Claudia Cardinale was a huge star for her roles in The Pink Panther, Girl with a Suitcase, and The Leopard. One of her most notable roles is in Once Upon a Time in the West with Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, and Jason Robards.
An interesting fact about Claudia Cardinale has to do with her very secretive pregnancy. She was in a bad relationship with a man who got her pregnant. Desperately wanting to keep it a secret, she signed a seven year exclusive contract with a production company in return for keeping her pregnancy a secret. She kept the secret so well that even her son didn't know. How is that possible? He didn't live with her. The story was cracked wide open by a journalist years later, which is how her son found out.