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Valentina Cortese

posted 14 years ago by Pamela-5
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I am SO embarrassed! I watched this whole thing recently(for the second time; I think I saw it originally about 40 yrs. ago) and the whole time, I thought it was Valentina Cortese who played Rosella! In fact, I thought she was playing TWO roles: that of Rosella and that of Countess Bozo. Wow, was I wrong! I wondered how this Rosella Falk got that good part, but saw her date of birth and realized, well, she's a Scorpio! And Scorpios are very strong and usually get what they want!

To Valentina's credit, she did look BEAUTIFUL in the role of Countess Bozo.

Yeah, yeah, I know this film is considered to be very kitsch and skeezy, but, heck, I love films like this! I love Peter Finch, and I have always adored Kim Novak. So kill me, already! I can't help it! But I do agree: The last part of the film made the film SUCK. Aldrich must have lost his mind!

[–] bcrumpacker 12 years ago

I recognized her because she was in Juliet of the Spirits. As for the last part of the movie, it's basically a snuff film ending plus dog food commercial. People took a lot of drugs in the late sixties...

[–] katiekeene 12 years ago

just saw this awful film on TMC and had to turn channel before I died of boredom. how can the beautiful Kim Novak, handsome Peter Finch, and often great director Aldrich have made this tripe?

katie keene

[–] bcrumpacker 11 years ago

Don't know, but Kim quit making movies shortly thereafter. She is bipolar and so was probably a huge pain, but she came across well on the screen. PS Saw Valentina play a young Italian singer in the movie Malaya [1950]. I think she married Richard Baseheart in the fifties.