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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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06 July 1961
Hollywood stars go wild at the Riviera film festivals.
21 June 1959
The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.
20 August 1966
Djurado is a gun-slinging professional gambler who struts into the small town of Silver Mine and wins half of the local saloon, the other part of which belongs to Barbara, whilst battling notorious outlaw Tucan.
13 March 1962
A salesman from England is picked to select one girl in an Italian town who will become a bride for a native son.
03 December 1963
This film is very much a docudrama which portrays the difficulties of Italian life circa 1963 due to the absence of a divorce law.
04 October 1962
Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera.
23 November 1966
A young man is chosen by a magazine company to be a modeled into a public heart-throb while being dogged by a persistant reporter out to expose the fraud the company is putting out.
24 February 1960
Lieutenant Bombardone is in Paris to wipe out a gang of drug traffickers.
02 March 1962
A group of traveling persons end up as prisoners of a German sergeant and his squad, in an isolated and precarious cabin in the country.
01 May 1966
Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist.
27 August 1958
Baron Luigi Fontana is a rich and stinging producer of fine wines, as well as president of the amateur football team of Cerignola who, to crown a triumphant championship, is about to be promoted to Serie C.
18 February 1959
A tale on the Italian upper class of the '60s and their ways to kill time.
10 March 1967
While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship.
04 October 1955
A humble young woman takes care of his sister's child while also hiding her feelings towards her sister's lover.
17 June 1959
The greatest adventure of jungle king Tarzan. Four British villains raid a settlement to obtain explosives for use in a diamond mine.
13 August 1969
After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka. [Theatrical version of the 1968 mini-series.
08 March 1957
Tanino, who lives in a village without a cemetery, goes to a deputy to obtain the land necessary for the cemetery.
12 September 1961
Laurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her antique shop and tries to seduce her.
30 August 1960
Hans von Arnam travels to a Flemish village to study a strange carousel located in an old windmill that displays famous murderesses and other notorious women from history.
18 August 1960
In 16th century Italy, on the Adriatic coast, the duchy of Doruzza is governed by a tyrannical duke, Zulian, and his haughty daughter, Isabella.
04 May 1960
Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.
29 September 1966
A secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress.
22 June 1961
It is fruit-picking season in the plain and pickers come from all over and live in a camp for several weeks.
31 December 1962
In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Charles-Quint, with the Constable de Bourbon on their side.
14 February 1963
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
10 February 1960
Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.
16 April 1958
In Marseille Father Hermann has created a home for the ex-prostitutes to accommodate a new start to a better life.
13 September 1962
A powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the beautiful Queen in prison, which he thwarts by exposing a sinister duke as a traitor.
15 November 1961
The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from Sabina where there are a lot of women.
06 March 1971
Chaco, a Mexican on the run from just about everyone, is framed for the killing of a couple of Mexican cattlemen.
28 August 1964
Tribune Marcus Aulus, out of favor in Rome because of his alleged sympathy for Christians, arrives to take charge of an aqueduct project on the hot, arid fringes of the Empire.
05 January 1963
In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test.
31 October 1963
Using Leonardo Da Vinci's innovative designs for weapons of war, flying engines and other machinery, three brothers join forces to fight a wicked and powerful Duke in early-Renaissance Italy.
24 September 1964
Friends of Spartacus achieve revenge on the plotter who tries to make political capital out of the rumor that he is still alive.
31 December 1964
In Roman-dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns that he's actually the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar.
19 August 1964
Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovanna in the meantime become a nun to collect the amount requested.
29 January 1960
The director of the Rome office of an American news agency is seduced by his boss' daughter, who subsequently ends up dead at the foot of a cliff.
22 November 1956
TWO LOOK-A-LIKES IN HAPPINESS is a 1956 comedy film directed by Ignazio Ferronetti, starring Lauro Gazzolo, Anna Maria Ghiani, and Scilla Gabel, with a running time of 85 minutes.
