Sandra Milo has died, she turned 90 in 2023. She passed away in her home and among the affection of her loved ones as she had requested. Her family made it known.
Sandrocchia, as Federico Fellini nicknamed her for whom she was a muse, was one of the most popular actresses in Italian cinema.
Sandra Milo, born Salvatrice Elena Greco, was born in Tunis on 11 March 1933.
The funeral will take place on Wednesday at 12 in the Church of the Artists in Piazza del Popolo. On Tuesday from 10am it will be possible to say a final farewell to the actress in the Capitol where the funeral home will be hosted.
About seventy films under his belt: ranging from Roberto Rossellini to Antonio Pietrangeli, from Sergio Corbucci to Federico Fellini, from Luigi Zampa to Dino Risi, from Luciano Salce to Duccio Tessari, from Pupi Avati to Gabriele Salvatores up to Gabriele Muccino, just to name a few.
Video Goodbye to Sandra Milo
Socialist at the time of Bettino Craxi whom he attended for two years, lover of Federico Fellini for seventeen years (something he confessed for the first time on Porta a Porta in 2009), it can be said that he has made a real film of his emotional life. And this already from the wedding in 1948, at fifteen years old, with the Marquis Cesare Rodighiero (marriage lasted 21 days), up to the eleven-year relationship with Moris Ergas (from whom Deborah was born) to finally arrive at the union with Ottavio De Lollis (with whom she had Ciro and Azzurra).
Sandra Milo in 8½
Always in the spirit of “a disappearance full of wisdom”, in 2007 Milo, during a TV interview, he said he helped his dying mother die. “My mother was wasting away – the actress said then through tears -. So, she asked me to help her die. She made me leave the room, and she died, alone, as she wanted. I know there are a lot of people in favor of euthanasia and many against it, but how can you say ‘no’ if you know that that person will have no escape due to the evil that has struck them? People must be able to die with dignity.”
Returning to his career, the first important role came in 1959 with ‘Il generali Della Rovere’directed by Roberto Rossellini, in which she played the role of a prostitute at
alongside Vittorio De Sica. A similar role was played the following year in ‘Adua and her companions’ by Antonio Pietrangeli. He is then the protagonist with Eduardo De Filippo, Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni in the film ‘Ghosts in Rome’ again by Pietrangeli.
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In 1962 he returned to the cinema with ‘The Shortest Day’ by Sergio Corbucci, where he acted with Totò, Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Ugo Tognazzi and Aldo Fabrizi. Then the meeting with Fellini who affectionately called her ‘Sandrocchia’ was crucial and made her the protagonist of two masterpieces: 8½ in 1963 and Juliet of the Spirits in 1965. She was also directed, among many, by Luigi Zampa in ‘Frenesia dell’estate ‘ from 1963, by Dino Risi in ‘L’ombrane’ from 1965, alongside Enrico Maria Salerno.
The interview with Fellini on Sandra Milo
Sandra Milo also entered the history of Italian TV for a famous joke to his detriment in 1990, during the afternoon broadcast ‘Love is a wonderful thing’. An anonymous live phone call informs that his son Ciro is hospitalized in serious condition following a road accident. Milo can’t hold back her tears and runs away from the studio screaming ‘Ciro, Ciro’. The news of the accident turned out to be false, but her screams became a catchphrase in the media.
Among her latest commitments, Pupi Avati wanted her in 2003 in his film ‘Il Cuore Elsewhere’ and in 2010 Salvatores in his ‘Happy Family’. On the other hand, ‘8 Women and a Mystery’, ‘The Oval Bed’, ‘Steel Magnolias’, ‘The Widows’ Club and ‘Daddy’s Girlfriend’ had arrived at the theatre. In 2023 the last TV program, ‘Those good girls’ on Sky.
The joke that entered TV history
His children: ‘He left us peacefully, falling asleep’
“Today at 8:25 in the morning our mother passed away. She left us peacefully, falling asleep in her bed, the way she had expressly requested, surrounded by our love and that of her beloved dogs Jim and Lady.” Debora, Ciro and Azzurra, Sandra Milo’s children, announced it in a post on Facebook.
Goodbye mom.
You are light again…In the wind.🖤💔 pic.twitter.com/XjkwTfzveQ— debora ergas🇮🇹🇬🇷 (@debora_ergas) January 29, 2024
“We ask you to respect our immense pain and to pray for her soul, addressing her a thought of light. We sincerely thank our father Ottavio de Lolllis, the lawyer Bruno della Ragione, Maurizio Pennesi, Alberto Matano, Cristina Morea, Maria Grazia Cucinotta , Claudio and Pino Insegno, Franco Brel, Angelo Genovese, Franco Lattanzi and his wife Rita, Enrico Pola, Luigi Alesi, Angelo De Biasio, Carlotta and Gabriele Malaguti, Marina and Tullio, Simona Ballarino. And if we have forgotten anyone we sincerely apologize “.
Video Sandra Milo: ‘I am grateful to the directors and my children’
Diaco: ‘Sincere friend and precious travel companion’
“Sandra was a sincere friend and a precious traveling companion. I thank her for teaching me that any negative moment, even the most painful, could be faced with a smile and altruism.” Pierluigi Diaco, colleague and personal friend of Sandra Milo, remembers her like this on the day of her death, today at the age of 90.
Sandra Milo talks about herself to BellaMa’ on March 31, 2023
“For the working group of ‘Io e te’ and ‘Io e te di notte’ she was an inexhaustible source of enthusiasm and ideas, a fan of others, a woman always ready to get involved with humility and team spirit. I am happy that in 2021 she received the award she deserved, that David di Donatello for lifetime achievement which consecrated her for what she was: a great artist” says Diaco. “Today’s episode of BellaMa ‘will be entirely dedicated to her, with the revival of her last TV show, which took place with us last year” announces Diaco.
Orietta Berti: ‘Diva who was still waiting for great love’
“Sandra was cheerful, cordial, friendly. She never put on airs, she felt like an ordinary woman, but she wasn’t. She was unique: she was the Italian Marilyn, always elegant and never vulgar”. This is how Orietta Berti remembers Sandra Milo, who passed away this morning in Rome at the age of 90. “For me she was a sincere friend – continues the singer who worked with her and Mara Maionchi on the Sky programQuelle bravagirls -, we had known each other for a long time, from her iconic show Piccoli Fans, to which she always invited me. But every time that we would meet on some show, we would spend time in my or his dressing room.”
With Those Good Girls they worked together for almost a month. “And she was so active, at 8 o’clock she was already ready, hair and make-up. Even if it was autumn, if we went along the streets of the villages, she never gave up her stiletto heels: and so when she got stuck between the cobblestones I I lifted a leg and Mara retrieved the stuck shoe. How many heels did she peel…”.
The memory of Orietta, who does not hide the fact that she cried this morning with Maionchi, is however light and poetic. “She was like that, she left us her smile, her cheeky air of a young girl who hadn’t aged. And then she was so poetic: one day we were in Seville and a motorboat passed by. For her, the trail left behind was a bridal veil that flutters’. She saw the poetic side of things in everything. She believed in love and was still waiting for the ideal man, Prince Charming. She looked like a 10 year old girl, but she was very profound and cultured, despite a very hard, dedicated private life to the three children she raised alone.” Orietta Berti also remembers, with a smile, some of Sandrocchia’s little quirks: “He always demanded a princely breakfast and so, when we filmed for the programme, first we had breakfast for the filming and then that for Sandra”. But never a word from her against friends and colleagues. “I never heard her gossip, never an envious phrase. She was a hard worker, respectful of others. She was a diva in the sixties, but she never got too big.”
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