Scilla Gabel
She was born Scilla Gabellini, one of five siblings, in Rimini on the Adriatic coast. Scilla initially studied law at Oxford University, graduating with a doctorate. Her interest in pursuing a legal career waned quickly, however, since her next move was a return to Italy for acting classes at Rome's Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica. At the age of seventeen, the voluptuous, blue-eyed Scilla became a body double for Sophia Loren (to whom she bore more than a passing resemblance), notably in the classic Boy on a Dolphin (1957). Two years later, she underwent cosmetic surgery to look less like Sophia in order to forge her own screen image. In 1963, Scilla featured on the cover of several magazines, including Playboy, the Milanese publication Le Ore and Parade (at the time, the most widely read weekly in the U.S.). Though she went on to command leads in a number of films during the 60s, Scilla tended to be typecast in roles which emphasized her physical attributes, rather than her acting ability. She appeared most often in genre films, anything from innocuous sex comedies (Genitori in blue-jeans (1960), Bel Ami 2000 oder Wie verführt man einen Playboy? (1966)) to swashbuckling costume dramas (La Venere dei pirati (1960)), and from spaghetti westerns (Johnny Golden Poker (1966)) to peplum spectacles (Death on the Arena (1962), The Revenge of Spartacus (1964)). After 1971, she was afforded more challenging and critically acclaimed roles as a star in Italian TV miniseries. Eleven years after leaving the screen, Scilla attracted media attention as a result of the murder of her 87-year old landlord father Giuseppe, by a crazed tenant at his villa on the via Campi di Torre Flavia in Ladispoli.
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Modesty Blaise
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Mill of the Stone Women
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Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
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The Shortest Day
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Two Colonels
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Target for Killing
as La TigraA secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress.
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The Revenge of the Gladiators
as CinziaFriends of Spartacus achieve revenge on the plotter who tries to make political capital out of...
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Three Faces of Sin
as RossanaLaurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her...
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Romulus and the Sabines
as DusiaThe classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of...
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Son of Cleopatra
as LiviaIn Roman-dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a...
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Noi duri
as JosetteLieutenant Bombardone is in Paris to wipe out a gang of drug traffickers.
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Corpse for the Lady
as RenataLaura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and...
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Colossus of the Arena
as ThalimaA powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the...
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Legs of Gold
as Gianna SavelliBaron Luigi Fontana is a rich and stinging producer of fine wines, as well as president of the...
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How to Seduce a Playboy?
as Anita BiondaA young man is chosen by a magazine company to be a modeled into a public heart-throb while...
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Village of Daughters
as Angelina VimereatiA salesman from England is picked to select one girl in an Italian town who will become a bride...
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The White Warrior
as Princess Mario VorontsovaThe story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight...
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The Queen of the Pirates
as Isabella, the Duke's DaughterIn 16th century Italy, on the Adriatic coast, the duchy of Doruzza is governed by a tyrannical...
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No Man's Land
as Signora De RossiA group of traveling persons end up as prisoners of a German sergeant and his squad, in an...
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Odissea
as ElenOdysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus...
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Bastard, Go and Kill
as SusannaChaco, a Mexican on the run from just about everyone, is framed for the killing of a couple of...
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Genitori in blue-jeans
as ColetteSome middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.
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Outlaws of Love
as WilmaThis film is very much a docudrama which portrays the difficulties of Italian life circa 1963...
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I ragazzi dei Parioli
as NucciaA tale on the Italian upper class of the '60s and their ways to kill time.
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La salamandre d'or
as BéatriceIn 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of...
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Gente felice
as GinaTanino, who lives in a village without a cemetery, goes to a deputy to obtain the land necessary...
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The Festival Girls
as NadjaHollywood stars go wild at the Riviera film festivals.
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I piaceri del sabato notte
as PatriziaBehind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of...
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Tua per la vita
as La sartina dell' AtelierA humble young woman takes care of his sister's child while also hiding her feelings towards her...
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Take Me As I Am
as GinaThe director of the Rome office of an American news agency is seduced by his boss' daughter, who...
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Seven Slaves Against the World
as ClaudiaTribune Marcus Aulus, out of favor in Rome because of his alleged sympathy for Christians,...
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Tender Sharks
as ZeezeeWhile an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship.
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Girls of the Night
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Djurado
as Barbara DonovanDjurado is a gun-slinging professional gambler who struts into the small town of Silver Mine and...
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Arms of the Avenger
as Isabella - duchessina di CollinaltoUsing Leonardo Da Vinci's innovative designs for weapons of war, flying engines and other...
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The Odyssey
as ElenaItalian miniseries based on Homer's Odyssey.
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That Awful Mess on Via Merulana
as Liliana BalducciItalian miniseries about a homicide that occurred in Rome during the 1920s.
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