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Sylva Koscina's Interview
=== Family Weekly AUGUST 17, 1969 ===
Old-Fashioned Girl in a Mod World
I AM OLD-FASHIONED. I've lived with the same man for 13 years. Are we married? Well, sort of ...
"I am a cocktail---a mixture."
"I am a good businesswoman, too. Money? I don't have any. I spent it all on my house and my furniture. I'm broke."
Confused? I should have been. But Sylva Koscina had explanations for the contradictions. And, believe it or not, most seemed logical when I visited her in San Marino, a suburb of Rome.
"This is the first real home I have ever had," Sylva said as she showed me around. "I make a little money from the vineyards here. I built the homey cottage where I am living now, and I am building another, bigger house nearby. The big house will be a little more pretentious."
Whatever anyone else may say, I found that Sylva has a conviction that she is old-fashioned, "I don't like flirtations or changing men like a toothbrush," she admitted. "I believe in being true to myself, in being feminine. I've lived with the same man for 13 years, as I said. Oh, sure, we were married in Mexico, but in Italy this doesn't count because he was married before. We've never had any serious problems, maybe because he is 19 years older."
Sylva's husband is Raimondo Castelli, who was a film distributor when she met him. Some consider Castelli a Svengali, having great influence over Sylva. But from the beginning, he has guided her career excellently. And I found him a rather charming, bald, middle-aged Cary Grant, who appeared genuinely concerned about Sylva.
Sylva was born in Yugoslavia. Her father was Greek-Italian., her mother Polish. ("That's why I call myself a cocktail mix.")
While in school, she appeared on major Italian magazine covers. "But I really wanted to become an actress," Sylva confessed, "and I was very naive about it. I got a lot of offers - ah, but not for any pictures!"
But with Castelli, she did well in European films. Her uncommon ambition was recognition in Hollywood. "For years I yearned to go there," Sylva says, "but nothing happened. So when a publicist suggested that I pose nude for a magazine, I accepted."
But indeed before Sylva appeared in the magazine she was chosen to costar with Paul Newman. Then came costarring parts with Kirk Douglas and Rock Hudson - the latter in United Artists', "The Hornet's Nest."
To Sylva, her house is her most "real" possession. "Maybe because I can see it, because I can touch it," she told me. "I know that when I am 40 or 50, I won't be alone. If nothing else, I will have the house. For the past few years, I've put all the money I made into it. That's why I have nothing in reserve. But I can live in one house and rent the other. Because of this house, I've made some poor pictures. I needed the money."
Sylva loves Hollywood. "I miss it,"she says.
When I asked whether she would like to live there, she looked around proudly and told me: "Six months a year, maybe. Here - are my roots. I'm old-fashioned about having roots."
