Lessee… win a beauty competition at age 15, get your first starring movie role a year later — playing the lover of Marcello Mastroianni. no less — and go on to become a legend in Italian comedy during the 1960s.
That’s Stefania Sandrelli for you. And here she is, first in grainy black & white:




…and then in glorious Technicolor (or whatever they called it in Italy back then):






Have mercy.
Did she ever smile?