Vivacious and sexy in an androgynous sort of way, popular Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli was at her best starring as a lonely, sickly country woman trying to survive in a hostile post-WWII city in Antonio Pietrangeli's Io la Conoscevo Bene (I Knew Her Well) (1965). Before launching her acting career in 1961 with Il Federale, Sandrelli was a beauty queen....
