Sandra Milo (c) Elisa Leonelli
Italian actress Sandra Milo died today January 29, 2024 at age 90.
She became famous after acting in Federico Fellini’s movies 8 1/2 (1963) as the mistress of Guido (Marcello Mastroianni), and Juliet of the Spirits (1965) as the glamorous neighbor of Giulietta Masina.
In 2009 she revealed having been the director’s secret lover for 17 years.
I took a couple of portraits of Milo’s smiling face in 1983 while attending an award ceremony at Cinecittá, the famed movies studios in Rome.
That year I spent three months in Italy and France, photographing movie stars like Stefania Sandrelli, Terence Hill, Monica Vitti, Ugo Tognazzi, Michele Placido, Giuliana DeSio, Gian Maria Volonté, etc.
If you read Italian, click on this article of Best Movie’s website.
Goodbye Sandrocchia (the nickname Fellini invented for her).