{"id":773,"date":"2009-01-09T11:12:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T11:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=773"},"modified":"2009-01-09T16:12:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T16:12:51","slug":"biographical-information-about-bella-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/biographical-information-about-bella-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Biographical information about Bella Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-777\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-777\" title=\"cortez-bella\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/mimbo2.2\/images\/cortez-bella.jpg\" alt=\"Bella Cortez in Vulcan Son of Jupiter\" width=\"250\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cortez-bella.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cortez-bella-125x88.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bella Cortez in Vulcan Son of Jupiter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the IMDB, she was born in 1944 in Oriente, Cuba, and is sometimes also known as Bella Cortese.  If this is correct, it means she was just 17 when she appeared in her first film, <strong>Vulcan Son of Jupiter<\/strong>.\u00a0 She wasn&#8217;t the only Cuban to become a star in Italian films of the sixties: Chelo Alonso, a rather more exotic beauty (Cortez does at time resemble a saucy chipmunk), appeared in similar roles at around the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, though&#8230; nada.  Ms Cortez isn&#8217;t mentioned in the Gremese book <em>Le straniere del nostro cinema<\/em>, which covers a lot of the foreign actresses who worked in Italy, and none of the other print books I have mention her in any detail.  It looks like some digging is in order&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the IMDB, Bella Cortez was born in 1944 in Oriente, Cuba, and is sometimes also known as Bella Cortese. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[536,535],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}