POSITANO: Ben Affleck

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Movie Stars on The Amalfi Coast Capri

ROCK STARS WRITERS & MOVIE STARS

On CAPRI and The AMALFI COAST

ITALY

Humphrey Bogart and Gina Lollobrigida

BEAT The DEVIL

Ravello

Clark Gable & Sophia Loren

IT STARTED in NAPLES

Yes, Movie Stars, Rock Stars, and writers, they all go to the Amalfi Coast, Ravello (Gore Vidal),

and the beautiful Isle of Capri, like: Neruda, Valentino, Jackie Kennedy, and Italian film directors

Federico Fellini and Dino De Laurentiis. In the 50s and 60s Capri and the Amalfi Coast saw the likes of Sophia Loren, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, Jack Lemmon,Vittorio De Sica, and Gina Lollobrigida all make movies in the area, to name but a few. We saw Jack Lemmon make another film in the area in the 1970s when he made Macaroni with the great Italian actor, the great

Marcello Mastroianni in the vibrant southern Italian capital city of Naples. It's a marvelous movie, and if you've never seen it, we suggest you do.

The 1990s saw the likes of Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and the late great

Phillip Seymour Hoffman shooting The Talented Mr. Ripley on the local islands of Procida and

Ischia. Parts of the film were also shot in Rome, Venice, and San Remo.

The 90s also saw Robert Downey Jr., Marisa Tomei, Fischer Stevens, and Billy Zane in a cute

Romantic Comedy that starts in Pittsburgh, moves on to Venice, a drive through Tuscan, and on to Rome before the finale in Positano on The Amalfi Coast. The characters stayed in the luxurious

Le Sirenuse Hotel. It's a cut little film, and all the Italian locals are just gorgeous.

We don't see another major American movie set on The Amalfi Coast until a small part of the film

Under The Tuscan Sun, starring Diane Lane is shot there in 2003.

Nowadays we are seeing lots of major celebrities vacationing on Capri, Positano and The Amalfi Coast. This past Summer of 2021 saw "Bennifer" Jennifer Lopez and beau Ben Affleck celebrating Jennifer's 52nd Birthday on a Luxury Yacht moored off of Capri, Positano, and the namesake town of Amalfi. Rapper / actor LL Cool J was spotted hanging out with former NBA great Irvin Magic Johnson on the Isle of Capri, where Magic celebrated his 59th Birthday at a restaurant on Capri with his wife, friends, and family. Denzel Washington loves Positano as well, and has been spotted at

Chez Black and Music on The Rocks, both in Positano, and Best Selling Italian Cookbook writer Daniel Bellino Zwicke has been vacationing in Positano and Capri since the Summer of 1985. His latest book, is Positano The Amalfi Coast Cookbook & Travel Guide.