Gina Lollobrigida, La legge (US: The Law and Where the Hot Wind Blows!), Italy-France, 1958. Carrol Baker, Brigitte Bardot – Baby Doll and Bébé! – and Sophia Loren’s double, Scilla Gabel – they all passed on the flirtatious virgin maid, Marietta, from Roger Vailland’s Goncourt Prize–winning novel. Frenchmen Pierre Brasseur and Yves Montand were in the lumpen mix but La Lollo only had thighs for Marcello Mastroianni. Well, he was Italian, too. BB and MM made the much better Vie privée (UK/US: A Very Private Affair) in 1961.
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