This tall, dazzling, yet reserved and sensitive foreign import was born Giovanna Scoglio in Liverpool, England but moved to Sicily with her aristocratic Sicilian father and Irish mother at three months of age. She migrated to New York at age 14 and attended Bayside (Queens) High School, graduating in 1952. She worked various jobs as a file clerk ...
Was once involved with actor Steve McQueen during her New York years (between 1952-1954).
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First attempted suicide in 1958, after the death of her mother. She later tried again, after her ex-husband, Don Burnett, married Ironside (1967) star Barbara Anderson, a year after their divorce.
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Was cast by Universal to play the role of Mary Magdalene in a film originally to be entitled "The Galileans," but the movie ended up being scrapped.
Arrested over a dispute with a downtown Los Angeles parking lot attendant when she refused to pay an additional fifty cents overtime charge, and an altercation ensued. [April 1971]
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Is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, USA, next to her mother.
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Her sportscar turned over on a winding canyon road in July 1971 and she lost part of her index finger.
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Memorable, in The Guns of Navarone (1961), for her role as a Greek resistance fighter who presumably had been so horribly tortured by the Nazis that she became mute.
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