Italian actress Gianna Maria Canale, seen here in 1958, began her show business career in 1948 and soon became a stalwart in sword and sandal epics, among them Hercules, The Warrior and the Slave Girl, and The Centurion. In the foreign press she was often compared to Ava Gardner, but in Italy she was thought of by some more as a quintessential Italian woman, sort of an aristocratic standard of perfect beauty. And like any aristocrat she has a couple of aristodogs. Release the hounds!
Lockjaw and The Prince of Barkness are like my social secretaries. You wanna to talk to me, you talk to them first.