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Italian Actress Elsa Martinelli, Who Famously Starred in The Indian Fighter, Dead at 82: Reports
People Magazine ^ | 07-09-2017 | Dave Quinn

Posted on 07/09/2017 10:25:57 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood

Italian actress Elsa Martinelli, known to U.S. audiences for her breakout role in 1955’s The Indian Fighter opposite Kirk Douglas, died Saturday in Rome at the age of 82, according to Italian media.

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Well yet another Icon from my youth gone. Just saw this morning that Actress and Model Elsa Martinelli passed away.

While she was in a number of good movies, my favorite movie that she was in was the John Wayne picture from 1962, "Hatari".

I never miss a chance to watch that film when I see it on. I think my brother and I after that film wanted to move to Kenya and capture wild animals for a living.

It was the first movie I saw Elsa in and I tell you as a 7 year old kid I fell in love with her. What a beautiful, sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and gorgeous woman she was. So thanks Elsa for all those wonderful hours of entertainment and God Speed.

1 posted on 07/09/2017 10:25:58 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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Son of a gun, I watched Hatari! just last night. Two hours and 37 minutes of exciting animal capture scenes and John Wayne, Hardy Kruger, Elsa Marinelli, Gerard Blain, Bruce Cabot, Michele Girardon, Red Buttons, et. al. smoking & drinking. I was/am hopelessly in love with Miss Martinelli.


2 posted on 07/09/2017 10:33:40 AM PDT by nickedknack ("Your time is up!")
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She sure was beautiful.


3 posted on 07/09/2017 10:38:11 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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She sure was beautiful.

Yes, an exquisite redhead.

Factoid: Hatari! was filmed in Tanganika (now mostly Tanzania), including at the ranch Hardy Kruger owned from 1960-72. Mr. Kruger is 89 and still with us.

4 posted on 07/09/2017 10:43:51 AM PDT by nickedknack ("Your time is up!")
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5 posted on 07/09/2017 11:32:42 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Yes, love Hatari and she’s excellent with Charlton Heston in The Pigeon who took Rome as well. Charlton Heston in a comedy. She was great. RIP Elsa Martinelli.


6 posted on 07/09/2017 11:43:49 AM PDT by VermithraxPejorative
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7 posted on 07/09/2017 12:58:49 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: nickedknack

Kirk Douglas is still with us, too. Just purring along going on 101.


8 posted on 07/09/2017 1:17:41 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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9 posted on 07/09/2017 1:22:35 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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Yeah I was 11 when I saw Hatari. Elsa was a great way to jump start a boy’s pubescent thinking patterns!

Watched it recently, I almost felt out of breath watching the constant chain smoking they all did. Still fashionable in 1962.


10 posted on 07/09/2017 1:27:45 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there")
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“Elsa was a great way to jump start a boy’s pubescent thinking patterns!”

Especially in Hatari when she leaped barelegged over a fence clutching pants she had not yet put on. Her driver was unable to tear his eyes away & nearly wrecked.

She is missed; those times of youth are missed. Godspeed, Elsa.


11 posted on 07/09/2017 1:49:18 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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Back then, I’d gladly wrestle her and yell ‘WHOOOHHOOHHOO’ for the whole hour.


12 posted on 07/09/2017 2:00:46 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: nickedknack

Also if you are into JEEPS.

There is something about a woman who smoked like that LOL.


13 posted on 07/09/2017 2:20:35 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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http://cache3.asset-cache.net/xr/599801329.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=3&d=77BFBA49EF878921A343B2C87A49D8F58669A5C5B47ABEFD6A9C4FDB18A6D0B1E640DA52EC3489F9A55A1E4F32AD3138


14 posted on 07/09/2017 2:38:35 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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Great picture, thanks.


15 posted on 07/09/2017 3:05:54 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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That was a really fun movie, and Ms. Martinelli was beautiful and graceful, even in early-60s outfits.


16 posted on 07/09/2017 3:05:55 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I don't get out much.)
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Yeah all the old movies of a certain age, there was a lot of smoking and drinking. In “Hatari” they all look like they are having a great time. I think I read that everyone on the set did have a lot of fun on that picture.

A few years back I worked at Walmart and ran, among other departments, the electronics department. We had strung together a lot of TV’s, different screen sizes, and had a DVD player jacked in and had been showing the fare we had. Well one Saturday I brought my DVD copy of “Hatari” in and played it. It was amazing, all these little kids were watching the movie as they had never seen a picture like that and a lot adults were watching to. It was great see that a fine picture like that can still find an audience today.


17 posted on 07/09/2017 3:12:19 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: headstamp 2

There are and were some women in the movies that could light and hold a cigarette just right and it looked cool and sexy.


18 posted on 07/09/2017 3:14:37 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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could light and hold a cigarette just right and it looked cool and sexy

Whether you looked cool and sexy or trashy and dumpy, it was just as bad for you.

19 posted on 07/09/2017 3:48:50 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I don't get out much.)
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Yes that is true.


20 posted on 07/09/2017 4:26:14 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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