Classic Beauty: Scilla Gabel

“Who she?” you may well ask.  Consider this pic first, of someone we all know and love:

…and then know that Scilla Gabel was Sophia Loren’s stand-in and body double for many years on movie sets, when the production crew would be setting up the lighting, position marks and what-have-you before the cameras started to roll with the actual Sophia in the lens.

Later on, Scilla established her own movie career.

So all that having been said, here she is:

And I hate to say it, but Mary Poppins never looked this good:

And finally:

I do believe I can see the resemblance.  Certainly, she’s Sophia’s double in terms of height, coloring and skin tone.

Which makes her stunningly gorgeous and alluring.

4 comments

  1. I remember watching her in many movies when I was a teen. She made quitte an impression.

  2. She’s beautiful and looked somehow familiar, so I googled her and she’s Gianfranca Gabellini, Italian.

    Does she not have a hint of Sophia Loren? I think so.

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