Scilla Gabel
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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.
Known for
Credits
Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
as Tamar
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
as Toni
Modesty Blaise (1966)
as Melina
Mill of the Stone Women (1960)
as Elfie Wahl
The Queen of the Pirates (1960)
as Isabella, the Duke's Daughter
The Shortest Day (1963)
as L'amante di un soldato (uncredited)
Tender Sharks (1967)
as Zeezee
Romulus and the Sabines (1961)
as Dusia
I ragazzi dei Parioli (1959)
as Nuccia
The Odyssey (1969)
as Helen
Target for Killing (1966)
as La Tigra
Outlaws of Love (1963)
as Wilma
I piaceri del sabato notte (1960)
as Patrizia
La salamandre d'or (1962)
as Béatrice
Three Faces of Sin (1961)
as Rossana
The Revenge of the Gladiators (1964)
as Cinzia
The White Warrior (1959)
as Princess Mario Vorontsova
Son of Cleopatra (1964)
as Livia
Colossus of the Arena (1962)
as Thalima
Genitori in blue-jeans (1960)
as Colette
Bastard, Go and Kill (1971)
as Susanna
No Man's Land (1962)
as Signora De Rossi
The Fruit Is Ripe (1961)
as Kissa
Seven Slaves Against the World (1964)
as Claudia
Tua per la vita (1955)
as La sartina dell' Atelier
Arms of the Avenger (1963)
as Isabella - duchessina di Collinalto
Take Me As I Am (1960)
as Gina
Una storia di notte (1964)
as Turista tedesca
Mara (1961)
as Mara
Il terrore dei mantelli rossi (1963)
as Cristina
How to Seduce a Playboy? (1966)
as Anita Bionda
Girls of the Night (1958)
as Lola
Due sosia in allegria (1956)
Actor
Legs of Gold (1958)
as Gianna Savelli
Village of Daughters (1962)
as Angelina Vimereati
Two Colonels (1963)
as Iride
La grande vallata (1961)
Actor
Gente felice (1957)
as Gina
Noi duri (1960)
as Josette
Corpse for the Lady (1964)
as Renata
Djurado (1966)
as Barbara Donovan
The Festival Girls (1961)
as Nadja
Con rispetto parlando (1965)
as Vittoria Oriani, in arte Patricia D'Altamura
Le avventure di Ulisse (1969)
as Elena
Johnny Belinda (1969)
as Belinda