one son, Antonio. They divorced 19 July 1966 even if the divorce was not completed when Mansfield died (because of the interlocutory decree period in California). Cimber married his third wife, Christy Hanak in 1967. He is now married to his fourth wife, Lynn Fero.
Cimber began his career in the early 60s directing off-Broadway plays including works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams and the US premieres of the Jean Cocteau trilogy. During his theater years, Cimber adapted Burning Bright by John Steinbeck which introduced Sandy Dennis who went on to win an Academy Award for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). Cimber then directed the Broadway revival of Bus Stop, where he met his future wife Jayne Mansfield.
Matt made his cinematic directorial debut (credited on-screen like Matteo Ottaviano) with the offbeat Single Room Furnished (1966), which was also Jayne Mansfield's last movie. Cimber directed Man and Wife in 1969 and He and She the following year. He followed this movie with the film The Sexually Liberated Female (1970), which was based on a best-selling book The Sensuous Female by J.
Cimber did three blaxploitation pictures in the mid 70s: The Black 6 (1973), Lady Cocoa (1975) and The Candy Tangerine Man (1975) which Samuel L. Jackson has been quoted as saying is his "favorite film." In 1976 Matt made a rare foray into the horror genre with the disturbing psychological shocker The Witch Who Came from the Sea. His next work was based on a Mario Puzo story, a World War II drama Time to Die (1982) starring Rex Harrison.
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