able to spend a lot of time together and we were lucky, because our house was very close to the offices. The girls were very young and we went home even at mid-day, to spend with them the afternoon nap, and take advantage of this break to concentrate on reading scripts. Then they reached school age, for example I was always home by the time they came back from school, I wanted them to know that that if they needed me, I was always there. We always spent the holidays together and, even during business trips, if it was worthwhile, they were always with us. For example, if we needed to choose a location for a movie, the girls were traveling with us. And always in Italian! Since they were young, we have always spoken Italian with them and still I speak only Italian with my daughters”.
Career Milestones It is okay that Marta to be the wife of the legendary Dino Laurentiis, a true icon of Italian and world cinema, but this film producer with unstoppable success also has a name of her own and is Schumacher. Martha Schumacher was born in Ohio, in the beautiful area of the Great American Lakes. Since she was a girl, she has always been a specific person, a born manager, who believes that in her life, her talent would eventually take her to contribute to ambitious companies, to people capable of great achievements. She worked on film productions already in the mid 70s, working on accounting, the heart of everything as she calls it. In the early 80s, she started working in New York for the Dino De Laurentiis Company during the production of the wonderful film ‘Ragtime’, by Milos Forman. And then she met Agostino (Dino) De Laurentiis and the love between the two was inevitable. And she is capable, of impeccable precision and skills, and she is also so beautiful, but above all also soon she became very loved. So beloved that the union between the two became formal, soon it became marriage. Married since 1983, their love story has always been exciting and founded on mutual unconditional trust. A relationship that brought the two of them not only to restructure the
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