The Love Specialist

The Love Specialist Italian La Ragazza Del Palio is an ItalianFrench movie filmed in 1958, and released in the U.S. in 1959 with the title The Love Specialist.

Many of the extras for the horse race scenes were real jockeys, some of which quite known to the Senese. One of them, Pietro De Angelis nicknamed Pietrino, winner of two previous Palio races, died of a heart attack while the movie was being filmed. The movie was also a springboard for the career of the sole woman jockey of the modern Palio horse race, Rosanna Bonelli, nicknamed Diavola but better known as Rompicollo breakneck from the name of an operetta written by her father. She raced first in a mock Palio race staged for the shooting crew, in place of the jockey of the Pantera team unbeknownst to the film production and then as a stuntwoman for Ms. Dors in the victory scenes, riding the mare Gaudenzia. That helped the girls rise to local fame and to crown her dream to run in the real Palio race of August 16, 1957 racing for the Aquila team, her first and last race on Sienas scenic Piazza del Campo, and although she didnt finish in first place like the films heroine, she was bestowed the title of honorary jockey by the contrada.

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