Nieves Navarro García (born 11 November 1938) is a retired Spanish[1] actress and fashion model. She worked extensively in Italian cinema appearing alongside actors such as Totò and Lino Banfi in the 1960's and 1970's. She later adopted the Anglicized stage name Susan Scott (or Suzanne Scott) for many of her productions after 1969.
Her career began as advertising and fashion model. The introduction of television in Spain in 1956 led to further appearances in commercials and other work in the industry during the next few years.
Acting career
She began her career as a film actress in Italy alongside Totò in the Lawrence of Arabia parody Toto of Arabia (1965),[2][3] a Spanish-Italian co-production, in which she played Doris, a beautiful spy in the service of the British SIS, who charms the Sheik of Kuwait El Ali el Buzur (Fernando Sancho) and allows Totò to use her to drive the one hundred wives of the Sheik jealous.
She subsequently moved to Italy with Ercoli where she spent the rest of her career, starring in many of her husband's projects, which ended veering towards Italian erotica and "giallo" cinema. It was in the latter genre that highlighted her as a major star especially her appearances in the Emannuelle series, Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977) and Emanuelle e Lolita (1978), directed by Joe D'Amato[9] and Henri Sala respectively.
Later films and retirement
In 1983, Navarro attempted to return to Spanish cinema with films like Gianfranco Angelucci's drama Honey with Fernando Rey,[11] but with less than expected success. She made two last films in 1989, Fiori di zucca and Casa di piacere, before going into retirement.[12] In recent years, she has returned to Spain, settling in Barcelona with Ercoli.
^ abParish, James and Michael Pitts. The Great Spy Pictures II. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1986. (pp. 138, 375) ISBN0-8108-1913-9
^Giacovelli, Enrico. Poi dice che uno si butta a sinistra!. Rome: Gremese, 1994. (p. 304)
^Giacovelli, Enrico. Un Secolo di Cinema Italiano, 1900–1999: Dalle origini agli anni Sessanta. Lindau: Torino, 2002. (p. 339)
^ abFrayling, Christopher. Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone. London: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1981. (pp. 262–263) ISBN0-7100-0503-2
^Hughes, Howard. Once Upon a Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2006. (pp. 31, 38, 151) ISBN1-85043-896-X
^Maltin, Leonard. Leonard Maltin's 2009 Movie Guide. New York: Penguin, 2008. (p. 124) ISBN0-452-28978-5
^Green, Paul. Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns: Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Films, Television and Games. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2009. (pp. 151, 176) ISBN0-7864-4390-1
^ abWeisser, Thomas. Spaghetti Westerns: The Good, The Bad, and The Violent: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography of 558 Eurowesterns and Their Personnel, 1961–1977. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 1992. (pp. 9, 193) ISBN0-89950-688-7
^Stine, Scott Aaron. The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s and 1970s. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2001. (p. 234) ISBN0-7864-0924-X
^Maltin, Leonard. Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2004. New York: Signet, 2003. (p. 633) ISBN0-451-20940-0
^Castoldi, Gian Luca. Donne in Prigione: Nazisti, Horror e Fantascienza, Thriller, Decameroni e Film Esotici. Rome: Profondo Rosso, 2005. (p. 198)
Further reading
Baldi, Alfredo. Schermi Proibiti: La Censura in Italia 1947-1988. Venice: Marsilio, 2002.
Bruschini, Antonio and Antonio Tentori, ed. Western all'italiana: The Specialists. Firenze: Glittering lmages, 1998.
Giusti, Marco. Dizionario del Western all'Italiana. Italy: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2007.