Rosemary Dexter
Nude

Rosemary Dexter was born in Quetta, Pakistan, to English parents. There are two versions of how she got to Italy and eventually became a movie star. The first version is she moved from Pakistan in the late ‘50s, and eventually decided a career in cinema was her calling. The second version is she was on vacation in Rome when she was discovered by Italian director Ugo Gregoretti, who cast her as Lucia in his film Omicron (1963), kick-starting a successful film career. Regardless of which one you believe to be true, you can believe Rosemary made quite the name for herself in her adopted country. Most Americans likely know the sultry brunette from her role as Mortimer’s sister in the Sergio Leone spaghetti Western For a Few Dollars More(1965) starring Clint Eastwood (where she’s topless); from her part as Chiara in The Shoes of a Fisherman(1968) starring Anthony Quinn and Laurence Olivier; in House of Cards (1968) as Daniela with George Peppard and Orson Welles; in Jesús Franco’s multi-country collab Marquis de Sade’s Justine (1969), playing an all-kinds-of-naked Claudine with Klaus Kinski; and as Gina in Vendetta for the Saint (1969) with Roger Moore, along with the accompanying series, The Saint, in that same year. In Italy, she gets praise for playing Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (1964), appearing in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Partner (1968), and as Laetitia in Blow Hot, Blow Cold(1969). Rosemary also appeared naked on the cover of Italian Playboy in February 1975 (headlined as Rosemarie), accompanied by a naked pictorial inside. She did only one more film after that, as Mara in Povero Cristo (1976) before she retired, due to an undisclosed long-term illness. Rosemary passed away in September 2010, at the age of 66.