Gia Scala
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Gia Scala (3 March 1934 – 30 April 1972) was a British-American actress and model, who was one of the most popular film and television stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Scala was born in Liverpool and brought up in Sicily, later moving to the United States where she began an acting career. Scala quickly became a prominent actress in Hollywood, receiving praise for her roles in The Garment Jungle (1957) and The Two-Headed Spy (1959), and appearing in critically acclaimed works such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960) and The Guns of Navarone (1961).

Josephine Grace Johanna Scoglio was born on 3 March, 1934 in Liverpool, England, UK to Sicilian father Pietro Scoglio, and Irish mother Eileen O'Sullivan. She had one sister, Tina Scala, also an actress.

Scala was brought up in Messina and Mili San Marco in Sicily, the latter on the estate of her grandfather, Natale Scoglio, who was one of the largest agriculturist of citrus in Sicily, mainly lemons known as the "Ballerina Brand". It was the custom of upper social and economic class families in Sicily to send their young adult children to live abroad to experience other cultures and learn other languages. When Scala was 16 years-old she moved to the United States to live with her aunt Agata in Whitestone, Queens, New York City. Scala had always wanted to be an actress, however, her very religious aunt disapproved of her aspirations; but after she graduated from Bayside High School, she moved to Manhattan to pursue acting. There Scala supported herself by working at a travel agency, where she met a person with connections to a television producer.