Background
Mario was born on November 17, 1906, in Turin, Province of Turin, Italy.
University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Mario Soldati studied humanities at the University of Turin.
University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Mario Soldati studied History of Art at the University of Rome.
Mario Soldati
Mario Soldati
Mario Soldati
Mario Soldati
Mario Soldati
director journalist politician screenwriter writer
Mario was born on November 17, 1906, in Turin, Province of Turin, Italy.
Soldati attended the Liceo Sociale, a Jesuit school, and finished secondary school at age 17. He then studied humanities at the University of Turin. He later studied History of Art at the University of Rome.
After receiving his degree from the University of Turin in 1927, Mario immigrated to the United States. There he taught at Columbia University and found plenty of inspiration for his writing in Times Square.
He started publishing novels in 1929. Also interested in film, Soldati began directing in 1938. The book America primo amore, based on his time in New York, brought him critical and popular acclaim. He returned to Italy with an American wife and began writing screenplays such as made nearly thirty films. Some, like La Provinciate, were successful, others were not, but it did not affect the amount of his offerings. He lived luxuriously in some of Rome’s best hotels but eventually moved to the Ligurian coast and continued writing there. Soldati was intrigued by television when it was new and became involved in documentaries filmed for that medium.
Soldati continued working and writing well into his eighties, even covering the 1982 World Cup in Spain. He last work, Un Viaggio a Lourdes, a study of faith, was published weeks before his death.