Beyond Los Angeles, few cities hum with the memory of cinema’s golden age as loudly as Rome. In the 1950s and ’60s, the Italian capital had more cool per capita than anywhere on the planet. Both responsible for and synonymous with the fashion, music, nightlife – and, of course – cinema of the day, Rome was at the centre of it all, with the biggest names in the film world helping to re-establish the ‘Eternal City’ as an icon in its own right.

Burton and Taylor, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Marlon Brando, Kirk Douglas, Audrey Hepburn: all of them lived and worked here for a time. It was the ‘Hollywood on the Tiber’, and at the centre of it all was Cinecittà Studios.