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Circus elephants crossing the city with their trainers, amazed crowd looks at them. Venice 1954 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Toshiro Mifune holds a cinecamera on Riva Schiavoni by St Mark Square. Venice, September 1961 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Stefania Sandrelli as Annella in the movie "Il Fornaretto di Venezia" directed by Duccio Tessari, Venice 1961 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Luchino Viscontiholds the "le Notti Bianche" (White Nights) book, sitting next to Marcello Mastroianni, Venice Lido September 1957 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Italian actress Claudia Cardinale, portrayed looking behind her right shoulder, wearing a woolen scarf and black tights, Rome 1959 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Anthony Quinn as Barabbas in the namesake 1961 movie directed by Richard Fleischer (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). More here

Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni, wearing a blazer and sunglasses, portrayed on a water taxi along the Canal Grande, in Venice for the Cinema Counter Festival, 1973 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Curzio Malaparte holds his dachshund Cecco in a blanket. Forte dei Marmi, 1954 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

American actor Roger Moore in Venice, 1979 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Edward G. Robinson drinking coffee, Cannes 1950 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

A handcraft lace class, Burano 1949 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

A model in a Christian Dior outfit near Piazza San Marco, Venice June 1951. In the background is the island of San Giorgio Maggiore (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Venice 1958 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

American actor Rod Steiger, Lido, Venice, 1965 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

1960 Heavyweight Olympic boxe champion Franco De Piccoli trains in the Venice's countryside of Campalto, 1962 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Shirley MacLaine talks to a fan on the Lido beach, Venice 1960 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Federico Fellini portrayed among Valentina Cortese and Giulietta Masina in front of the Excelsior hotel, Venice Lido 1955 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

A boat and a gondola approach the first Venice traffic light, 1951 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

A young Brigitte Bardot, french model, singer and actress, at Cannnes Movie Festival, wearing a nude-back shirt and big round earrings, Cannes, 1955 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Accountants count piles of banknotes at the San Remo Casino, 1950 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Jane Birkin at the Venice Movie Festival, 1984 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida wearing an embroidered dress and a straw hat, portrayed in a close-up, the Canal Grande behind her, Venice, 1954 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Maintenance of small parts of the Tower clock of St Mark's square, Venice 1953 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Pino Pascali hugs a woman in front of his sculpture "Esopo's Feathers", Venice Art Biennale 1968 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Wim Wenders and his camera at Lido for the Movie festival, Venice 1982 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Pierpaolo Pasolini and a friend sit on a balustrade, Venice Lido 1950 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Italian actress Sophia Loren portayed standing on a terrace on the Canal Grande, wearing a white embroidered dress, Venice, 1955 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See More

Gilbert Becaud in Lido, Venice 1962 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

A model in a Tita Rossi outfit, Rome 1960 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Igloo houses, Milan 1951 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Abbe Lane lying on the foreshore of Lido beach in Venice 1956. (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Servicing the Tower clock mechanism in St Mark's square, Venice 1953 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Spanish painter Salvador Dali', wearing a shantung blazer and a fancy silk waistcoat, a straw hat, holding a walking-stick, sitting on a gondola, a gondolier behind him, Venice 1961 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Actress Lilly Greco stands on a boat on the Venice Lido beach, summer 1953 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

American jazz musician Chet Baker playing trumpet on a window ledge in Lucca 1961 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Flora (Vanna) Torrigiani, Venice 1951 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Carroll Baker sitson the edge of a water taxi in St. Mark's basin, Punta della Dogana in the background. Venice 1960s (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Antonella Lualdi and Claude Chabrol, Venice Lido 1959 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Men working inside a wooden sail boat frame, Venice Chioggia 1950 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Silvana Mangano talks with Kirk Douglas on a taxi boat along Grand Canal in Venice, 1953 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

A Renault 4L car steps Rialto Bridge down, Venice 1961 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Elizabeth Taylor sits on a sunbed on Lido Beach, Venice 1950 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

A kid and his dog run on a gangway in foggy St Mark's square, Venice 1971 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Climbers on the bell tower of St Mark's square, Venice 1966 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Antonella Lualdi on Venice Lido's beach, 1953 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

French ballet dancer Ludmilla Tcherina before the show, Milan 1955 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Albacora sinks in the Venice Giudecca shipyard (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Andre' Gide, Neuchatel, 1948 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

American film director Orson Welles, bare-chested with linen trousers, hugging the italian actress Anna Magnani, wearing a polka-dotted strapless dress, the Lido beach on the background, Venice 1948 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Antonella Lualdi, Venice Lido 1957 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Spanish opera singer Placido Domingo portrayed in Lido, Venice, 1984 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Jean Simmons sits on an sunbed, Venice Lido 1950 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

British singer Mick Jagger, wearing a suit, sitting next to Bianca Jagger wearing a white poncho and sunglasses, in a gondola, with the gondolier behind them, Venice 1971 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Joan Crawford hides behind a lace fan, Venice 1970 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Liza Minnelli and husband Mark Gero have lunch, in Lido for the "Tribute To Ingrid" Gala, Venice Lido 1983 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

French Actress Catherine Deneuve, sitting on a chair in St. Mark Square, costumed, next to an easel with a Square painting on it, on the set of the movie 'Mayerling', Venice, March 1968 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

The Autorimessa Piazzale Roma, first Venice car garage in Piazzale Roma, 1950 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

American actor Rock Hudson with Novella Parigini, Venice, 1954 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

American actor Paul Newman, wearing a tuxedo and a bow tie, portrayed during a trip on a water taxi, a sailor cap on the dashboard, Venice 1963 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Scottish actor Sean Connery, portrayed on a water taxi with his hair in a mess because of the wind, in the venetian lagoon with Venice in the background, 1970s (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

A model's reflection watches us from a mirror, 1948 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

A suit by Carosa: black woolen jacket with a scarf in black breitschwanz. Rome, 1951 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Yves Saint Laurent and Paloma Picasso, 1973 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Anne Baxter looks for a lighter in her bag, Cannes 1953 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

The 1966 Venice Flood doesn't stop a waiter of Caffè Florian in St Mark's square (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

American actress Jane Fonda portrayed in Lido, Venice, 1967 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Burt Lancaster reads a letter while sitting in a gondola, Venice 1962 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Warren Beatty sits on a sail boat side on the Lido beach, Venice 1956 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Virna Lisi at Lido beach, Venice 1958 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

French actress Myriam Bru on the beach, Lido, Venice, 1952 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

Jeanne Moreau sits on a sunbed, Lido beach, Venice 1961 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori). See more

St Mark's square under the November 1966 Venice Flood (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).

Shirley MacLaine surrounded by reporters upon reaching Venice's train station, 1960 (Photo by Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche / © Carlo Pescatori).