Why Claudia Cardinale Had a Policy Never to Have a Romance with an Actor?

Click „SHOW MORE”! 📍From French Tunisia to Hollywood Born Claude Joséphine Rose Cardin to a Sicilian father and a French mother, she was born in Tunis, a French protectorate in the 1930s. He had picked up some Sicilian Italian from his father, but his mother tongue was French. Claudia was going to be a teacher, but her life took an unexpected turn when she won a beauty contest organized by the Italian Unitalia Film in Tunisia in 1957. Honored as the ’Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia’, the young girl’s life was suddenly turned upside down. The winner of the beauty contest was invited to the Venice International Film Festival, where the strikingly beautiful Claude Joséphine, who soon became Claudia, caught the eye of Italian filmmakers and soon afterwards was given small film roles.
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