Anecdotes

Appears as a party guest in Federico Fellini's Juliette des esprits (1965) (in a close-up) where she is actually greeted by her real name ("Ciao Rika").

Started out her career as a beauty queen in Heraklion, Crete, where she was born.

Nephew George Diallinas is a prominent molecular genetist, living and working in Athens.