Elsa Martinelli

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Elsa Martinelli (1964)

Elsa Martinelli (* 30th January 1935 as Elsa Tia in Grosseto , Tuscany , † 8. July 2017 in Rome ) was an Italian film actress .

Life

Martinelli initially worked as a saleswoman and barmaid. She was discovered in 1953 by the Italian designer Roberto Capucci and then worked as a photo model and mannequin . Kirk Douglas eventually brought her to film . In 1954 she starred in Between Two Fires (The Indian Fighter) . At the Berlin International Film Festival in 1956 she received the Acting Prize for Donatella in Young Love in Rome . She played one of her most famous roles in 1962, alongside John Wayne and Hardy Krüger in the adventure film Hatari! . She had other prominent appearances in the 1960s in Melville Shavelson's comedy It began in Rome alongside Charlton Heston , in the Kafka film The Trial by director Orson Welles alongside world stars such as Anthony Perkins , Jeanne Moreau and Romy Schneider , in the well-known drama Hotel International , directed by Anthony Asquith alongside Elizabeth Taylor , Richard Burton and Rod Taylor , in the adventure film Marco the Magnificent , in which they, along with actors like Horst Buchholz and Anthony Quinn acted in Elio Petri's agent drama the Tenth victim of a template by SF writer Robert Sheckley as an opponent of Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress or in the two episodic films The oldest trade in the world and Seven times lures women .

In the 1970s, Martinelli increasingly withdrew from the film business, later she became a successful fashion designer. She took her last role in 2004 in the Italian television series Orgoglio .

Elsa Martinelli's daughter is actress Cristiana Mancinelli, born in 1958, from her marriage to Count Franco Mancinelli Scotti di San Vito in 1957. From 1968 Elsa Martinelli was married to the photographer Willy Rizzo (1928–2013). She died of cancer in July 2017 at the age of 82.

literature

In 2019 Ludovic Mabreuil's "La Cinematique des muses" will be published, in which the author portrays twenty film muses on 215 pages, including Geneviève Bujold , Mimsy Farmer , Claude Jade , Elsa Martinelli, Ottavia Piccolo , Marie-France Pisier , Edith Scob , Maria Schneider , Joanna Shimkus and Catherine Spaak . [1]

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Elsa Martinelli  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Alessandra Vitali: È morta Elsa Martinelli, i mille volti dell'attrice che da Cinecittà arrivò a Hollywood . In: La Repubblica . July 8, 2017, accessed July 9, 2017 (Italian).
  2. Elsa Martinelli Obituary. In: The New York Times . July 18, 2017, accessed July 9, 2017.
  3. ^ Morta a 82 anni Elsa Martinelli, icona di eleganza e glam senza tempo. In: Il Secolo XIX . July 8, 2017, accessed July 9, 2017 (Italian).
    Professional: Cristiana Mancinelli. In: Der Spiegel . 9/1977, February 21, 1977, p. 188, accessed July 9, 2017.