Director Robert Wise needed an actress to play the title role in his historical epic Helen of Troy (1956), and Elizabeth Taylor and Ava Gardner just weren't sexy enough. Instead, he chose Italian beauty Rossana Podestà--and not for her oral skills, either. In fact, Rossana didn't speak English and had to learn her lines phonetically. Nobody cared, though, since Rossana was well established … Join Mr Skin to read her entire Biography