Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poems and The Notebooks of Malte Laurīds Brigge were making him the talk of European intellectuals. From his large, sensual mouth came a flood of such poetic fancies as his description of a tangerine, "in which a summer is folded up very small like an Italian silk handkerchief in a nutshell...
While most of the U.S. movie industry was prudently cutting production costs at home last week, its biggest studio was on a spending jag in Rome. Using $4,000,000 in blocked Italian lire and $1,000,000 in frozen sterling (for British actors), M-G-M began production on what promised to be the most colossal film spectacle of all time...
...bought 12,480 yards of specially dyed material to be made into togas, had cornered 10,000 pieces of gold-plated jewelry for Quo Vadis' 5,000 extras. From Roman shoemakers, he had ordered 6,250 pairs of handmade sandals, and from the women of the Italian Alps, several hundred silky-haired wigs. For the circus scenes in Quo Vadis, there would be six fighting bulls, a stable of horses to pull 14 racing chariots, 50 lions to be set upon persecuted...
...city, Cinedtta, for the actual shooting of Quo Vadis. A German army barracks during the war, Cinedtta had been stripped of all electrical equipment, and its sound stages had been smashed and gutted. A hurry call for Metro's own big generator went out to Hollywood and the Italian government lent two more from the torpedoed battleship Vittorio Veneto...
Palace & Circus. By the time Producer Sam Zimbalist and Stars Deborah Kerr and Robert Taylor arrived, Nero's Rome was as lavish as the original. Some 3,000 Italian workmen were putting the last careful touches on a mammoth reproduction of Nero's palace and a wooden replica of the Emperor's circus. A facsimile of the slimy, green-watered River Tiber had been dug, and for the single scene to be shot outside Cinedtta, a section of the Appian Way had been repaved...