Elsa De Giorgi

Elsa De Giorgi was an Italian film actress and writer. She appeared in twenty seven films, including Duilio Coletti's Captain Fracasse.
File:Doris Duranti e Elsa de Giorgi in visita ad un ferito 1941.jpg|thumb|right|Doris Duranti and Elsa De Giorgi visiting a soldier during World War II

Biography

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. 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, 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.
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.
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.