Mario Bava
To be added.
Thanks, I will add the image for Pavan. Which still leaves the mystery of Monica Neri, credited as playing "Egle" in the German programme (a character ANICA credits to Rosalba), but there is no character by the name Egle in the film. Anyway once I have finished posting the unidentified actors the available possibilities will be more obvious.Johan Melle wrote: ↑09/04/2021, 1:27Helena is very probably played by Grazia Collodi in a dark wig, but I'll have to dig out the fotoromanzi I have with her to make sure.
Elisabetta Pavan is the naked girl chained to the tree. She is better known as Liz Kubiska (with about 50 different spellings of her name) and was a very pretty prominent fotoromanzo actress. She used the name Elisabetta Pavan in the first few fotoromanzi she appeared in at the start of the 1960s and then changed her name to Liz Kubiska, so presumably Elisabetta Pavan was her real name and she changed it to something more "exotic". There's also a 1950s fotoromanzo actress named Elsa Pavan who resembles her a lot. I strongly suspect Liz is Elsa's younger sister, but I obviously can't prove it.
Anyway, the identification of Gaia Germani surely cannot be considered as absolutely certain.
Yeah, sorry. I didn't think about that. No problem, though. Liz might get her own topic anyway since she appears to have done a fair bit of uncredited work.PeplumParadise wrote: ↑09/04/2021, 1:38Unfortunately these comments before the topic is completed will have to be deleted, or else copied and posted below once it's finished.
Gaia Germani is credited in the role of the sibil in the credits in the German programme, from the films original release. It also lists Monica Neri as the mysterious Egle.Johan Melle wrote: ↑09/04/2021, 1:27Anyway, the identification of Gaia Germani surely cannot be considered as absolutely certain.
I'm copying this message as a quote since it is relevant, but I am deleting the original post as it was breaking the flow of the initial topic.FatmanDan wrote: ↑09/04/2021, 1:14In Tim Lucas: Mario Bava – All the Colors of the Dark, Cincinnati 2007, S. 461 (a book for which I was happy to contribute with some German (then VHS) prints of Bavas films to support Lucas' searching) he tells about an interview in which Rosalba said she was not able to fulfill the contract and instead sent sister Monica to play the part she was intended for... (Helena). Very mysterious...
Incidentally, just today I received the perfect 3-DVDs with many extras (interviews, reviews etc, plus the Bava-shot ´Quel bandito sono io`[1949]) ))