Eurostarlets #27: Ornella Mutti

Pretty and sweet Ornella Muti on the cover of the July 1972 issue of vintage magazine Ciné-Revue. As often with the covers of this magazine, the photographs used may be of an earlier date. Here Ornella looks a lot younger (and has a lot more baby fat), so I figure this is taken somewhere in the later 1960s. Ornella Muti is best known to genre fans for her part in Umberto Lenzi's 1971 giallo, Un Posto Ideale per Uccidere, where, incidentally, she was doubled by eurostarlet Antonia Santilli. You can find a post on Antonia here.

Not unlike several fellow Eurostarlets and stars, she appeared, under her real name Francesca Romana Rivelli, in a series of Fotoromanzi between 1969 and 1971 for Italian publishing house Lancio. Her sister Claudia Rivelli also 'acted' in these photonovels, but appears to have only one movie credit, Nando Cicero's Eurowestern, Due Volte Giuda, where she appeares opposite Klaus Kinski and interminably cute Cristina Galbo.

Images from the Fotoromanzi are from fotoromanzi-topilio.it. Check out the site if you are interested in the Lancio photonovels.

Eurostarlets #017: Antonia Santilli

After appearing as playmate in the August 1971 issue of the Italian magazine Playmen, gorgeous Antonia Santilli was at one point touted to be the new sensation in Italian movies, but her star never managed to rise, and after appearing in the occasional eurowestern and some decamerotici, she disappeared from the screen. She has one superior credit to her name, however, as she appeared as the nymphomaniac daughter of a crime boss, Rina D'Aniello, in Fernando di Leo's superior Il Boss (1973). Here are some images from the film, courtesy of Continental Film Review - the last one is a behind-the-scenes shot featuring Fernando di Leo himself. As an interesting aside, Antonia Santilli also doubled  Ornella Muti for her nude scenes in Umberto Lenzi's enjoyable 1971 giallo, Un Posto Ideale per Uccidere.