Editing Vittorio De Sica (section)

==Early life==
[[File:De Sica V fine anni venti.jpg|thumb|left|De Sica in the late 1920s]]
De Sica was born on 7 July 1901 in [[Sora, Lazio]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Lambiase |first=Sergio |date=20 February 2013 |title=Foto e lettere inedite di De Sica, il ciociaro cosmopolita che voleva essere napoletano |url=https://corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/napoli/notizie/arte_e_cultura/2013/20-febbraio-2013/foto-lettere-inedite-de-sica-ciociaro-cosmopolita-che-voleva-essere-napoletano-2114112646498.shtml |work=[[Corriere del Mezzogiorno]] |language=it |access-date=22 June 2016}}</ref> His father Umberto De Sica was from [[Giffoni Valle Piana]], [[Campania]]; he was a journalist, and in the later years worked for the Bank of Italy.{{sfn|Curle|Snyder|2000|p=8-9}} Teresa Manfredi, his mother, had [[Naples|Neapolitan]] origins. De Sica was baptised in the church of San Giovanni Battista in Sora under the name Vittorio Domenico Stanislao Gaetano Sorano De Sica. He had a very close relationship with his father and later dedicated to him the film ''[[Umberto D.]]'' The first interest in cinema sparked in Vittorio due to his father's occasional performances in silent movies: he filled in for the pianists. As an adult, Vittorio De Sica described their family state in his early years as 'tragic and aristocratic poverty'.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=De Siza - Actor Director |magazine=Continental Film Review |page=14 |date=July 1965 |url=https://archive.org/details/Continental_Film_Review_1965-07.good/page/n11/mode/1up?q=sora |access-date=7 December 2021}}</ref>{{sfn|Curle|Snyder|2000|p=8-9}}

In 1914, the family moved to Naples. Upon the outbreak of the [[World War I|First World War]], they moved to [[Florence]]. Eventually, they settled down in Rome. At the age of 15, De Sica started performing as an actor in amateur plays staged in hospitals for recovering soldiers. He started studying to become an accountant when in 1917 through a family friend [[Edoardo Bencivenga]] he got a small part in the Alfredo De Antoni film ''[[The Clemenceau Affair]]''.<ref>{{cite web
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