Ida Galli attention of Federico Fellini, who cast Galli in a small part in his 1960 film "La dolce vita". Galli has since appeared in over forty-five film roles. One of her significant roles was the part of Carolina in Luchino Visconti's 1963 film adaptation of the novel "Il Gattopardo" ("The Leopard"). She last appeared in 1990's "Con i piedi per aria", directed by Vincenzo Verdecchi. Although her early roles were usually billed by her real name, Galli mostly acted under the pseudonym Evelyn Stewart. However, her role in Mario Bava's 1963 film "La frusta e il corpo" was credited to the
La Dolce Viva revealed the seedier side of Andy Warhol’s entourage through Viva. “I had never seen anything like it,” Tom Wolfe wrote of accompanying nude photos from Diane Arbus. According to contemporary "New York Times" review of the book, "La Dolce Viva" gave an insight to Warhol’s relationship to other people. But the articles appearance in the "New York" hurt the magazine ("The Nude Photos that Nearly Destroyed New York"), and "New York"s editor, Clay Felker, was aware of the commercial risk he ran in publishing the piece. Some reviewers of "La Dolce Viva" were generally hesitant to read this piece, but