Isabel Sarli
| Isabel Sarli | |
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Isabel Sarli in the late 1960s
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| Born |
Hilda Isabel Gorrindo Sarli 9 July 1935 Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina |
| Occupation | Actress, glamour model |
| Years active |
1954—1980 1996—2009 |
| Partner(s) | Armando Bo (1956-1981) |
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1954—1980
Hilda Isabel Gorrindo Sarli (Spanish pronunciation: [isaˈβel ˈsarli]; born 9 July 1935), nicknamed Coca, is a retired Argentine actress and glamour model, known for her campysexploitation films. Sarli was the only Argentinian actress known to have made any worldwide impact, and although she received offers to work with high-profile directors, she declined these. She is considered a cultural icon and the quintessential sex symbol in her home country.
Hilda Isabel Sarli Gorrindo Tito was born in Concordia, Entre Ríos Province, into a very poor family, as one of the daughters of Antonio Gorrindo and María Elena Sarli. Her father left the family when she was 3 years old. Those he had left behind, including Isabel and her mother, then moved to Buenos Aires. Her youngest sibling, and only brother, died at the age of five. Although, years later, her father tried to contact her, angrily she refused.
Sarli trained to become a secretary and, upon completing this training, started working for a publicity agency to support her mother. Then she was offered to work as a model, at which she proved to be so successful that she ended up resigning from her secretarial work. She won an award as the "most photographed model".
Contrary to what is known, she was nicknamed "Coca" by her mother.
In 1955 she was elected Miss Argentina and met the then Argentine President, Juan Domingo Peron.
In June 1956, she met Armando Bo on a TV show, who later offered her the opportunity to star in El trueno entre las hojas (Thunder in the Leaves). Bo convinced Sarli to be naked in a scene in which she bathed in a lake, though she had previously been told she would wear a flesh-colored body stocking. Also, though Bo likewise told Sarli they would shoot from afar, the camera had magnification. The film became the first to feature full frontal nudity in Argentine cinema. She went on to become an international Latin American star and made international headlines for the nude scene. She appeared in Time, Life, and Playboy Magazines, the first Argentinian actress to accomplish that feat. Bo and Sarli became lovers and she became the primary star of his films till his death in 1981. During this time, Sarli refused many offers to work with another director, with the exception of Leopoldo Torre Nilsson on Setenta veces siete (The Female: Seventy Times Seven) and Dirk DeVilliers on The Virgin Goddess, her only English film.
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