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Authors: Eugene Walter as told to Katherine Clark

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Eugene Walter and Ginny Becker picnicking in Italy with friends.
(© KOO STROO)

A scene from “The Cat Cabaret,” a marionette production by Eugene and Ginny Becker, Rome.
(photographer unknown.

COURTESY OF KATHERINE CLARK)

Virginia Campbell (Ginny Becker), who lived in an apartment in the Palazzo Caetani and performed marionette productions with Eugene, Rome, 1960s.
(photographer unknown, courtesy

OF KATHERINE CLARK)

Eugene Walter and Princess Brianna Carafa enjoying a picnic outside of Rome. (photographer unknown, courtesy of Katherine Clark)

Eugene Walter and Isak Dinesen during her visit to Rome in the late 1950s. (photographer unknown, courtesy of Katherine Clark)

A contact sheet of photographs of Eugene and Isak Dinesen. (photographer unknown, courtesy of Katherine Clark)

Handwritten program by Eugene Walter for a concert in honor of Isak Dinesen, performed at a party given by Princess Brianna Carafa, Rome, 1957. (courtesy of Katherine Clark)

Leontyne Price, American opera diva and a good friend of Eugene, Rome. (©
H. M. Null)

Wanani, a nightclub singer at Bricktop’s, an establishment under the Via Veneto in Rome that Eugene frequented.
(photographer
unknown, courtesy of Katherine Clark)

Eugene Walter on the set of Fellini’s
8
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Michelangelo Durazzo
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Federico Fellini (foreground) and an assistant in a lobster trap during a charade at his house in Fregene, Italy.
(photograph by Eugene Walter, courtesy of Katherine Clark)

Eugene Walter as Mother Superior in Fellini’s Juliet of the Spirits. (© Ferrill Amacker)

The painter Mitty Lee Brown Risi in front of her “morgue” apartment, where she threw a party for the visiting Isak Dinesen. (photographer unknown, courtesy of Katherine Clark)

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