Cristina Gaioni (born Maria Cristina Gaioni; 4 November 1940) is an Italian actress, sometimes credited as Cristina Gajoni and Cristina Gaioni Visentin.
Born in Milan, Italy, Gaioni studied acting at the drama school of Piccolo Teatro under Giorgio Strehler. [1] In 1960 she won a Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Renato Castellani's ...And the Wild Wild Women . [2]
Sylva Koscina was a Yugoslav-born Italian actress, maybe best remembered for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules in Hercules (1958) and Hercules Unchained (1960). She also played Paul Newman's romantic interest in The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968).
Renato Salvatori was an Italian actor.
Armando Trovajoli was an Italian film composer and pianist with over 300 credits as composer and/or conductor, many of them jazz scores for exploitation films of the Commedia all'italiana genre. He collaborated with Vittorio De Sica on a number of projects, including one segment of Boccaccio '70. Trovajoli was also the author of several Italian musicals: among them, Rugantino and Aggiungi un posto a tavola.
Adolfo Marsillach Soriano was a Spanish actor, playwright and theatre director. He was born in Barcelona.
Elsa Martinelli was an Italian actress and fashion model. Described by The Guardian as a "versatile star of Hollywood’s international years whose work spanned romantic comedies, period epics and spaghetti westerns", she went on to star opposite Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Charlton Heston, and Anthony Quinn, be directed by André De Toth, Vittorio De Sica, Howard Hawks and Orson Welles on both sides of the Atlantic.
Massimo Serato was an Italian film actor with a career spanning over 40 years.
Rik Battaglia was an Italian film actor.
Pasquale Festa Campanile was an Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist, best known as a prominent exponent of the commedia all'italiana genre.
Rosanna Schiaffino was an Italian film actress. She appeared on the covers of Italian, German, French, British and American magazines.
Eleonora Rossi Drago, born Palmina Omiccioli, was an Italian film actress. She was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy, and had the leading role in Le amiche. She appeared in Un maledetto imbroglio. In 1960, for her performance in Estate violenta, she won the best actress prize of the Mar del Plata Film Festival and the Nastro d'argento. In 1964, she appeared in La Cittadella. She died in Palermo, Italy.
The Nastro d'Argento is a film award presented annually since 1946 by the Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics.
Sergio Fantoni was an Italian actor, voice actor, playwright and director.
Alessandra Panaro was an Italian film actress of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Scilla Gabel is an Italian film, television, and stage actress. She appeared in 50 films and multiple television programs between 1954 and 1988.
José María Caffarel Fábregas was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in more than 170 films between 1957 and 1998. He was born in Barcelona and died in Madrid, Spain.
Lisa Gastoni is an Italian film actress. Gastoni was named "Best Italian Actress of the Year, 1966" as she received both the Nastro D'Argento Award and the Golden Globe Award from Italy's Foreign Press Association.
Hélène Chanel is a French actress of Russian heritage. She was active in the 1960s in a variety of European international co-productions of sword and sandal, Eurospy and Spaghetti Westerns. She was credited with a variety of names such as Hélène Chancel, Helen Chanel, Sheryll Morgan, Helen Stoliaroff and Hélène Stoliaroff.
Gabriele Tinti was an Italian actor who was married to actress and model Laura Gemser.
Angela Portaluri is an Italian actress and model. As an actress, she appeared in I mostri (1963) and Be Sick... It's Free (1968). She was the 1956 Italian candidate to Miss World, although she had not won the Miss Italia contest, and took part into several fotoromanzi.