Elsa Martinelli obituary

Versatile star of Hollywood’s international years whose work spanned romantic comedies, period epics and spaghetti westernsFor more than a decade from the mid-1950s, the film star Elsa Martinelli, who has died aged 82, was one of the most prominent female Italian exports to Hollywood, along with her compatriots Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida and Claudia Cardinale. In addition, Martinelli’s appearance seemed to be the sine qua non of Italian co-productions of period epics, romantic c