Sydne Rome (born March 17, 1946. prounciation SID-nee ROHM)[Valery, Bernard (March 10, 1974). "Sydne Rome Is Her Name ... Sex Goddess Is Her Game". New York Sunday News. p. L1. Retrieved January 28, 2025. "The latest entry in the field is Sydne Rome, a 27-year-old golden girl from the American Midwest ... 'After high school in Akron, I went to Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh to study theater. After that, I went to work in the Pasadena Playhouse. We played everything—Shakespeare, Chekhov, Tennessee Williams.' Sydne's first stab at movies was a disappointment. A Hollywood agent sent her to Rome to try out for the title role in "Candy" but she lost out to Swedish actress Ewa Aulin. Sydne returned to Pasadena, and worked there for about a year before returning to Europe and making her first movie- 'Some Girls Do,' a British production filmed in Spain.][Mann, Anthony (June 3, 1979). "On the Outskirts of Sydne: Her sultry looks have given actress Sydne Rome a sex-bomb image she prefers to disown; 'You can't stop people thinking about you in sex terms, can you?'". Sunday Telegraph Magazine. pp. 47, 48. Retrieved January 27, 2025. "She was born in Akron, Ohio, on March 17, 1946. ... Rome's father, who still likes to talk Yiddish, owned a plastics factory in Akron. But she was brought up in neighbouring Upper Sandusky ... She fled from this environment at the age of 17 and enrolled in the Carnegie Tech school of acting at Pittsburgh University. Her first stage job was at Pasadena Playhouse in California, where she was noticed by an agent who flew her to Rome for a screen test for the title role of Candy, which was ultimately played by Ewa Aulin."] is an American-Italian film actress,[O'Connor, Carroll (1998). I Think I'm Outta Here: A Memoir of All My Families. New York: Pocket Books. pp.278–279. . "Sydne Rome the actress—an American, close friend, who built her career in Europe—and her husband, Dr. Roberto Bernabei, who think of us as their family, welcomed us into their apartment in Via Sabatino."][Gifford, Denis (2000). British Film Catalogue, Volume 1: Fiction Films, 1895—1994. London: Routledge. p. 783. . "12790, Some Girls Do (93 min) ... Maurice Denham — Sir Dudley Mortimer; Robert Morley — Miss Mary; Sydney Rome — Flicky" See also:
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Slifkin, Irv (2004). VideoHound's Groovy Movies : Far-out Films of the Psychedelic Era. Detroit : Visible Ink. p. 12. . "Some Girls Do: 1969 88m/C UK Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi, James Villiers, Robert Morley, Sydney Rome, Beba Loncar, Vanessa Howard, Joanna Lumley."
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Gett, Steve (1985). Julio Iglesias : The New Valentino. Port Chester, NY : Cherry Lane Books. p. 11. . "Julio has been seen escorting countless stunning belles of all nationalities. The gossip columns have been swift to document his alleged affairs with stars like Priscilla Presley and Sydney Rome, as well as models and glamor girls."
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Lujan, Nestor; Caballero, Oscar; Casas, Carmen; Botaya, Guillermina (1988). Allegro Vivace: The History of Champagne, Cava and the Sparkling Wines of the World. Barcelona : J.W. Thompson. pp. 204, 205. "Stills of Freixenet television commercials involving stars of the showbizz: Liza Minnelli (1977), Gene Kelly (1981), Cheryl Ladd (1982) and Sydney Rome (1980). ... Leopoldo Pomés discusses final details with Sydney Rome before shooting the Freixenet spot."
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Robinson, Lisa (Winter 1979). "I'd Be a Terrible Rock Artist' Says David Bowie" Part 2. Hit Parader Annual. p. 75. "Along with Hemmings and Bowie, the film’s stars include Sydney Rome, Maria Schell and Kim Novack sic"
[Soria, Florentino (1990). José María Forqué. Huesca: Festival de Cine de Huesca. p. 134. . "Sidne Rome y José Carreras en 'Romanza Final (Gayerre)'". See also:
Tanet, Chantal (2009). Dictionnaire des Prénoms. Paris : Larousse. p. 589. . "CÉLÉBRITÉS Les Sydney célèbres sont souvent améri¬ cains : le clarinettiste de jazz Sidney Bechet (1897-1959), l’acteur de ci¬ néma Sidney Poitier, les réalisateurs Sydney Pollack et Sidney Lumet, ou encore l’actrice Sidne Rome."
"Schauspielerinnen". Cinema. March 1981. p. 10. "Sidne Rome, Looping"
"Cinerama". Cinema Revista a Consiliului. September 1977. p. 18. "O actriță nemulțumită. Regizorul Luigi Zampa turnează pe platourile romane de la Cinecittă filmul Monstrul. În rolul principal, Sidne Rome (numele european al americancei născută în Ohio, dar lansată pe vechiul continent). Sidne Rome va fi o cintăreali pop și, deși nu este rolul pe care și l-2 visat, e totuşi mulțumită."
Strick, Philip (October 1971). "Time, Transplants and Arthur Clarke". Sight and Sound. p. 190. "Comedy at a subtler level was provided by La Ragazza di Latta, an encouraging first film by Marcello Aliprandi, in which the delightful if somewhat over-demonstrative Sidne Rome portrayed the most seductive robot since Brigitte Helm."]
Biography
Born in Akron, Rome grew up in a Jewish family in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Her father was president of a plastics corporation in the Akron area.
Her younger sister was August 1977
Playboy Playmate
Julia Lyndon (Lisa Moira Sarah Rome, 1957-2019).
After attending high school in Akron, Sydne went to
Carnegie Tech in
Pittsburgh to study acting. A subsequent apprenticeship with the Pasadena Playhouse in California broadened Rome's acting skills and she caught the eye of an agent, resulting in a transatlantic flight for what would ultimately prove an unsuccessful 1968 audition for the role of
Candy titular protagonist. After an additional year of Playhouse work, Rome made her film debut in the 1969 British spy comedy
Some Girls Do.
She then began appearing mostly in Italian films, with roles in Spaghetti Westerns and other genres; often playing the young, seemingly innocent American abroad. Subsequently, Rome appeared in German films and television. Since the late 1990s she has acted in Italian TV films and series.
At the beginning of the 1980s, Rome became an icon of the aerobic exercise craze and produced workout videos as well as an album, Aerobic Fitness Dancing, produced by Frank Farian and recorded in German, Spanish and Italian.
Personal life
In 1973, Rome married
Emilio Lari; subsequently, she converted to Catholicism, divorced, and married
Gerontology Roberto Bernabei.
She has been living in Rome since the early 1970s. Bernabei and Rome have two grown children.
In 2009, Rome's face was disfigured in an accident when her car's air bag exploded.
Selected filmography
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Some Girls Do (Ralph Thomas, 1969)
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Sundance and the Kid (Duccio Tessari, 1969)
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So Long Gulliver (1970)
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Man Called Amen (Alfio Caltabiano, 1972)
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What? (Roman Polanski, 1972)
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(Otto Schenk, 1973)
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Creezy (Pierre Granier-Deferre, 1974)
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The Gamecock ( La Sculacciata, Pasquale Festa Campanile, 1974)
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Order to Kill (Josè Gutiérrez Maesso, 1975)
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That Lucky Touch (Christopher Miles, 1975)
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(, 1975)
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(René Clément, 1975)
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(, 1975)
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The Twist (Claude Chabrol, 1976)
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Sex with a Smile (Sergio Martino, 1976)
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Il mostro (Luigi Zampa, 1977)
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Moi, fleur bleue (Éric Le Hung, 1977)
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Formula 1 La febbre della velocità (Speed Fever, Mario Morra 1978)
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Just a Gigolo ( Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo, David Hemmings, 1979)
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The Pumaman ( L'Uomo puma, Alberto De Martino, 1980)
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(Walter Bockmayer/ Rolf Buehrmann, 1981)
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Red Bells (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1982)
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Red Bells II (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1983)
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Romanza final (Gayarre) (José María Forqué, 1986)
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In the Heat of the Night (ep. Who Was Geli Bendl?, 1994)
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(TV, 2000)
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(TV, 2000)
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Saint Rita (TV, Giorgio Capitani, 2004)
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Callas e Onassis (TV, Giorgio Capitani, 2005)
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The Hideout (2007)
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Il figlio più piccolo ( The Youngest Son, Pupi Avati, 2010)
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Il cuore grande delle ragazze (Pupi Avati, 2011)
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The Palace (Roman Polanski, 2023)
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