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Ornella Muti Born Francesca Romana Rivelli, Mar 9, 1955, in Rome, Italy. Former Playboy playmate (in Italy), she's been dubbed “The World's Most Beautiful Woman” by the Italian Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. She's also an extremely prolific actress, having performed in some 57 films. Tragically, of all her movies, only Flash Gordon made it to the U.S. mainstream — arguably one of her lamest films; if American movie-goers ever get to see her again, my guess is that she'll have as many years behind her as films.
ORNELLA MUTI'S FILMOGRAPHY* Titles in red feature Ornella in the raw * Film
ORNELLA MUTI'S FILMOGRAPHY* Titles in red feature Ornella in the raw * Film
Born: March 9, 1956, Italy
Christened Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Soviet/Estonian mother and a strict Italian father, a sharp Neopolitan journalist who died when Ornella was only twelve. She has starred in films since the age of 14. At 15 she left school. By 18 she had posed for Playboy, married her co-star, Alessio Orano, from the film SUN ON THE SKIN (SUMMER AFFAIR) (where she bathed nude in the sea off the coast of Circeo) and had a child by another man! By 20 she was a film star in both Italy and Spain, where she had made many movies. But she was still a child, with long silky doll's hair falling down to her hips, and a flawless porcelain complexion. Nearly all her early roles played on this look: a child's heart (and face) in a woman's body. And to highlight the perverse side of this fact, her partners were often much older, fatherly lovers or fatherly husbands. - Italian Movie Goddesses edt. Stefano Masi, Enrico Lancia, 1997 Muti's career has run the gamut from low-budget Italian erotica to glossy US TV movies and she has played important parts in several prestigious European productions, including Volker Schlondorff's SWANN IN LOVE and Francesco Rosi's CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD. Combining sophisticated sensuality with an innocent, childlike quality, Muti was particularly effective in two of Marco Ferreri's psychosexual onslaughts, THE LAST WOMAN and THE FUTURE IS WOMAN. - Baselines Encylopedia of Film/Cinemania 1996 A model in her adolescence, Italian beauty Ornella Muti posed for illustrated novels before her film bow at age 14. Ornella has worked for such European cinematic greats as Francesco Rosi and Volker Schlondorff; her most celebrated appearances have been in the erotic psychological dramas directed by Marco Ferreri. The bulk of her starring films have borne such come-hither titles as Appasionata and Bilingual Lover. American movie fans got an eyeful of Ornella Muti as the sensuous Princess Aura in 1980's Flash Gordon, while television fans were treated to Ornella's formidable presence in the 1987 TV movie Casanova. Her complete filmography follows. Former Playboy playmate (in Italy), she's been dubbed "The World's Most Beautiful Woman" by the Italian Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. She's also an extremely prolific actress, having performed in some 57 films. 1969.........La moglie più bella........D. Damiani.....Italia........aka: MOST BEAUTIFUL WIFE.......... A 16 year old girl rebels against Sicilian tradition by refusing to partake in a pre-arranged marriage. ........AVAILABLE
1970.........Il sole nella pelle .... Lisa .......G. Stegani Casorat.......Italia.....aka: Amour Jeune Amour Fou, Summer Affair, Sunshine on the skin ........AVAILABLE........... ....Ornella Muti naked on the beach @ 16.....Her first film nudity... .....Directed by Giorgio Stegani (George S. Casorati) ....Starring: Ornella Muti, Alessio Orano.....A hot summer romance forms the basis of this fantasy that follows two defiant young lovers who steal away aboard a sailboat to tryst and end up marooned on a lonely island.......A very young Ornella Muti plays a rich girl who falls for an older hippie boy. 1971.........Love stress....Ingrid.......aka: Un posto ideale per uccidere....aka: Deadly Trap....aka: Dirty Pictures.....aka: Oasis of Fear....Directed by Umberto Lenzi.....Italia.......A philandering man's wife decides to take matters into her own murderous hands.......Starring: Irene Papas, Ray Lovelock, Ornella Muti ........AVAILABLE 1971...........La Casa de las palomas *.....-- aka....House of Doves, "Violation of Laura", Un Solo grande amore ....Director: Claudio Guerin (Claudio Guerin Hill).....This Spanish/Italian erotic drama concerns the rivalry between a mother and her virginal daughter (Ornella Muti @ 17 years) for the affections of a rakish drifter. 1972.........Esperienze prematrimoniali.....P. Maso.....Spagna 1972.........Fiorina la vacca.....V. Sisti.....Italia 1972.........Le monache di Sant'Arcangelo .... Isabella.....-- aka "Mark of the Devil Part III....aka: The Nuns of Sant'Arcangelo....D. Paolella.....Italia/Francia............. From the Middle Ages onward, certain monasteries and nunneries were basically elegant retirement homes for rich noblemen and noblewomen. ........AVAILABLE
1972.........Tutti i figli di Mamma Santissima.....A. Caltabiano.....Italia 1973............Una chica y un señor 1973.........Paolo il caldo -- aka "The Sensuous Sicilian...aka: The Sensual Man......M. Vicario......Italia ........AVAILABLE 1973.........La segretaria......Spain.........Director: F. Lara Polop (Paco Lara)...Starring: Ornella Muti, Phillippe Leroy, Emilio Gutierrez Caba, Fernando Guillén.....aka: Cebo Para Una Adolescente, La Secretaire......A young woman (Ornella Muti at 18 years old) was seduced by a high positioned official who is married but when she falls in love with a young man she tries to break the other relationship...Filmed in Segovia, Spain ........AVAILABLE 1973.........L'amante adolescente...Director: Pedro Masó...Spain.....w/ Sergio Fantoni ...... aka: Una Chica y un señor.......A young woman was seduced by a high positioned official who is married but when she falls in love with a young man she tries to break the other relationship... ........AVAILABLE 1973.........Appassionata .... Virginia..........Italia....aka: Les Passionnees .....A dentist is seduced by his daughter and her girl friend. Ornella Muti @ 18....Very erotic......Director: Jacques Leitienne.....Starring: Ornella Muti, Elenora Giorgi ........AVAILABLE 1974.........Romanzo popolare-- aka "Come Home and Meet My Wife.....M. Monicelli.....Italia ........AVAILABLE 1975..........La joven casada? 1975.........Leonor-Cronaca di altri tempi.....Bumlnuel.....Spagna-Francia-Italia 1975.........Come una rosa al naso.....F. Rossi.....Italia-GB 1975.........Il mio primo uomo.....M. Camus.....Spagna 1975.........L'ultima donna .... aka: The Last Woman.....Valerie.....Marco Ferreri............Very Graphic Sexual Scenes.......Gerard Depardieu castrates himself...............AVAILABLE........ 1976...........Virginity? 1976.........La stanza del vescovo.....aka: The Bishops Bedroom......D. Risi.....Italia...In this drama, Temistocle Orimbelli (Ugo Tognazzi) is a middle-aged man with a profound appreciation for womankind -- ........AVAILABLE 1977.........Mort d'un pourri -- aka "Death of a Corrupt Man......G. Lautner.....Francia 1977.........I nuovi mostri-- aka "Viva Italia!...... Monicelli/Risi/Scola...... Italia 1977.........Ritratto di borghesia in nero.... Elena Mazzarini.....-- aka "Portrait of a Bourgeois in Black....aka: Nest of Vipers.......T. Cervi.....Italia 1978.........Primo amore......D. Risi......Italia....aka: First Love.......Villa Serena is a retirement home for aging theatrical and vaudeville performers in this film, which stars Ugo Tognazzi as its newest inmate, Picchio, a former comedy great. There, he meets and falls in love with the beautiful young attendant Renata (Ornella Muti ........AVAILABLE 1978.........Eutanasia di un amore-- aka "Break Up"......E.M. Salerno......Italia 1978.........Giallo napoletano ....Lucia.... ........Italia...........Directed by Sergio Corbucci......Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Ornella Muti, Renato Pozzetto, Michel Piccoli.....aka: Atrocious Tales of Love and Revenge, Neapolitan Thriller...Marcello Mastroianni as one strange musician....Ornella Muti at extremely cute 23 years.....Rare appearance by the beautiful Afro/Italian actress Zeudi Araya (Miss Ethiopia in 1969)..... ........AVAILABLE 1979.........AVEUX SPONTANES............1979:Soviet Union / Italy........ Directed by Grigori Chukhraj (Grigori Chukrai)......Starring: Ornella Muti, Giancarlo Giannini.....aka: Freedom to Love, Life Is Beautiful, Zhizn' prekrasna, La Vita e bella ....Thriller by the critically acclaimed Russian director Grigori Chukhrai -- A very beautiful Ornella Muti is a waitress in a local café. ........AVAILABLE 1979.........Flash Gordon .... Princess Aura ......M. Hodges......USA 1979.........Love and money .... Catherine Stockheinz ......J. Toback.......USA 1980.........Il bisbetico domato.......Castellano e Pipolo......Italia........aka: Taming of the Rogue...Set In Italy, Milan, city, countryside farmhouse.........This Taming of the Shrew in Italian is also a take off on the 1970 French film L'ours et la Poupee, Ornella Muti as a gorgeous society snob. ........AVAILABLE
1981.........Storie di ordinaria follia .... Cass ......aka: Tales of Ordinary Madness ..........Italia/Francia.......aka: CONTE DE LA FOLIE ORDINAIRE............Director Marco Ferreri.......Starring Ornella Muti and Ben Gazarra.....From story by Charles Bukowski.........The stories of Charles Bukowski, the drunken poet of the LA fringe, are the basis for this film, directed by Marco Ferreri. ........AVAILABLE 1981.........Nessuno è perfetto.....aka: No one is perfect.......P. Festa Campanile.......Italia 1981.........Innamorato pazzo......Castellano e Pipolo......Italia.....aka: Wildly in Love...Cristina (Ornella Muti) is a beautiful, rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. ........AVAILABLE 1982.........La ragazza di Trieste .... Nicole .....-- aka "The Girl from Trieste"......P. Festa Campanile......Italia.......... This bizarre drama stars Ben Gazzara as an American cartoonist who sees a beautiful woman named Nicole (Ornella Muti) being saved from drowning while he draws on the beach. ........AVAILABLE 1982..........Famous T&A .... Lisa 1982.........Bonnie e Clyde all'italiana-- aka "Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style".....Steno.......Italia..........Rare Muti slapstick comedy with Paolo Villaggio....Ornella Muti Punked Out ........AVAILABLE 1983.........Un povero ricco......P. Festa Campanile......Italia ........AVAILABLE 1983.........Un amour de Swann .... Odette de Grêcy............Francia/Germania.......Directed by Volker Schlöndorff ....Starring: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant .......aka: Liebe von Swann, Eine, Love of Swann, Swann in Love..... Swann has become obsessed with Odette (Ornella Muti) ........AVAILABLE. 1984.........Il futuro è donna.....Malvina.......... .Italia/Francia/Germania ........ Directed by Marco Ferreri...Starring: Ornella Muti, Niels Arestrup, Hanna Schygulla.....aka: The Future Is Woman.....A story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home ........AVAILABLE
1985.........Tutta colpa del Paradiso.....F. Nuti.....Italia........aka: BLAME IT ON PARADISE...........In a tale of fatherly love and its sacrifices, (Francesco Nuti) stars as Romeo Casamonica, a thief just released from a five-year prison sentence who returns to his old haunts to look for his wife and son. ........AVAILABLE 1985.........The Hitchiker (TV movie)....."True Believer" (Dec 10, 1985)......G. Sckenkel.....USA 1985.........Grandi magazzini-- aka "Department Store"......Castellano e Pipolo......Italia ........AVAILABLE 1986.........Cronaca di una morte annunciata .... Angela Vicario.....-- aka "Chronicle of a Death Foretold"......F. Rosi.....Italia/Francia............Set In Colombia...........This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. ........AVAILABLE 1986.........Stregati -- aka "Bewitched".....F. Nuti.....Italia 1986.........Casanova (Tv movie) .... Henriette .....S. Langton.....USA 1987.........Io e mia sorella .... Sylvia.....-- aka "Me and My Sister".....C. Verdone.....Italia 1988.........Il frullo del passero .... Silvana.....-- aka "The Sparrow's Fluttering".........Italia/Francia.....aka: LA FEMME DE MES AMOURS.... Director: Gianfranco Mingozzi.....Starring: Ornella Muti, Philippe Noiret, Nicola Farron, Chiara Argelli, Claudine Auger.....Erotic Drama.....Rated R for Nudity & Strong Sexual Content .....Ornella Muti plays a Kept Woman whose keeper has the bad taste to die. ........AVAILABLE 1988.........Codice privato-- aka "Private Access".....F. Maselli.....Italia 1988.........'O Re.....aka: The King of Naples ........AVAILABLE 1989.........Wait until spring, Bandini .... Maria.....D. Deruddere.....USA/Italia/Francia/Belgio 1989.........La primavera di Michelangelo (Tv movie).....G. London.....Italia-GB ........AVAILABLE 1990.........Il viaggio di Capitan Fracassa .... Serafina.....-- aka "Captain Fracassa's Journey".....E. Scola.....Italia/Francia..........Made for French television production. Capitaine Fracasse travels the 17th century French countryside along with the company of two charming and beautiful ladies.( Emmanuelle Beart and Ornella Muti). Film director Ettore Scola takes us through a beautifully filmed journey through 17th century France. ........AVAILABLE 1990.........La domenica specialmente .... Anna.....-- aka "Especially on Sunday".....Tornatore/Bertolucci/.....Italia/Francia/Belgio........In "Especially on Sunday", the most erotic of the four segments.... by Bertolucci, a traveler encounters a woman and a man beside a river and offers them a ride. The woman (an astonishingly seductive Ornella Muti) is quite the coquette ........AVAILABLE 1990.........Stasera a casa di Alice-- aka "Tonight at Alice's".....C. Verdone.....Italia 1990.........Oscar .... Sofia Provolone .....J. Landis.....USA 1991.........Once upon a crime .... Elena Morosco.....E. Levy.....USA 1991.........Il conte Max .... Isabella.....-- aka "Count Max".....C. De Sica.....Italia/Francia ........AVAILABLE 1991...........A Season of Giants.... TV Movie 1991.........Vacanze di Natale 91.... Giuliana.....-- aka "Christmas Vacation".....E. Oldoini.....Italia 1992.........Non chiamarmi Omar.....S. Staino.....Italia 1992.........L'amante bilingue .... Norma....aka "The Bilingual Lover".....V. Aranda.....Spagna/Italia 1993.........Estasi.....Cicinnati/Exacoustos.....Italia 1994.........Il grande Fausto .... Giulia la "Dama Bianca" ..... (Tv movie).....A. Sironi.....Italia/Francia/Germania 1994.........Bienvenida Tatiana.....S.S. Miguel.....Spagna/Italia 1995.........Mordburo.....L. Kopp.....Francia 1996.........Somewhere in the city .... Marta.....Ramin Niami.....USA 1996.........Pour rire! .... Alice ....France .........Directed by Lucas Belvaux ....Starring: Ornella Muti, Antoine Chappey, Françoise Lebrun, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Tonie Marshall........aka: Just for Laughs...... ........AVAILABLE 1996.........Mi fai un favore... ...Giancarlo Scarchilli.....Italia 1997..........Cain 1997.........Avvocato Porta.....(Tv movie).....Franco Giraldi.....Italia 1997.........Widows* .... Maria Sommer.....Sherry Hormann.....Germania 1997.........Il Conte di Monte Cristo .... Mercédès.....TV Miniseries.....aka: Le Comte de Monte Cristo ...aka "The Count of Monte Cristo".......Josee Dayan......Francia ........AVAILABLE 1997.........L'inconnue de Strasbourg*.....Valeria Sarmiento.....Francia ........AVAILABLE
1998.........Esther .... Queen Vasti..... (The Bible) TV Movie.....Roberto Mertes.....USA-EUROPE 1998.........Panni Sporchi.....M.Monicelli.....Italia 1999.........Tierra del Fuego.... Armenia.....Miguel Lettin......Chile 1999.........Un colpo al cuore (TV Movie).....A. Benvenuti.....Italia...Everybody Dies .... Rafaella 1999.........Jet Set.....F. Auteniente.....Francia 1999.........UNSCARRED.....B. Giovinazzo......Germania 2000.........Domani......F. Archibugi.....Italia 2000.........Una lunga lunga lunga notte d'amore .....L. Emmer.....Italia 2000.........The man outside.....Anthony Hickox.....USA |