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Sylva Koscina's Biography
Date of birth (location)
22 August 1933, Zagreb Yugoslavia
Date of death (details)
26 December 1994, Rome Italy, after a long illness
Born in Yogoslavia, Sylva Koscina studied physics at the University of Naples, But she was also Miss Di Tappa at the Tour of Italy bicycle race in 1954 and, above all, a fashion model.
She made a fleeting appearance in the part of an aspiring actress in Siamo uomini o caporali? [Are we men or caporals?](1955) before making a flying catch at her great opportunity: she is Giulia, daughter of the train engineer Andrea, in Pietro Germi's Il ferroviere [The Railroad man](1956). Pretty, and even too elegant for the part, Sylva Koscina immediately confirms her talent in Guendalina (1957) where she has no difficulty playing the part of a young mother. But her daughter, a charming Jacqueline Sassard, steals the show.
A lead player in popular comedies like Nonna Sabella [Grandmother Sabella] (1957), Ladro lui, ladra lei [He a thief she a thief] (1958), and Poveri millionari [Poor millionaires] (1958),Koscina alternated cleverly between roles as vamp and as ingenue. She represented women in the search for social upward mobility, the image of an Italy that had left its worst problems behind.
Sylva was suited to sophisticated comedies like Mogli pericolose [Dangerous wives] (1958) where she makes a direct sentimental challenge to poor Giorgia Moll. But she also seemed at ease draped in a peplum: she makes a marvelous fiancee for Hercules in Le fatiche di Ercole [Hercules] (1958), a prototype of this kind of film. Il vigile [The policeman] (1960), where she plays her own self, gives us a true example of her popularity: in order to win her over, Alberto Sordi, then a traffic officer in real life, lrt her go without a ticket. sylva, guest on a television program, thanked him on the air, thus getting him into lots of trouble.
An actress noted for her carriage, Sylva has an "important," entirely feminine way of walking on the screen (and at times she professes it as in Mogli pericolose where she lectures Giorgia Moll on how to walk like a lady). In many of her roles she gives the impression of modeling at a fashion show, head high, mouth very slightly open, eyes lost in the distance. She is the elegant actress of the sixties with an aristocratic manner bordering on snobbery.
In the first half of the sixties Sylva Koscina bacame the wife of Raimondo Castelli, a small producer connected with Minerva Films. She managed to keep well afloat with roles that were anything but negligible such as the dramatic part in Damiano Damiani's Il sicario [The hired killer] (1961). In La lepre e la tartaruga [The Hare and the Tortoise], an episode in Le quattro verita [The Three Fables of Love](1963), the director Blasetti constructs a deliciously sophisticated duel between her and Monoca Vitti. Then, in 1965 Sylva takes part in Giulietta degli spiriti [Juliet of the Spirits] as one of Juliet's sisters. But she also becomes a television personality who is often the special guest on variety shows.
After passing thirty, she too tried playing the American card. She partnered actors such as Kirk Douglas in A Lovely Way to Die (1968) and Paul Newman in The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1967), but without luck. Her fame being a bit tarnished, it was given a boost in the second half of the sixties with her appearance, photographed bare-breasted, in the Italian edition of Playboy magazine. There was nothing obscene in the exquisite photography by Angelo Frontoni, but the simple fact of such a popular actress appearing in the slick pages of a for-men-only magazine provoked a scandal.
Thus the image of Sylva, based on an elegant and slightly snobbish femininity was enriched with a touch of the erotic. This occurred also because in that period Mauro Bolognini's L'assolute naturale [He and She] (1969) was released complete with a "chaste" full nude shot. This was a sign of the radical change Italian cinema and society were undergoing.
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IN THE 1980'S SYLVA KOSCINA HAD A LONG RUNNING LIVE THEATRE PERFORMANCE IN ROME. BY THEN A MATURE BUT STILL BEAUTIFULL SYLVA, PERFORMED EVERY NIGHT IN THE NUDE. I REMEMBER AT THE TIME SEEING PICTURES OF THE PLAY.
