When I was 12 these ladies rang my bell

It was Sunday night, no UFO, no SPACE 1999, what we got on tv :
Salgari's Sandokan...Noooooooo...hiper boring...
But when the "Pearl of Labuan" character appears was love at very first sight !!!

Since 1972 she was a big star, this curly cutie french with german name was so popular, I really like her way of acting, in "The Passenger" she was hotter than hell...I love her stepsister Fiona Gélin too...

What can I say about Gloria ? She lived in my town for many years, I've never meet her, tall blond with green eyes, she was perfect for teenage fantasies...but I was 12...shame on me !

Emmanuelle the scandal ! Lovely dutch Sylvia was not so scandalous women, she was very elegant, and she speaked in Italian ! In anyway the sexiest in this list !

She was not really actrative to me, she looks 15 or younger, but in anyway she did a lot of movies in Italy, in a TV show the presenter introduced her as a 22 years british woman...she had a perfect italian with an huge southern inflection...she was an hippie communard at 16 in Sicily, Therese is a beautiful woman at 60, but she really looks as a 30something, no nip/tuck...She lives in Milan.

The Architect...Stefania was a lovely skinny redhead from Sondrio, I've never be there...in anyway she was a great actress and a smart woman.
Her face, in the 900 lobby cards, was SO beautiful !


Stefania is my favorite italian name.

I was sitting on a restaurant table with mom and dad...she was sitting table next mine during an argument with her mom...she was simply stunning...I didn't eat...she was my favorite face for years and years...her wallpaper with collyrium adv almost killed me in the 80's...next list...

In 1976 she had 5 movies released...one of them, Fulci's La Pretora had a real interesting uncensored poster...for the very first time I saw the...

I saw a bad spanish movie "Nights Of Satan" about an exorcism...later I didn't think about Satan and I was not scared 'cause Maria was in my mind...

The very first time I saw this beauty I was thinking : WOW Nadia Cassini is getting blonde... The power of B/W ! Obviously she was a real blond with magnetic blue eyes. She can dance, sing and act ! In Italy she did everything from Polansky to Fairy Tales for kids with her funny Minnie's voice !!!

Angel Face is her nickname, one of the most famous SIGNORINA BUONASERA, as we named the tv program announcers, surely the most beautiful.

She was in the cast of my favorites 70's tv show "NON STOP", an electric messy cabaret with stand-in comedians, she act as mime.
I was thinking she was the typical italian girl with an english stage name...even not really an original name : LOVE...
I was wrong...she was from Texas !

Fotonovelas, Fotoromanzi in Italian, had just one big female star : Claudia, the older sister of the stunning beauty below...

The sexiest italian woman alive...

She was great in Durbridge's The Other Man, extraordinaire in Gamma, then she had a baby with Claudio Lippi...when she came back to stage she shocked italian crowd with this pic !

This classic beauty had an extensive career in the italian cinema, she was quite frosty, pretty curious acting among the other actresses of the France/Italy connection.

Carrot skinned Marina was a stage actress from Tuscany, she was in many horror and giallo movies, "All Colors Of The Dark" for example, when she had a short haircut I've start to follow her...

I was in the locker room with my basketball team mates, one of the boys took a mag from the bag, I supposed a sports mag : hey let me see Hondo's ret...was Playboy...with this hottie dressed with a flower only...I was in HELL...

Yes, Michel Strogoff was a huge success on mid 70's italian TV.
Nadja the good fairy was this woman : Lorenza (very bad female name)...not so fairy in this photo.

Huge and elegant brunette, valet on the most famous italian quiz show, hot legs in short minis, SHE ROCKS !!!

King-Kong was a bad movie, even for a 12 years old boy...but Jessica was soooo good !!!

"To The Devil...A Daughter" the last Hammer movie, luckily wasn't the last for Nastassja...the daughter of (NOT SANTA) Klaus !

When I saw Marina Malfatti on tv she was in good company, the actor Giuseppe Pambieri, one of the handsome man in Italy, his wife was an immigrant girl from Argentina...the beautiful Lia Tanzi !

Sunday noon in winter time, it was cinema time always..."Silent Movie"
was a good title for a Sunday cinema...being flashed by this blond and waiting 20 years to know her name was NO good !

The american model behind Cat Stevens' Lady D'Arbanville and Wild World...and in front of Bilitis...

I didn't like Salgari, I'm a Jules Verne fan, Michel Strogoff isn't my favorite, but the mini-series made my fantasies work pretty good.
Sangarre the gipsy, I prefer the witch...Rada was a perfect character in both way...

I didn't know what symbol was behind the 666, now I know (thanks Maiden), not really involved in The Omen kind of movies, I was 12, but I wanted my Catechism teacher to resemble Lee Remick...
Kyrie Eleison !

This sultry austrian was very popular in Italy, but I saw her in a tv show good italian but quite too fat for me...I was in a downtown cinema, lobby cards of the next week movie : Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen. Big pic of her...OK, my mistake, she was not fat, she was perfect !!!

In 1976 RAI some old 60's TV programs was in re-run "The Adventure Of Laura Storm" among the others...when I saw this tall beauty from Venice I was speachless...



Photo : courtesy of Rick Terenzi

Carrie was a blockbuster even in italian cinemas, her blood covering photo in the lobby cards didn't impressive me much...this photo in the Domenica del Corriere did...