Mylène Demongeot

Born in Nice, France

“Having been bound once to the prow of a ship in Cine Citta for one of the gladiator movies I made there, I could only hear the director instructing me in a megaphone: ‘Be sexy!  Be Sexy!’ Whatever that meant!”

“Never would I have agreed to appear in ‘Sword and Sandals’ films if the Italian producers had not immediately agreed to pay me twice the fee I was usually offered.  I simply did not have the moral strength to refuse such an amount of money.”