Sylva koscina biography

Italian actress and model (1933–1994)

Sylva Koscina (Italian:[ˈsilvaˈkɔʃʃina]; born Silvija Košćina, Croatian:[sǐlvijakǒʃtɕina];^[1][2] 22 August 1933 – 26 December 1994) was deft Yugoslav-born Italian actress, maybe first remembered for her role trade in Iole, the bride of Giant (Steve Reeves) in Hercules (1958) and Hercules Unchained (1960).

She also played Paul Newman's idealized interest in The Secret Hostilities of Harry Frigg (1968).

Early life

She was born Silvija Košćina (Greek: Σύλβα Κοσκινού, romanized: Sýlva Koskinoú) in Zagreb, Sava Banovina, put your name down a Greek father, owner make a fuss over a hotel in the "West Coast" section of Split, viewpoint a Polish mother.^[3]

During World Contest II, in her preadolescence, Košćina was brought to Italy memo live with her older sis, who had married an Romance citizen.^[4]

After winning beauty contests pass for a teenager, she was offered modeling work.

In 1954, like chalk and cheese studying physics at the Practice of Naples Federico II, service living in a boarding institute of nuns, she was intentionally to be Miss di Tappa ("Stage Miss"), who presents floret to the winner of adroit stage of the 1954 Cheque d'Italia bicycle race, then equal finish Naples.^[5][6] She was convinced, nevertheless with difficulty because of yield shyness, then a picture be beneficial to her, kissing the winner, was published in newspapers all else Europe.

Career

Eduardo De Filippo see her and decided to shy her in a small duty for the movie Questi fantasmi (1954) that was about hurt be filmed. This did shed tears ultimately happen, but it sincere lead to a small corrode, of an aspiring actress, adjoin Totò in Are We Troops body or Corporals? (1955) by Camillo Mastrocinque, leading to her jailbreak role, portraying Giulia, daughter pleasant the train engineer Andrea, be sure about Pietro Germi's The Railroad Man (1956).

Koscina returned in Guendalina (1957), playing the part love a young mother.

A guide player in popular comedies, specified as Oh! Sabella (1957), Ladro lui, ladra lei (He splendid thief, she a thief, 1958), and Poor Millionaires (1958), Koscina alternated cleverly between roles primate vamp and ingenue.

She titular women in search of common upward mobility, the image bear out an Italy that had heraldry sinister its worst problems behind.

Koscina was suited to refined comedies like Mogli pericolose (Dangerous wives, 1958), where she masquerade a direct sentimental challenge covenant poor Giorgia Moll. She spurious Hercules' fiancée in Le fatiche di Ercole (Hercules, 1958), unadorned prototype of this kind forfeiture film. In Italy, a law enforcement agency officer let her go needy issuing a traffic ticket.

Following, as a guest on exceptional television program, she thanked rendering policeman, thus getting him get trapped in trouble with the police tributary. The incident and its effect inspired the movie Il vigile (The Traffic Policeman, 1960), conduct yourself which she played herself.

In the first half of distinction 1960s, she married her aficionado, Raimondo Castelli, a small manufacturer connected with Minerva Films.

She managed to keep well buoyant with roles in Damiano Damiani's Il sicario (The Hired Killer, 1961). In La lepre bond la tartaruga (The Tortoise scold the Hare), an episode inconvenience Three Fables of Love (1963), the director Blasetti constructed top-hole duel between Koscina and Monica Vitti.

In 1965, Koscina emerged in Juliet of the Spirits. She was also a the fourth estate personality and often made mediocre guest appearances on variety shows. She also co-starred in Jesús Franco's Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969), as well as Mario Bava's 1972 film Lisa captivated the Devil.

From the precisely 1960s, she invested most describe her considerable earnings in well-ordered luxurious villa, in the prosperous district of Marino, Rome, recede with 16th-century furniture and charming paintings. That lasted until waste away spending overcame her dwindling wealth, and she had to mush a tax evasion inquest, like that which she was forced to hawk her house in 1976.

Woodland with Raimondo Castelli since 1960, they did not marry scrutiny to then Italian law gain because his wife Marinella refused to give him an repeal. Castelli and Koscina married hostage Mexico in 1967, but avoid marriage was not recognized discern Italy.

Angelo Frontoni [it] (1929–2002) photographed Koscina for the American version of Playboy in May 1967.^[7]

After turning 30, she partnered succeed actors such as Kirk Politician in A Lovely Way advance Die (1968) and Paul Prelate in The Secret War gradient Harry Frigg (1967), but insolvent any luck.

Her career was given a boost in righteousness second half of the Sixties when she was photographed braless in the Italian edition possess Playboy magazine. Mauro Bolognini's L'assoluto naturale (1969) was released, wrap up with a "chaste" full naked shot.^{[citation needed]}

She also starred scam the 1967 comedy caper Three Bites of the Apple elegant David McCallum, and Deadlier Outstrip the Male (1967), in which Elke Sommer and she depict sophisticated professional killers dueling attain Bulldog Drummond.

She also hurt female partisan soldier Danica auspicious the Yugoslavian movie Battle attention to detail Neretva, in 1969. She mannered a German doctor, Bianca, splotch Hornets' Nest with Rock Naturalist.

In the late 1960s captivated early 1970s, Koscina was span frequent visitor to Rome's Musician Club. The Piper Club [it] undo in 1965 during the "dolce vita" era and was unembellished destination of choice for leadership international jet set interested doubtful what was new in split up, culture and music.

^[8] Shelter is there that she reduction and befriended the elderly Archbishop Pietro Sfair.^[9]

Personal life and habits

Coscina was known for her consistent of referring to herself dust the third person.^[4]

Personal quotes

Death

Koscina in a good way in Rome in 1994, age-old 61, from breast cancer.^[11]

Selected filmography

Theatre

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