Elsa Martinelli

Acting

Elsa Martinelli

Born — Died

1935-01-30 — 2017-07-08

Place of birth

Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

67 titles

Elsa Martinelli (January 30, 1935 – July 8, 2017) was an Italian fashion model and actress. Known for appearing in both European and American films, her popularity peaked in the 1960s when she was considered a formidable rival to "Hollywood Italian imports" Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida and Claudia Cardinale.

Known for

The Bob Hope Show poster
7.0

The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night block known as "The Colgate Comedy Hour" (Sept. 1950 to Dec. 1955). Also known as, "The Chevy Show with Bob Hope." When the first special debuted in October of 1950 it was the most expensive television program made up to that point - costing an astronomical $1,500 a minute to produce. Bob Hope had his own television show and radio show at the same time. For the next three seasons, The Bob Hope Show was broadcast once a month on Tuesday nights, giving Milton Berle a week off. Bob ended his radio show in April, 1956. Bob Hope also had another show by a similar name, "The Bob Hope Show (All Star Revue)". In addition, he performed in "Specials" for many years. It is the longest running variety program in television's history with a record of 45 years of televised entertainment.

The Bob Hope Show

1950

Sanremo Music Festival poster
7.9

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sanremo Music Festival

1951

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Samedi soir

1971

Cinépanorama poster
8.7

No synopsis available yet.

Cinépanorama

1956

Return of the Saint poster
7.0

Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

Return of the Saint

1978

The Rogues poster
8.0

The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and heinously unscrupulous mark. Although it won the 1964 Golden Globe award for Best Television Series, the show was cancelled after one season consisting of thirty episodes.

The Rogues

1964

Film credits

1970s · 5 titles

1960s · 35 titles

Hatari! poster
6.8

A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.

Hatari!

1962

Candy poster
5.1

A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.

Candy

1968

The Trial poster
7.4

Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.

The Trial

1962

The 10th Victim poster
6.7

In the near future, big wars are avoided by giving individuals with violent tendencies a chance to kill in the Big Hunt. The Hunt is the most popular form of entertainment in the world and also attracts participants who are looking for fame and fortune. It includes ten rounds for each competitor, five as the hunter and five as the victim.

The 10th Victim

1965

The Movie Orgy poster
6.8

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.

The Movie Orgy

1968

Woman Times Seven poster
6.3

Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress, a death pact, and a detective revealed as a jealous husband's spy.

Woman Times Seven

1967

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium poster
5.9

A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

1969

The Oldest Profession poster
5.0

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.

The Oldest Profession

1967

Marco the Magnificent poster
5.2

Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.

Marco the Magnificent

1965

Manon 70 poster
5.4

Manon is an amoral, free spirit who uses sex to surround herself in relatively luxurious surroundings.

Manon 70

1968

Madigan's Millions poster
4.0

When a deported gangster dies in Italy, the U.S. Treasury Department is very interested in the one million dollars Madigan owed the government, but managed to take to Italy with him. They send Agent Jason Phister over to Italy to nose out the million. His criteria for the job is that no one would ever guess he's an agent of the United States government.

Madigan's Millions

1968

The V.I.P.s poster
6.2

Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.

The V.I.P.s

1963

How I Learned to Love Women poster
4.8

An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women.

How I Learned to Love Women

1966

The Belle Starr Story poster
6.3

Dominated by men in her youth, Belle Starr now out-shoots and out-gambles them as she makes her way around the West. One man who's her equal is Larry Blackie, with whom she has an on-again, off-again relationship. Together, they become involved in a robbery which goes awry...

The Belle Starr Story

1968

Rampage poster
5.3

In colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash over the ethics of catching versus killing animals and over Abbot's mistress, Anna.

Rampage

1963

One on Top of the Other poster
6.4

A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.

One on Top of the Other

1969

Hail! Mafia poster
7.4

A couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend.

Hail! Mafia

1965

Blood and Roses poster
5.9

The spirit of a vengeful female vampire is released from her grave and possesses a wealthy young woman of nobility, who preys on other women in her village.

Blood and Roses

1960

I piaceri del sabato notte poster
3.0

Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.

I piaceri del sabato notte

1960

All About Loving poster
4.7

Serge follows Hélène in the crowded streets of Paris and manages to seduce her. Werther takes Sophie to her dentist, Raoul, who tries to seduce her too.

All About Loving

1964

Captain Blood poster
6.4

Le capitan is a 1960 French-Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli and Lise Delamare. It is based on a novel by Michel Zévaco.

Captain Blood

1960

Love in Rome poster
5.5

A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another.

Love in Rome

1960

Every Man Is My Enemy poster
3.5

When a heist goes wrong, a safe cracker (Robert Webber) looks for the person who's betrayed him...

Every Man Is My Enemy

1967

The Pigeon That Took Rome poster
5.3

An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.

The Pigeon That Took Rome

1962

Katmandu poster
4.9

A rebellious socially-conscious man travels to Nepal to find his dead-beat dad. There, he meets Jane, a beautiful hippie girl hooked on drugs. He's forced to steal artefacts for his father's slimy employer to earn money to help Jane.

Katmandu

1969

Diamonds Are Brittle poster
4.8

Bernard Noblet is a modest bank clerk with a passion for billiards. His fiancée Juliette, a schoolteacher, dreams of one day living the high life, and his best friend Roger, a little-known inventor, is equally despairing. After careful consideration, a solution emerges: a cleverly organized hold-up will enable them to live in luxury for the rest of their lives. Bernard soon makes the acquaintance of Bettina and her mother, Madame Ralton, professionals in the "heist" business.

Diamonds Are Brittle

1965

Misdeal poster
3.8

A musician named Jacques Christens, is given a proposition by an old man. For ten million Francs he is asked to impersonate a certain Paul de Baer – a man who is supposedly exiled in the Amazone. Christens is told this scheme will save Mr. Baer from ruin. An adaptation of Boileau and Narcejac's "D'entre les Morts".

Misdeal

1969

The Menace poster
5.9

Josepha is on the verge eighteen living with her drunken washed up actor uncle. She longs for the companionship of a group of her mo-ped riding peers who dabble in activities on the shady side of a legal dividing line. In order to get the semi-delinquent group to accept her, Josepha runs to the police with a tall tale about the local druggist, Savary. The police are looking for a sex murderer, and Josepha insists Savary is their man. What she does not know, however, can do her considerable damage.

The Menace

1961

Il carro armato dell'8 settembre poster
3.7

Italy signed the armistice and in the general confusion a corporal decides to bring the tank back from the coast to the barracks.

Il carro armato dell'8 settembre

1960

L'Or du duc poster
4.0

A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.

L'Or du duc

1965

Maroc 7 poster
4.9

The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan intrigue.

Maroc 7

1967

Scorched Skin poster
4.6

The love affair between Andrea, laborer from the italian northern area called Bassa Lombarda and apulian single mother, Rosaria, is grafted on the background of the inconveniences of poor commuters who must go to work in Milan by train.

Scorched Skin

1962

No artwork available
NR

Lovers are united by a political and royal coup within the court of King Louis XIII.

The Invincible Swordsman

1963

Pop Age poster
NR

Report on the young people of the yéyé period and pop music. Jerk at the Palladium, Beatles, press clippings, questions about the impact of fashion (long hair and accoutrements) and modernity, youth, change, freedom.

Pop Age

1966

L'amica poster
5.2

The beautiful but neglected wife of a brilliant architect from Milan, betrayed by her husband and mocked by her friend who manages the amorous adventures that she dreams of having, decides to take vengeance of the two, seducing her friend's husband and her young son.

L'amica

1969

1950s · 13 titles

The Indian Fighter poster
6.3

A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.

The Indian Fighter

1955

Le Rouge et le Noir poster
6.2

It's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post-Napoleonic era, his intensely romantic liaisons propel him forward at a pace he cannot control.

Le Rouge et le Noir

1954

Four Girls in Town poster
2.8

Four young starlets, from various parts of the world, are called to Hollywood to test for the lead in a major film. Each is romantically pursued by the director, composer, playboy, and actor. Which one of an international quartette of beauties will replace Universal's glamour star in an upcoming Biblical epic?

Four Girls in Town

1957

Manuela poster
6.3

James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world. Then he meets Manuela, a beautiful native girl smuggled on board by one of his crew, and comes to realise that she, too, is a lost soul. Gradually a love affair develops between them, and Prothero becomes dangerously blind to the responsibilities of his position.

Manuela

1957

Wild Cats on the Beach poster
5.2

Various short stories. Giovanna arrives from Rome with her husband Alberto for a film audition. The journalist Gino comes to interview the great industrial Signore Carsoli. The famous American actress Rita is in search of her umpteenth husband. Leopoldo and Angelina from Sicily are on vacation in Rome where they meet the street smart Nicola.

Wild Cats on the Beach

1959

Se vincessi cento milioni poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Se vincessi cento milioni

1953

The Big Night poster
6.1

The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty crimes all day, beginning with arms theft, leading to an encounter with three streetwalkers. After their pleasure, the boys try to cheat the hookers, but the ladies are smarter than that and have stolen their cash ahead of time.  It's back to the city for the boys, where they continue their destructive games...

The Big Night

1959

Rice Girl poster
5.7

The 19-year-old Elena, who is as pretty as she is bright, works as a rice girl for the landlord Guerrini. Having become aware of her name, he finds out that she is his illegitimate daughter of whom he knew nothing. He tries to secretly help Elena, who has fallen in love with the car mechanic Gianni. But that only creates mistrust. When Guerrini's worthless nephew harasses the girl, the situation is dramatically worse.

Rice Girl

1956

Prisoner of the Volga poster
5.2

A vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the Cossacks around 1890.

Prisoner of the Volga

1959

Donatella poster
5.3

Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's handbag containing valuables and documents, and decides to return it to her owner, a wealthy American lady, who offers Donatella a job as a secretary as a reward: she has to manage the lady's villa during her absences. There, Donatella casually meets Maurizio, a rich, elegant and well-educated young man, and ends up falling in love.

Donatella

1956

Tunisi top secret poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Tunisi top secret

1959

The Mine poster
3.7

Elsa Martinelli plays a resident of a seaside village who falls in love with rootless stranger Antonio Ciffariello. The stranger soon learns that he'll have to fight over Elsa's affections with hotheaded villager Luis Pena. Meanwhile, a fisherman who illegally uses dynamite nearly causes tragedy to the entire community.

The Mine

1958

Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains) poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)

1959

Series credits

The Bob Hope Show poster
7.0

The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night block known as "The Colgate Comedy Hour" (Sept. 1950 to Dec. 1955). Also known as, "The Chevy Show with Bob Hope." When the first special debuted in October of 1950 it was the most expensive television program made up to that point - costing an astronomical $1,500 a minute to produce. Bob Hope had his own television show and radio show at the same time. For the next three seasons, The Bob Hope Show was broadcast once a month on Tuesday nights, giving Milton Berle a week off. Bob ended his radio show in April, 1956. Bob Hope also had another show by a similar name, "The Bob Hope Show (All Star Revue)". In addition, he performed in "Specials" for many years. It is the longest running variety program in television's history with a record of 45 years of televised entertainment.

The Bob Hope Show

1950

Sanremo Music Festival poster
7.9

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sanremo Music Festival

1951

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Samedi soir

1971

Cinépanorama poster
8.7

No synopsis available yet.

Cinépanorama

1956

Return of the Saint poster
7.0

Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

Return of the Saint

1978

The Rogues poster
8.0

The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and heinously unscrupulous mark. Although it won the 1964 Golden Globe award for Best Television Series, the show was cancelled after one season consisting of thirty episodes.

The Rogues

1964

No artwork available
8.0

V.I.P.-Schaukel is a 45 minute documentary-family-news-talk show starring Margret Dünser as Host. The series premiered on Sun May 09, 1971 on ZDF and Folge 37 - Final Show last aired on Fri May 09, 1980.

V.I.P. Schaukel

1971

Domenica In poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Domenica In

1976