Sandra Milo died, she turned 90 in 2023. She died in her home and surrounded by her loved ones, as she had wished. The family announced this.
Sandrocchia, as Federico Fellini called her, for whom she was a muse, was one of the most popular actresses in Italian cinema.
Sandra Milo, née Salvatrice Elena Greco, was born on March 11, 1933 in Tunis. He has around seventy films under his belt: 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 to Gabriele Muccino, to name just a few.
Socialist at the time of Bettino Craxi which he visited for two years, lover of Federico Fellini for seventeen years (which he first confessed on Porta a Porta in 2009), one can say that he has made a real film about his emotional life. And that already from the wedding in 1948, at the age of fifteen, to the Marquis Cesare Rodighiero (the marriage lasted 21 days), to the eleven-year relationship with Moris Ergas (who gave birth to Deborah), and finally to marriage to reach Ottavio De Lollis (with whom she had Ciro and Azzurra).
Sandra Milo in 8½
Always in the spirit of “disappearing full of wisdom,” Milo said during a television interview in 2007: He said he helped his dying mother die. “My mother was wasting away,” the actress said tearfully at the time, “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 many people in favor of euthanasia and many against it, but how can you say no when you know that person will have no escape because of the evil that has befallen them? People must be able to die with dignity.”
Back 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
next to Vittorio De Sica. A similar role was played the following year in “Adua and Her Companions” by Antonio Pietrangeli. He then played with Eduardo De Filippo, Vittorio Gassman and
Marcello Mastroianni in the film “Ghosts in Rome” again by Pietrangeli.
In 1962 he returned to the cinema with “The Shortest Day” by Sergio Corbucci, where he starred 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 of decisive importance and made her the protagonist of two masterpieces: 8½ in 1963 and Julia of the Ghosts in 1965. She was also, among others, by Luigi Zampa in “Frenesia dell staged. Estate” from 1963, by Dino Risi in “L'ombrane” from 1965, alongside Enrico Maria Salerno.
The interview with Fellini about Sandra Milo
Sandra Milo also went down in Italian television history with a famous joke to his detriment in 1990, during the afternoon show “Love is a Wonderful Thing.” An anonymous live call informs that his son Ciro is hospitalized in serious condition after a traffic accident. Milo can't hold back her tears and runs out of the studio screaming “Ciro, Ciro”. The news of the accident turned out to be false, but his screams became a headline in the media.
Her most recent engagements include Pupi Avati in his film “Il Cuore Elsewhere” in 2003 and Salvatores in his “Happy Family” in 2010. On the other hand, “8 Women and a Secret”, “The Oval Bed”, “Steel Magnolias”, “The Widows Club” and “Daddy's Girlfriend” had arrived at the theater. The last TV show “Those good girls” will be on Sky in 2023.
The joke that went down in television history
Diaco: “Sincere friend and valuable travel companion”
“Sandra was a sincere friend and a valuable travel companion. I thank her for teaching me that every negative moment, even the most painful, can be faced with a smile and altruism.” Pierluigi Diaco, colleague and personal friend of Sandra Milo, remembers this way on the anniversary of her death, today in old age of 90 years. “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 who was always ready to contribute with humility and team spirit. “I am happy that in 2021 she received the award she deserved, the David di Donatello for her life’s work, which made her 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 here last year,” announces Diaco.
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