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Elsa De Giorgi

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Elsa De Giorgi
De Giorgi in the movie T'amerò sempre (1933)
Born26 January 1914
Pesaro, Marche, Kingdom of Italy
Died12 September 1997 (aged 83)
Rome, Italy
Other namesElsa Giorgi Alberti
OccupationActress
Years active1933–1994 (film)

Elsa De Giorgi (26 January 1914 – 12 September 1997) was an Italian film actress and writer. She appeared in twenty seven films, including Duilio Coletti's Captain Fracasse (1940).[1]

Doris Duranti and Elsa De Giorgi visiting a soldier during World War II (1941)

Biography

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De Giorgi was born in Pesaro, Marche, from a family originally from Bevagna, a small town close to Spoleto in Umbria. When she was 18, she worked as a model, and was spotted by Mario Camerini, who offered her a role in his film T'amerò sempre (1933). De Giorgi then took up acting full-time, and worked with many Italian directors, including Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luigi Zampa, Mario Soldati and Alberto Sordi. In 1974 she wrote, directed and produced the film Sangue più fango uguale logos passione.

In 1955, De Giorgi published her first book, I coetanei (The Peers), a recapitulation of her time during Italian Civil War as well as a tribute to her husband, Sandrino Contini Bonacossi. The book was published by Einaudi with a preface by Gaetano Salvemini. It won the Premio Viareggio.[2]

In the late 1950s De Giorgi had a romantic relationship with Italo Calvino. Their time together is chronicled in her 1992 book Ho visto partire il tuo treno (I Saw Your Train Rolling).

In the early 1960s she worked as a theatre critic for the Rome-based magazine Pensiero Nazionale.

De Giorgi's archive is housed at the Centre for the Studies of Contemporary and Modern Writers at University of Pavia.

Filmography

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Year Title Role
1933 Nini Falpala Torrazza's Daughter
L'impiegata di papà Carla Monti
I'll Always Love You Adriana Rosé
1934 Loyalty of Love Princess Carolina Jablonowska
Lady of Paradise Anna Lucenti
Port Mariuccia
L'eredità dello zio buonanima Titina
1936 But It's Nothing Serious Elsa
1938 La sposa dei Re Désirée Clary
La mazurka di papà La marchesina Lucia
1939 The Fornaretto of Venice Annetta
The Faceless Voice La primatrrice
Two Million for a Smile Maria
Montevergine Carmencita
1940 Captain Fracasse Isabella
1941 The Mask of Cesare Borgia Dianora
1942 The Adventures of Fra Diavolo Fortunata Consiglio
Tentazione Elsa Passmann
1943 Sant'Elena, piccola isola Betsy
1944 The Innkeeper Ortensia
1946 The Tyrant of Padua Caterina Bragadin in Malipieri
1947 Manù il Contrabbandiere Florence Geraldy
1963 RoGoPaG Producer's Mother
1975 Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom Signora Maggi
1992 Acquitted for Having Committed the Deed Countess Nicoletta
Poussière de diamant
1994 Cadabra

References

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  1. ^ Goble p.176
  2. ^ "Premio Letterario". Archived from the original on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2020.

Bibliography

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  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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