Legendary Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis died on November 11, 2010. In a career spanning over 50 years, he was responsible for producing a wide variety of films, from critically lauded films like La Strada, Ragtime, and Three Days of the Condor, to utter cheesefests such as the 1976 remake of King Kong. Several books about De Laurentiis’s life and career are listed below.
King Kong : the history of a movie icon from Fay Wray to Peter Jackson Special Collections Rogg Collection (Oversize)(*) — PN1995.9.K55 M67 2005
Movie moguls speak : interviews with top film producers Fine Arts Collection Stacks PN1998.2 .M72 2004
Dino De Laurentiis : the Italian years & beyond Special Collections Rogg Collection (Oversize)(*) — PN1998.3.D422 D56 2002
The creation of Dino De Laurentiis’ King Kong Fine Arts Collection Stacks PN1997.K4374 B3 1977