An Italian Girl from Tunisia – Claudia Cardinale
This Italian beauty is more than just a girl with a suitcase. Claudia Cardinale has spent most of her life performing in one way or another, dating back to the 1950s when she won a competition for the “Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia.” What should have been a huge moment for her was almost ruined after she found out that she was pregnant following what she called a “terrible” relationship with a much older man when she was only 17 years old.
Cardinale kept her child, but was unsure about how she would continue to act. That’s when Franco Cristaldi’s Vides production company stepped in. They signed her to a seven year exclusive contract that allowed her to give birth in England, away from the Italian press, although that came with a price.
For the entirety of her contract with Vides she wasn’t allowed to discuss her child, leaving to be raised with her parents and sister.
