During the 1950s and 1960s bosomy, scintillating, dark-haired Tunisian leading lady Sandra Milo played bored patricians, manipulative mistresses and other enticing ladies of questionable morals with typical sensuous flare in scores of Italian and French productions. Born Elena Liliana Greco in Tunis in 1935, she made her film debut (renamed Sandra Milo) at age 20 co-starring tauntingly alongside Alberto Sordi in Le célibataire (1955) [The Bachelor]. For the next full decade, she unleashed her fiery figure on a number of tempted male players in scores of saucy comedies, feisty costumers and steamy melodramas. Such films included Les week-ends de Néron (1956) [Nero's Mistress], Les aventures d'Arsène Lupin (1957) [The Adventures Arsène Lupin], Le miroir à deux faces (1958) [The Mirror Has Two Faces], Totò nella luna (1958) [Toto in the Moon], Le général della Rovere (1959) [General della Rovere], and the period comedy romp La jument verte (1959) [The Green Mare] starring the great French actor Bourvil, which served as the inspiration to the bawdy classic "Tom Jones."
Ms. Milo appeared to fine advantage in two of Fellini's greatest masterpieces - Huit et demi (1963) and Juliette des esprits (1965) [Juliet of the Spirits]. She personified the aloof Italian temptress opposite Europe's most virile, passionate leading men -- Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Sorel, etc. She left films in 1968 and did not return until a decade later, now and then in severe-looking characters - and often blonde.
