In 1953, he helped to find many famous fashion designers including the Fontana sisters, Alberto Fabiani, Vincent Ferdinand, Giovannelli-Sciarra, Mingolini-Heim, Garnet, Simonetta Stefanelli the U.S. - Italian High Fashion Syndicate.
He leaves the country without saying goodbye to Kay, and takes refuge in Sicily, where he falls in love with and marries a local young woman, Apollonia (Simonetta Stefanelli).
Born in Rome, she is the daughter of actor-director Michele Placido and actress Simonetta Stefanelli.
Simonetta Stefanelli | Cicco Simonetta | ''Portrait of Countess Simonetta Cavazzi della Somaglia'' (1660s) by Pierfrancesco Cittadini, Museum of John Paul II Collection |
He acted in Don Camillo sequels, John Huston's Beat the Devil, Luigi Comencini's Bread, Love and Jealousy, and international films such as Woman of Straw, and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather as Signor Vitelli, father of Michael Corleone's love Apollonia.