Sylva Koscina

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Title

Sylva Koscina

Subject

Cork Film Festival, Sylva Koscina, Italy

Description

This is a black and white photo of the Yugoslav-born Italian actor Sylva Koscina, seated and smiling broadly up at the camera. Koscina is wearing a light-coloured full skirted three-quarter length off-the-shoulder dress accessorised with opera-length white gloves.

Koscina (1933-1994) played in The Railroad Man (Pietro Germi, 1956), Hercules (Federico Teti, 1958), and acted alongside Paul Newman in The Secret War of Harry Frigg (Jack Smight, 1968). Before her work in film she was a fashion model as well as a physics student at the University of Naples.

Creator

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Liam Kennedy

Source

Cork Film Festival Collection

Publisher

University College Cork

Date

1957

Contributor

Liam Kennedy

Rights

©Liam Kennedy. All rights reserved. Please credit Cork International Film Festival & provide a link back to this site.

Format

Photo
TIFF
JPEG

Language

English, eng

Coverage

1957
Cork, Ireland

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Photo

Physical Dimensions

160 x 211mm

Collection

Citation

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Liam Kennedy, “Sylva Koscina,” Cork International Film Festival Archive, accessed December 21, 2024, https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/items/show/38.