Gabriella Giorgelli (born 29 July 1941) is an Italian film and television actress. She appeared in more than 70 films between 1960 and 1998.
Biography
Early life
Born in Fossola, a frazione of Carrara, Giorgelli was the daughter of a businessman in the marble industry and a housewife.[1]
When she was a child, her parents separated and she moved to Castelpoggio, another of Carrara's frazione and her mother's birthplace.[1] Due to her mother's economic difficulties, at ten years of age, young old Gabriella was entrusted to the college of the Sisters of Capulet, in Carrara.[1] At fifteen years old she started to work, including as a pizza chef and a bartender.[1]
Career
Giorgelli made her film debut in 1960, in a very minor role in Luigi Comencini's Everybody Go Home.[2]
After winning several local and regional beauty contests,[1] in 1961 she was among the finalists of Miss Italia, and thanks to her participation in the popular beauty pageant she started to attract a significant media attention that allowed her to get more weighty film roles.[1][2]
After appearing in several art films, in the late 1960s Giorgelli landed some leading roles in B-movies, mainly consisting of spaghetti Westerns and commedia sexy all'italiana films spoofing Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Decameron, which she alternated with supporting roles in more prestigious and high-profile productions.[1][2] She was also active in a number of series and TV-movies.[2]
Giorgelli also appeared in many photo comics including Sadistik and is interviewed in the documentary film The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal.
Selected filmography
- Arturo's Island (1962) – Teresa
- La commare secca (1962) – Esperia
- The Organizer (1963) – Adele
- Outlaws of Love (1963) – Livia
- Shivers in Summer (1964) – Foschina
- Bebo's Girl (1964) – (segment "La Feuille de Route")
- Stranger in Sacramento (1965) – Liza Morgan
- The Dirty Game (1965)
- La ragazzola (1965) – Ines
- El Greco (1966) – Maria
- Maigret a Pigalle (1966) – Tatiana
- Una rete piena di sabbia (1966)
- Long Days of Vengeance (1967) – Dulcie
- Das Rasthaus der grausamen Puppen (1967) – Esther
- On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... (1967) – Dama di compagnia
- Two Faces of the Dollar (1967) – Janet
- Brutti di notte (1968) – Rosaspina Lacantara
- Emma Hamilton (1968) – Laurie Strong
- Operazione ricchezza (1968)
- I 2 deputati (1968) – Rosa
- In Search of Gregory (1969) – Encarna
- Il trapianto (1970) – Carmela
- Shango (1970) – Pamela
- Rough Justice (1970) – Juanita
- When Women Had Tails (1970) – L'esca (uncredited)
- Le Voyou (1970) – L'italienne
- Terzo canale – Avventura a Montecarlo (1970) – The Country Girl
- Tre nel mille (1971)
- Il mio nome è Mallory... M come morte (1971) – Cora Ambler
- Il clan dei due Borsalini (1971) – Bruna la Svelta
- Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972) – Ines Tamburini aka Toscana
- Cause of Divorce (1972) – Gasoline pump attendant
- Il Decamerone proibito (1972) – Monna Fiorenza
- Ubalda, All Naked and Warm (1972) – La Ragazza Nel Fienile
- Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? (1972) – Sister
- Fratello homo sorella bona (1972) – Mariangela
- Decameroticus (1972) – Elisa
- Those Dirty Dogs (1973) – Mexican Peasant
- Novelle licenziose di vergini vogliose (1973) – Zia / Aunt Alessandra
- The Police Serve the Citizens? (1973)
- Io e lui (1973) – Fausta – wife of Rico
- Pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse (1974) – La tante
- Amore mio non farmi male (1974) – 'Cicci' – prostitute
- The Beast (1974) – Zoe
- Il lumacone (1974) – Paola
- Scusi eminenza... posso sposarmi? (1975)
- L'educanda (1975) – Marilena Bolognese
- La moglie vergine (1975) – Matilde
- La polizia brancola nel buio (1975) – Lucia
- Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife (1976) – Menica
- And Agnes Chose to Die (1976) – Lorenza
- The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist (1977) – Maria Balzano
- Three Tigers Against Three Tigers (1977) – Cameriera Arrapata
- Target (1978) – Jasmine
- City of Women (1980) – Fishwoman of San Leo
- Il terno a letto (1980) – Filomena
- Roma dalla finestra (1982)
- Delitto sull'autostrada (1982) – Bocconotti Cinzia
- Hercules (1983) – Mother
- Wild Team (1985) – Psychic Medium
- A Tale of Love (1986) – Sergio's mother
- Moving Target (1988) – Billie Cody
- Wax Mask (1997) – Aunt Francesca
- La rumbera (1998) – Teresa
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "L'amarcord di Gabriella Da Carrara a Cinecittà, la carriera di un'attrice". Il Tirreno. 7 November 2000. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
- ^ a b c d Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano, Le Attrici. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 888440214X.
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