Sandra Milo, Who Had Star Turns in Fellini Films, Dies at 90

Ms. Milo had three kids by two companions, and her personal life was typically fodder for tabloids and shiny magazines. With gaps of various lengths — together with a lull that started within the late Nineteen Sixties when she raised her kids — she labored till her loss of life, most just lately on actuality tv exhibits.

At 77, she participated within the Italian version of “Celeb Island,” during which low-buzz celebrities are plunked right into a wild habitat to fend off nature; she was eradicated within the semifinal spherical. Final yr, she was a contestant on the Italian version of “The Masked Singer,” and took part within the second season of an Italian actuality program monitoring the adventures of three so-called golden women (common age: 80).

Sandra Milo was born Salvatrice Elena Greco in Tunis on March 11, 1933. She moved along with her household to Tuscany as a toddler and recalled experiencing worry and starvation throughout World Battle II.

Her mom referred to as her “Lily,” she stated within the 2019 documentary, however she didn’t prefer it. “It felt too mild,” she stated, and it didn’t replicate who she was. She selected the identify Sandra, she defined, as a result of the primary syllable, “san,” is mushy “like a caress,” she stated, whereas the second, “dra,” “may be very harsh, very dry, and resembles me as a result of I’m that too.”

She selected the final identify Milo after a photograph shoot she had finished in a city exterior Rome was printed with the caption “The Milo of Tivoli,” a reference to the “Venus de Milo,” she stated in an interview.

After a wedding at 15 that lasted solely 21 days, she moved to Milan to mannequin after which to Rome to behave. She discovered work and obtained her massive break in 1959 when she acted in Rossellini’s “Il Generale Della Rovere,” a crucial and box-office success. Two years later, she labored with him once more on the drama “Vanina Vanini,” however that film flopped so badly, and her efficiency was so viciously panned, that it practically derailed her profession.