Elsa Martinelli

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  • ELSA MARTINELLI


    Information From IMDb


    Date of Birth
    30 January 1935, Grosseto, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy


    Birth Name
    Elsa Tia


    Height
    5' 6" (1.68 m)


    Spouse
    Count Franco Mancinelli Scotti di San Vito (June 1957 - ?)


    Mini Biography
    Elsa Martinelli (3 August 1932 or 30 January 1935, according to different sources
    is an Italian actress and former fashion model.


    Born Elisa Tia in Grosseto, Tuscany, she moved to Rome with her family
    and in 1953 was discovered by Roberto Capucci who introduced
    her to the world of fashion. She became a model and began playing small roles in films.
    She appeared in Claude Autant-Lara's Le Rouge et le noir (1954),
    but her first important film role came the following year with
    The Indian Fighter opposite Kirk Douglas.
    Douglas claims to have spotted her on a magazine cover
    and hired her for his production company, Bryna Productions.
    In 1956 she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the
    6th Berlin International Film Festival for playing the title role in Mario Monicelli's Donatella.


    From the mid 1950s through the late 1960s, she divided her time
    between Europe and the USA appearing films such as Four Girls in Town (1957)
    with George Nader, Manuela (1957) with Trevor Howard, Prisoner of the Volga (1959)
    with John Derek, Hatari! (1962) with John Wayne, The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)
    with Charlton Heston, The Trial with Anthony Perkins, The V.I.P.s (1963)
    with Orson Welles, Rampage (1963) with Robert Mitchum,
    and Woman Times Seven (1967) with Lex Barker. In Candy (1968),
    her co-stars were Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton,
    James Coburn, Walter Matthau and Ringo Starr.


    Since the late 1960s, she has worked in Europe in mostly foreign language productions.
    Her last English language role was as Carla the Agent in 1992s Once Upon a Crime.
    Her most recent appearance was in the 2005 European television series Orgoglio as the Duchessa di Monteforte.


    Martinelli was first married to Count Franco Mancinelli Scotti di San Vito,
    by whom she has a daughter, Cristiana Mancinelli (born 1958), also an actress.
    She later was married to the Paris Match photographer and 1970s furniture designer
    Willy Rizzo.


    Trivia
    Fashion model. Discovered in 1953 by designer Roberto Capucci,
    while working as a barmaid.


    Mother of actress Cristiana Mancinelli.


    Measurements: 34-21-34 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)



    Filmography
    Actor
    2005 Orgoglio (TV series)...Duchessa di Monteforte
    1999 Cabiria, Priscilla e le altre (short)
    1995 Il barone (TV mini-series)...Maria de Martigny
    1994 Alles Glück dieser Erde (TV series)...Carlotta Pirri
    1993 Anni 90 - Parte II..Elsa (uncredited)
    1992 Once Upon a Crime...Carla the Agent
    1990 Arrivederci Roma (short)
    1988 Pygmalion 88
    1986 Atelier (TV mini-series)
    1985 I Am an ESP
    1979 Astuzia per astuzia (TV mini-series)
    1979 Return of the Saint (TV series)– Vicious Circle (1979) … Renata Lucci
    1976 The Red Carnation
    1971 The Lion's Share...Annie - la propriétaire d'un bowling - l'amie de coeur de Maurice
    1971 La araucana
    1970 OSS 117 prend des vacances...Elsa
    1969 L'amica...Carla Nervi
    1969 Les chemins de Katmandou...Martine
    1969 One on Top of the Other...Jane
    1969 Misdeal...Gilberte de Baer
    1969 If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium...Maria, Woman on Venetian Bridge
    1968 Candy...Livia
    1968 Madigan's Million...Vic Shaw
    1968 Il mio corpo per un poker...Belle Starr
    1968 Manon 70...Annie
    1967 Woman Times Seven...Pretty woman - episode 'Super Simone'
    1967 Le plus vieux métier du monde...Domitilla (segment "Nuits romaines, Les")
    1967 Maroc 7...Claudia
    1967 Qualcuno ha tradito...Laureen
    1966 Come imparai ad amare le donne...Rallye driver
    1965 The Tenth Victim...Olga
    1965 L'or du duc...Sonia
    1965 Diamonds Are Brittle...Juliette
    1965 Je vous salue, mafia!...Sylvia
    1965 Marco the Magnificent...The Woman with the Whip
    1964 All About Lovin...Mathilde
    1964 The Rogues (TV series)– The Real Russian Caviar (1964) … Maria Kuzenkov
    1963 Rampage...Anna
    1963 The V.I.P.s...Gloria Gritti
    1962 The Trial...Hilda
    1962 Scorched Skin
    1962 The Pigeon That Took Rome...Antonella Massimo
    1962 Hatari!...Anna Maria 'Dallas' D'Allesandro
    1961 La menace...Lucile
    1960 Love in Rome...Fulvia
    1960 Le capitan...Gisèle d'Angoulême
    1960 Il carro armato dell'8 settembre...Mirella
    1960 Blood and Roses..Georgia Monteverdi
    1960 Call Girls of Rome...L'indossatrice romana
    1959 La notte brava...Anna
    1959 Costa Azzurra...Doriana
    1959 Tunisi top secret...Kathy
    1959 Ciao, ciao, bambina...Diana
    1959 The Boatmen...Mascha
    1958 The Mine...Lucia
    1957 Manuela...Manuela Hunt
    1957 Donatella...Donatella
    1957 Four Girls in Town...Maria Antonelli
    1956 La risaia...Elena
    1955 The Indian Fighter..Onahti
    1954 Le rouge et le noir (uncredited)
    1953 Se vincessi cento milioni...Anna (segment "L'indossatrice")

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

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  • Elsa Martinelli former fashion model, appeared in some 60 movies,
    and since 1960 she has worked in Europe in mostly foreign language productions
    She starred with Kirk Douglas in The Indian Fighter,
    and also starred alongside Charlton Heston,
    Trevor Howard, Robert Mitchum and many others.


    Elsa appeared in 1 with movie with Duke,


    Hatari! 1962...Anna Maria 'Dallas' D'Allesandro


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    Howard Hawks allegedly bought Elsa Martinelli's tight fitting
    safari suits himself at a New York department store.



    In later years Duke was to confirm that by the time Hatari! was made,
    his days of romantic leading men were over.
    He had been particuarly displeased with the bedroom and kissing scenes,
    he was too old and she too young for such a relationship.

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

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