Gia Scala

Gia Scala (March 3, 1934 – April 30, 1972) was an actress. Image File history File links GiaScala. ... Image File history File links GiaScala. ... March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...

She was born Giovanna Scoglio in Liverpool, England, to an aristocratic Sicilian father, Pietro Scoglio, and an Irish mother, Eileen Sullivan. Raised from infancy in Sicily, she moved to the United States at age fourteen where she studied and worked in New York City. She studied acting and in 1954 was signed to a contract by Universal Studios in Hollywood. This article is about the city in England. ... Sicilian disambiguates here; see also Sicilian language or Sicilian Defence. ... New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, and the most densely populated major city in North America. ... Universal Studios logo Universal Studios is an informal designation for NBC Universal Inc. ... ...

Using the stage name, "Gia Scala," she made her motion picture debut in 1955 but person problems plagued her and in 1958 she attempted suicide. She received wide recognition for her performance of "Anna" in the 1961 film, The Guns of Navarone but her successful career began to deteriorate as a result of a growing alcohol dependency and she was eventually let go from her studio contract. A stage name, or a screen name for movie stars, is a pseudonym used by performers and actors. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act. ... The Guns of Navarone is a 1957 novel of World War II by British thriller writer Alistair MacLean that was made into a film in 1961. ... Alcoholism is a dependency on alcohol characterized by craving (a strong need to drink), loss of control (being unable to stop drinking despite a desire to do so), physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms, and tolerance (increasing difficulty of becoming drunk). ...

Having British citizenship because of her birth, she moved to work in film in England but there her troubles only escalated. Suffering from severe emotional problems, aggravated by alcohol, she made another unsuccessful suicide attempt before returning to Hollywood where she eventually did end her life with a drug overdose in 1972.

Gia Scala is interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Holy Cross Cemetery is located at 5835 W. Slauson Avenue in Culver City, California. ... Culver City sign, at the northeast corner of the Sepulveda Boulevard and Centinela Avenue intersection, near the 405 and the 90 freeway interchange. ...

External links

• Gia Scala at the Internet Movie Database