Nieves Navarro came out in a late sequel to Emmanuelle,
but her resume is full of surprises.
Chic
By Manuel Román
10/6/2019
In the memory of many moviegoers is the saga of
"Emmanuelle", an erotic character who achieved extraordinary interest
from the presence on screen of a Dutch woman named Sylvia Kristel, who became
very popular, specifically with that sequence in the room of a plane bath where
she "made love" with an unknown passenger. Pure and hard eroticism,
on the border with porn. So much money and notoriety reached Sylvia that she
was given to other pleasures, which led her to ruin. I interviewed her when she
was already in decline and hardly anyone hired her. Then, hilarious Italian
producers shot a series of films, as if they were chapters of a soap opera full
of sex scenes, with titles as significant as “Vicious Emmanuelle”. In that
saga, and without Kristel in the cast, our compatriot Nieves Navarro intervened
, who by then was already a veteran in the cinema: from the "Spaghetti
western" and became a regular in crime and giallo movies, and much more,
with very Explicit postures along with the gallant on duty, melee on the bed.
Nieves Navarro García was born in Almería in 1938. At
twelve she left with her family in search of work in Barcelona, where she has
lived in recent years with her late husband. She stood out as a model and
announcing on television the "commercial spot" of a well-known brand
of brandy. In the 1960s there was none other than the so-called First Chain, in
black and white and anyone who came out in which someone called "the silly
box" immediately reached an immediate impact. The viewing could then be
seen by more than ten million viewers. That's why a Catalan producer, Balcázar,
hired her for her film debut in 1964, “Toto de Arabia”, that was filmed with
Nieves in Tabernas, in the first of many films that were made in that land, the
Almeria desert. Toto was a very popular Italian comedian in his country,
although already old and about to go blind, as she remembered, while adding
also a distinguished gentleman; I think he had a noble title. Later, Nieves
Navarro continued in her hometown, at the time of the so-called "Spaghetti
western", Spanish versions of the American West movies, taking advantage
of the landscapes of the province of Almeria. Of that filmography there are
esteemed titles where she took part, like “A Pistol for Ringo”, by Duccio
Tessari, although in that genre women had less prominent roles.
Nieves Navarro had met an Italian director and producer
in Almeria, whom she fell in love with: Luciano Ercoli. The wedding took place,
according to her testimony in 1967, although on Wikipedia and other sources and
encyclopedias it was cited in 1972. The fact is that they joined in marriage
and she also participated in films of her husband. She returned from Rome,
where the couple had settled, to shoot in 1968 at the orders of the prolific
Ramón Torrado “Amor a todo gas”, next to the gypsy Peret, where she also became
known as a singer. Let's say it was the best known film by Nieves Navarro, in
Spain.
From 1969 the director Fernando di Leo recommended that
she change her name, if she aspired to be an international star. She did not get
it, but of course already based in Italian cinema she became a very sought-after
actress first in films that in that country belong to the genre
"giallo", a word that comes to be that of the yellow color, used in
that cinematographic designation because it was used in the 1930s and 1940s in
popular detective novels. Then, she also combined the so-called Susan Scott with
films of high erotic content, where the most honored there was Edwige Fenech, a
friend of Almeria. She recognized that she did not like to undress before the
cameras, much less pretend orgasms and scenes of supposed passionate love on
the bed. But I had to "fill the fridge." And so it lasted a few
years, because we have to recognize that she had a spectacular body. From
brunette, she changed to blonde many times to be more exciting.
All this lasted until 1989, when she shot her last work
that already with the title is unnecessary to specify the argument: “Casa de
placer” (House of pleasure). She agreed with her husband and they chose to move
to Barcelona, the capital that as we said at the beginning brought Nieves
good memories. And there he was widowed in 2015, and has withdrawn from all
previous activity.
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