1. Sylva Koscina played Paul Newman's romantic interest in The Secret War of Harry Frigg.
16 Facts About Sylva Koscina
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Sylva Koscina was born Silvija Koscina in Zagreb, Sava Banovina, to a Greek father, owner of a hotel in the "West Coast" section of Split, and a Polish mother.
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Sylva Koscina was convinced, but with difficulty because of her shyness, then a picture of her, kissing the winner, was published in newspapers all over Europe.
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Sylva Koscina returned in Guendalina, playing the part of a young mother.
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Sylva Koscina represented women in search of social upward mobility, the image of an Italy that had left its worst problems behind.
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Sylva Koscina was suited to sophisticated comedies like Mogli pericolose, where she made a direct sentimental challenge to poor Giorgia Moll.
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Sylva Koscina played Hercules' fiancee in Le fatiche di Ercole, a prototype of this kind of film.
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Sylva Koscina managed to keep well afloat with roles in Damiano Damiani's Il sicario.
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Sylva Koscina was a television personality and often made special guest appearances on variety shows.
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Sylva Koscina co-starred in Jesus Franco's Marquis de Sade: Justine, as well as Mario Bava's 1972 film Lisa and the Devil.
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Castelli and Sylva Koscina married in Mexico in 1967, but that marriage was not recognized in Italy.
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Sylva Koscina's career was given a boost in the second half of the 1960s when she was photographed bare-breasted in the Italian edition of Playboy magazine.
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Sylva Koscina starred in the 1967 comedy caper Three Bites of the Apple with David McCallum, and Deadlier Than the Male, in which Elke Sommer and she portrayed sophisticated professional killers dueling with Bulldog Drummond.
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Sylva Koscina played female partisan soldier Danica in the Yugoslavian movie Battle of Neretva, in 1969.
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Sylva Koscina played a German doctor, Bianca, in Hornets' Nest with Rock Hudson.
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Sylva Koscina died in Rome in 1994, aged 61, from breast cancer.