Edith Piaf's life is almost as famous as her work. From her birth (which she liked to tell people was in the Parisian streets, her mother shielded by two gendarmes) to her death (when her husband allegedly drove her corpse from the Cannes hospital where she died to her flat, lest her fans think that[...]
This is the fascinating account of how Nina Rootes virtually fell into the Italian movie business during the era of Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida and Marcello Mastroianni.[...]