Alessandro Momo

Alessandro Momo was one of the promising young Italian actors. He began his acting career when he was very young, starring as a protagonist in the soap operas along with Valerio Fioravanti. He became famous for his sexual exploitation of the maid played by the Italian sex bomb, Laura Antonelli in Malicious (1973) directed by Salvatore Samperi. In an eerie parallelism with James Dean and his final film, Giant (1956), Alessandro starred in his final film, Scent of a Woman (1974) (Profumo di Donna), along with Vittorio Gassman and Agostina Belli. Alessandro was killed in the motorcycle accident shortly after the shooting was wrapped up. Eleonora Giorgi, an actress and his friend, had given him a motorcycle, Honda CB750 Four, in spite of Italian traffic regulations at that time prohibiting the riders under 21 from operating the powerful motorcycles. The actress was under the investigation for reckless endangerment of the youth by supplying him the motorcycle in question. Patrizio Sandrelli dedicated a song, 'Brother in Love', to Alessandro Momo in his memory. He is buried in Verano cemetery together with his father, Gabriel, who died in 2000.