Gloria!

Gloria Guida was born in Merano, in the Northern Italy region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, to a family of Emilia Romagna origin. She moved with her family to Bologna as a child. She first began a singing career, starting in her father's dancing place on the Romagna's coast. Then she took up modeling, becoming Miss Teenage Italia in 1974.

She subsequently went on to star in many sexy comedies. Her two early films La ragazzina and La minorenne, both shot in the summer of 1974, are the stories of young female characters in the phase of discovering their sexuality, often reluctant between mature admirers and younger lovers. She made her real breakthrough in 1975 with La liceale (Teasers). Another film of particular success was Avere vent'anni ("To Be Twenty") in 1978.

She left cinema after her marriage to singer and actor Johnny Dorelli, whom she met on the set of the film Bollenti spiriti. But she left some of the sexiest images of any starlet, with a natural beauty that rivals, and in many ways surpasses todays celebrities. Thanks, Gloria! If only I could have met you then...