Stallone also starred in the erotic off-Broadway stage play Score which ran for 23 performances at the Martinique Theatre from October 28 – Novemand was later made into a film by Radley Metzger. The film was released several years later as Italian Stallion, in order to cash in on Stallone's new found fame (the new title was taken from Stallone's nickname since Rocky and a line from the film).
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In the actor's words, "it was either do that movie or rob someone, because I was at the end – the very end – of my rope". He has also said that he slept three weeks in the New York City Port Authority bus station prior to seeing a casting notice for the film. Stallone later explained that he had done the film out of desperation after being evicted from his apartment and finding himself homeless for several days. Stallone had his first starring role in the soft-core porn feature film The Party at Kitty and Stud's (1970). When Stallone was nearly broke in New York, barely $50 to his name, he sold the script to Paradise Alley for $100. He attended Charlotte Hall Military Academy prior to attending Miami Dade College and the University of Miami. He attended Notre Dame Academy and Abraham Lincoln High School in Philadelphia. Their parents divorced when Sylvester was nine, and he eventually lived with his mother. His younger brother is actor and musician Frank Stallone. His mother opened a women's gymnasium called Barbella's in 1954. His father, a beautician, moved the family to Washington, D.C., where he opened a beauty school. As a result, the lower left side of his face is paralyzed - including parts of his lip, tongue, and chin - an accident which has given Stallone his snarling look and slightly slurred speech. Ĭomplications his mother suffered during labor forced her obstetricians to use two pairs of forceps during his birth misuse of these accidentally severed a nerve and caused paralysis in parts of Stallone's face.
Stallone's mother is of half Russian-Jewish and half French-American descent. Stallone's father was born in Gioia del Colle, Apulia, Italy, and emigrated to the United States as a child. Sylvester Stallone was born Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone in New York City, the elder son of Frank Stallone, Sr., a hairdresser, and Jackie Stallone (born Jacqueline Labofish), an astrologer, former dancer, and promoter of women's wrestling. It was announced on Decemthat Stallone was voted into boxing's Hall of Fame. Philadelphia has a statue of his Rocky character placed permanently near the museum, on the right side before the steps.
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Stallone's use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps. Stallone's film Rocky was inducted into the National Film Registry as well as having its film props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. The Rocky and Rambo franchises, along with several other films, strengthened his reputation as an actor and his box office earnings.
Two of the notable characters he has portrayed include boxer Rocky Balboa and soldier John Rambo. Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946), commonly known as Sylvester Stallone, and nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, film director and occasional painter. Appearances in the Rambo film series, Demolition Man, Copland, Death Race 2000, and The Expendables films, amongst many others
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